BIN LADEN SKULL LIF OFF
The precision kill shot was delivered by a member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six during a pre-dawn raid Monday on bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
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Photos of bin Laden’s injuries were transmitted to Washington as proof that the mission was a success.
The administration is still weighing whether to release photos of bin Laden’s corpse and video of his swift burial at sea. Officials were reluctant to inflame Islamic sentiment by showing graphic images of the body. But they were also eager to address the mythology already building in Pakistan and beyond that bin Laden was somehow still alive.
The only information about what occurred inside the compound has come from American officials, much of it provided under condition of anonymity.
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They said SEALs dropped down ropes from helicopters, killed bin Laden aides and made their way to the main building. Mr. Obama and his national security team monitored the strike, watching and listening nervously and in near silence from the Situation Room as it all unfolded.
“The minutes passed like days,” White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said.
As the information from the operation flowed in, the president said, “We got him.”
The hunt for bin Laden that ended Monday morning in Pakistan began years ago, when captured al Qaeda operatives first revealed the existence of bin Laden’s most trusted courier. Some of the leads to the courier came out of the CIA’s secret prisons, where high level al Qaeda captives were waterboarded.
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CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the courier was described as a protege of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and the man who delivered bin Laden’s orders to al Qaeda operatives in the field. In fact, current and former U.S. officials said that Mohammed gave intelligence officials the courier’s name. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.
It was about four years ago that U.S. intelligence finally determined the courier’s real name: Maulawi Abd al-Khaliq Jan. Take a look at it. It cost bin Laden his life.
Key to the hunt was identifying the cell phone number of the courier and placing it under surveillance. In 2010, the U.S. intercepted a call to the courier in which he was asked where he had been. He responded that he was back with the people he had been with before. The caller then said, “May God facilitate you” – the implication being that courier was back with bin Laden and his family.
The courier did not make it easy to locate the compound, however, since every time he approached the compound, he turned off his phone. He did this more than 90 minutes out and removed the battery, so he went totally dark and would leave it off when he was in the compound. When he left the compound, he would wait 90 minutes and turn it back on. Analysts would therefore keep seeing this pop up in places all over Pakistan but nowhere near to Abbattabod. This is why it took so long to find the compound after they had the name and the cell phone number for the courier.
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It took another two years after identifying the courier to find out what part of Pakistan Maulawi Jan operated in. Then, last August, the CIA discovered his residence. Officials said they were shocked by what they saw – the specially constructed $1 million compound with walls as high as 18 feet topped with barbed wire.
The residents of the compound burned their trash instead of putting it out for collection and there was no telephone or internet service. Three families lived there: the courier’s family, his brother’s family, and a third family about the size of bin Laden’s. It was a convincing but circumstantial case.
Once U.S. had located the compound where the courier lived, they put it under surveillance and noticed that every day a tall man emerged from the main house and walked for an hour around the courtyard. Imagery indicated that the man was between 5’8″ and 6’5″, but the photos were not good enough to make a positive identification. They were images from satellites and not drones, since location was too risky to deploy the unmanned aircraft.
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By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough that Mr. Obama wanted to “pursue an aggressive course of action,” a senior administration official said. Over the next two and a half months, Mr. Obama led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said.
U.S. counterterrorism officials considered bombing the place, an option that was discarded by the White House as too risky, particularly if it turned out bin Laden was not there.
Instead, Obama signed an order on Friday for the team of SEALs to chopper onto the compound under the cover of darkness.
In addition to bin Laden, one of his sons, Khalid, was killed in the raid, Brennan said. Bin Laden’s wife was shot in the calf but survived, a U.S. official said. Also killed were the courier and his brother, and an unidentified woman, officials said.
Some people found at the compound were left behind when the SEALs withdrew and were turned over to Pakistani authorities who quickly took over control of the site, officials said. They identified the trusted courier as Kuwaiti-born Sheikh Abu Ahmed, who had been known under the name Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.
Twenty-three children and nine women were in the compound at the time of the assault and were turned over to Pakistani authorities, said a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss an intelligence matter.
Within 40 minutes, the operation was over, and the SEALs flew out — minus one helicopter, which had malfunctioned and had to be destroyed. Bin Laden’s remains were flown to the USS Carl Vinson, then lowered into the North Arabian Sea.
Bin Laden’s death came 15 years after he declared war on the United States. Al Qaeda was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.
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LETTER TO CAROLYN COOPER
‘God’ To Cooper: Tap Di Foolinish!
I had a dream Sunday night that God gave me a message for Carolyn Cooper.
Here goes:
Carolyn, mi Chile!
A hear say dat you did rite a letta inna de Gleaner ah wanda if God speak Patwa, an mi waan fi tell you dat since you can si wid yu own too yeye dat Jamaica so nuf beautiful dat dis ya ah God own Islan, an yu can be sure-sure dat God speak Patwa.
Mi also haffi tell you also dat you is a big-big whuman now, an is time fi you fi stap di fool-fool business wid di Patwa all di time. Is pickney business dat you ah play wid! Fi wi pickni nowadaze no have no time fi fool wid di Patwa: Dem haffi learn proppa Hinglish so dat dem can go ah university and get good jab, an all ah a dat bizzniz.
Mi hear say dat you did go a UWI an you graduate big-big … but mi haffi wanda a weh you did learn up deh so mek you come out so crazy fi di Patwa. Ah hope seh dat you no did tek up nuttin’ dat smell bad up deh fi mek you write all ah dis Patwa foolishniss!
You iz a nice pretty gal, you know! You have nice pretty teet, an you shape good an all ah dat!
Tek care, sweetness!
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GOODMORNING- DANGERS OF THE OCCULT
Dangers of the Occult
With the advance of what is called the New Age Movement, there are many Christians who are getting pulled into dangerous dark side activity. Many Christians have not read the Bible in its complete entirety and are thus not aware of the strict warnings that God the Father has given about being involved in any form of occult activity. Most of these warnings are back in the Old Testament.
One of the greatest stories in the Bible is the story of Moses and how he pulled God’s chosen people out of slavery from Egypt, and then the subsequent story of Joshua and Caleb who were then called by God to lead His people from the wilderness into the Promised Land.
Before they went into the Promised Land, they were given strict warnings and guidelines by God the Father as to what they could do and what they could not do. And one of those warnings was about not engaging in a lot of the pagan practices of the people who were already inhabiting parts of the Promised Land.
Many of these people were evil and had horrible practices of sacrificing their own children to appease what they thought were gods. Some of these people were involved in heavy occult type activity, and God was very strict in the warnings that He gave His own people in that they were not to engage in any type of this activity.
The warnings that God gave His people back then still apply to all of us in this day and age. The Bible says that God does not change, and this includes all of His ways and all of His warnings. The trouble is, most Christians are not aware of what some of these warnings are because they have not spent much time studying the Old Testament.
In this article, I will list some of the specific activities in this day and age that God does not want any of us engaging in, the specific reasons as to why He does not want us engaging in these types of activities, and the Scripture verses to back it all up.
THE REASONS
The Bible says that God the Father is a jealous God, a consuming fire. Here are two verses specifically telling us this:
1. “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God …” (Exodus 20:5)
2. “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” (Deuteronomy 4:24)
Because God is very jealous and possessive over His own children, He wants all of us coming directly to Him if we have any problems with our future, or what He might have in store for us in our future.
People are consulting fortunetellers, psychics, horoscopes, and ouija boards for guidance and information on what the future may hold for them. The Bible says that it is the job of the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and teach us all things in this life. God wants to be the Guide and Teacher of your life. He does not want you going to others to seek out this type of divine guidance because of His intensely jealous nature. The Bible says that there is only one God – and only He knows all things about you – which includes your past, your present and your future.
The first two commandments are that we are to have no other gods or idols before God the Father. The minute you go to a fortuneteller or psychic for any type of divine guidance, you are placing this person before God the Father and you will risk incurring His wrath, along with possibly opening the door for demons to be able to come directly after you.
These fortunetellers get their ability to have partial knowledge about you and your present situation directly from demons. No human has the supernatural ability to know what is going to happen to you in the future, or anything about you in your present condition if they have never met you before. And if they do seem to have some type of personal information about you that could only be supernaturally picked up, then that knowledge is being transmitted to them by demons.
Once you step into the fortuneteller’s office, you are stepping behind enemy lines since these people are operating under the direct influence of demonic spirits. At this point, if God should so allow it, you have now given the demons the full legal right to be able to follow you home. From there, the demons will set up shop in your house and they will then start to attack both you and possibly the other members of your family.
The Bible says that God’s people will perish for having lack of knowledge – and many Christians are dragging demonic spirits home with them due to their lack of knowledge about how dangerous it is to engage in any type of occult activity.
I recently did an article titled “The Dangers of Hypnotism.” A girl I recently met went to a hypnotist one time in an effort to try and quit smoking. Right after she came out, she literally lost 50% of her ability to remember things.
A demon had become attached to that part of her brain that controlled her memory functions, and it wasn’t until she confessed this activity before God as a sin, renounced it by telling God that she would never do it again, and then engaged with the demons to leave her in the name of Jesus Christ, that she started to get her memory ability fully restored back to her.
It took two months before she got it all back, but after the two months, all of her memory ability was fully restored back to her by the Lord.
Fifty people may go to a hypnotist and never draw a demon in on them. Another person like this one girl will only go one time and draw the demons in. The risk is too great! No Christian should ever take their chances on crossing over into enemy territory hoping they will come out unharmed!
This girl had this 50% memory loss for one solid year until she met me and I told her how to break the demons off of her as a result of going to the hypnotist one time. Her memory loss was so bad during that entire year, that she thought she was going to get fired from her other job because she could not retain or remember half of what was being told to her by her superiors.
Now here are some of the main verses from Scripture telling us that we can in no way have anything to do with the occult.
THE SCRIPTURE VERSES
These 5 verses are giving all of us major warnings by the Lord on what specific areas of the occult that we are to avoid like the plague. To be forewarned is to be properly armed.
“There shall not be found among you anyone who makes His son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures up spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 18:10-13)
“And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them …” (Deuteronomy 4:19)
“Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:31)
“And the person who turns after mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.” (Leviticus 20:6)
“So Saul died for His unfaithfulness which he had committed against the Lord because He did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because He consulted a medium for guidance.” (1 Chronicles 10:13)
The above verses are telling us that God the Father means serious business on this type of activity. The above verses say that pursuing guidance from soothsayers, mediums, the stars, the sun and the moon (astrology) are abominations before the Lord, and that you risk having Him set His face personally against you for engaging in these types of activities.
Notice the very strong wording being used by the Lord in these verses:
Abomination
Take heed
Give no regard
Do not seek after them to be defiled by them
God says you are literally prostituting yourself with Him if you engage in any of these occult activities.
The extremely strong wording being used by the Lord in these verses is showing us that this is a maximum intense kind of warning being given to His people – and under no circumstances are we to engage, experiment with, or even try out for one time, any of these occult activities.
SPECIFIC OCCULT ACTIVITIES TO AVOID
Now here are some of the specific occult areas that we are to completely stay away from. Every single one of these occult areas are major door openers to the dark side where Satan and his demons roam – and you are rolling the dice and taking a very big chance that you will not draw demons in on you and your household if you decide to cross over and experiment, even for one time, any of these particular activities.
Fortunetelling – of any kind such as palm reading, crystal ball gazing, numerology, or seeing psychics.
Tarot Cards
Ouija Boards
Automatic Writing
Seances and any involvement with mediums or spiritists.
Astrology and any form of horoscopes.
I Ching
Hypnotism
Transcendental Meditation or any type of Far Eastern Meditation.
Crystals
Witchcraft
Satanism
Voodoo
Channeling
Reincarnation
Astral projection
ESP
Dungeons and Dragons – role-playing games.
New Age Movement techniques and activities.
Necromancy
CONCLUSION
I am afraid with the increase of the New Age Movement and the fact that people are really starting to look for spiritual answers as to what the real meaning of life is – many people are falling into some of the above activities and are thus putting both themselves and their families at terrible risk for the possibility of demonic activity that could set in on them.
Fortunetellers are all over the TV and newspapers, and most people really do not know the real dangers associated with engaging in these types of activities. They are like lambs being led to the slaughter due to their lack of knowledge on these issues!
Do not be surprised if some of you are led by the Lord sometime in your life to help someone out of a mess they may have got themselves into as a result of engaging in one or more of the above occult activities. Or God may lead you to someone who is thinking about trying some of these activities out, and He may send you in there to give them fair warning before they actually do it!
More and more people are dabbling and experimenting with different parts of the occult because they are dissatisfied with their lives. They know the answers to the meaning of life is not found in the material things of this life, so they are looking for spiritual avenues to find true meaning and fulfillment in their lives. What they do not know is they are going down wrong and dangerous paths to try and achieve spiritual fulfillment in their lives if they attempt to try out any of the above occult activities.
For those of you who may meet any Christians who have drawn demons in on them as a result of participating in any of the above occult activities – there is 4 step process that needs to be done in order to deliver them from the demons and restore order back into to their lives.
Confess the specific activity before God as a sin and ask for His forgiveness.
Renounce the specific activity before God and tell Him that you will never, ever participate in that activity again.
Burn or throw away all books, objects or items associated with this activity.
Directly engage with the demons by speaking out loud to the them telling them that they no longer have any legal right to stay attached to you since the occult activity has now been fully confessed and fully renounced before God the Father. Then command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ and for them to never, ever come back on you again.
Once you confess this occult activity before God as a sin, renounce it by telling God you will never do it again, and then burn or throw away any items associated with this activity – the demons will no longer have any legal right to stay attached to you – and they will now have to go if you take your God-given authority as a believer and child of God and command the demons to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ!
If you run across someone in trouble with the above who is not a Christian, you would first have to get them saved before you could have them go through this 4 step process for a deliverance.
If they are not willing to come to the Lord to get saved, there is not much else you can do for them other than to stand in the gap behind the scenes and pray to God for their protection and that He move in on them at the appropriate time to get them saved. Once they are saved, then you can move in to get them delivered from the demonic bondage they may be in as a result of engaging in one or more of the above occult activities.
I will let you know if any more good stories come in on the above subject. I do not think we have seen the last on what may be coming down the road on other people drawing demonic activity in on them and their lives as a result of engaging in some of the above occult activities.
ANANDA ALERT!
An Ananda Alert has been activated for 14-year-old Janice Barnes, otherwise called ‘Angel’, of Iron River district, and 16-year-old Macalla Reid of Airy Castle Road, both in Stony Hill, St Andrew.
BOTTOM OF THE SEA
To the bottom of the sea: Bin Laden’s last day
As the president and his team watched in real time, years of intelligence gathering lead a team of SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s last stand
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Play CBS VideoVIDEOInside the hunt for bin LadenThe hunt that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden began years ago when captured al Qaeda operatives revealed the existence of his trusted courier. David Martin reports on the U.S. operation behind the attack.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Also in the photo are, seated next to Mr. Obama from left to right, an unidentified officer, Deputy National Security Advisor Dennis McDdonough, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Standing from left to right are: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, White House Chief of Staff William Daley, unknown, and unknown. (White House/Pete Souza)
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As the information from the operation flowed into the Situation Room on Sunday afternoon, the president exclaimed, “We got him.”
One official heard a commander on scene say, “Geronimo E-KIA.” Geronimo was the code name for Bin Laden; E-KIA is “enemy killed in action.”
The hunt for bin Laden that ended Monday morning in Pakistan began years ago, when captured al Qaeda operatives first revealed the existence of bin Laden’s most trusted courier. Some of the leads to the courier came out of the CIA’s secret prisons, where high level al Qaeda captives were waterboarded.
CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the courier was described as a protege of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and the man who delivered bin Laden’s orders to al Qaeda operatives in the field. In fact, current and former U.S. officials said that Mohammed gave intelligence officials the courier’s name. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.
However, it was not until four years ago that U.S. intelligence determined the courier’s real name: Maulawi Abd al-Khaliq Jan. Take a look at it. It cost bin Laden his life.
Key to the hunt was identifying the cell phone number of the courier and placing it under surveillance. In 2010, the U.S. intercepted a call to the courier in which he was asked where he had been. He responded that he was back with the people he had been with before. The caller then said, “May God facilitate you” – the implication being that courier was back with bin Laden and his family.
The courier did not make it easy to locate the compound, however, since every time he approached the compound, he turned off his phone. He did this more than 90 minutes out and removed the battery, so he went totally dark and would leave it off when he was in the compound. When he left the compound, he would wait 90 minutes and turn it back on. Analysts would therefore keep seeing this pop up in places all over Pakistan but nowhere near to Abbattabod. This is why it took so long to find the compound after they had the name and the cell phone number for the courier.
It took another two years after identifying the courier to find out what part of Pakistan Maulawi Jan operated in. Then, last August, the CIA discovered his residence. Officials said they were shocked by what they saw.
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“This intelligence case is different. What we see in this compound is different from anything we’ve ever seen before,” said John Brennan, White House counterterrorism advisor.
It was a $1 million compound, eight times bigger than any of the other homes, in a town where retired Pakistani military officers live, just 35 miles north of the capital of Islamabad.
It was built in 2005, apparently just for bin Laden, with walls as high as 18 feet, topped with barbed wire, the main building with opaque windows facing out and a seven-foot privacy wall on the third floor balcony. The residents of the compound burned their trash instead of putting it out for collection and despite the $1 million price tag, there was no telephone or internet service. Three families lived there: the courier’s family, his brother’s family, and a third family about the size of bin Laden’s. It was a convincing but circumstantial case.
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Once US had located the compound where the courier lived, they put it under surveillance and noticed that every day a tall man emerged from the main house and walked for an hour around the courtyard. Imagery indicated that the man was between 5’8″ and 6’5″, but the photos were not good enough to make a positive identification. They were images from satellites and not drones, since location was too risky to deploy the unmanned aircraft.
Surveillance also indicated that the courier was living in the guard-house not the main house and that the “pacer” was living in the main house.
By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough that Mr. Obama wanted to “pursue an aggressive course of action,” a senior administration official said. Over the next two and a half months, Mr. Obama led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said.
President Obama considered attacking with B-2 stealth bombers flying non-stop from the U.S., but instead he chose the option that offered the best chance of coming away with proof bin Laden had been killed — a helicopter raid by Navy SEALs.
It was also the riskiest option — American commandos operating without permission deep inside Pakistani territory. The operation was such a tightly held secret that when the SEALs began training on a mockup of the compound, they were not told whom the real target was.
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On April 29, Mr. Obama approved an operation to get bin Laden. It was a mission that required surgical accuracy, even more precision than could be delivered by the government’s sophisticated Predator drones. To execute it, Mr. Obama tapped a small contingent of one of the Navy’s elite SEAL teams and put them under the command of CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose analysts monitored the compound from afar.
The operation was carried out by a 24-man platoon from the Naval Special Warfare Developmental group — known as DEVGRU — based out of Dam Neck, Va. It’s a group specifically dedicated to high-risk counterterrorism operations and assigned to the Joint Special Ops Command at Ft. Bragg.
A full-scale replica of the compound was erected in the special operations sector of Bagram air base in Afghanistan and the DEVGRU unit practiced assaulting under multiple scenarios — with many guards, with few guards, with explosives, etc.
“There were multiple opportunities to do that in terms of going through the exercises to prepare for it, so that once they hit the compound, they had already simulated it many times,” said Brennan.
The team was operating under the authority of Leon Panetta, the CIA director, since the U.S. military does not have authority to operate in Pakistan. A second team of about two dozen orbited out of sight in case they were needed.
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The operation was set for Saturday, but had to be postponed a day due to weather. At 1:30 a.m. on Monday morning in Pakistan time, two helicopters carried about 25 SEALs to the compound with a second team as backup. Meanwhile, back in Washington, Mr. Obama and his national security team watched live on television monitors as the operation unfolded.
“It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time, I think, in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday,” Brennan said.
Adding to the tension was the fact that Pakistani military officials scrambled air force jets in response to the situation, which they had no prior knowledge of. However, the U.S. forces were able to exit Pakistan’s air space without incident, Brennan said.
The operation’s helicopters — reportedly a HH-60 “Pave Hawk” and a CH-47 — came under fire from security forces firing from the roof of the compound. The Pave Hawk had mechanical failure and made a hard landing after half the platoon “fast roped” into the compound. At least two other helicopters were part of the initial assault. When the Pave Hawk couldn’t get back in the air, it was destroyed to protect the ship’s sensitive avionics and communication equipment.
“When that helicopter was seen to be unable to move, all of a sudden you had to go into Plan B,” said Brennan.
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The 22 people who lived in the compound, many of them women and children, were caught by surprise but bin Laden and his men put up a fight.
“He was engaged in a fire fight with those that entered the house that he was in and whether or not he got off any rounds, I quite frankly don’t know,” said Brennan.
The SEALs cleared the smaller building first, killing the courier and his brother. They then moved to the main building where bin Laden and his family lived on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Bin Laden’s son was killed and so was a woman, maybe bin Laden’s wife, when the men tried to use her as a human shield.
“Here is bin Laden, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this $1 million-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front, hiding behind women who are put in front of him as a shield,” said Brennan.
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Bin Laden was one of the last to die, shot once in the head, once in the chest. The SEALs carried his body to the helicopter, along with any material they could gather for intelligence purposes. The second helo could not fly so they rigged it with explosives and blew it up.
After the gun battle, a “Sensitive Site Exploitation” team arrived to comb the site and collect intelligence material and DNA samples.
U.S. troops were at the compound for less than 40 minutes.
It was mid-afternoon in Virginia when Panetta and his team received word that bin Laden was dead. Cheers and applause broke out across the conference room.
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Facial recognition technology confirmed the body was bin Laden, and on Monday morning a DNA match removed virtually any doubt.
“Now we can say with 99.9 per cent confidence that this was bin Laden,” said Brennan.
The body was flown to an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, where it was washed, wrapped in a white sheet and placed in a weighted bag. Then the world’s most infamous man was sent to the bottom of the ocean.
In the words of one U.S. official, bin Laden had been hiding in plain sight, but he now has vanished without a trace and without a shrine to remember him by.
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Islamic burial outlined by holy law
Updated: Monday, 02 May 2011, 12:18 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 02 May 2011, 12:18 PM CDT
UNDATED (WISH) – The burial rituals in the Islamic faith are laid out in Sharia, or the Islamic religious law, which requires that the body be buried as quickly as possible following the death of a Muslim.
Islamic clerics in the Middle East voiced their concerns Monday that the burial of Osama bin Laden’s body at sea may not have followed Islamic rituals. However, an explanation on the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Projectwebsite indicates a Muslim’s body may be buried at sea if there is fear that the body may be exhumed or tortured by enemies.
As a general rule, the first step following a Muslim’s death is to close his or her eyes and make sure the body is in a position of rest.
Islamic law then calls for the bathing of the body following a particular ritual. According to the written rituals, the body is to be washed as few as three times but, it must be washed an odd number of times.
Once the body has been washed, Sharia calls for it to be enshrouded with a Kafan (shroud of white cloth). The Kafanis made up of three pieces for a male and five pieces for a female made of cotton or linen, as the extravagance of silk or anything gold is generally dissuaded in the Islamic faith.
The deceased is then wrapped in the Kafan and the left hand is placed over the chest and the right hand is placed into the left, a position usually associated with prayer.
Islamic tradition calls for a series of prayers called Salatul Janazah to be held among a Muslim congregation. Many of the prayers associated with Salatul Janazah are said in silence. The congregation gathers to ask for pardon for the deceased and to wrap them in mercy.
The prayers carry an obligation to Muslims. Scholars explain the obligation saying a Muslim should not hesitate to participate in the prayers whether or not he or she knows the deceased.
The interment of a Muslim is also clearly defined in Sharia. The basic principles surrounding Islamic burial outline that the grave is to be made deep enough to cover the body. The body is to be placed on its side facing toward Mecca.
Only men are allowed to place the body into the grave. Once the body has been placed into the grave, it is covered with a thick fabric or stones so that dirt will not directly cover the body.
As the grave is filled in, three handfuls of dirt are then tossed onto the grave saying, “From the earth did We create you, And into it shall We return you, And from it shall We bring you out once again.”
In the case of burial at sea, the body is to be weighted before it is released into the water.
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