Adding exclusive new details to the account of the assault on bin Laden's hideout, officials described just how the SEAL raiders loudly ditched a foundering helicopter right outside bin Laden's door, ruining the plan for a surprise assault. That forced them to abandon plans to run a squeeze play on bin Laden — simultaneously entering the house stealthily from the roof and the ground floor.
Instead, they busted into the ground floor and began a floor-by-floor storming of the house, working up to the top level where they had assumed bin Laden — if he was in the house — would be.
They were right.
Is the author truly trying to have us believe that a deployment to the roof and the compound would have allowed a "squeeze play" from helicopters? Blades through air generating force has a side effect of noise even if you were running on totally silent electric engines. Now the tinfoil hat brigade will be even worse...
