• Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    he released videos in 2004, and lots of alleged audiotapes. you'd need to be fluent to analyse that all for authenticity ig but it'd probably be a bigger deal if these were possibly faked.

    is the actual story probably more embarrassing? i mean fuck they told us one of their helicopters went down with no inclement conditions or hostile fire lmao. they probably committed crimes or goofed real bad, & the ensuing coverup necessitated the incongruities. can't release cam footage of yankee soldiers desecrating bodies, killing civilians & yelling slurs yknow

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Didn't Seymour Hersch write a story that basically alleged that the mission was to take Osama alive in Pakistan covertly, interrogate him, and then stick him in a car in Afghanistan and drone strike it in order not to publicly implicate Pakistan who were supposed to be an ally?

      I'm not 100% sold on that but I could absolutely see that going out the window when they crashed their stealth helicopter and instead just reverted to lighting up everyone in the compound. I could totally believe zealous Navy Seals all wanting to be the guy who popped Bin Laden taking their chance regardless of the original mission too, but I'd be equally unsurprised if they captured him and tortured him to death before doing the whole smoke and mirrors about his burial etc.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Makes me think of how the US supported the South Vietnamese president being couped in 62, but then instead of getting him to the US alive one of the captors just shot him in the back of an APC