Tag: Hamza bin Laden
Posted on Sun Sep 09, 2012 at 08:15:38 PM EST
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden (all tags)
The former Seal who goes by the name Mark Owen was on 60 minutes tonight. He said the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound was not a kill mission.
He then describes how they were going up the stairs and had been told to expect one of bin Laden's sons to be there. They saw a figure disappear behind a door. They didn't know who it was. A Seal, on a hunch, whispers "Khalid." The figure peeks around the corner. The Seal shoots him dead. It was Khalid bin Laden.
Owen: “Curiosity killed the cat. I guess Khalid, too.”
But this was not a kill mission.
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Posted on Tue May 10, 2011 at 12:22:17 PM EST
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden (all tags)
The Telegraph (UK) is reporting that Osama bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, may have escaped from the compound during the raid at Abbottabad. ABC News reports Hamza is unaccounted for. (More on the Hamza confusion here and here.)
Hamza, who reportedly was living at the compound, along with his mother who is in Pakistani custody, has not been accounted for. Some say he was removed by the commandos along with Osama bin Laden -- with conflicting reports on whether he was dead or alive when captured. [More...]
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