Osama bin Laden

Did The SEALS Who Shot Bin Laden Have Helmet Cams Or Not?

Remember how Navy SEAL Team Six caught the entire raid on Bin Laden’s compound on helmet cams? Yeah, well, that may not have happened. It’s just one of multiple unexplained discrepancies from the raid. As Mother Jones notes, initial reports and follow up in-depth reporting all mentioned that the SEALS were wearing helmet cams. Yet…

Tech News Mat Honan Aug 26

US Says China Photographed Secret Bin Laden Kill-Copter

That mostly-intact tail of the top secret stealth helicopter that helped kill Osama? According to US intelligence figures, Pakistan gave China full access as revenge for the raid—including photos, and chunks of the damn thing, the NYT reports. https://jalopnik.com/that-downed-us-aircraft-was-a-secret-stealth-helicopter-5798199 Although the reports aren’t 100% confirmed, the NYT says American spies are pretty sure China’s military…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 15

The Amazing, Movie-Like True Story of What Happened in Operation Kill bin Laden

The New Yorker has pieced together an amazing report about the Abbottabad raid aka Operation Kill bin Laden. Comprised from the personal accounts of the SEALs themselves, it has it all: Obama, Crankshaft, Pacer, DEVGRU, Cairo the Dog and more. “For God and country-Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.” That’s what the SEAL said right before he shot…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 1

Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?

Yesterday the Associated Press published a lengthy profile of “John,” the secretive CIA agent who led the effort to locate and kill Osama bin Laden. The CIA asked the AP not to report John’s full name or certain biographical details that might identify him, and the AP complied. But internet spy-hunter and data anarchist John…

Tech News John Cook Jul 7

Now You Can Own the Taliban Chess Set

It’s too late for Father’s Day, but surely you can find a reason to give someone the Taliban chess set, from Canadian toy company Hedwig & Sergeant Major. Fight the “Good War” from the comfort of your own home! For just $250, you can choose a set, such as America vs. Taliban, or Britain vs.…

Tech News Jeff Neumann Jun 21

China Building Its Own Osama-Killing Stealth Black Hawks

But don’t worry! They’re just 1:144 scale toys. If this is the extent of Chinese reverse-engineering efforts, then the Pentagon can probably wipe the sweat off its trillion dollar brow. I’d still like one of these for my desk, though. From the looks of it, the “Operation Geronimo Stealth Helicopter” is based largely off the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 6

Bin Laden’s Ex-Girlfriend Starts Twitter War with Rapper

Well this is certainly bizarre. You might think author and former love of Osama bin Laden (!) Kola Boof might want to keep a low profile. Given, you know, the whole having sex with Bin Laden thing. Not quite! Boof, not content to probably have many millions of people detest her for romancing the world’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 25

How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory

Amidst stories of war-dogs, secret choppers, and hard drives chockablock with porn, there was a small furore on Twitter about Osama bin Laden watching hit UK TV show The IT Crowd—or was it Big Bang Theory? Turns out, it was all an elaborate hoax by The IT Crowd’s writer. https://gizmodo.com/the-navy-seal-team-6-dog-is-a-bigger-badass-than-you-5798745 We all know how Chinese…

Television Kat Hannaford May 24

Student Suspended Over Facebook Post Wishing Osama Would Kill Her Math Teacher

Teens on the internet are totally confused about this whole Osama bin Laden thing. Not only do they barely know who he is, now they’re wishing he would kill their math teachers. http://gawker.com/5798274/online-teens-want-to-know-who-is-osama-bin-laden 13-year-old Concord, New Hampshire student Kimberly Dell’isola was suspended for five days after she posted on last week on Facebook that she…

Social Media Adrian Chen May 18

Secret Stealth Drones Spied on Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above. The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel doesn’t look much like the Predator drone fleet—and for good reason.…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 18

Secret Service Grills Boy Who Warned President About Suicide Bombers on Facebook

There’s an old sketch from MTV’s brilliant The State, where a kid reprimands his obnoxious classmates, saying, “You can’t even joke about it! You just can’t say ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be great if we shot the President,'” which results in a swarm of Secret Service agents flooding the classroom and carrying him away. Well, that…

Social Media Seth Abramovitch May 18

Pakistan Handing Over Lost Stealth Helicopter Tail from Osama Raid

The mission to kill Osama bin Laden went almost perfectly, in that we killed Osama bin Laden. One hitch—we had to blow apart an extremely expensive (and extremely secret) stealth helicopter. And we left a big piece behind. https://jalopnik.com/that-downed-us-aircraft-was-a-secret-stealth-helicopter-5798199 The tail of what most defense experts agree is some sort of highly modified stealth MH-60…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 16

Osama Had a Large Stash of Digital Porn Movies at Home

According to US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, Osama bin Laden had a “fairly extensive” stash of “modern” high quality porn at his hideout in Abbottabad. But, if he didn’t have Internet, how did it get there? Most probably, one of Osama’s cronies sneaked the porn material into the house just like they sneaked…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 13

The Real Reason You Won’t See Osama Death Pix: Princess Beatrice’s Hat

All the world may want a peek at the Osama bin Laden execution photos, but sorry, sickies — you’ll just have to settle for a second-hand account from Sen. James Inhofe and his Cryptkeeper-like attention to gruesome detail. But nowhere in the reams of analysis of the president’s decision to withhold the pictures did the…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch May 13

Obama Puts an End To Fake Photo Shoots

Say good-bye to reenactments and fake photo shoots in the White House. President Obama decided these staged photo ops were “a bad idea” and ended this long-standing practice. He would say that after getting caught-out, wouldn’t he. https://gizmodo.com/pictures-of-obamas-speech-announcing-bin-ladens-death-w-5799770 The controversy exploded after people discovered most of the photos of the President’s historic bin Laden speech…

Tech News Kelly May 13

Osama bin Laden Was a Geek

The myth of Osama in the Cave pervades American terror culture. Before we found him in a house, we imagined him in a cave, as a West-hating hermit. But Osama was no luddite—tech helped shape his terror. https://gizmodo.com/how-osama-bin-laden-was-found-5797588 The New Yorker’s recent profile of Bin Laden—as a child, a father, a murderous mastermind—all share a…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 12

Even Bin Laden Rejected Blade-Wielding Monster Truck Idea

According to Pro Publica, bin Laden once rejected the idea of creating a modified killing truck, apparently feeling like it was out of line, even by his standards. The magazine, called Inspire, “apparently discussed using a tractor or farm vehicle in an attack outfitted with blades or swords as a fearsome killing machine,” the official…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 12

Senator Describes Bin Laden Photos, Brain, Underwear

You’re not allowed to see the CIA’s postmortem photos of Osama bin Laden. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be described to you! Sen. James Inhofe got a chance to see the pictures today, because he is a fancy boy, and the Oklahoma Republican was very excited to tell everyone about it. In, uh, detail.…

Tech News Max Read May 12

This Is What We (Ridiculously) Thought Osama Was Hiding in Ten Years Ago

We caught and shot Osama bin Laden in a rundown, decrepit compound, lacking any direct contact with the outside world. But in 2001, the Times of London (and the Pentagon) thought he was living in a comic villain’s super fortress. The absurd graphic, birthed from rumors stacked upon rumors originating with a former Russian soldier,…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 9

According to German TV, anti-Starfleet rebels helped take down Osama Bin Laden

Last Thursday, German news channel N24 was discussing how the Navy’s SEAL Team Six participated in the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. The report started out normal, but an image search snafu took the broadcast to the final frontier. Rather than show the real logo of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Did The SEALS Who Shot Bin Laden Have Helmet Cams Or Not?

US Says China Photographed Secret Bin Laden Kill-Copter

The Amazing, Movie-Like True Story of What Happened in Operation Kill bin Laden

Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?

Now You Can Own the Taliban Chess Set

China Building Its Own Osama-Killing Stealth Black Hawks

Bin Laden’s Ex-Girlfriend Starts Twitter War with Rapper

How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory

Student Suspended Over Facebook Post Wishing Osama Would Kill Her Math Teacher

Secret Stealth Drones Spied on Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

Secret Service Grills Boy Who Warned President About Suicide Bombers on Facebook

Pakistan Handing Over Lost Stealth Helicopter Tail from Osama Raid

Osama Had a Large Stash of Digital Porn Movies at Home

The Real Reason You Won’t See Osama Death Pix: Princess Beatrice’s Hat

Obama Puts an End To Fake Photo Shoots

Osama bin Laden Was a Geek

Even Bin Laden Rejected Blade-Wielding Monster Truck Idea

Senator Describes Bin Laden Photos, Brain, Underwear

This Is What We (Ridiculously) Thought Osama Was Hiding in Ten Years Ago

According to German TV, anti-Starfleet rebels helped take down Osama Bin Laden

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