Bin Laden is dead, official - Page 15

05-02-11, 08:34 PM

I think it was a mansion because there was room for 2 goats instead of one!

Bakkels · 05-02-11, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tater

I keep seeing press about his luxurious compound, and sometimes "mansion."

The place looked like a dump, and is considerably smaller than my house. A million doesn't get much in some crappy suburb if Islamabad, does it? Seriously, what's the per capita income there, a million should buy a frickin palace, not a 3000ft^2 dump (described in one report as "a sprawling 3000 ft^2 mansion." (the average US home is ~2400 ft^2 for comparison).

I don't start even thinking "mansion" til over 10,000 ft^2.

Well if you're trying to hide, building a beautiful, huge mansion in Pakistan wouldn't really be smart I guess.

btw, you can't relate average income directly to square feet of housing.
The average income in my country is slightly higher, but houses here are generally way smaller. That's just a matter of population density.

August · 05-02-11, 08:40 PM

Security infrastructure don't come cheap. The place was built like a fort.

tater · 05-02-11, 08:44 PM

WarlordATF · 05-02-11, 09:03 PM

<Emergency Surface>

I have not posted here in quite awhile, but this is amazing news. I was shocked early this morning when i read the headlines. I actually teared up a little. I know its far from over but today the world has one less monster in it and i am so proud of our military.

God Bless America!

<SALUTE!>

<Diving back to lurking depth>

Torplexed · 05-02-11, 09:15 PM

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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 · 05-02-11, 09:22 PM

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.

TLAM Strike · 05-02-11, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Security infrastructure don't come cheap. The place was built like a fort.

^
Thats is why August is our resident Para.

Million $ home in USA = Pool, LCD Flat Screen TV and king sized water bed.
Million $ home is Pakistan = defended by 13 foot concrete walls and armed guards.

Bakkels · 05-02-11, 09:30 PM

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 · 05-02-11, 09:44 PM

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 · 05-02-11, 09:56 PM

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 · 05-02-11, 10:08 PM

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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 · 05-02-11, 10:47 PM

Here's the soundtrack for him for a while:

TLAM Strike · 05-02-11, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Bin Laden Dead: Video animation of terrorist leader's final moments

(it should jump to 5:50)

Ducimus · 05-02-11, 11:01 PM

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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.

05-02-11, 08:40 PM	#213
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05-02-11, 08:44 PM	#214
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	__________________ "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine

05-02-11, 09:03 PM	#215
WarlordATF Frogman Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: SW Florida Posts: 288 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	<Emergency Surface> I have not posted here in quite awhile, but this is amazing news. I was shocked early this morning when i read the headlines. I actually teared up a little. I know its far from over but today the world has one less monster in it and i am so proud of our military. God Bless America! <SALUTE!> <Diving back to lurking depth> __________________

05-02-11, 09:30 PM	#219
Bakkels Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Posts: 709 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 6	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. __________________ My sh3 skins : http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/Bakkels Or go to the sh3 downloads section > skins

05-02-11, 09:44 PM	#220
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	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. __________________ "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine

05-02-11, 08:34 PM	#211
darius359au Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I think it was a mansion because there was room for 2 goats instead of one!

05-02-11, 09:22 PM	#217
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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.

05-02-11, 09:56 PM	#221
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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.

05-02-11, 10:47 PM	#223
Torvald Von Mansee Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CA4528 Posts: 1,693 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Here's the soundtrack for him for a while: __________________ "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky