Just goes to prove the old saying - if you shake a tree hard enough, sooner or later some nuts will fall out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393679/Did-pork-coated-bullet-kill-Bin-Laden-Yes-says-firm-claim-pig-fat-gun-oil-bought-U-S-military-personnel.html

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Unlikely, though not impossible.

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There is an expression change over here now with the number of Muslim doctors about.
It used to be that "an apple a day kept .........."
They now say a ham sandwich has the same effect !!!

Some how I think the bullet that did the job would have been more likely to have depleted uranium in it than pork fat !!

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I sure hope my shooter will smear the bullet with bacon. mmmmmmm bacon.
Dead's dead. WGAS?

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Another rumor for the mill : My newphew told me that there are stories about ST6 having a shootout inside the compound with reg. PAK army types. LOTS of casings on the ground.
Knowing who he knows, I'd give it .75 our of 10 on the veracity meter, without confirmation.

He also identified the team member who shot bin Laden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9rcjnu7cU

The shootout theory is total rubbish. ST6 went there with orders to kill OBL, not take him prisoner, no chance for Al-Quada to begin taking hostages of their own to negotiate the release of OBL.

How to draw this conclusion? Consider all of the apparatas on-hand to make positive identification. Consider that an Islamic cleric was waiting on-board the ship where OBL's body was transported to. Consider the quickness with which it was decided to give him a burial at sea.

This was a hit...(as it should have been)...pure and simple...and the bacon on the bullet thingy is pure rubbish as well.

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I agree that is was hit. Fast. Clean. Efficient. Take no prisoners.
I only suggest they left more dead in their wake. Pak army types inside the compound, (regularly) protecting OBL.

Oh well, it's fun to think about, isn't it?

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Sounds like a bad-taste niche marketing ploy from the manufacturer that takes advantage of an actual historic incident.

The concept of ignorance of the culture and unintended consequences is taught in US PSYOPS and Information Operations courses. The Sepoy Mutiny is one of those studies.

It would not be in the US's long term best interest to claim to use "pork oil". It is however, in the short term interest of the company to enhance sales.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80075&page=1

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To load the new rifle, soldiers had to first bite off the end of the cartridge. The cartridge was well greased — with a combination of beef and pork fat.
"It was offensive to both Hindus and Muslims," said Barbara Ramusack, head of the history department at the University of Cincinnati.

For Muslim sepoys — the term for a native soldier — serving in the British army, pork was unclean, forbidden by the Koran. The Hindus held the cow to be sacred, and saw anything that would entail tasting beef fat product as an attempt to break their caste.
To them, it was "ritual defilement," Ramusack said. "You had to bite off the end of the cartridge, and then it would bring pollution into your body."
The manufacturers of the rifle had no idea that their product would, with one fell swoop, offend followers of the two dominant religions on the Indian subcontinent. They also had no way of knowing that many Indians thought this was part of a British plot to destroy their faith — just as some Muslims today see some aspects of Western culture as a threat to Islam.

When did Kevin or his brothers join Seal Team Six?

Not particularly, but this assassination was probably necessary.

Hmmm bacon bullets, bacon makes everything better.

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New company slogan? "Pork, for the OTHER white meat"?

Where were you when it was unanimously agreed that the bacon bullett rhetoric was discovered to be an urban myth in this threads discussion?

Read-think-first before engageing typing keys would be a good idea.

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Ummm, "Lighten up" might also be a good idea. Hattie's a "gun guy". He knows there is no such thing as "bacon" bullets. Now, "chicken" bullets...