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Title: One SEAL was forced to lie down next to the corpse of Bin Laden to approximate his height, sources told ABC News
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URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/navy ... a-bin/story?id=13525344&page=1
Published: May 5, 2011
Author: ABC News
Post Date: 2011-05-05 17:24:37 by Jethro Tull
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The arrival of the military members comes amid news that President Obama will not release photos of Bin Laden's corpse. Obama administration officials believe the photos could pose a national security risk and endanger Americans living in the United States and abroad. Watch "KILL SHOT: THE STORY BEHIND BIN LADEN'S DEATH," a special "20/20" Friday at 10 p.m. ET. A trove of information seized in the 40-minute raid that left Bin Laden dead arrived at an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va., between Monday night and Tuesday, sources told ABC News. At least five computers, 10 hard drives and more than 100 digital media items, including disks, DVDs and thumb drives, traveled more than 7,000 miles to the FBI facility. In addition to the digital media and paper documents, the Navy SEALs also took guns and a number of other items from the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound. Those guns have been checked for fingerprints, which will be run through a huge intelligence database that culls fingerprints from terrorist safe houses and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. DNA evidence was taken from some of the killed and wounded who were guarding Bin Laden. "We want to know who has been there and where else they may have been," one official said. Duplicates of this data will be given to a special interagency task force at the CIA's counterterrorism center. Of all the equipment that the SEALS took into and out of Bin Laden's sprawling compound in Abbottabad, the one thing they didn't have was a tape measure to help in identifying the terrorist. One SEAL was forced to lie down next to the corpse of Bin Laden to approximate his height, sources told ABC News. Bin Laden appeared to be ready to run at any time with money and phone numbers stitched into his clothes when the SEALs found him on an upper floor of his compound. Bin Laden's clothing had 500 euros and two phone numbers sewn into it, sources told ABC News. Analysts are tracing those phone numbers and going through each computer seized, running keyword searches using words like "explosives" or "weddings." Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing. "There's a lot we have to go through, some encryption, some coding. It's in another language. It's in Arabic, so there's a lot to go through before we really find out what we have, but remember small pieces of information can be critically important," said Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. At a briefing on Capitol Hill, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that some of the information seized has already been reviewed by her agency. As the material is examined, analysts will look to see if more individuals should be added to the terrorist and no-fly watchlists. "The material that was seized will be reviewed by an interagency team -- CIA, Justice, other intelligence agencies and other law enforcement agencies are all contributing people and machines. ... As we glean information from that material we will make appropriate determinations about who would be added to the watchlist and no-fly list," said Attorney General Eric Holder at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today.
Poster Comment: One SEAL was forced to lie down next to the corpse of Bin Laden to approximate his height, sources told ABC News ***** Huh????
Navy SEALs Who Captured, Killed Osama Bin Laden Return to United States
The SEALs, members of elite Team Six, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., sources told ABC News. 
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"The system worked". I'm going to hang those words around her neck 'til the day she croaks.
__________________________________________________________ Oh, really?
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Janet Napolitano As far as I'm concerned, DHS is Big Brother personified.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Hmmm Now our government feels inclined to insult the S.E.A.L.s as if they would be so stupid. Total face palm.
What, no tape measures on warships?
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Gotta watch the weight limits. The limit on one of them aircraft carriers is only a gazillion tons, not a gazillion tons 3oz.
Sure, and the cow jumped over the moon.
Can you use some sort of garrote to hang it and tighten it (very slowly) to make sure it doesn't fall off?
So that's why we blow them up when we find them, eh?
Aren't their weapons standard sizes? I assume they know it as well as they know their girlfriend's woowoo. Couldn't the weapon then be used as a makeshift measuring tape? I mean, not for nothing, but if one were to buy this swill, you'd have to assume the SEALS, men who are trained with the most sophisticated equipment in the MIC, weren't more creative than this. Just more reek to an already stinky tale.
I'm about fed up with all of this malarky. I'm completely off the mass media of any kind until they're done squeezing the last drop out of this. (That may be a while.) This tape measure stuff is just one of a mountain of harmless little details they can toss in to give this story the feel of substance. I'd be certain that, in an important operation of this sort, a team would go in with an identification expert who would be able to say with some degree of certainty, "This is our guy." or "Oops. We blew the wrong old man's head off."
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.
Hell, they took him out of the house to bury him at sea. We're being asked to believe they had to measure him there and then (remember, this is an in and out strike where time is of the essence - see Black Hawk down) using this absurd method? This one is a pile....
So that's why we blow them up when we find them, eh? No, no. They have a wedding, we do the bombing, therefore, wedding = bombing.
Now I'm all mixed up.
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.
I guess the tellers of this story forgot about an invention called a tape measure. As long as this poor guy was close to 6 foot 4 inches, he got his ass killed and became Osama bin Laden it appears. Obama should take note of this. When you are of no longer of use to the CIA you will end up just like Osama.
God is always good!
I love the reaction of the black anchor woman when he announced this. She was like, what the fuck?
God is always good!
Freaking hilarious!!!!! This won't be the last time this happens.
It's a classic!
There's no need to go to a dollar store when national security (or the tax payers money) is at stake. They could have bought every SEAL's dream a - PRO-GRADE 25' Tape Measure from West Marine for $15.99 Don't forget to pick up a spiffy Capt's hat while you're there.
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
This video suggests the existence within broadcast news of a program of affirmative action for hydrocephalics.
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.
A SEAL was "forced" to lie down next to OBL's body??!! You don't force those guys to do nothin'. And SEALs are definitely not so skittish. Someone asked someone to lie down for comparison and probably there were instantly six volunteers -- somebody was hoping for a souvenir photo of "Daddy lying next to the terrible bad man he killed."
Why would anyone be "puffy-chested proud" to shoot a corpse that they dug out of a freezer? That's sorta like shooting a trophy after the taxidermist stuffed it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
The point of this particular pile of poop has apparently been missed on you. They took custody of the body, put it on a ship, washed the body, performed a Muslim service in keeping w/OBLs deeply religious convictions, then tossed it overboard. There was obviously many points *after* leaving the scene that his body could have been properly identified. To have wasted even 5-seconds at the scene, measuring his body in this way, reeks of idiocy, not to mention the danger factor. Enjoy defending this mess. It should keep you busy for a year or two.
Janet Napolitano said that some of the information seized has already been reviewed by her agency.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing.
#3. To: X-15 (#1)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Huh????
#6. To: Flintlock (#5)
What, no tape measures on warships?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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The corpse of Bin Laden........
#8. To: X-15 (#1)
'm going to hang those words around her neck 'til the day she croaks
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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#13. To: FormerLurker, Jethro Tull (#9)
Weddings is a word often used by al Qaeda to signify a bombing.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
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#19. To: Esso, Jethro Tull, Dakmar (#6)
The limit on one of them aircraft carriers is only a gazillion tons, not a gazillion tons 3oz.
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#22. To: Shoonra (#21)
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A SEAL was "forced" to lie down next to OBL's body??!! You don't force those guys to do nothin'. And SEALs are definitely not so skittish. Someone asked someone to lie down for comparison and probably there were instantly six volunteers -- somebody was hoping for a souvenir photo of "Daddy lying next to the terrible bad man he killed."
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein
#23. To: Shoonra (#21)
A SEAL was "forced" to lie down next to OBL's body??!! You don't force those guys to do nothin'. And SEALs are definitely not so skittish. Someone asked someone to lie down for comparison and probably there were instantly six volunteers -- somebody was hoping for a souvenir photo of "Daddy lying next to the terrible bad man he killed."
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