Osama bin Laden didn’t expect America to rock his terrorist network after 9/11.
In 2011, Navy SEALs from the elite DEVGRU unit flew into Pakistan and blew bin Laden’s head apart in a raid that will forever be remembered in America, and while in the Al-Qaida leader’s compound, the SEALs grabbed all the hard drives and material they could.
During a recent conversation on “60 Minutes,” Islamic scholar and author Nelly Lahoud, who spent years reading every line of bin Laden’s papers, broke down what was in them. Most interesting in my humble opinion is that the terrorist mastermind never though America would destroy his terror network through a massive war.
“Al Qaeda did not anticipate that the United States would go to war,” Lahoud explained on “60 Minutes.” When asked what kind of response bin Laden anticipated, she explained, “A limited airstrike, but they didn’t think that they would go beyond that.”
“Al Qaeda did not anticipate the United States would go to war.”
Bin Laden’s letters indicate he was surprised by America’s reaction to 9/11 says, author Nelly Lahoud, who has studied the documents. She says bin Laden didn’t expect the US to go to war. https://t.co/UEEtYQnXTa pic.twitter.com/pxFV5dDk4n
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 24, 2022
Clearly, he was wrong because it didn’t take long at all for CIA operatives, Delta Force commandos and Green Beret ODAs to show up and start raining hell down on the Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan following the horrific terrorist attack on 9/11 more than 20 years ago.
In terms of a gross miscalculation, I’m not sure there’s anything bigger than that terrorist scumbag thinking we weren’t going to fight after his hijackers attacked us.
We lost the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon was hit and a plane went down in Pennsylvania after heroic passengers fought back.
When bullets were flying during the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden, Navy SEALs went to great lengths to protect the innocent kids there.
Terrorists put suicide vests on children. Americans protect them.
Awesome comments from Bin Laden shooter @mchooyah. pic.twitter.com/hKfKZQh9rw
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) October 23, 2021
How delusional was Bin Laden to think we were going to load up and turn his world upside down. Sure, he might have evaded capture for nearly a decade, but as Lahoud pointed out to “60 Minutes,” Al-Qaida was greatly degraded after we hammered the organization nonstop for years.
At one point, the terrorist network only had about $200,000, according to the letters analyzed by Lahoud.
What was @mchooyah thinking right before he killed Osama Bin Laden?
I asked and his answer was incredible. God bless our incredible military. pic.twitter.com/FkKDzo7FLW
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) October 23, 2021
Americans don’t often seek fights, but if you attack us, we will gut you like a fish. Apparently, bin Laden had never heard about what we did to Japan after Pearl Harbor.
When America needed to respond, countless men and women answered the call, and the last thing he ever saw in his life was the barrel of an ST6 operator.
Osama Bin Laden shooter Rob O’Neill (@mchooyah) revealed to me what the plan was if Pakistan had tried to stop the raid.
As far as I know, these details weren’t previously known. Fascinating stuff from the former SEAL Team 6 operator. pic.twitter.com/0JAsjD4ecN
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) October 24, 2021
Now, he’s burning in hell, which is exactly where terrorists belong.
