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Why didn't terrorist Osama bin Laden fight with guns before he died?May 2, 2011: The U.S. Navy's Special Operations Development Group successfully killed terrorist Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
After the 911 incident, the United States believed that bin Laden was the murderer, so why did Saddam Hussein call it "not good"?
This is Saddam's cleverness, he is not a straw bale.
Before 911, the United States pursued a rather ostrich approach to the Middle East.
In the sixties and seventies, the United States participated in a national war in Vietnam, which turned out to be a protracted war.
The Vietnam War was the longest war in U.S. history, lasting more than 10 years. The United States has killed more than 50,000 soldiers, injured more than 300,000 and spent a whopping $250 billion.
The result of the Vietnam War was the worst for the United States, losing its wife and losing its troops.
Money was spent, people died, the South Vietnamese regime was not retained, and the American people launched a huge anti-war movement.
Since the 70s, successive US presidents have learned from the pain and believed that they should not directly intervene in this kind of national war.
Until the outbreak of the Gulf War in the 90s, the United States only participated in a few small-scale wars, and the opponents were Grenada and Panama, which are small countries that are not worth mentioning.
The Americans often ridiculed the invasion of Grenada, believing that it was anti-aircraft guns that hit mosquitoes. In the face of a million-dollar US army, the small country of Grenada has only 2,000 troops!
In the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States only vigorously assisted the anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan and no longer directly sent troops to the war.
During the Gulf War in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States began to gradually assert itself externally.
At this time, the arrogant Saddam Hussein had reached the point of betraying his relatives, and even the Sunni Arab brother countries in the Middle East were dumbfounded by his invasion of Kuwait.
After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, only one country in the world expressed support for Saddam, that is, Jordan, a small country that had long received substantial economic and military assistance from Iraq, and none of the other countries were in favor of it.
In the face of such fanatics, the United States dared to send troops under the authorization of the United Nations and easily defeated Saddam.
In this battle, at a slight cost of 148 killed in battle and 145 killed in non-combat, the US army annihilated more than 100,000 troops of Saddam, recovered Kuwait, and inflicted heavy losses on Iraq's elite Republican Guard.
Even with its brilliant victory, the United States was quite cautious.
After recovering Kuwait and inflicting heavy losses on eight elite divisions of the Iraqi Army, the US military did not continue the attack.
If the U.S. military continues to attack, Saddam's regime is likely to collapse on the spot. The United States withdrew 540,000 troops after simply driving Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.
What's more, during the Gulf War, the Kurds in Iraq began an armed rebellion in an attempt to oppose Saddam's tyrannical rule. The U.S. military did not send troops to support the Kurds, forcing millions of Kurds to flee across the border into Turkey and Iran to escape Saddam's massacre.
Why?
The U.S. national policy emphasizes restraint and tries to use diplomacy rather than military means as much as possible to avoid falling into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.
The Soviet Union's 10-year war in Afghanistan and its eventual disgraced withdrawal also confirmed the U.S. view.
Even if a superpower is involved in a national war, it may not end well.
In the face of attacks by international terrorist organizations, the United States is also quite weak.
Al-Qaeda alone launched seven serious terrorist incidents against the United States in the 90s.
For example, in the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy, the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, East Africa, and the embassy in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, were suddenly attacked by car bombs. The two attacks killed a total of 224 people and injured more than 4,500. The U.S. government responded only with cruise missile attacks on terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan.
This kind of attack is innocuous and merely cosmetic.
After the attack, Saddam's official news agency praised bin Laden as a "hero of Arabia and Islam."
As a result of a series of connivances, 911 broke out. It was an attack on the U.S. mainland, with about 3,000 dead people, about 20 times more than U.S. combat deaths in the Gulf War.
Since the Civil War, the continental United States has been safe.
During World War II, the continental United States was attacked only slightly by Japanese balloon bombs and submarine artillery.
These hilarious attacks killed an American woman and her five children in May 1945 alone.
While the family was having a picnic, they found an abandoned Japanese balloon bomb. Intrigued, they touched the bomb, which exploded unexpectedly.
These five people are the only people in the United States who died in the war.
The 911 attacks caused such heavy casualties on the American soil for the first time in more than 100 years.
The George W. Bush administration has only one way to deal with this: to abandon its previous policy of shrinking and instead resort to a relentless crackdown on terrorists and supporting countries.
As a result, the US war on terror has lasted for more than 10 years, and it has also bought China 10 years of favorable time.
During the war on terror, the United States was reluctant to make enemies on all sides, which eased tensions with China.
The first target of the United States was the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which sheltered al-Qaeda.
Here's a brief introduction to bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, born into a wealthy local family. bin Laden's father, Mohammed, was a very intelligent and capable builder who would have been a Yemeni civilian. During World War I, Mohammed went to Saudi Arabia to work as a construction worker. Clever and capable, he was good at investing, and soon became a well-known building contractor in Saudi Arabia and a friend of the Saudi royal family.
After World War II, when the Saudi economy took off rapidly because of oil, the Saudi king was eager to change the face of a backward country and carried out infrastructure construction on a staggering scale.
As a result, Mohammed's opportunity arose, and he became one of the top Saudi builders, building a large number of infrastructure and major projects for the country.
Muhammad was a prominent figure in Saudi Arabia and was trusted by the first king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. The king entrusted Muhammad with the renovation of the mosques in Mecca and Medina, the most important holy places.
Muhammad lived up to expectations and completed the project perfectly. The king was thus overjoyed and appointed Muhammad's company as the chief construction company in Saudi Arabia.
As a result, Mohammed made a fortune and became one of the richest people in Saudi Arabia until his death in a plane accident in 1967.
Muhammad may have been a successful businessman and a great diplomat, but unfortunately he was not a good husband and father.
Muhammad was particularly fond of women, and according to Saudi law and Sharia law, he could only marry 4 wives.
Muhammad, however, continued to marry and divorce, taking 22 wives and having 55 children.
In bin Laden's case, his mother, Alia, a Syrian, was forced to divorce Muhammad just four years after her marriage. Bin Laden was only 3 years old at the time, the 17th of 55 siblings.
Laden only met his father Muhammad once after he remembered, and that meeting was very unpleasant!
Throughout his life, bin Laden loved cars and drove fast. After her parents divorced, her mother was not very wealthy, and she could only barely make ends meet, and she had no strength to buy a car.
Osama bin Laden was a child and would have loved to have a car at home. After meeting his father, who was serious and unfamiliar in appearance, bin Laden timidly asked him to buy him a car. However, Muhammad replied harshly: My son, I will not buy you a car, you are too young.
Less than 2 minutes after the two met, bin Laden was forced to leave and was later given a pink children's bike.
Osama bin Laden was very unhappy, but what he didn't know was that his father was going to die in the crash without it.
This special family equates bin Laden with the loss of his father. And the mother Alia is a cowardly and gentle traditional Saudi housewife, and it is difficult to teach her son well.
After his father's death, bin Laden received a portion of the property, ranging from tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars.
For a minor child, bin Laden instantly became rich and confident.
At the same time, bin Laden's elder brothers are still in the construction business in Saudi Arabia and have a very good relationship with the Saudi royal family. The brothers took good care of bin Laden, and the brothers' feelings were still harmonious. Take, for example, the eldest brother, Salim bin Laden, who was a personal friend of then Saudi King Fahd and was very close to other members of the royal family.
When bin Laden grew up, he became a big man with a height of more than 1.93 meters, a handsome guy according to Arab aesthetics.
In 1974, at the age of 17, bin Laden married his cousin Rajwa. For the Arabs, a man could not marry a sister, but either a cousin or a cousin could marry a wife.
After marriage, with the encouragement of his older brothers, the brilliant bin Laden entered Saudi University to study economics, business administration, and civil engineering. The brothers hoped that bin Laden would join the family company as chief engineer after completing his studies.
Studying at university was a triumph for bin Laden, who soon earned a degree in civil engineering and management.
Osama bin Laden's teachers at the time thought he was a very hard worker in college and an excellent student.
At this time, bin Laden's mentality changed.
He came into contact with some Islamic fundamentalist scholars at the university, and since then he has been obsessed with fundamentalism and jihadist theory, and has gradually become a terrorist.
In this regard, bin Laden's mother believes that her son, who has lacked his father's teaching since childhood, has been brainwashed by foreign scholars with ill intentions in college.
Most of these scholars are not Saudis, but come from poor and backward Islamic countries, hoping to lure wealthy Saudi tycoons to support their causes.
Osama bin Laden embarked on this path, going further and further apathetic, eventually leaving his native Saudi Arabia in 1992 for Sudan and later Afghanistan, where he directed the al-Qaeda organization he founded against the United States. Osama bin Laden and others organized al-Qaeda in 1988, and the United States was an ally of his allies in opposing the Soviet invasion of Islam-believing Afghanistan.
After launching the 911 incident, bin Laden knew that the United States would retaliate, so he immediately chose to hide it and basically did not appear in public.
Osama bin Laden's son recalled that he, his father and his family had the experience of hiding themselves.
Back in the 90s, after launching small-scale terrorist attacks on the United States, bin Laden frequently moved around Taliban-controlled areas in Afghanistan with the aim of making it impossible for Americans to lock himself in.
bin Laden's son believes that it is not very difficult for bin Laden, who does not even need a telephone, to hide himself in the inhospitable Afghanistan.
Interestingly, bin Laden once fell and injured himself during a horseback ride and was forced to lie down for several months before recovering. Osama bin Laden laughed at himself and said: The Americans spent hundreds of millions of dollars without hurting me, but they were thrown like this by a horse!
After 911, the Taliban almost collapsed under the U.S. offensive and were unable to provide protection for bin Laden.
As a result, bin Laden chose to move to Pakistani territory for refuge.
During the 10-year war of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, bin Laden worked in Pakistan for a long time, responsible for delivering all kinds of military aid to the guerrillas and training them in the use of weapons.
Osama bin Laden had close ties to Pakistan's top brass and was thus granted asylum. As a big country with nuclear weapons, Pakistan does not dare to enter a state of hostility with it casually.
Pakistan's protection of bin Laden was suspended on 1 May 2011.
It took a lot of effort for U.S. intelligence to finally locate bin Laden's location 10 years after 911: a mansion in the town of Bilal in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
In order to find bin Laden, the US intelligence agencies can be described as exhausting and investing significant manpower and material resources.
In terms of technology alone, they have used: At the space level, there are 35 reconnaissance satellites of various types, including "keyhole" photographic reconnaissance satellites, "lacrosse" synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites, electronic reconnaissance satellites, missile early warning satellites, maritime surveillance satellites, and civilian remote sensing satellites.
In the air, the US military has concentrated more than 40 reconnaissance planes, including the "United Star" surveillance and command plane, the EC-130 battlefield command and control plane, the electronic reconnaissance plane, the electronic warfare plane, and the "Predator," "Global Hawk," and U-2 unmanned reconnaissance planes.
At sea, the four US aircraft carriers and some large ships are equipped with long-range radar and signal analysis systems, and carrier-based aircraft are equipped with new-type tactical reconnaissance pods to carry out reconnaissance and detection of targets around the combat area at any time.
On the ground, the US military has deployed dozens of reconnaissance groups, carrying advanced communications equipment, disguised as local civilians, wearing wide-brimmed hats, checkered turbans, blankets, beards, and riding camouflaged trucks, small mountain bikes, or donkeys, secretly lurking in major towns and mountainous areas where terrorists may be active, shuttling among the crowd to collect and grasp the latest information on bin Laden's activities. At the same time, the US military has also set up a number of listening stations in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan to intercept e-mails, monitor radio communications, and conduct telephone tapping by various technical means.
In order to track bin Laden and the war on terror, with congressional approval, the number of U.S. counterterrorism agents has more than doubled, and the number of intelligence agents has increased.
After investing so much manpower and material resources to cast a net for 10 years, he finally reaped the rewards and found bin Laden's hiding place.
The house is just over 1 kilometre away from the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy (similar to the Whampoa Military Academy in China and West Point Military Academy in the United States).
On the same day, the American poster special forces carried out the operation "Poseidon's Spear". Considering the complex political factors, Operation Poseidon Spear made a special emphasis on killing bin Laden in the event of resistance, and did not need to capture him alive.
The Pakistani government and army may have provided shelter to bin Laden, and the U.S. military decided to abandon them.
Former President Barack Obama said he hesitated for months before making up his mind, and even then there was the resolute opposition of the Secretary of Defense and Vice President Joe Biden.
Before the operation, although the intelligence services were 95 percent sure that bin Laden was hiding in the house, Obama hesitated all night before giving the order to attack.
Initially, the U.S. military considered using air attacks to take out bin Laden, such as drones or even B2 stealth bombers.
The location of the house where bin Laden took refuge is not remote, it is within the core air defense circle of Pakistan, and the air attack has a greater possibility of failure. In the event of a failed air strike, bin Laden is bound to flee quickly.
After repeated analysis, if bin Laden was hiding in an underground bunker inside the house (the United States is not sure if there was a bunker), it would have been necessary to attack with more than 32 900-kilogram bombs.
The bomb exploded with great power, and other residential buildings in the vicinity of the house could have been destroyed along with it, killing at least dozens of innocent civilians.
U.S. intelligence has never been able to take pictures of bin Laden, and they can't be 100 percent sure that bin Laden is inside the house.
If the airstrikes destroy homes and kill dozens of Pakistani civilians without killing bin Laden, the US government will be extremely passive in international public opinion.
In the end, the U.S. had no choice but to let the SEAL teams carry out the attack.
That night, two Black Hawk helicopters, carrying 24 SEAL members, an interpreter and a military dog named "Camaro" (used to identify suspected explosives), took off from an airport in Afghanistan and flew into Pakistan at an ultra-low altitude.
Before the operation, these 24 elite team members had been trained for up to one month, and even conducted a simulated raid on a simulated building in the desert for half a month.
Following a carefully chosen route, the Black Hawk flew almost close to the ground, effectively evading the tracking of Pakistani air defense radars.
After a 90-minute flight, the Black Hawk landed outside the house. According to the plan, the two Black Hawks would land outside the house and on the roof for a surprise attack.
Unexpectedly, there was an accident at this time.
A Black Hawk was attempting to land when it unexpectedly encountered disturbance currents. The plane lost control and eventually crashed to the ground. The Black Hawk was only a few meters above the ground when it crashed, the quality of the plane was excellent, and the pilot operated it properly, but the plane crash did not cause any deaths, and there was no loss of the 12 crew members on board.
With the loss of a Black Hawk, the SEAL forces had no choice but to abandon the roof landing and resort to a storming from the outside.
The house has two walls, and 24 SEALs blew up the exterior walls with explosives and made it into the yard.
The crash of the Black Hawk and the explosion of explosives alerted the people in the house.
The SEALs split into several squads and stormed the first floor of the big house. No sooner had the SEALs entered the house than they were fired upon by a young man using an AK47 automatic rifle. There was a fierce shootout between the two sides, and the man was quickly killed.
SEALs recalled: At this moment, there was the sound of gunfire from behind the wall, and the bullets passed by. Teammate Owen was injured, but fortunately it was only a bruise, but he had no idea at the time. We immediately returned fire and killed the gunman.
This man, Ahmed Kuwiti, is a member of al-Qaeda, who usually carries messages for bin Laden and is a messenger.
After killing Kuwitty, the SEALs had just taken a few steps forward when they spotted their target at the doorway of a house. A young man in the house pounced on the corner of the house and tried to pick up an automatic rifle. The SEALs opened fire and killed them indiscriminately. This man was Kuwaiti's younger brother, Barr. The SEALs also killed Barr's wife in the chaos, and the husband and wife died together. This woman lost her life inexplicably!
After clearing the first floor, the SEALs prepare to ascend the second floor when a young man suddenly rushes towards them. Fearing that he had a bomb strapped to him, the SEALs immediately shot him dead. The 22-year-old is bin Laden's son named Khalid.
After the SEALs searched the second floor, they found only a few frightened women and children, and found no trace of bin Laden, and continued to the third floor.
As soon as they ascended the stairs on the second floor, they saw a tall man on the third floor, looking out to check the situation. The SEALs fired immediately, and the man reacted quickly, ducking his head to dodge the bullet and quickly leave.
The SEALs chased after the third floor, but did not know where the man had fled.
The SEALs could only search the third floor and soon found the room where bin Laden was hiding.
At this time, bin Laden did not panic, but sat upright in a chair.
Osama bin Laden said to his son many times: Everything in life is determined by Allah, and we need not have any fear.
Much of the headache for the SEALs was that bin Laden was still standing in front of 2 women. One of the women was bin Laden's wife, Amal Ahmed Abdul al-Fata. She stood in front of bin Laden and shouted in Arabic that she was willing to die for her husband.
The SEALs were unable to drag her away, and given that bin Laden could return fire at any moment, they had to shoot the woman in the shin, knocking her to the ground.
The SEALs then used a HK416 assault rifle to fire one round each at bin Laden's chest and head. Osama bin Laden was shot in the head and died instantly.
The SEALs recalled: The Spearhead kept the gun pointed at the room, covering us as we slowly approached the open door. We slowly approached the threshold, trying to understand what was going on inside. There were two women in the room gathered around a man lying at the foot of the bed, dressed in robes and with his hair disheveled, apparently having just woken up from his sleep. They were crying hysterically in Arabic, and the younger women looked up and saw us. She shouted and rushed at the spikes, and we were no more than five feet apart. The Spike quickly put away his gun, grabbed the two women, and dragged them into a corner. If they had a self-destructing vest, he would have sacrificed himself to save us. His decision at this moment was completely selfless.
After the two women in the way were dragged away, I and the third seal immediately rushed into the room. We saw the man lying in the corner of the bed, wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt, a pair of loose brown pants, and a brown tunic tunics. Spike's bullet entered his right side of the brain, and blood and brains splattered from the side of his head. He wasn't quite dead and was still convulsing, so the commando and I shot several rounds at the same time with a laser beam on his chest. The bullet passed through him, causing his body to thump on the floor until he stopped moving.
We started a quick search for other threats. I saw at least three children huddled together in a corner of the glass door that opened to the balcony. I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl, and by the time I cleared the room, they were clearly stunned.
After a brief search, the SEALs found one AKS74U carbine and one Makarov PM pistol, both loaded with bullets.
According to bin Laden's wife, the husband did not resist with a gun. Even when he was aiding Afghanistan, bin Laden never fought with a gun, he didn't know how to shoot at all, and even if he picked up a gun, he was killed.
Before he died, bin Laden said only one thing to his two wives: Don't turn on the lights!
As soon as the lights were turned on, the Americans quickly found bin Laden's location.
And bin Laden barely spoke to his two wives before he was killed. Immediately after hearing only the explosion, bin Laden said to his wife Amal, who was lying beside him: The Americans are coming!
The operation lasted more than 30 minutes, and eventually killed five people, including bin Laden. During this time, the SEALs found 17 women and children, most of whom were in panic and panic. Instead of shooting at them, the SEALs used plastic handcuffs to control them to reduce their own danger.
Here's a detail: bin Laden's 20-year-old daughter, Marianne, later recalled that she rushed to her father's bedroom in terror after the gunshot. bin Laden calmly ordered her to go back to the house and sleep immediately, "They want me, not you." "Osama bin Laden understood that even the Americans, who hate the Americans, would not kill women and children indiscriminately. As long as the daughter is not with herself, she is safe. This detail is rather ironic. Osama bin Laden could attack civilians, women and children in the United States with impunity, but he knew that the Americans would not do the same to him.
After the operation, the SEALs took bin Laden's body with the goal of identifying him. Twenty-four hours after bin Laden was killed, his body was buried at sea.
When Jesus was arrested, one of the doormen cut the ear of a soldier in order to protect Jesus. Jesus said to the disciple, "Put your sword into its sheath, "Whoever wields the sword will die by the sword." The Gospel of Matthew
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