Hacker News Reader

Comment by Osiris | Hacker News Reader

As reported in the Huffington Post, Obama instructed the CIA to step up efforts to find Osama just 3 days ago on April 28, 2011.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-s-chafetz/post_1988_b_854...

According to the article, Obama was concerned that the Taliban might gain political influence in Afghanistan after U.S. troops leave and if so, they may invite Osama back to the country. The believe is that killing Osama will help prevent the Taliban from regaining control.

View on HN

To pick a nit, thats not "As reported in the Huffington Post". Gary Chafetz is not an employee or reporter, he's one of those "unpaid bloggers" you hear about. What newspapers used to call "op-ed writers" or a "letter to the editor".

Interesting. According to commentators, on NBC I think, he was killed a week ago during a drone strike and we've been waiting for complete confirmation beyond any doubt.

Obama mentioned Abbottabad, Pakistan. I found this interesting 6 day old article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gIlvWfWJc...

Heh, Petraeus should have kept his eyes open :)

Posting this at 11:30pm, before any press conference by the President, but some reports state he was shot in the head by a CIA operative. No drones involved.

That would have been so cool. Now thats a movie I want to see.

Hold tight and keep your hopes up. Maybe one day you'll see it in first person and full 3D.

I'm sure the video game will be out in time for Christmas and you can simulate doing it yourself.

The President just said that this, in fact, did occur, but it was actually two years ago and not recently.

Why the downvote? How is this not completely relevant to the discussion at hand?

Because it's probably inaccurate. Reports are that he died a week ago, plus 3 days is not long enough to "step up" anything.

Additionally huffington post should never be your primary source for anything except opinion.

Good point. I just found it interesting that perhaps there was a recent push to go after him. The article does state if the push just started on the 28th or that's just when he wrote about it. I searched and wasn't able to find any other articles that confirmed it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com