Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Bin Laden story.

MAY 3, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
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May 3 is … Lumpy Rug Day

Wasn’t Lumpy Rug in Leave to Beaver? I think Mel Cooley was his dad.

Deaths of famous people on May 1, 2011: Osama Bin Laden. Adolph Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 but it was not made public until May 1, 1945. Good riddance to both of these monsters.

The facts are started to trickle out concerning the Osama Bin Laden death mission. Over the next days and weeks different account, both true and false, will be reported. Some of the ‘facts’ as reported so far;

1. Bin Laden had been living in a mansion adjacent to a military base in Pakistan for the last four years;
2. The mansion was built in 2004;
3. The Navy Seals conducted the raid and suffered no injuries or casualties; 24 Navy Seals participated in the raid;
4. We have known Bin Laden has been living in this mansion, that had no telephone or internet, since August, 2010;
5. The United States government has actually kept a secret;
6. The mansion is in an area where many retired Pakistan military higher-ups live;
7. Bin Laden was shot in the head from close range, twice, once in the left eye;
8. Bin Laden was buried at sea within twelve hours of his death after several Muslim countries refused our offer to take possession of the body;
9. Bin Laden was given the opportunity to surrender and refused;
10. The compound Bin Laden was living in cost over one million dollars to build;
11. The mansion was surrounded by privacy walls 18 feet tall in places, topped by barbed wire;
12. The only entrance to the compound was controlled by two security gates guarded by two guards;
13. The third-floor terrace in the compound had the added security of a seven foot privacy wall;
14. All garbage generated by the compound’s residents was burned rather than hauled away for disposal;
15. The United States did not seek advice from any allies;
16. The United States did not inform any allies of this operation;
17. President Obama authorized this mission on April 29, 2011;
18. Originally, Predator Drones were going to be used but it was determined that the Navy’s elite Team Six could carry out the mission;
19. The operation took just less than forty minutes to complete;
20. The U.S. Special Forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters. "This was a kill operation," the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.
21 President Bush’s shirt ten years ago should have read “Wanted Dead!” instead of “Wanted Dead or alive”;
22. Two helicopters were used to transport the Special Operations team to and from the site of the firefight; one helicopter suffered mechanical failure and a third was brought in to complete the mission;
23. We destroyed the broken down helicopter so it could not be found by the terrorists to try and repair and use in propaganda about how they repelled the infidels;
24. The FBI has updated their Ten Most Wanted List. Bin Laden is now listed as deceased. Check out; http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten;
25. President Obama watched the attack on a live feed in the White House;
26. Apparently President understood the need to prove the death of Bin Laden to the world and insisted on the Special Forces operation rather than the bombing his military advisors wanted to pursue, the bombing would have disintegrated the dead, making confirmation difficult if not impossible;
27. The mission was codenamed Operation Geronimo;
28. Bin Laden, a coward to the end, used a female, probably one of his wives, as a human shield against the attackers;
29. Bin Laden fired upon the Special Forces but failed to hit anyone;
30. The Navy Seal team that conducted Operation Geronimo will not receive the 25 million dollar reward our government offered for Bin Laden’s death or capture.

Famous people who died on this date in 1972:

1972 - Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 - Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1972 - Les Harvey, rocker, dies

Life goes on for the majority of us in a better world today than it was on April 30, 2011.

For fun and challenging facts and problems and brain teasers, go to this web site. It will give you hours of entertainment while teaching you a thing or thousand. http://www.khanacademy.org/#browse

Now, let’s talk about the incompetent and terrible professional baseball team on the south side of Chicago. After Sunday’s game, played on America’s newest holiday, The Bastard is Dead Day; the White Sox were 10 and 19, a winning per centage of .345. They were already ten games out of first place in the worst division in baseball. The baseball season is six months long and one month is in the books. That indicates the White Sox will finish sixty games out of first and win 56 games while losing 106. Buy your tickets now. Plenty of good seats are still available.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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