60 minutes story..

[ddr]

Anyone catch last Sunday's 60 minutes?

They had a really interesting story about the Delta Force right after 9/11. Their job was to kill Osama Bin Laden, end of story.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/02/60minutes/main4494937.shtml

They were literally 2000 yards from Bin Laden and they had a plan to do it, their superiors (who knows who) said no to it.

They came up with a different plan to kill Osama, their superiors said no again.

Then the interviewer asked him.. how many times has a plan been shot down? and the Delta Force guy said, in my 5-years, never once.

thoughts?

[88Mariner]

Re: 60 minutes story..

It was Obama. In before Shosh.

[shosh]

Re: 60 minutes story..

It was Obama. In before Shosh.

lol

[ddr]

Re: 60 minutes story..

here is what i was referring to:

Delta developed an audacious plan to come at bin Laden from the one direction he would never expect.

"We want to come in on the back door," Fury explains. "The original plan that we sent up through our higher headquarters, Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with oxygen, coming from the Pakistan side, over the mountains and come in and get a drop on bin Laden from behind."

But they didn't take that route, because Fury says they didn't get approval from a higher level. "Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure," he says.

The next option that Delta wanted to employ was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes that led to Pakistan, which was bin Laden’s escape route.

"First guy blows his leg off, everybody else stops. That allows aircraft overhead to find them. They see all these heat sources out there. Okay, there a big large group of Al Qaeda moving south. They can engage that," Fury explains.

But they didn't do that either, because Fury says that plan was also disapproved. He says he has "no idea" why.

"How often does Delta come up with a tactical plan that's disapproved by higher headquarters?" Pelley asks.

"In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before," Fury says.

[88Mariner]

Re: 60 minutes story..

if bin laden was killed, i garuantee we wouldn't be where we are today. as soon as he's dead, the public support for military abroad is rendered null.

[ddr]

Re: 60 minutes story..

if bin laden was killed, i garuantee we wouldn't be where we are today. as soon as he's dead, the public support for military abroad is rendered null.

which is what was thinking.

Bush administration chose NOT to kill him in order to stay in Iraq/Afghanistan.... major conspiracy =\