To "escape detection"? I want to know how they detected him.
How could American forces allow this poor humiliated cross-dresser to be photographed in his moment of shame. It's just another example of the fascistic and homophobic American attitude.
Apparently they had some help from some U.S. troops. I assume Mrs. Bin Laden was not out in public like that, though. Great disgrace to put women's clothing on the "holy warriors", you know.
So, evidently was some door-kicking going on.
Incidentally, Rhod or any one else, if you haven't seen the report by Bill Roggio on Steel Curtain, you should check it out. Good work by our troops in an apparent escalation of tempo that has the jihadis, well, running to their closets for dresses and such.
Nick,
Apparently the Muslim Iraqis were involved. The horrah. What's next? A dogpile of jihadis wearing dresses?
I repeat, if a dogpile of jihadis in dresses was photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, copies would be hanging on every downtown wall in Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston. It's not the subject, it's the promotion and the consumers that make all the difference.
DC:
I read the link. It's got to be the worst kind of fighting..."room clearing", as it's called now. Lots and lots of emphasis on it in modern training for these young guys.
They're so good at it now that they lost very few to exchanges in tight quarters, and I'd be running for an hold Hallowe'en costume too, if they were after me.
All of our enemies elsewhere are studying these successes too. Nothing goes unnoticed.
Rhod
they detected him by using a 'ball-boy' ?
Mark,
Does the ball boy look under burkhas for them or what?
And Rhod,
Excellent point. And don't forget that the jihadis mantra was that we would never do such things ... b/c their template was Somalia. They didn't realize that the problem there was for America what it always is when we have difficulty on the battlefield -- politics.
And the politics have, fortunately, changed a bit since the Clinton years.
Mark:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhah....
DC:
THAT point is being made, and you're so right. Bin Laden misinterpreted the mission in Somalia, obviously, because it proved how tenacious American soldiers are rather than how quickly they run. Nevertheless, the cut-and-run part took root, and it's being torn from the ground every day.
BTW, our young Ranger friend is back from you-know-where after ninety tough days, and their missions were OK Corral every day. Amazing stuff.
Rhod,
That's a great point. The soldiers in Somalia were fantastic, even if the political leadership was, well, Clintonian.
OK Corral ... Bin Laden forgets that the Rangers are from the country wherer the OK Corral is. God bless 'em.
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