Tuesday Links… Tuesday, Aug 2 2011 

Daily Reading List , 1IDVET 07:53

Here are the articles that I read today. I’m sure I’ll read more, I’ll update if I get the chance.

I am really sick of the asshole Democrats calling me a terrorist. I spent 20 years of my life defending this country and our way of life. I don’t need some red diaper doper baby calling me a terrorist. Say it to my face. Just once.

UPROAR BUILDS Over Joe Biden’s Tea Party “Terrorist” Remarks

These Americans are like parasites

Hot Air Candidate Survey Results: August

Super! EPA going after ozone now

Cyber Guerre l’Futur

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s DOOM?

I remember Carter’s Army

Our friend Jim Garvin explains it to the politicians: “Are all of you completely crazy?”

 

To Kill a Bin Laden… Tuesday, Aug 2 2011 

Military and US Army and US Navy , , , , , 1IDVET 05:34

This is a very well written and very detailed piece on the raid that killed Bin Laden. I highly recommend it. I meant to post this yesterday, but got side tracked.

Getting Bin Laden

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Three SEALs in front broke off to clear the guesthouse as the remaining nine blasted through another gate and entered an inner courtyard, which faced the main house. When the smaller unit rounded the corner to face the doors of the guesthouse, they spotted Kuwaiti running inside to warn his wife and children. The Americans’ night-vision goggles cast the scene in pixellated shades of emerald green. Kuwaiti, wearing a white shalwar kameez, had grabbed a weapon and was coming back outside when the SEALs opened fire and killed him.

The nine other SEALs, including Mark, formed three-man units for clearing the inner courtyard. The Americans suspected that several more men were in the house: Kuwaiti’s thirty-three-year-old brother, Abrar; bin Laden’s sons Hamza and Khalid; and bin Laden himself. One SEAL unit had no sooner trod on the paved patio at the house’s front entrance when Abrar—a stocky, mustachioed man in a cream-colored shalwar kameez—appeared with an AK-47. He was shot in the chest and killed, as was his wife, Bushra, who was standing, unarmed, beside him.

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