Bin Laden is dead, official

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by joea

Good one Armistead, seen it before would love to have it in a bigger pic though.

Yea, I'm selling Osama flavored bottom feeder fish food cheap. PM me if you want to buy some.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Yea, I'm selling Osama flavored bottom feeder fish food cheap. PM me if you want to buy some.

Yeah...fish food jokes will be the rage for a while. Goodbye Bin Laden. Enjoy the 72 sturgeons feasting on your liver.

[Stealhead]

Seems the neighborhood was fairly well of mostly current and ex-high ranking Pakistani officers and doctor lawyer types living there but his compound was much more fortified than the norm in the town.

Interesting thing the Pakistani version of West Point is in the same town it seems. Clearly several factions in the Pakistan government not all of them trustworthy a very unstable place and with nuclear weapons.Hope the side that uh "likes" us keeps control over the side that hates us.

[Bakkels]

Today I saw a journalist that was born just a two miles from the place they found Osama, but she moved to the Netherlands when she was just three or something. She returns there on a regular basis as she still has relatives there.
She said that that particular neighborhood is quite new (they started building there in 2005 or thereabout) and that for the larger part it consists of 'holiday homes'. Don't know how else to call them exactly, but for the most part, those houses are for the richer Pakistani's that only go there on vacation. So nobody really knows each other there. Actually not so bad of a place to hide out when you think about it.

[tater]

13' tall walls are not that expensive. 13' THICK walls, maybe.

I fully expect a fortified place (course I do see windows in the pics) to cost more, but this is not a Saddam Hussein underground bunker. IT's a slightly beefy house. Also, it's built in a country with a per capita income of ~$1050. That's like 36 times lower than the US. I'd expect costs to be lower than $333/ft^2 in a place where the labor costs (compared to the US) are effectively zero.

[Stealhead]

It was pretty effective for the expected threat though.I highly doubt they expected Navy SEALs to pay a visit maybe unfriendly but poorly equipped Pakistanis which the fortifications would have sufficed.

It also seems clear that an assault like the one that occurred did not seem to expected seems he felt pretty darn safe in there.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by tater

13' tall walls are not that expensive. 13' THICK walls, maybe.

I fully expect a fortified place (course I do see windows in the pics) to cost more, but this is not a Saddam Hussein underground bunker. IT's a slightly beefy house. Also, it's built in a country with a per capita income of ~$1050. That's like 36 times lower than the US. I'd expect costs to be lower than $333/ft^2 in a place where the labor costs (compared to the US) are effectively zero.

Just think, our tax dollars could've helped pay for it. Can't believe we give billions to a government where elements support terror.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Here's the soundtrack for him for a while:

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by tater

13' tall walls are not that expensive. 13' THICK walls, maybe.

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In our country maybe. In other countries, it can be expensive. As an example, i spent some time in central america. You can always tell the folks who have money from the folks that don't. The folks that didn't have money, made their houses (more like huts) out of wooden materials. The folks that did have money, made their houses out of cinderblock. You may not think a 12 by 10 foot cinderblock house to be expensive, but for that area... it was.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

In our country maybe. In other countries, it can be expensive. As an example, i spent some time in central america. You can always tell the folks who have money from the folks that don't. The folks that didn't have money, made their houses (more like huts) out of wooden materials. The folks that did have money, made their houses out of cinderblock. You may not think a 12 by 10 foot cinderblock house to be expensive, but for that area... it was.

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is ).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

[Jimbuna]

16 foot high, barbed-wired outer perimeter wall, 7ft high-walled balcony, 24/7 armed guards, all so he could go outside and not be seen. How pi$$ed off must Osama have been, when Google Earth began?