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India-Pakistan
Abbottabad commission findings contradict US version: report
2012-03-16
[Dawn] A member of the high-level Pak Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
commission tasked with detailing the May 2 incidents in Abbottabad that resulted in the killing of the late Osama bin Laden
... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing...
, has completed recording his findings, according to a BBC Urdu report published on Thursday.

The findings are based on statements from bin Laden's family, his neighbours, and the government officials who entered the area after the raid, said the report.

Questioning the American position on the raid, the details contradict, and are different from, the version of events described by the US. The findings will also be the first official version of the events from the Pak side.

A major question raised in the report is the finding that only a single bullet-casing and bullet-mark was found from the room which was allegedly filled with more than half a dozen armed companions of the former al Qaeda chief.

The bullet mark was found on a wall in bin Laden's bedroom, the same room where he was killed. The mark is so high on the wall that it appears as if the man firing bullet was on his knees. The commission's experts have concluded that this bullet caused bin Laden's death, and possibly hit the wall after tearing through a part of his skull, adds the BBC report.

Other than this, no other bullet-casing or bullet-marks were found from the compound. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
the commission's members found more than a dozen Klashnikov rifles -- some less than a yard away from the dead bodies, adds the report.

The report raises the question that why did bin Laden's companions not fire a single bullet at the US Marines, because the American version of events states that not a single soldier was hit. Now if no soldier was hit, and not even a single shot had gone astray -- which was proved by the absence of bullet casings and marks -- then why did Osama's companions not fire a single bullet, the commission findings inquire.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Who said they carried rifles?
Posted by: muffled explosion   2012-03-16 19:10  

#1  The report raises the question that why did bin Laden's companions not fire a single bullet at the US Marines, because the American version of events states that not a single soldier was hit. Now if no soldier was hit, and not even a single shot had gone astray -- which was proved by the absence of bullet casings and marks -- then why did Osama's companions not fire a single bullet, the commission findings inquire.

Because the SEALs made them real dead real fast.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2012-03-16 06:06  

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