The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden

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Комментарии • 916

  • @benjohnson1372
    @benjohnson1372 3 года назад +643

    I'd like a mega projects on the clean up of 9/11 I'd imagine that went on for years

    • @davidsharp9166
      @davidsharp9166 3 года назад +15

      This would be awesome

    • @gannonfrank
      @gannonfrank 3 года назад +21

      It did im from New Nork im good friends with sanitation workers who did the clean up it was rough stuff apparently coming home covered in dirt dust and building materials some people got cancer from it

    • @wolfvontyr2266
      @wolfvontyr2266 3 года назад +16

      Absolutely! When they collapsed, the buildings ended up in the foundation bath tub. Neater than it could have been but still a pain to remove. Plus, if I recall correctly, the nose gear from one of the aircraft was found in 2011... 10 years after the event!

    • @GradeEhCanadian
      @GradeEhCanadian 3 года назад +6

      @@gannonfrank Yeah I don't doubt that a building that old guaranteed some asbestos around And just all the concrete dust in general can't be good for you

    • @OilBaron100
      @OilBaron100 3 года назад +3

      @@gannonfrank didn’t the lower floors of those buildings contain asbestos?

  • @dankthegank4315
    @dankthegank4315 3 года назад +80

    Jesus dude the plane going into the Tower still trips me out no matter how much I’ve seen it...

    • @Jay-dm4id
      @Jay-dm4id 2 года назад +7

      Yep, its like all aboard disintegrated into nothing

    • @stevenclarke5606
      @stevenclarke5606 8 месяцев назад +1

      I’m from the UK and was on holiday in Ibiza on 9/11 , walking down the street I saw a group of people crowding around a Television shop , and went over to see what was happening, and then I saw the attacks on the twin towers, I was truly shocked and totally stunned.

    • @F1Replays
      @F1Replays 4 месяца назад

      Worst thing the US has done to its own people in a single day

  • @j.r.7339
    @j.r.7339 3 года назад +218

    Megaproject:
    Maintaining about 1000 Channels as a single Bald Guy named Simon Whistler.

    • @paulherman5822
      @paulherman5822 3 года назад +17

      Mustn't forget that there's an army of Simon Whistler replicants. Allegedly.

    • @j.r.7339
      @j.r.7339 3 года назад +9

      @@paulherman5822 The Secret Cloning Machine for Bald Hipsters

    • @paulherman5822
      @paulherman5822 3 года назад +1

      @@j.r.7339 He's not denied my thoughts that he's a result of a secret experimental laboratory and been crossed with starfish DNA to retain the memories. Cut off part, grow a new Simon... Allegedly.

    • @j.r.7339
      @j.r.7339 3 года назад +1

      @@paulherman5822 Maybe he is just a Deepfake?

    • @paulherman5822
      @paulherman5822 3 года назад +3

      @@j.r.7339 Simon Headroom? 😁

  • @RayLabs
    @RayLabs 3 года назад +108

    I could swear at 14:57 you said "Fly in 25 Baby Seals" Now and forever more I will think of 25 barking baby seals storming a compound ;)

    • @robertrayphotography
      @robertrayphotography 3 года назад +7

      I was going to write the same thing!! I am pretty sure he did!

    • @chrisyanover1777
      @chrisyanover1777 3 года назад +7

      If we could get 25 baby Seals to take out Bin Laden, I would know for sure alien technology was involved!

    • @MrJjones543
      @MrJjones543 3 года назад +6

      I heard "baby seals" too!

    • @guyorsini1044
      @guyorsini1044 3 года назад +4

      Me too! Too funny! "aarrd aaard"

    • @ladycake1515
      @ladycake1515 3 года назад +4

      It cannot be unheard :D

  • @cpob2013
    @cpob2013 3 года назад +33

    Could do a megaproject on the ground zero clean up. Some of the steel was reused to build the USS New York. I heard the salvage and reforging process got delayed because the workers kept breaking down.

    • @reggiep75
      @reggiep75 3 года назад +4

      All the steel was packed onto trucks and shipped out to China to be recycled. Why the rush and need to get the evidence out of the country within days? The police or FBI would've went mental at a crime scene being pulled apart like that. If I'd lost someone there, I'd have been asking why they trucked it all up and the operating to ship it out to China in days began and the security for those trucks and at the docks was excessively overboard.

  • @KoolMikeDee007
    @KoolMikeDee007 3 года назад +51

    Two things, 1.) Simon drew "the line," on the conspiracy talk to stay on topic. Speculation seems like an impossibly easy thing to fall into on this issue. Great video. 2.) My air conditioner kicked on around the 14:50ish mark right when I SWORE I heard Simon say "The mission to fly in 25 BABY seals aboard helicopters who would then storm the compound and kill Bin Laden...." I had to back the video up to listen to it again...and again, and now I can't unhear it. Not to make light of a serious topic, but man, it really sounded like some badass baby seals were about to wreak havoc.

    • @michaelb1761
      @michaelb1761 3 года назад +2

      Baby seals have very sharp teeth. (And, I heard baby seals too.)

    • @teddybar66
      @teddybar66 3 года назад +2

      Lol...

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro 3 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @bolshevikproductions
      @bolshevikproductions 2 года назад

      Mr whispering you’ll find it fake news. Mr Bin Laden is alive and well.

    • @Myflag2022
      @Myflag2022 Год назад

      I heard the same!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +23

    2:30 - Chapter 1 - Early terrorism
    3:30 - Chapter 2 - 9/11
    4:20 - Chapter 3 - Early investigation
    5:30 - Chapter 4 - Afghanistan
    8:05 - Chapter 5 - Operation enduring freedom
    9:50 - Chapter 6 - The battle of tora bora
    11:20 - Chapter 7 - Pakistan
    12:45 - Chapter 8 - Lucky break
    14:35 - Chapter 9 - Geronimo
    17:10 - Chapter 10 - The hunt ends

  • @asabovesobelow4180
    @asabovesobelow4180 3 года назад +12

    Operation Desert Storm should be a mega projects video. Super interesting and a massive logistical achievement.

  • @paulbowser1989
    @paulbowser1989 3 года назад +12

    I was living in Fairfield, CT on 9/11. I remember being able to see the smoke from the towers on the highway. I also remember going into school. I was in the 7th grade amd every classroom had the tv on to the news. I also remember kids crying in the hallway because they had a parent or even both parents who worked in the towers

    • @OilBaron100
      @OilBaron100 3 года назад

      That’s so sad for those poor kids.

    • @trumpsupporter4767
      @trumpsupporter4767 3 года назад

      Why didn't Osama didn't drink coke? Because it says bush when opened.

    • @bobd2659
      @bobd2659 3 года назад

      I was in Toronto. Just got home after an 15 hour day rigging a show at the Skydome, which then got cancelled when it was considered a potential target. I was called back TO THE POTENTIAL TARGET to take the show down. I refused, not because it was a target (it wasn't really) but because we were all so tired, it was unsafe. I had also already poured myself a drink before turning the TV on at the 'end' of my day. Drinking and heights don't mix... No one went back, and as I understand it, the venue didn't charge any extra for the days delay...

    • @bobd2659
      @bobd2659 3 года назад

      @Jordon Carlson Kinda, except the overtime thing. We would all have been in overtime (we already were when we left). It was just very unsafe (not the whole potential target thing). The company shouldn't have even entertained the thought of having us come back.

    • @lip124
      @lip124 2 года назад

      I lived in NYC, 1st time i ever seen NYC residents ban together don't matter who you are we helping you, it hurt ALOT of people seeing them towers go down same with NJ and CT people.

  • @David-hi9rp
    @David-hi9rp 3 года назад +2

    love this channel its like turning on BBC1 and watching somthing interesting ER.. no Channel 5 in the UK Do that now well done Lads !

  • @FloridaHockeyFan
    @FloridaHockeyFan 3 года назад +57

    I was working in Washington Dc the night they killed/announced the killing. I was in an embassy removing old office furniture and loading semi trucks. When I noticed everyone hooting and hollering everywhere. People were coming out in droves and I didnt understand why. It was extremely late and I couldnt understand why people were celebrating at 1am on a random night. Finished my cig and went back to work. When I was picked up @ 6am when the job was done I was informed of the killing. pretty freakin cool to be there for it.

    • @OMG_No_Way
      @OMG_No_Way 3 года назад +2

      @@keltonfoster False. That whole story was called reverse intelligence.

    • @EldoradoTexas
      @EldoradoTexas 3 года назад +3

      and you believed it?

    • @FloridaHockeyFan
      @FloridaHockeyFan 3 года назад +3

      dont care if they killed him or captured him to torture for information. I'm just glad he's fucking miserable or dead.

    • @EldoradoTexas
      @EldoradoTexas 3 года назад +2

      @@FloridaHockeyFan yep. Sounds like you buy just about anything.

    • @FloridaHockeyFan
      @FloridaHockeyFan 3 года назад +2

      @@EldoradoTexas When you live in west texas there aint much else to do other than talk sht on the old inter webs. I bet you're one of the Q followers lol Believe every single conspiracy someone can connect a few dots with. I bet you still believe camera's steal your soul =D

  • @ddylla85
    @ddylla85 3 года назад +86

    Hard to believe we mark the 20th anniversary of that horrific Tuesday this year.
    I was in10th grade, headed to 2nd period.

    • @danielbernier9115
      @danielbernier9115 3 года назад +2

      I had just sat down for coffee break and flipped on the news . Never forget that moment.

    • @QuantumAscension1
      @QuantumAscension1 3 года назад +1

      I was in fifth grade, and my dad was stationed in Germany at the time, so we saw it all unfold when I got home from school and was working on homework.

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 3 года назад +1

      I’ll never forget.
      I was at work when the news started coming through.
      At a software house that specialised in banking software.
      It collapsed I believe as a direct result of the financial shock to banks, and I was out of work for some months.

    • @earnestbrown6524
      @earnestbrown6524 3 года назад +3

      I was stationed in Pearl Harbor on a ship but working for the barracks that the crew stayed in. Got up and just happen to turn the TV on and watched the replay. Base and ships were locked down for 3-4 days and I would drive around in a golf cart watching the base fence at night.

    • @aliabdallah102
      @aliabdallah102 3 года назад +2

      I was 4, eating sand or sthn idk.

  • @adamccathey
    @adamccathey 3 года назад +38

    Simon, your beard is getting a bit wild.

    • @uonadtehrrocks
      @uonadtehrrocks 3 месяца назад

      WHICH IS WHY YOU NEED DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB!…

  • @Diago767
    @Diago767 3 года назад +24

    With its recent collapse the Arecibo telescope (The one used for filming Goldeneye) might make for a good video, either here or sideprojects if its a shorter story

    • @route2070
      @route2070 3 года назад +3

      He did that already in Mega Projects.

    • @randomdudeonyoutube.
      @randomdudeonyoutube. 3 года назад +1

      Check out the channel Practical Engineering

    • @wolfvontyr2266
      @wolfvontyr2266 3 года назад

      @Diago767
      Its a pretty good one, you're right!
      ruclips.net/video/yf3fD-CC2QQ/видео.html

    • @seafoodmonster3060
      @seafoodmonster3060 3 года назад

      Areciebo telescope, is that the one they thought collapsed due to fire damage, but then found explosive residue on site?
      Oh never mind, I was thinking of some other place:-)

    • @Diago767
      @Diago767 3 года назад

      Thanks guys, didn't realize he'd covered it already :)

  • @assassinarsh
    @assassinarsh 3 года назад +4

    Before I start this video, I'd like to thank the MegaProjects team for coming up with really interesting topics to breakdown! Love what you all do!

  • @johnsyler8580
    @johnsyler8580 3 года назад +37

    I was in Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan when this happened. I thought we should have left the country then.

    • @seafoodmonster3060
      @seafoodmonster3060 3 года назад +10

      We all thought that, but apparently the poppy harvesting was not finished by then

    • @churblefurbles
      @churblefurbles 3 года назад +4

      yep months later they lost the entire seal team trying the same play on some warlord. very quiet about that one.

  • @nomsdeguerre315
    @nomsdeguerre315 3 года назад +29

    to me it sounded like he said the flew in 25 baby seals

    • @GlenHunt
      @GlenHunt 3 года назад

      I heard that, too.

    • @BBulletin
      @BBulletin 3 года назад

      It sure did sound like that to me as well.

    • @aw1008
      @aw1008 3 года назад +3

      I guess they were trying to cute, bin laden to death.

  • @MostPowerfulPMofIndia
    @MostPowerfulPMofIndia Год назад +2

    Your channel is absolutely great to respect the achievements of common humans towards the world

  • @mabutoo
    @mabutoo 3 года назад +168

    He was harbored by Pakistan. No one should ever forget that fact.

    • @dengajing2015
      @dengajing2015 3 года назад +11

      he was funded by the USA....so?

    • @hectorbartlett567
      @hectorbartlett567 3 года назад +7

      Dude, there is not an iota of proof he was ever found or ever killed in Pakistan!

    • @davidlanger3295
      @davidlanger3295 3 года назад +16

      Probably not. It is more likely that sympathetic members of ISI (Pakistan’s Intelligence Service) assisted UBL. The understanding was that if he got caught by the Americans they couldn’t assist him and would also deny they helped him. The ISI was probably keeping UBL under wraps to be used as a bargaining chip at a later date

    • @davidlanger3295
      @davidlanger3295 3 года назад +9

      @@hectorbartlett567 Victor, you wouldn’t know proof if ‘proof’ was up your ass kicking field goals

    • @nucleargandhi101
      @nucleargandhi101 3 года назад +3

      @@hectorbartlett567 Oh yeah? Is that why they kept the entire area locked down for years, not just the house but the entire neighborhood.
      And is that why they leveled the coumpound later?
      Trust me, if I was paxtan, and I was getting paid millions of free dollars monthly(amounting to 33 billion eventually) for finding Bin Laden, then the last thing I want is Bin Laden to be found. And the ebst way to secure it, is hiding Bin Laden myself.

  • @roberthorchar5690
    @roberthorchar5690 3 года назад

    Thanks for the informative videos. You do an amazing job presenting and creating them.

  • @thegunslinger1363
    @thegunslinger1363 3 года назад +58

    "It's like America going into Iraq. Because a bunch of Saudis destroyed The World Trade Centre." Jeremy Clarkson. And could you cover the operation to capture Berlin by the Red Army?

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 3 года назад

      Wow

    • @josvercaemer264
      @josvercaemer264 3 года назад

      @stacey abarham Why dus his virgins need to shaven

    • @shatbad2960
      @shatbad2960 3 года назад +4

      Israel and Saudi Arabia are tight. Don't forget those dancing Israeli's and other strange coincidences.

    • @qbasic16
      @qbasic16 3 года назад +3

      The war in Iraq had never anything to do with 9/11 or Bin Laden. It was about supposed WMDs which were never found.

    • @j.r.7339
      @j.r.7339 3 года назад

      Where did he say that?

  • @Mr.Septon
    @Mr.Septon 3 года назад +2

    For whatever reason, RUclips apparently unsubscribed me from this channel between now and last night. Subscribed again, but I hate when that happens and wonder who gets lost in the fray.

  • @gundamcountry5885
    @gundamcountry5885 3 года назад +27

    Geronimo... For God and Country. History that can't be erased.

    • @MrJjones543
      @MrJjones543 3 года назад +5

      I'm not sure anyone is trying to erase this .....

  • @michaelgeorge4614
    @michaelgeorge4614 4 месяца назад +1

    I was listening to my wake up radio station in Seattle, KJR Sports Radio, Mitch in the Morning was talking about the first tower being hit.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 месяца назад

      I wasn't far away when I heard about it. I was in school and the teachers acted weird all day, all radios and TVs off all day. Then I walked into the house and my dad was still in bed watching the news with footage of planes flying into towers on repeat

  • @giselematthews7949
    @giselematthews7949 3 года назад +12

    I remember watching that on tv.

  • @WasabiSniffer
    @WasabiSniffer 3 года назад

    I remember that day very well. Fantastic episode.
    Want to suggest the A10 and the development behind the Bradley IFV.
    Also for Geographics if it hasn’t been done yet, Afghanistan would be a fun one. Graveyard of Empires. Like, all of them.

  • @xm8553
    @xm8553 3 года назад +22

    I love when you do a topic that there are big conspiracy theories about and you just move right over that fact. It’s very professional how you don’t discourage them (no matter how ridiculous they are) and just move right past it

    • @PetrSojnek
      @PetrSojnek 3 года назад

      he keeps conspiracy theories for different video :D

  • @joyrider7421
    @joyrider7421 3 года назад

    subscribed thank you. your content on all vids is brilliant keep it up, humour is good

  • @waynemalford3020
    @waynemalford3020 3 года назад +9

    I had thought he must have died.
    When they announced that they got him, I was shocked.
    But like Simon said, once you're wanted on that scale it's only a matter of time.
    And apparently the CIA didn't give up...

  • @chrisyanover1777
    @chrisyanover1777 3 года назад +4

    I can't believe I didn't think of this Megaprojects! This was an absolutely amazing Megaprojects! I was at a bar that night and when it was announced everyone just started hugging each other even though we all didn't know each other!

  • @anomittity
    @anomittity 3 года назад +5

    Just an observation, Love your channels Simon!, regarding your last video, you mention Hitler in your last video and cannot get monitized from youtube? yet they are ok with osama binladen? Whats wrong with that picture. It's history anyhow, they should monitze you regardless. Thanks for all the great documentaries!

  • @petahoee8281
    @petahoee8281 3 года назад +1

    I remember that sad as day 20 years ago I was only 10yrs old but I will say the feeling of our country our people coming together afterwards was the best feeling ever. Won't ever be that way again.

    • @harrymu148
      @harrymu148 3 года назад

      unless we get 9/11 2.0 and then another subsequent search and kill I guess. Knock on wood that never happens though

    • @oldenweery7510
      @oldenweery7510 3 года назад +1

      @@harrymu148 I'm tapping the side of my head with one fist while rapping on the computer desk's pullout with the other, thanks. Not superstitious, but as my old friend Lenny used to say, "It couldn't _hoit, Bubby!"

  • @a_real_jive_turkey7772
    @a_real_jive_turkey7772 3 года назад +5

    It's amazing to think Simon used to not have a beard. Over the years I've watched Simon go from a boy to a man

  • @michaelhanson3739
    @michaelhanson3739 3 года назад +8

    “Front Towards the Enemy” incredible detailed video about the events leading up to NS. Everyone can believe what they want, but no one from Butte would lie about something like this. “Everyone speaks gun”

    • @sirclarkmarz
      @sirclarkmarz 3 года назад

      " front towards the enemy" should appear on the screen before every mainstream news broadcast

  • @TheOriginalDeckBoy
    @TheOriginalDeckBoy 3 года назад +4

    I'm guessing Simon is in Lockdown based on that Awesome Wild Ass Beard he's sporting ;))

  • @nidorina28
    @nidorina28 3 года назад

    Can you please make an "all videos" playlist? This channel is starting to get big to keep track of.

  • @sailinbob11
    @sailinbob11 3 года назад +24

    He was tossed overboard like trash. Way too good for him.

    • @nickstav08
      @nickstav08 3 года назад +1

      Should have left him for the sharks tbh

    • @chrisyanover1777
      @chrisyanover1777 3 года назад +1

      To be fair, this was a traditional Muslim funeral at sea.

    • @David-hi9rp
      @David-hi9rp 3 года назад

      I damm well agree but there is always his mind less minions that are brain washed by him ive met a few

    • @criticalhard
      @criticalhard 3 года назад +1

      That was way too dumb tbh, after all that poor sound did to many, his remains deserved worse.

    • @oldenweery7510
      @oldenweery7510 3 года назад

      @@chrisyanover1777 Simon mentioned that, which makes me wonder if any of their killers ever did as much for Christians or Jews, don't you?

  • @thecoolestfaisal
    @thecoolestfaisal 3 года назад +1

    I was really surprised when he talked about haripur since some of my relatives live there and my family comes a from a mountain village pretty close to it.

  • @macmcelveen1241
    @macmcelveen1241 3 года назад +57

    Nobody ever shows the Pentagon anymore.

    • @josvercaemer264
      @josvercaemer264 3 года назад +8

      Where is the luguage, big structural elements like engine tail and such. And the entry speed of the plane exceeding the structural limits on that leveL?

    • @fn9six
      @fn9six 3 года назад +11

      @@josvercaemer264 *puts tinfoil hat on*
      Pentagon is the biggest red flag for me. People can debate the towers falling from an explosion or jet fuel heat but there was nothing at the site of the pentagon, just a partially collapsed building. Also is it even possible for a plane to get so low to the ground without stalling/ striking anything else in the area?

    • @roostercogburn7129
      @roostercogburn7129 3 года назад +8

      @@fn9six and they did a controlled decent from 80,000 feet in a circle only to come ground level to hit the pentagon

    • @bkbank2554
      @bkbank2554 3 года назад +9

      The whole of 9/11 was and is and always remains inside job.

    • @angrydoggy9170
      @angrydoggy9170 3 года назад +5

      @@fn9six Stalling depends on the speed, not the altitude. As for striking other buildings, plenty of space around the pentagon.

  • @peter-radiantpipes2800
    @peter-radiantpipes2800 3 года назад +1

    Do a video on those amphibious assault ships. They’re huge and power projectors but different than aircraft carriers. Everyone does aircraft carrier videos and don’t see many on those. That one pic looks pretty old. No issue there. Just wondering are those Tomcats on deck? (Aft Starboard on upper left carrier) Would make this picture 20 + years old probably. 8:22

  • @Elgrecko87
    @Elgrecko87 3 года назад +9

    This sponsorship would've been better in 1440p ...

  • @viperzang6923
    @viperzang6923 3 года назад

    I was in school in 3rd grade on 9/11. The teachers weren't allowed to tell us what what was happening, but a lot of other kids we being picked up early and we didn't know why. I remember when I was picked up, first thing I asked my parents why they packed me lunch if I was being picked up early.

  • @Sneaky_Pirate
    @Sneaky_Pirate 3 года назад +8

    Seal team 6 to HQ: Bois we got’em.
    HQ: *Heavy Breathing*

  • @2255223388
    @2255223388 3 года назад +1

    Abba-bot-abad 😆. Think you added an extra syllable there, buddy!

  • @alexanderellman2314
    @alexanderellman2314 3 года назад +6

    Got here so early i almost saw Danny try to leave the basement

    • @rogueviking9268
      @rogueviking9268 3 года назад

      I thought I heard someone yell "DANNY, NO!"

    • @MosoKaiser
      @MosoKaiser 3 года назад

      There is no escape from the Blazement!

  • @LB_Amerijuanican
    @LB_Amerijuanican 3 года назад +1

    I happened to be in detention too during lunch when 9/11 happened. Odd shared detention experience lol Except the teacher let us watch it on the news as it was happening, and that's when the second plane hit. She then quickly shut it off as a few other teacher gathered out in the hall where they rolled the tv out to, and continued watching without us.. Wild realization at the younger age to think that an actual terrorist attack was happening! To see the fear in the eyes of those who have family in NY is something that stuck with me throughout the years growing up.

  • @itsbigfluff
    @itsbigfluff 3 года назад +4

    '...With most on the ground saying it was the most ferocious bombing campaign they'd ever experienced.'
    The fact that these people have so enough experience with being bombed to be able to compare bombings against each other is actually the saddest part about this video.

  • @hazeldecker622
    @hazeldecker622 3 года назад

    I love that sometimes these videos are more out of the box!

  • @badluck5647
    @badluck5647 3 года назад +73

    No need to be polite. There was joy at the mass murders' death.

    • @trumpsupporter4767
      @trumpsupporter4767 3 года назад +1

      Why didn't Osama didn't drink coke? Because it says bush when opened.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa 3 года назад +1

      You'd be surprised .....

    • @icu_corey_rn_903
      @icu_corey_rn_903 3 года назад +1

      I’ll never forget I was in 8th grade woke up to get ready for school the news was on from the night before I see hundreds of people outside of the White House and Times Square and the caption said “we got em UBL is dead.” At first I was like who is UBL? Then after a second I realized they meant Osama Bin Laden. I knew it was a moment I’d never forget as it was happening I remember waking my mom up who got my dad and we all stood in the living room at watched

    • @aldenpadilla1773
      @aldenpadilla1773 3 года назад +3

      bush is still alive bruh

    • @churblefurbles
      @churblefurbles 3 года назад

      "cia asset" death

  • @mpboyle910
    @mpboyle910 3 года назад +1

    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Connecting Virginia's Eastern Shore to the main land, it is a bridge/tunnel system spanning the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where it meets the Atlantic Ocean!

    • @mahadaalvi
      @mahadaalvi 3 года назад

      I literally just drove through it this morning. That’d be awesome!

  • @evhensamchuk1676
    @evhensamchuk1676 3 года назад +33

    After this video I wanna do one simple thing - go and watch Zero dark thirty for the fifth time.

  • @brisiplays3899
    @brisiplays3899 3 года назад +1

    September 11th, 2001: I was in school, I had been excused to go use the restroom. While indisposed I heard someone running down the hallway screaming at the top of his lungs: “WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED!” On my way back to class every classroom door was open with the news blaring on every television. Once I made it back to class an announcement was made over the school PA system stating that school was mandatorily being let out early as a result of what was going on. Watching the Twin Towers fall, and the rest of that hell at such a young age is something that will stick with me for the remainder of my life. So sad!

    • @lip124
      @lip124 2 года назад

      Yea it hurt, I lived in NYC, Bronx at the time in school. They told everybody GO STRAIGHT HOME. It was the 1st time I ever seen everybody in NYC band together don't make what race you are people was helping each other, the towers going down hurt me ALOT since I been there on a school trip.

  • @Shinzon23
    @Shinzon23 3 года назад +5

    I think we could have titled this "The hunt for a rabid terrorist" and we would have known who it was as well.

  • @lyndseygarman8286
    @lyndseygarman8286 3 года назад

    Ok me mis hearing Simon at 14:59. Hearing Flying in Baby seals not Navy seals. Made my night.

  • @Deadpool3203
    @Deadpool3203 3 года назад +14

    I remember it like it was just yesterday- the first week of May, “Thor” just came out in theaters & the MCU, like the US Navy, was going full speed ahead, & the cougar I was with at the time took me out to see it opening night, and less than 48 hours later, osama bin hidin got his ass shot to shit🤘🏽. What a weekend.

    • @Shinzon23
      @Shinzon23 3 года назад

      Sadly he died quickly

  • @HarryNicNicholas
    @HarryNicNicholas 3 года назад +1

    i recall walking into the office on sept 11, i was working on special fx for the movie resident evil, so watching the planes crash into the WTC on the tv was a bit surreal.

  • @emmanuelferpozzi1768
    @emmanuelferpozzi1768 3 года назад +6

    This was a good one, dude.

  • @jameswatters2012
    @jameswatters2012 3 года назад

    There’s a fantastic tv show called The Newsroom and they did an episode about the killing of OBL.
    The episode was titled “5/2” and highlighted the steps that the fictional media company ACN had to take in order to ascertain if the information and rumours were correct.
    If you’ve never seen the show then I highly recommend it as it’s very funny but also serious as to how the news is portrayed.

  • @desperado8605
    @desperado8605 3 года назад +3

    I was in study hall when the 2nd tower fell. I was driving through Texas coming into Houston when they smoked him. I'll never forget those 2 days

  • @carrielange2692
    @carrielange2692 3 года назад +1

    i totally thought he said they flew in 25 baby seals, haha. I was like "awwww...wait...what...?" 😆

  • @sheerazzafar
    @sheerazzafar 3 года назад +3

    The piece should've started when the real hunt started, that is, right after kenya embassy bombing.
    As also the Torra Borra mountain strikes weren't the first ones to target Laden in Afghanistan but rather it was the cruise missile strikes even before 9/11.
    And right before 9/11 USA had readied a Pakistani army special forces team to extract and handover Laden from Kandahar to US.

    • @stevemickler452
      @stevemickler452 3 года назад

      Right after 911, I told everyone I knew that bin Laden had escaped Tora Bora and was staying at the Islamabad Hilton. If I could come this close so could our intelligence agencies. Bin Laden was a useful boogie man for making some real money off of war IMO.

    • @sheerazzafar
      @sheerazzafar 3 года назад

      @@stevemickler452
      International intelligence work is more drama and less actual espionage.
      Having said that, this drama stretched far too much to remain enjoyable to the masses or to stay useful for the intel community.

  • @robertsollory7475
    @robertsollory7475 3 года назад

    The black hawk down incident might be an interesting subject for megaprojects....or at least one of his channels.

  • @deoon247
    @deoon247 3 года назад +7

    Do the Northrop YF-23

    • @scott2100
      @scott2100 3 года назад +1

      Please

    • @josvercaemer264
      @josvercaemer264 3 года назад

      Hasn't Simon alledgedly did this one?

    • @deoon247
      @deoon247 3 года назад

      @@josvercaemer264 i don’t think so. Or at least I haven’t seen it

  • @LogieT2K
    @LogieT2K 3 года назад +1

    I was a 10month old baby when 9/11 happened
    Im now a 20 year old man
    I feel so sorry for people my age who had their entire childhood ruin by the war on terror

    • @TAGGARTPSN
      @TAGGARTPSN 3 года назад

      The US did kill many children in this war.

  • @matthewkite5110
    @matthewkite5110 3 года назад +5

    "But that is where we will draw the line, for it will deter from the subject. The hunt for Osma Bin Laden" basically exactly what the US government said when asked of there was knowledge known that might have prevented the attack.

  • @duncasaur5074
    @duncasaur5074 3 года назад +1

    A-10 Warthog/Thunderbolt II video please?

  • @blairpenny1526
    @blairpenny1526 3 года назад +3

    Neptune's spear? Didn't he have a trident or something

    • @phoenixfox2697
      @phoenixfox2697 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, I legitimately want to know how they name these operations. 90% of them I’m like, how tf did you come up with that nonsense????

    • @blairpenny1526
      @blairpenny1526 3 года назад

      @@phoenixfox2697 I am convinced they have a focus group that just thinks of cool sounding names for projects and operations and then try to make the acronym work later

  • @geekehUK
    @geekehUK 3 года назад

    What got me was the special episode of Sherlock set in Victorian London (during the period of the original books) where Dr. Watson was still just returned from the Afghan war, I was like wow it really is all just a little bit of history repeating.

  • @PEZ1985
    @PEZ1985 3 года назад +22

    It's an almost carbon copy of the Son Tay Prison raid...

    • @trumpsupporter4767
      @trumpsupporter4767 3 года назад +1

      Why didn't Osama didn't drink coke? Because it says bush when opened.

    • @trumpsupporter4767
      @trumpsupporter4767 3 года назад

      @Jordon Carlson Haha. Osama bin Ladin was hypocrite. Hate the west love Pepsi.

    • @kyleclark4449
      @kyleclark4449 3 года назад

      All it was missing was John Kelly

    • @0311Mushroom
      @0311Mushroom 3 года назад +1

      @@fxzull like how Hitler wanted old age pensions for all and free college?

  • @carpenoctem775
    @carpenoctem775 Год назад +1

    I was born in the late 80’s. 9/11 was a defining moment in history for my generation. It was relieving when justice was finally served. I hope the victims families can move on.

  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects9649  3 года назад +32

    Thanks to 1440 for supporting me on this video, head on over to join1440.com/megaprojects to support them!

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 3 года назад

      Wow

    • @dalcon04
      @dalcon04 3 года назад

      F-15 and it’s awesome best overall aircraft and the cost is perfect for mega projects

    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 3 года назад +2

      "the war would only go one way?" lol the USA left. 20+ years later, the taliban still control the country and usa has given up and left

    • @marksecker6606
      @marksecker6606 3 года назад +1

      Nope....just do your wikipage read....Nobody cares about your commercials nor their cheap and quite useless products ...
      If I want or need something...I will search for it myself...
      Also...just do a vid on the Dutch meaning of...Wij van wc-eend adviseren wc-eend...
      Maybe you can scrape some more bucks there aye, mate?

    • @XOPOIIIO
      @XOPOIIIO 3 года назад +1

      The ad is so long, that I unsubscribed.

  • @kristopherb8046
    @kristopherb8046 3 года назад

    I will never forget where I was on 9/11. I was walking by the TV just as the second plane hit, I could not believe what I was seeing. I was on a flight back home within the week.

  • @jeffreyrose4240
    @jeffreyrose4240 3 года назад +6

    God damn that was a good day.. a day where it didn't matter a fucking bit about who you voted for or anything personal shit... we all fucking cheered and loved it.. i miss that kinda shit

  • @dustynewman1
    @dustynewman1 3 года назад +2

    9/11/2001. I was on family medical leave following the birth of my daughter. We had a long night, seeing my daughter didn't want to sleep. My sister burst into the house yelling "They're dive bombing New York!"

  • @Moog012
    @Moog012 3 года назад +5

    17 unlikes... that's still not the whole Bin Laden family, wait for more 🤣

    • @MrBillkaz
      @MrBillkaz 3 года назад

      Except the one daughter .. she is awesome

  • @laughingoutloud5742
    @laughingoutloud5742 3 года назад

    I appreciate sticking to the topic 🙂

  • @janrabie1890
    @janrabie1890 3 года назад +6

    Simon what happened to you in high school that you got detention on 9/11 😂😂

  • @dwchen1
    @dwchen1 3 года назад +1

    Would be an interesting case to cover the 2 modified Blackhawk helicopter into stealth helicopter if Simon can gather any classified information about the helicopter and it's technology into the Megaprojects new video.

  • @erikhartwig6366
    @erikhartwig6366 3 года назад +4

    the most forgotten quote in history "We will no longer distinguish between Terrorists and the people who support them"

  • @aston-martin-internationalist
    @aston-martin-internationalist 3 года назад +1

    Your beard is on point Simon.

  • @michalpaulik9206
    @michalpaulik9206 3 года назад +6

    "you can run, you can hide, but eventually, we will find you"
    Simon, you should let MR President Barack Obama say that in your video, bc I think that's actually his quote

  • @rougelemon7805
    @rougelemon7805 3 года назад +1

    I think you should do the f22 raptor, I would like to know more about it. Definitely one of the coolest planes ever.

    • @cookstr2000
      @cookstr2000 3 года назад

      I think he has, maybe on a different one of his channels 🤔 if not, I stand corrected lol

  • @madskills6387
    @madskills6387 3 года назад +9

    Demonetized, damn Simon capitalist heart must be pain right now.

    • @ridgecrestwack9746
      @ridgecrestwack9746 3 года назад +2

      He got demonitized? For what?

    • @fixmix9857
      @fixmix9857 3 года назад +2

      @@ridgecrestwack9746 demonitized for this video only. Any 9/11 or Osama videos are auto demonitized.

  • @allexia0595
    @allexia0595 3 года назад

    Would just like everyone to know that 1440 is US news and US views primarily. Signed up and was pretty disappointed by the lack of localisation options.

  • @eddietat95
    @eddietat95 3 года назад +5

    He died from two rounds of 77-grain 5.56mm OTM rounds for each Twin Tower, and one kick in the nuts for the Pentagon.

    • @Robert_H_Diver
      @Robert_H_Diver 3 года назад +2

      He died of old age in a cave while on dialysis.

    • @TenMillionYearProgram42
      @TenMillionYearProgram42 3 года назад +3

      @@Robert_H_Diver you’re both wrong. He’s on a UFO with Elvis, Tupac, and Hunter S. Thompson. But, no, really, pretty sure it was mostly the bullets that took his leathery ass out. Eddie Tat for the win here.

    • @Robert_H_Diver
      @Robert_H_Diver 3 года назад +1

      @@TenMillionYearProgram42 show me proof they killed him

    • @TenMillionYearProgram42
      @TenMillionYearProgram42 3 года назад +1

      @@Robert_H_Diver show me proof they didnt. I feel like you're making the claim of lies and the general consensus being wrong. Burden of proof then falls on you. Extraordinary claims requiring...

    • @Robert_H_Diver
      @Robert_H_Diver 3 года назад +1

      @@TenMillionYearProgram42 no it doesn’t. People were starting to get upset and they didn’t want it to turn into another Vietnam so they said they killed bin Ladin…your blind faith in our government is disturbing. I wouldn’t want you on my team.

  • @aphiweqaba8821
    @aphiweqaba8821 3 года назад

    You should do an Angkor Wat video next

  • @billy4072
    @billy4072 3 года назад +20

    I’m just shocked he wasn’t found living in uk tbf. Obvs on benefits I hasten to add.

  • @TeusTudor
    @TeusTudor 3 года назад

    Do a video on the US Afghanistan war as a whole, since it's such a massive topic (and long war).

  • @Robert_H_Diver
    @Robert_H_Diver 3 года назад +7

    What a waste of time money and human lives.

  • @Lemieux_7
    @Lemieux_7 3 года назад

    Great episode!

  • @miamimo70
    @miamimo70 3 года назад +6

    More holes in this story than Tupac Shakur..

  • @Kellen6795
    @Kellen6795 3 года назад +2

    I heard "25 baby seals" And laughed way too hard 00:14:55

  • @globalindex4773
    @globalindex4773 3 года назад +9

    Pakistan didn't "cry foul" the president of Pakistan then thanked Obama on a phone call because they were receiving millions in aid, the relationship between the countries did go down later in December when US Nato killed Pakistani soldiers mistaking them for militants, this caused the downfall of US-Pak relations and Pak cut off Nato supply to Afghanistan. Source: Obamas 2020 book

    • @edwardsnowden2313
      @edwardsnowden2313 3 года назад +3

      Lmao, you detained the guy who cooperated with the cia in eliminating bin laden, your military issued threat and cried foul for "violating their sovereignty". Do you even live in your medieval nation?

  • @markcoulas
    @markcoulas 3 года назад

    Hey Simon. Have you done a video on grand central station yet?

  • @SwagMoney420
    @SwagMoney420 3 года назад +5

    According to Seymour Hersh, Bin Laden was captured by Pakistani intelligence and held in captivity until a retired intelligence officer marched into U.S embassy spilling the beans and claiming the 25 million dollar bounty. US then proceeded to basically tell Pakistan to hand him over and the attack was in fact staged.
    Not that I really know what is true but I would ask anyone scoffing at this information to look at Hersh's credentials and previous work as an investigative journalist. You know him as the guy who broke the story on Mỹ Lai massacre.

    • @SwagMoney420
      @SwagMoney420 3 года назад +1

      Should probs mention I havent read on the subject in years so I might be a bit off on the facts but as I recall that was the claim

    • @noth606
      @noth606 3 года назад +4

      @@SwagMoney420 the credentials are bunk, where is the proof for this? It isn't like Hersh is adverse to picking up random BS rumors and running with them based on nothing.

    • @LegoDork
      @LegoDork 3 года назад +3

      @@noth606 Where's the proof that the US governments story is real?

    • @qbasic16
      @qbasic16 3 года назад +2

      @@LegoDork They supposedly dumped the body in the sea so no evidence, no autopsy, "just believe us bro" 😅

    • @noth606
      @noth606 3 года назад

      @@LegoDork I didn't say the US official story is real, did I? That story has a bunch of problems too, several ex SEALs claim to be the one who shot him, all we have is shitty pictures that look photoshopped, etc. My point was that just because Hersh claims something it doesn't mean it is true.

  • @kimopuppy
    @kimopuppy 3 года назад +1

    Excellent job

  • @--enyo--
    @--enyo-- 3 года назад +3

    I feel most sorry for Afghanistan.

  • @ryandowney8743
    @ryandowney8743 3 года назад +2

    You should do a Top 10s on the Dumbest 911 Conspiracies.

  • @mahadaalvi
    @mahadaalvi 3 года назад +3

    I’d like to point out the fact that Pakistan took in 3 million refugees and suffered 70,000 casualties from their support of the US in it’s war on terror. There are more afghanis in Pakistan today than there are in Afghanistan. Pakistan has extremely limited infrastructure and resources to vet every single one of these 3 million refugees at every single point across the extensive Durand Line so the odds of Osama slipping in under-the-radar in disguise are extremely high. It doesn’t mean the country was harboring him. If you’ve ever been to Pakistan you would know how easy it would be for a disguised OBL to wander around the country in plain sight but to accuse Pakistan of “harboring” him while the people in Pakistan had to go about their day-to-day lives constantly under the threat of suicide attacks just for trying to be a mediator of peace in the region is just plain insane.

    • @noth606
      @noth606 3 года назад +3

      he was living in a big ass compound a couple of miles from a military academy, with the ISI being what it is with deep connections to the militants I'd say it is quite reasonable to assume he had at minimum the tacit approval of some elements of the ISI and/or military in Pakistan. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, ockhams razor postulates that it most likely is a duck.

    • @mahadaalvi
      @mahadaalvi 3 года назад +2

      @@noth606 Lol have you ever been to Pakistan? Every compound is “a couple of miles away” from a military academy. Obviously though you wouldn’t know this since you believe a robot duck quacking, sounding, and walking just like a real duck actually makes it a real duck.

  • @CasualKillZz
    @CasualKillZz 4 месяца назад

    “According to the few official statements released in the aftermath of the raid, the helicopter did not suffer any failure but skittered around uncontrollably in the heat-thinned air forcing the pilot to crash-land. As it did, the tail and rotor hit on one of the compound's 12-foot walls.” For the life of me I thought there was a scientific term for all that but I can’t think of it