There’s a fascinating, short article just out from the Times on late changes made to the planning for the bin Laden raid intended to give the force enough firepower and numbers to fight its way out of Pakistan if police or the Pakistani military tried to interfere with the assault. In all the bleak scenarios the folks in that iconic photo must have been worried about, this must have been at the top of the list: a failed mission, a lot of dead SEALs and a confrontation with the Pakistani military maybe leading to the rest of the force being taken captive as POWs by our Pakistani allies.
The article suggests that it was President Obama’s prodding that lead to outfitting a substantially larger force that would have some hope of fighting its way back out of the country if it came to it. Read More
Texas teacher suspended for telling Muslim student that “I bet that you’re grieving” over Osama bin Laden’s death is no longer employed by that school.
For years Pastor Jim Moats had been telling his Newville, Pennsylvania congregation that he was a former Navy SEAL. So after the bin Laden raid the local paper, The Patriot-News, asked Moats for his perspective on the attack. But when he regaled them with his own history as a SEAL, replete with scenes lifted from Steven Seagal’s “Under Seige” and “GI Jane” his story started to unravel.