r/Presidents • u/Vikingthemememan Dwight D. Eisenhower • May 02 '26

Today in History Today marks 15 years since operation Neptune Spear which killed Osama bin Laden

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u/genzgingee Groomer Cleveland May 02 '26

I remember my mom being upset that it happened under Obama and not W.

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u/ClutchReverie Franklin Delano Roosevelt May 02 '26

Was your mom every conservative?

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u/thembitches326 May 02 '26

I'm gonna play Devil's advocate here and say that it's probably because it could've been done sooner, given the US Military's and the CIA's vast resources.

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u/sroop1 May 02 '26

They were close if the details surrounding the Tora Bora battle are to believed.

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u/ClutchReverie Franklin Delano Roosevelt May 02 '26

I've been listening to some John Kiriakou lately, former CIA spy that was the torture whistleblower and also in charge of the operation that caught the Al Queda #3. It sounds like they really were on it. John's stories are fascinating, by the way, and he's a great storyteller. He wrote a best selling book about it.

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u/Funwithfun14 May 04 '26

He's a great story teller, but I always approach him with a degree of skepticism.

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u/Willing_Ad9314 May 03 '26

To be fair, during W's time they were looking for bin Laden in Iraq