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The True Story Of What Happened In Operation Kill Bin Laden

The New Yorker has pieced together an amazing report about the Abbottabad raid aka Operation Kill bin Laden. Comprised from the personal accounts of the SEALs themselves, it has it all: Obama, Crankshaft, Pacer, DEVGRU, Cairo the Dog and more.

7 July 2011

News

Is This The Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?

Yesterday the Associated Press profiled “John,” the secretive CIA agent who led the effort to locate and kill Osama. The CIA asked the AP not to report John’s full name or identifying details, and the AP complied. But internet spy-hunter and data anarchist John Young, of Cryptome, thinks he’s found a photo of this master spy.

30 June 2011

Geek Out

Osama Bin Laden Killing Is Being Turned Into A Graphic Novel

As if war dogs and night vision contact lenses weren’t enough, the killing of Osama bin Laden is going to be stylised in a wannabe Frank Miller-style art. It’ll focus on SEAL Team 6 and take some liberties with fiction.

25 June 2011

News

Seized Phone Links Pakistani Intelligence To Osama Bin Laden

The mobile phone that was seized from Osama bin Laden’s courier has been revealed to contain contacts to a militant group that’s been long connected to Pakistan’s intelligence agency. This could mean that Pakistan was protecting bin Laden the whole time.

22 June 2011

Gaming

Now You Can Own The Taliban Chess Set

Surely you can find a reason to give someone the Taliban chess set, from Canadian toy company Hedwig & Sergeant Major. Fight the “Good War” from the comfort of your own home!

6 June 2011

Geek Out

China Building Its Own Osama-Killing Stealth Black Hawks

But don’t worry! They’re just 1:144 scale toys. If this is the extent of Chinese reverse-engineering efforts, then the Pentagon can probably wipe the sweat off its trillion-dollar brow. I’d still like one of these for my desk, though.

26 May 2011

Online

Bin Laden’s Ex-Girlfriend Starts Twitter War With Rapper

Well this is certainly bizarre. You might think author and former love of Osama bin Laden (!) Kola Boof might want to keep a low profile. Given, you know, the whole having sex with Bin Laden thing. Not quite!

24 May 2011

Online

How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking Bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd And Big Bang Theory

Amidst stories of war-dogs, secret choppers, and hard drives chockablock with porn, there was a small furore on Twitter about Osama bin Laden watching hit UK TV show The IT Crowd – or was it Big Bang Theory? Turns out, it was all an elaborate hoax by The IT Crowd‘s writer.

21 May 2011

News

This May Be The Other Stealth Helicopter Used In The Osama Attack

What you are looking at here may not exist, but it’s likely to be the stealth heavy transport helicopter that carried backup SEAL commandos in the final hunt for Osama bin Laden. It looks appropriately powered by ninja stars.

19 May 2011

News

Secret Stealth Drones Spied On Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above.

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