“Precision kill shot” is the phrase used in a CBS/AP report. This is an accurate description. Air marshals are trained to shoot people in the head inside an airplane without sending a stray bullet through the airplane. Military personnel such as attacked bin Laden likewise are dead shots. It follows that bin Laden could have been wounded, if he were violently resisting (does any report say that he was?) and not killed. Sensitive to this criticism, the White House presents a lame explanation of why bin Laden was not taken alive. In fact they admit the opposite, that killing was the instruction and … Continue reading Precision Killing of bin Laden