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| Raid that got Zubaydah almost snagged Binny |
| 2002-04-08 |
Yeah. That's why it worked. Chief Arbuckle and the Kops weren't included in the planning. The whole episode devolves upon the sophisticated wireless decoding ultramodern information technology whereby the American FBI manages to catch the waves of Cellular phone talk through satellite and traces backward the longitude and latitude of the phone call and exact location of its origin. Then the recorded voice was verified to be that of Osama and arrangements were made to nab him. Yup. Compromise the sources and methods. I try not to use bad language here, but - assholes! Immediately âReckyâ (Reconnaissance) was ordered and the vigilance reports confirmed that the âtargetâ was available on site. The vigilance reports suggested that the âtargetâ was staying in a rented house for the last three days i.e. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thereafter the FBI high-ups in Islamabad accompanied by crack airborne Commandos and marine contingent secretly landed at the Faisalabad airport from Lahore around 8:30 in the evening and with the help of local police and elite force mounted the surprise raid. Whose commandos and marines? Ours? Certainly not Paks? The inmates of the rented house came to know of the surprise raid when the whole area was cordoned off and the commandos and Elite Force jawans jumped over the walls. The inmates immediately retaliated by firing in self-defence. In the minor exchange of gunfire Abu Zubaida, a lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden, received three bullets and was critically injured on chest, arm and leg. He and his companions were overpowered and taken into custody. The prime target, Osama Bin Laden, had however moved out only a few hours earlier as part of his strategy not to stay for longer time at one place. Identity of Abu Zubaida came to be known quite a long time after the arrest during investigation of his companions. Did Seymour Hersch write this? The surprise raid codenamed âOperation Midnightâ was mounted at zero hour at midnight and whole operation was completed within four hours when the FBI team flew out from Faisalabad at 5 in the wee hours. The foreign mediamen leaked the information regarding the surprise raid in the evening and they rushed to Faisalabad by road, reaching here by sunrise. But they found the operation completed and remnants of the encounter spread around. The presence of Osama Bin Laden has been leaked now only a week after the episode and the foreign media teams are pouring in to dig out further details. Scouring the battlefield to shoot the wounded? Doesn't matter now. Was Binny (or one of his look-alikes) actually there? Who knows? One of these times, if he's not actually a layer of brown dust now, one of these raids will get him, assuming assorted orifices can quite crowing over how sophisticated our intel collection is and here's why... "Yup. Compromise the sources and methods. I try not to use bad language here, but - assholes!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |