Just watched this touching video from the same creator of "backtrack", the one that Jetliner posted( http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/forum/index.php/topic/1584-backtrack/), and thought I should share it.

This is a trailer for an Arma based movie about operation neptune spear, the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

The video is very touching. The first minute has got to be the worst nightmare for a dispatcher...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbzXbcQBx2Y

Edited August 15, 201114 yr by kjel0112

Wow, shocking and at the same time fascinating. I'm impressed by his work.

Indeed, amazing he doesn't have more views. That's the reason I posted it.

Ha, cool

I'm a little frustrated they stole the name 'Operation Neptune' from the D-Day landings and slapped 'Spear' on at the end to make it different. This second mission was MUCH less significant than D-Day, and that's coming from an American still bitter about 9/11 and our response to it.

Edited August 15, 201114 yr by unr3al

I totally agree and I'm happy to hear an American say that. All we saw here in Belgium, in the news after he was killed, was Americans cheering in the streets. My professor international criminal law also pointed out that only the USA could sneak into a country, shoot a bad guy, dump him into the sea and never speak of him again. You'd have to be a powerful country to pull that of.

As far as the name of the mission goes, I think the military leaders saw this as a turning point in the war on terror, hence why they wanted to name it to another important mission. Sadly, like you said, they highly overestimated the importance and compared it to D-day, an event of much more importance.

And the thing is, while we're on this topic, Osama Bin Laden was quickly replaced by someone else. And that will keep happening every time we kill the leader of al Qaeda. They just find another, sometimes more ruthless, leader. It may have been very important, indeed, that he was disposed of (for lack of a better word?) but that is by no means the end of it.

edit: and no, I am not trying to start something here. This is just what has happened.

Edited August 16, 201114 yr by Iconography

You didn't start anything there but tell the complete truth. Again, I'm glad that there are Americans who see this. Al Zawahiri might not be as famous as Bin Laden was, but he certainly has the same amount of blood on his hands.

The only reason Bin Laden is dead is because our government made a promise (without actually using the word promise) that we'd kill him or catch him. I just finished watching a SEAL Team 6 special, and one of the former SEALs from another team guessed that Bin Laden didn't put his hands up, but I have the suspicion that we wanted him dead anyway. He's of no use to us alive. Our government isn't completely made up of simpletons (although sometimes that's the way they conduct themselves), they know that we're only cutting the tail off of a lizard with this move. It will grow back. We did it for political reasons, not for a tactical one. He was a threat to national security, yes, but not one that was any more powerful than the ones who are now running the show in the Middle East terrorist groups.

Edited August 18, 201114 yr by unr3al

It was, by far, only a political reason. I still can't get over Secretary Clinton's facial expression in the picture of the department of justice(?) watching the live feed.

And not because it was "funny," but because it showed just how much tension there really was.

Edited August 18, 201114 yr by Iconography

They world would learn of the mission soon after (and it's potential success or failure), so the pressure was on, big time.

Indeed, the pressure was really on. Imagine how terrible the US would look if we "broke" into another country and then failed at our objective. We would look even more terrible than we do now. We being the US.