Do You Personally Care Which Type Of Mission It Was That Got Bin Laden ???

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Poll question: Do You Personally Care Which Type Of Mission It Was That Got Bin Laden ???

US team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
WASHINGTON | Mon May 2, 2011 8:18am EDT

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May 2 (Reuters) - 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.

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Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/binladen-kill-idUSN027979420110502

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And then...

Official: Bin Laden Mission Was Kill Or Capture, Not Just Kill
By MICHAEL SCHERER
Monday, May 2, 2011

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Reuters’ Mark Hosenball is reporting that the U.S. special forces that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound Sunday were under orders to kill the terrorist leader, not capture him. But an administration official tells TIME that the report is not accurate.

“No U.S. forces go in and, if someone surrenders to them, will kill them,” the official says. “There was a presumption that it would likely end in a kill,” the official continued, citing the U.S. government’s expectation that Bin Laden would resist capture. “But to say that it was a kill mission is wrong.”

Later Monday, senior White House officials will hold an on-camera press briefing about the Bin Laden operation, and are expected to push back against the Reuters report, the official said.

In typical presidential findings with regard to al-Qaeda leaders, the term of art most often used is “capture or kill,” a phrase that puts little burden on U.S. forces to take precautions, or assume added risks, that would increase the chance of a live capture of the target.

UPDATE 2:04 p.m.: As expected...

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Link: http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/02/official-bin-laden-mission-was-kill-or-capture-not-just-kill/

Personally... yeah, I do care.

You???

:shrug:




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