Osama Assassination That Never Was

The truth is always somewhere in the middle of divergent stories. And people will mostly behave the way people usually behave. So what happened at the Osama Assassination at Abbottabad?

The administration claims that Osama was shot dead and buried at sea. Osama's daughter says he was captured then executed. No tape exists to prove or disprove either story.

Elite US soldiers do not have a history of assassinating, or even shooting, unarmed, illegal combatants. The four man stick of SEALS that entered Osama's room would have been highly trained in room-to-room combat operations. These soldiers would have spent their entire existence training to identify armed and unarmed targets. Their training would have been precise, shoot armed people, don't shoot unarmed people. Ignore, incapacitate or kill as required by the threat. Zero exceptions.

The SEALS shot a woman...in the leg. They incapacitated an unarmed threat. Good so far. Then they encountered Osama. He was unarmed. Their training would require them to incapacitate him. A shot to the leg would meet training standards. A head shot and two center of mass body shots would fail. SEALS are not trained to fail, SEALS don't perform outside of training. It is not possible.

So what happened at the Osama Assassination?

I don't believe that there was an Osama assassination. I believe that he was captured alive and taken into US custody, where he will remain until he dies an old man. The SEALS and others involved will be sworn to secrecy about this entire national security event. It never happened.

Osama's "death" was supposed to get Obama re-elected and bring 911 to closure. It would end the need for US combat operations in Afghanistan and end a war that the US could no longer afford.

That's how I see this theater.