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He know much which is hidden...

Tommy Franks let it slip in a press conference that he had been killed in Tora Bora. He had marpan syndrome and required weekly dialysis.

He's been toast for a long time.

He's become somewhat of a phantom political piece. Any time you need your ratings boosted, just resurrected the fucker and kill him again.

Does it even matter?
Him being alive or dead changed exactly nothing.

Not sure why everyone gets so hung up on this shit.

FBHO? Scumbag who staged a bogus raid and got people killed?

Because it was a direct diversion from the release of Obama's phony birth certificate days earlier.

I spent a part of my life having to identify persons via photos and ID and I can tell you that there are plenty of people that can, quite convincingly visibly pass for others. Half the fucking cabbies in NYC could pass for Bin Laden. Noses and chins are a good identifier but those can be altered. Distance between eyes is another that is not easily altered. Having absolute visual confirmation is BS that is why forensic data is neccessary for positive ID. There are lots of loose ends to that story, alot of those loose ends come from the SEALs themselves and the reports from their command. No meds or dialysis equipment for a supposed long term renal patient. Also the lack of protection and weak resistance encountered. Why not capture rather than kill? SEALs are famed for their high value target abductions. The quick ID and disposal of the body. It's all fishy,

If they planted a mole, they would have his DNA.

He killed a man he was tasked to capture or kill. Is he positive that was THE man though? If he identified him by tags that were briefed to him, who decided those tags, how were they generated, are they based on OBL or a reasonable facsimile that they were also familiar with? Also were his orders to capture or kill, or simply to kill.

I was watching the news live. They specifically stated that they had to wait a week for the DNA tests to be conducted.

Omg this thread fucking blows.

I don't know what to believe, but to me, if you wanted to CAPTURE a guy like OBL without the overwhelming saturation of terrorist groups trying to outdo each others' terrorism to be the group who got OBL free... then the only way to really pull it off would be to convince everyone he was dead.

And it's hard to provide proof of a cover story that the most famous terrorist in the world was killed. So you come up with flimsy, but un-disprovable excuses for why there's no evidence and everyone just kind of goes along with it, because what else are you going to do?
 
I mean, terrorist groups have historically used hijackings, hostages, and other acts of terrorism to secure the freedom of their imprisoned comrades. Imagine the international shit storm that would erupt if the US announced OBL was in custody. It would be like the terrorist olympics... every terrorist and his cousin trying to get enough hostages or important enough hostages or kill enough people to pressure the US into releasing him. And it would be like whack-a-mole to deal with each group that popped up, and it would never end as long as OBL was still in custody. Not to mention the rescue attempts, etc. 

So IF the US wanted him alive, the ONLY way to avoid all that would be to simply tell everyone he died. Problem solved. If that's what happened, he's in a CIA hole somewhere and no one will see him again anyway. 

Like I said... I don't know what happened, but that makes more sense to me than the narrative we were fed. In the end I don't care either way. 

This thread is laughably sad.