Those who planned the secret mission to get Osama bin Laden in Pakistan knew it was a one-shot deal, and it nearly went terribly wrong.
Kimberly Dozier | May 17
AP – Adding exclusive new details to the account of the assault on bin Laden’s hideout, officials described just how the SEAL raiders loudly ditched a foundering helicopter right outside bin Laden’s door, ruining the plan for a surprise assault. That forced them to abandon plans to run a squeeze play on bin Laden ”” simultaneously entering the house stealthily from the roof and the ground floor.
Instead, they busted into the ground floor and began a floor-by-floor storming of the house, working up to the top level where they had assumed bin Laden ”” if he was in the house ”” would be.
They were right. …
This is a note on 10 ways in which Twitter was used during the coverage of the killing of Bin Laden based on conversations with Myra MacDonald of the ‘Pakistan Now or Never’ blog. It was presented to attendees of the Thomson Reuters Foundation EditorialTraining Week on May 16th, 2011.
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