The raid that killed Osama bin Laden will go down in history as the most important covert operation since 9/11, earning the elite Navy SEAL team that carried it out permanent bragging rights for finishing off the most-wanted terrorist on Earth.
It was a near-textbook operation, despite the near-failure of one of the helicopters carrying the raiders. They all made it into Osama bin Laden's high-walled compound in Pakistan, sliding down ropes in darkness, as they've done on so many raids hunting militants since al-Qaida declared war on the United States.
That helicopter failure is still kind of bugging me. I mean this is the one bad thing about the whole operation. You would figure they would have the best equipment and the best mechanics working on that equipment. Instead a mechanical failure nearly took out the men on that chopper. I hope someone will get dinged for not giving these guys the best equipment when they needed it the most.
The conspiracy theorist in me figures that was the payment for Pakistan for letting us overfly their territory and attack a building in one of their cities. Maybe they cut a deal with the Americans because they certainly didn't want to take out Bin Laden themselves and face reprisals or worse yet bungle it thus letting him escape. So they said give us one of your helicopters so we can reverse engineer it and we won't tip off Bin Laden that you are watching him. So Obama took the deal and it was all "Boom! Headshot!" after that.
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