Originally Posted by
Columbia
I really doubt the SEALs or pilots in the "fog of war" really had the time or concern to "hide the IR signature of the TR gearbox" in the 40 minutes they were in the compound.
More like, get Geronimo, the intel, and get the F out before the Pakistanis roll in hot.
Weren't the Pakistanis across the street?
Maybe they were like "I'm not going over there..."
I'm not a twitter guy but did you see about the Pakisanti who was twittering this:
"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event),"
"Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/,"
"A huge window shaking bang here... I hope its not the start of something nasty."
"Since Taliban [probably] don't have helicopters, and since they're saying it was not 'ours', so must be a complicated situation#abbottabad." [LEFT]
@raihak Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the 'being safe' strategy
Repost "I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected."
"and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/"
Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/
"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it."
"The gunfight lasted perhaps 4-5 minutes, I heard. That was around 10 hours ago. There are no other gunfights that I know of."
"Reuters got to me before I could go to sleep."
"Bin Laden is dead. I didn't kill him. Please let me sleep now."
Damn keyboard warriors beating the networks to the punch.