Bin Laden is dead, official

[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

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by tater

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

Visible, that's the point. OBL probably spent a million a year on bribes to the local ISI branch to STFU when the boys from Langley came around.

[August]

Originally Posted by tater

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

Sounds like Osama should have hired you as his general contractor Tater! Maybe you could start a business. "Cheap Lairs for Frugal Fugitives (CLFF).

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by tater

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

Well, is in an expensive hood for many past government and military officials. I'm sure many other items were worked into the cost of the house, playstation, large screen TV's, services by ho's, probably a few cars,...you know how they have to play with the money.

[tater]

I'm just surprised real estate is so expensive someplace I consider to be a sh*thole.

Regardless, the house was neither a mansion, nor "luxurious."

Maybe land is really expensive 800 yards from their military academy.

[Armistead]

I finally just looked at it.. Damn, must be New York land prices there. I could build that here in America for less than a mil.

[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?

[Blood_splat]

The birthers want Bin Ladens death certificate.

[Gerald]

Ask Obama about it,