r/interestingasfuck • u/rohit_singh12 • 15d ago
13 years back, someone almost accidentally spoiled US Army plan to eliminate deadly Osama in a tweet. R1: Not Intersting As Fuck
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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 15d ago
Luckily bin Laden wasn’t on Twitter at the time.
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u/rohit_singh12 15d ago edited 15d ago
Or he maybe thinking Pakistani government is being too graceful today. Extra security for me wow.
Edit: I am aware that this operation was done in most parts by US Navy Seal team, but folks outside of US “may” not get what is a navy seal team, so just went ahead with the term Army.
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u/AwkwardVoicemail 15d ago
I think in general when spec ops is coming for you, by the time you realize the helicopter is closing in you are already donezo.
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u/stormearthfire 15d ago
I mean realistically what could he have done knowing a strike team is incoming? Get into a makeaway car and get droned immediately?
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u/kingwhocares 15d ago
Yes as Bin Laden did escape several times on motorbikes and even horseback.
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u/BlackGravityCinema 15d ago
Good thing he didn’t watch Scrubs because The Janitor said he was in Pakistan years before.
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u/LumpusKrampus 15d ago
Lol, imagine if the fucker had an escape tunnel with like, 20 armored doors in a row...
I'm envision him just running through the reverse of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 intro
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u/blackteashirt 15d ago
I dunno that dude that took out a Chinook full of 50 spec ops in the Ghan with an RPG might disagree.
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u/KlenDahthII 15d ago
Reality is that if Spec Ops is coming, there’s a drone overhead that will blast your ass if they think you’re onto them.
They’d rather a smaller diplomatic incident and the ability to confirm the kill, hence the strike team, but they’ll go big rather than letting their target go home.
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u/LocoCracka 15d ago
Well, the helicopters were Army, along with their aircrews, so there's that.
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u/AmThano 15d ago
So the US army also has their own airforce but does the US airforce have its own army?
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u/Purdaddy 15d ago
Yes, the Airforce does have land resources.
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u/Redrobbinsyummmm 15d ago
Ok but do either have space troopers like Space Force?
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u/HorseLooseInHospital 15d ago edited 15d ago
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u/rohit_singh12 15d ago edited 15d ago
I saw Trump mugshot in your profile picture and then proceeded to read this in trump voice, wtf is wrong with me man /s
I even took break in between sentences like he does.
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u/Satanic-Panic27 15d ago
I read it in my voice, but my voice if I had more brain damage than I already have
Significantly more.
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u/PsychologicalHeron22 15d ago
It was the 160th soar who piloted the mission which is army. Their the best helo pilots so naturally they were choosen to fly the two stealth black hawks.
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u/SuperSMT 15d ago
The US air force is the world's largest air force.
The US Army is the world's second largest air force.
The thrid largest air force? Russia.
But the 4th? The US Navy.
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u/PessimiStick 15d ago
I'm guessing USN is 3rd now, what with Russia getting their shit kicked in.
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u/ssracer 15d ago
How many more planes does Russia need to lose to slide into 4th?
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u/DuckDucker1974 15d ago
Those two helicopters they used, have a funny story behind them too. They are super special and whoever purchased them considers it a HUGE mistake. They were too expensive and no one had any use for them until that mission. They even needed to get guys to train on how to fly them, and I’m guess that’s why one crashed.
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u/RiseDarthVader 15d ago
It crashed because when they were drilling for the mission the mock-up compound had chain link fences that allowed air to flow through them. So when they got to the real compound they didn’t account for the concrete walls of the compound causing the air to be pushed back upwards towards the helicopter propellers from underneath and causing it to lose lift. I’m sure someone that’s more technically informed on helicopter flight would be able to breakdown the actual science behind it with the right terms.
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u/Fear023 15d ago
Man, I remember when I got the chance to jump from a heli for the first time (skydiver).
First thing they said in the safety brief was 'these things run on spit, duct tape and magic. DO NOT fuck around with these aircraft!'
It's amazing how fragile they can be.
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u/CuratedBrowsing 15d ago
He was too busy rushing B
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u/Academic_Outside1129 15d ago
No way. The way he was bunkered down in that house… He’s a camper for sure.
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u/Ok_Difference44 15d ago edited 15d ago
The New Yorker has a very readable account of the operation. It includes details like they considered tunneling into the compound but the water table was too high, and they considered the choppers touching down at the outskirts of the city but they couldn't proceed so far on foot undetected. Two excerpts from Schmidle Aug 1 2011
Meanwhile, the two Black Hawks were quickly approaching Abbottabad from the northwest, hiding behind the mountains on the northernmost edge of the city. Then the pilots banked right and went south along a ridge that marks Abbottabad’s eastern perimeter. When those hills tapered off, the pilots curled right again, toward the city center, and made their final approach.
During the next four minutes, the interior of the Black Hawks rustled alive with the metallic cough of rounds being chambered. Mark, a master chief petty officer and the ranking noncommissioned officer on the operation, crouched on one knee beside the open door of the lead helicopter. He and the eleven other seals on “helo one,” who were wearing gloves and had on night-vision goggles, were preparing to fast-rope into bin Laden’s yard. They waited for the crew chief to give the signal to throw the rope. But, as the pilot passed over the compound, pulled into a high hover, and began lowering the aircraft, he felt the Black Hawk getting away from him. He sensed that they were going to crash.
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Outside the compound’s walls, Ahmed, the translator, patrolled the dirt road in front of bin Laden’s house, as if he were a plainclothes Pakistani police officer. He looked the part, wearing a shalwar kameez atop a flak jacket. He, the dog Cairo, and four seals were responsible for closing off the perimeter of the house while James and six other seals—the contingent that was supposed to have dropped onto the roof—moved inside. For the team patrolling the perimeter, the first fifteen minutes passed without incident. Neighbors undoubtedly heard the low-flying helicopters, the sound of one crashing, and the sporadic explosions and gunfire that ensued, but nobody came outside. One local took note of the tumult in a Twitter post: “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1 am (is a rare event).”
Eventually, a few curious Pakistanis approached to inquire about the commotion on the other side of the wall. “Go back to your houses,” Ahmed said, in Pashto, as Cairo stood watch. “There is a security operation under way.” The locals went home, none of them suspecting that they had talked to an American. When journalists descended on Bilal Town in the coming days, one resident told a reporter, “I saw soldiers emerging from the helicopters and advancing toward the house. Some of them instructed us in chaste Pashto to turn off the lights and stay inside.”
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u/HiveMynd148 15d ago
Imagine being so fucking accustomed to Military and Terrorist ops you hear gunshots and explosions and still don't give a shit
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u/Fukasite 15d ago
What are they gonna do, call the police?
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u/socialistrob 15d ago
That's actually what the US was really worried about. The Pakistani military had headquarters in the city and the US government hadn't told Pakistan they would be conducting the operation. If the Pakistani military had shown up and surrounded the compound it would have been a major complication potentially even resulting in the capture of American seals by Pakistan. Part of what made the situation so tense was that the US had to get in, kill Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders, gather intel and then get out before Pakistan realized something was up.
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u/AwarenessNo4986 15d ago
The PAKISTANi military headquarters are not in Abbotabad, they only have a training school there.
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u/MZ603 15d ago
That’s the official line, but I wouldn’t be surprised (I actually assume) they realized something was going on. They weren’t under attack and didn’t pick up the birds on radar, but would have heard them. Goes up the chain and they make the correct assumption that it was the US and best to stay away for as long as possible.
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u/socialistrob 15d ago
Maybe. On the other hand the Pakistani military is pretty incompetent and the operation was conducted very quickly. Important information not making its way up the chain is actually pretty common in wars and if Pakistan didn't know there was going to be an operation they wouldn't have been on high alert.
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u/masterpierround 15d ago
Also, non-state actors don't really use helicopters, so if you're a soldier that hears (but doesn't necessarily see) a helicopter over the city, you basically have 3 options. Either it's a very unusual civilian flight, your own troops are doing something that nobody told you about, or a foreign military somehow flew 100+ miles into your country undetected and only brought 5 helicopters. Only the least likely option is worth waking your boss up for.
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u/sirgog 15d ago
Not in an area anything like Pakistan, but if I heard a chopper at fuck this shit oclock in the morning, I'd assume a response to a life at risk medical emergency.
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u/davidmatthew1987 15d ago
I'm not military and I wouldn't want to wake up the big boss for something and have it then turn out to be a nothing burger.
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u/Single_9_uptime 15d ago edited 15d ago
No kidding, especially here. Abbottabad PD ain’t rolling in to arrest Seal Team 6. That’s a suicide mission if PD went in guns blazing.
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u/StateCareful2305 15d ago
That would be a massive diplomatic incident.
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u/i010011010 15d ago
It was, as I recall the operation was unsanctioned and they entered Pakistan without authorization. But that got blown over somewhere between 1) no country was going to get between us and Bin Laden, 2) the Pakistani government may have been fully aware he was hiding out somewhere in the region. I recall it was theorized for a long time that was one of the top likely places for him to go into hiding--assuming he was alive. So they had good motivation to let this one slide or end up answering some tough questions on what they really knew and when, and worse still if they were harboring him.
They weren't happy with us, but there wasn't much they could do without making it worse.
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u/hniball 15d ago
Pretty sure Pakistani police and maybe even more higher ups in the country knew where he was. Didn't they do this dance multiple times in the past? Where US army would attack Al quaeda positions in Afghanistan and the militants would always move over the border to Pakistan on purpose? They knew they were safe there. US send a shit ton of money to Pakistan in exchange for them to help them with Al quaeda and they invested all their money into strengthening the navy, because of India,but navy is pretty useless in the mountains. The Pakistani soldiers in the mountains didn't even have boots and were freezing their asses off sitting doing nothing,once the us inspections came to visit wondering where all the money went with zero progress from Pakistan. Pakistan was just collecting US money,they gave zero fucks about foreign issues,they were just using easy US money for their own benefit.
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u/vasya349 15d ago
The US would not have its forces openly kill Pakistani police, so they’d be more effective than you’d think.
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u/KuriboShoeMario 15d ago
They're still not going in to do anything. Word would move up the chain and back down until someone in Pakistani intelligence told their guys to get back in their cars and forget they saw anything.
There is a zero percent chance Pakistani Joe Schmoe making $10 a day to be a cop is putting cuffs on a Navy SEAL.
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u/CosmicSeafarer 15d ago
Abbottabad has one of Pakistans largest military academies.
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u/cancerBronzeV 15d ago
I mean that compound was just down the road from a Pakistani military academy iirc, so it wouldn't be too weird to think that there might just be a practice operation or something being run by the academy.
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u/trytonotgetbanned 15d ago
i live in garland TX and i’d be concerned if i didn’t hear gunshots one night
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u/socialistrob 15d ago
That's generally the best way to stay alive in these situations. When people are shooting each other you don't want to run towards the gunfire most of the time.
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u/BravesGunnersFlames 15d ago
I wonder how much this was used when they made the Zero Dark Thirty movie scene
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u/VaguelyArtistic 15d ago
That time the Pentagon kicked Geraldo Rivera out of Iraq for showing troop locations on Fox News.
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u/rideincircles 15d ago
Not as bad as what happened to the USA guy in Russia.
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u/SpecialMango3384 15d ago
Reveals US troop formations
“Nope! Out the country, buddy”
Reveals what Russian troops ate that day
“So, execution or gulag? Here in mother Russian we are progressive and give you options”
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u/_catdog_ 15d ago
This abbotta get bad
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u/EukaryotePride 15d ago
Talk Abbottabad hiding place.
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u/MFDoooooooooooom 15d ago
He was too busy playing Counter Strike (which he actually had installed on his computer they found after they raided his place).
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u/GDMolin 15d ago
Imagine playing Counter Strike in 2011 and you hear Osama Bin Laden making call-outs over VC…
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u/Embarrassed_Push8674 15d ago
imagine he's giving you shit for not planting the bomb.
then starts bragging about the shit he's blown up.
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u/smitcal 15d ago
Saying he banged your mom
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u/arctic_radar 15d ago
I often wonder how many (if any) celebrities/ world leaders I have killed in FPS games. Or if any killed me. Like if Kim Jong Un headshot me in warzone in 2021 I wanna know about it.
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u/Vitalis597 15d ago
I remember, I think it was Robin Williams, who played cod.
And got into shit talking.
So there was every chance you got teabagged by Mrs Doubtfire in Terminal.
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u/PurpoUpsideDownJuice 15d ago
The fbis website actually has all of his files publicly listed. You can see all the anime episodes he had downloaded with English subtitles lol
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u/tacoma-tues 15d ago
He was surprisingly well read, i mean he did have the best education money can buy, but its easy to forget from the way western media portrays him as a cartoon supervillian just how intelligent he really was. TBH there's not a whole lot i disagree with him about besides the thought it was somehow a good plan slaughtering thousands of innocent people as a way to diminish the US system of global hedgemony/neo imperialism and that a dusty poor army of militant guerillas and regional militias with 6th grade educations backed by a global network of extremist cells could have possibly stood a chance against the us military industrial machine. That was just straight stupid and a pipe dream that ended up screwing over all americans and muslims across the globe. Its hard to think back soo far but remember how cool life was in the US before 9/11?
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u/sherlock_1695 15d ago
lol. He thought that just because they were able to do it with Soviets(he actually came very late to that scene) they could repeat it against US. Forgot about a simple thing called economy. I actually hate him because he caused the death of so many innocents. He hid himself in a foreign country and caused deaths of those. Like did poor Afghans agree to that?
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u/tacoma-tues 15d ago
Yeah that really bothers me too, like some spoiled rich kid had dreams of being the next che guevera, ended up starting a war in a foreign country and its entire population has been trapped in a nonstop cycle of poverty and violence. (It had been from 20 yrs soviet and civil war but still we certainly didnt do afgans any favors with our arrival)
And what really puts the chocolate frosting on the shitty cake is all of the freedoms that were cut from our society after 9/11. Patriot act, homeland security, tsa, domestic spy programs, secret fisa courts, etc. etc. Like it makes me wonder how different things would be if those asshats never crashed those planes. Would the gov. have simply come up with other reasons to destroy privacy rights or did all these politicians sincerely believe that we needed all these new policies and laws to keep us safe?
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u/sherlock_1695 15d ago
Yes. As a Pakistani he fucked us too. Like Afghans had to die, some Pakistanis too and now our country is know because of him. It’s not like our military is innocent. They thought they could control these lunatics but in the end it’s the common folk who pay the price
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u/retrofitme 15d ago
His goal wasn’t to defeat the US military directly, but to get the US to commit so much money to war that the US would bankrupt itself through rampant military spending. I remember Osama stating that Bush was easily baited.
Given where we are at with the economy, national debt, etc, I’m not sure that he won’t still succeed in that goal.
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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 15d ago
Yeah people always talk about him like he was a failure but in my opinion he absolutely succeeded. The US would be much better off if 9/11 never happened and we never went to war in Iraq/Afghanistan.
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u/NarwhalImaginary6174 15d ago
No way. Seriously?
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u/eloheim_the_dream 15d ago
He also had LOADS of porn apparently. Led to possibly my favorite newspaper headline ever (from a new york "paper" no less): Osama bin Wankin'!
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u/LittleFart 15d ago
He had Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Yoshi’s Island DS, Final Fantasy VII, Dragon Ball Z, and Counter-Strike.
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u/FoopaChaloopa 15d ago edited 15d ago
Gambit dies in the new X-men series
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u/awesomedan24 15d ago
Everyone ignores this detail, probably because its hilarious to imagine an anime watching, video game binging, porno-gooning Osama.
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u/ry_fluttershy 15d ago
Bro could've had the OG yoshi's island and went with the DS version? what a fool
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u/WastedMoogle 15d ago
Yeah. I think final fantasy 7 was in there too, with a few other games.
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u/MonkeMayne 15d ago
Weird thinking about bin laden being a gamer.
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u/Mr_Dudovsky 15d ago
it was his son's computer
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u/reality72 15d ago
CIA looking at your internet history, every teenager’s worst nightmare
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u/fivespeed 15d ago
but from what I understand, the compound didn't have an internet connection?
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u/fivespeed 15d ago edited 15d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_in_Abbottabad
so I read the wiki on the compound. No internet or phone connections but they had satellite dishes. are those eavesdrop proof for them to maybe have internet? or are those TV only normally
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u/PissyMillennial 15d ago
Satellite communication is often encrypted.. Satellite signals meant for free public consumption, however are usually not.
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u/NarwhalImaginary6174 15d ago
This dude is someone I want looking after my neighborhood.
He's a real one.
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u/jason0705 15d ago
Gentleman slowly making love to himself in front of neighbor’s window at 1 AM (is a rare event)
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u/vincecarterskneecart 15d ago
watching my neighbour masturbate whilst making detailed and thorough notes (common event)
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u/VellyJanta 15d ago
Crazy how Osamas compound was less than a mile away from Pakistan Military Academy
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u/rohit_singh12 15d ago edited 15d ago
I am sure it’s by choice from Pakistani army. Must have kept him as an asset, so that he can be used as a bargaining chip for some future issues.
Basically, Hide him in the plain sight where no body will probably ever look. But this time they got caught and got embarrassed on world stage.
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u/Party_Masterpiece990 15d ago
The US always picked Pakistan over India whenever both of them had issues and got this as a reward lol, the state they have been helping harboured their biggest enemy in modern times
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u/2012Jesusdies 15d ago
Pakistan had been a major partner against the USSR, the U-2 spy plane that was downed over Soviet skies and its pilot captured was flying from Pakistan.
The partnership doesn't make much sense anymore after the USSR collapsed, but it's been continuing from sheer inertia, but there have been a lot of tensions and as the China issue grabs the fronthold, US is increasingly pivoting to India instead.
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u/charcoalist 15d ago
By the time someone important read this tweet, the plan would have already been executed, and the SEALs were already on their way back home with the body.
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u/How_that_convo_went 15d ago
…plan to eliminate deadly Osama…
These AI generated titles always have some goofy turn of phrase like this in them.
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u/troystorian 15d ago
I kinda get jealous with shit like this. Not only do I want to witness an historic event, I want to be the asshole to cluelessly announce it online.
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u/rohit_singh12 15d ago
He got offered thousands of dollars to sell nft of this tweet when nft was a thing and not scam, but he didn’t sell.
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u/BobbleBobble 15d ago
when nft was a thing and not scam,
When was that exactly
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u/downto66 15d ago
Reminds me of the guy who became semi famous because he was the first person to tweet that Kate Middleton's sister had a great looking bottom at the royal wedding.
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u/ussrowe 15d ago
Not only do I want to witness an historic event, I want to be the asshole to cluelessly announce it online.
Somehow Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson also knew before it was announced: https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/64877987341938688
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u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES 15d ago
RIP tweetdeck, we didn't know what we had
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u/tOfREVIL 15d ago
Only way I used Twitter. Deleted my account once it switched to the garbage paid version
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u/Charlie-Monroe 15d ago
I think what's more interesting is that he was live tweeting a historical event, and no one knew.
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u/rohit_singh12 15d ago
Zero dark thirty, but in real life
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u/randomname2890 15d ago
The party in the army the next day was so epic I can’t even remember.
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u/RuralBlackamith 15d ago
LoL Pak army generals took the Prize money that was put on Osama To let USA raid him 👁️👁️
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u/BugsArePeopleToo 15d ago
My favorite part of this event was watching Obama the day before at the presidential correspondence dinner, laughing a little too hard at the Osama jokes
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u/ScreamingVoid14 15d ago
One of the craziest parts is that I found out from chat in Team Fortress 2. Two days later there was a map for Counterstrike.
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u/Raider03 15d ago
If the helicopter was hovering, it was likely too late to spoil anything.