Osama bin Laden killed by Dog
Wednesday May 18, 2011
In the raid on Osama bin Laden, 79 commandos and a dog were involved.
Those commandos might as well have stayed home, because it was the dog that did all the work. A dog with titanium teeth.
The dog that started it all has been identified — or so we think. The canine member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 that took down Osama bin Laden — a Belgian Malinois who answers to the name of Cairo — reportedly met with President Barack Obama behind closed doors last week.
Cairo is the result of a program where elite U.S. Navy SEALS train heavily armoured bulletproof dogs equipped with infrared nightsight cameras and an ‘intruder communication system’ able to penetrate concrete walls. The most dramatic change the dogs undergo involves replacing their natural teeth with titanium implants, at a rumored cost of $2000 per tooth. This practice has come under scrutiny recently, with PETA calling to have the procedure banned. Alex Dunbar, director of the training program, defends it, saying, “Titanium teeth: 1, Terrorists: 0. The results speak for themselves.”
The training aims to hone “controlled aggressiveness” in which the dog is “taught to find a suspect or hostile person in a building or open area; to attack, without command, someone who is attacking its handler; to cease an attack upon command at any point after an attack command has been given…” Make no mistake, these animals can be lethal weapons: “The average German Shepherd’s bite exerts between 400 and 700 pounds of pressure.” 700 pounds of pressure that imploded Osama’s terrorist skull.