[HN Gopher] Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung th...
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Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung their clothes out
to dry
Author : WheelsAtLarge
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-07-31 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nypost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (nypost.com)
| peakaboo wrote:
| Propaganda much?
| johng wrote:
| In what way?
| coldtea wrote:
| Not sure about propaganda, but sounds like a lame-ass piece,
| taking for granted what BS official sources said.
|
| As if they'd reveal an informant or other (more plausible)
| means of getting that information.
|
| They had arrived at a suspect house, identified the driver,
| but had to rely on the clothesline for such information? I
| call BS. But it makes for a good story.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Well they had to be certain, right? What if the driver was
| working for someone else, and Bin Laden was nearby but
| didn't live there? You send in the marines, you don't get
| Osama, and instead you've basically let him know that he
| needs to GTFO that city...
| lostlogin wrote:
| It's hard to disagree with this, it was bs all the way
| down. There was also the way a vaccination programme was
| used as a cover for helping find him, causing problems down
| the line.
|
| https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277145-cias-hunt-
| for-o...
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| I'm not a fan of the CIA's methods in general but I don't
| think blaming them for this lapse in vaccinations is
| fair. The real cause is the people spreading all these
| lies about vaccines.
|
| In fact I like that they went out of their way to
| validate their target instead of just going in all cowboy
| and shooting the place up on limited intel.
| salawat wrote:
| Yes. Nevermind that you actually had conspiracy theory
| level skulduggery going on under the guise of a public
| health measure further undermining the already tenuous
| trust that exists under for the neutrality of the public
| health edifice.
|
| Amazing the level of mental gymnastics that people are
| prone to when the objectives of national security come
| into relief.
| zrth wrote:
| Tbh, i think it's just advertising for a book disguised as
| news.
| verdverm wrote:
| No mention of laundry here:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_for_Osama_bin_Laden
| cdstyh wrote:
| Much of what the media puts out is propaganda. I'd say a
| majority of what they release is propaganda.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Interesting insight into op-sec failures when trying to hide...
|
| > It had no telephone lines or Internet service.
|
| I wonder how the CIA got this info from Abbottabad Telecom. Pay
| someone? Hack into their systems? In my imagination it's someone
| local going undercover to work for them and extract the info.
| People think being a spy is James Bond stuff but it's
| infiltrating a... telecoms company.
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