Elite Officer Recalls Bin Laden Hunt

[tropicangela]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/02/60minutes/main4494937.shtml

The Hunt For Bin Laden

The officer who led the army's Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden after 9/11 reveals what really happened in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, when the al-Qaeda leader narrowly escaped. Scott Pelley reports.

This story is shady.

 

[youngbuck]

Yea that story is really shady. At this time I believe it's nothing but propaganda. Delta Force officer gets to show his face on TV, and tell all about the mess ups from the top? BULL

 

[UnReconstructed]

Whats shady about it? I was not tabbed but I was with the special forces in Afghanistan and these guys are glory-hounds for the most part.

 

[youngbuck]

Well isn't there a reason that their faces are always blurred in pictures/video?

And then this Delta force officer (aren't the Delta guys even more secretive than the SEALs?) goes on nat'l TV to discuss all of the flaws from the White House and senior military command? I just call hogwash. Me thinks there's an ulterior motive, especially since it's right before the election. I'm not saying I know exactly what they are trying to accomplish by doing this, but I'm sure they're up to something.

 

[sidster]

This guy is a joke.

They were going to drop hundreds of land mines on the paths to
Pakistan in the hopes to get Osama's caravan injured so they could
pick them up by aircraft and then attack.

Question asked: "Why didn't you do that?"
Elite officer says: "Disapproved"
Question asked: "Why was it not approved?"
Elite officer says: "I don't know."

Genius!

"2000 meters"? 2 kilometers maybe? Did he write his book
with crayons? I bet he did.