{"id":98433,"date":"2020-04-18T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98433"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:47:10","slug":"the-dog-who-helped-catch-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98433","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Who Helped Catch Osama Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog-217x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog-217x333.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/no-ordinary-dog.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/16\/inside-story-of-cairo-the-dog-that-helped-catch-osama-bin-laden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a> put out a story entitled: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/16\/inside-story-of-cairo-the-dog-that-helped-catch-osama-bin-laden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Inside Story of Cairo, the Dog That Helped Catch Osama Bin Laden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story comes from the perspective of Cairo&#8217;s handler, who realized this dog was &#8220;a fearless warrior with a soft side, an attack dog who would know the difference between a baby and a bad guy, the lone non-human US soldier to raid Osama bin Laden\u2019s compound in 2011.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 2, 2011, Chesney sat on the floor of a Black Hawk helicopter, Cairo \u2014 wearing a Kevlar vest and night vision goggles \u2014 between his legs, headed with 11 other Navy SEALs toward Abbottabad. Another Black Hawk flew in tandem until it peeled off and crash-landed inside the compound.<\/p>\n<p>The copter Chesney was in landed perfectly. He and Cairo jumped out, and Chesney unleashed Cairo to search the perimeter for bombs and escape tunnels as SEALs invaded. After two laps, Cairo and Chesney entered the main house.<\/p>\n<p>Together they cleared the first two floors quickly and were climbing to the third when another SEAL passed them on his way down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they need the dog,\u201d he told Chesney. \u201cIt\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t, really. Bin Laden was dead, but the downed Black Hawk had woken up the neighborhood. Cairo kept the crowd outside at bay while the SEALs grabbed what intel they could \u2014 documents, computers, videotapes and photos \u2014 then blew up the downed Black Hawk and extricated themselves from the site.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six hours later, the SEALs were back in the US, meeting with President Obama. Until that moment, Obama hadn\u2019t known that Cairo existed.<\/p>\n<p>He was floored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to meet this dog,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Every SEAL got a Silver Star for the bin Laden raid except Cairo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cairo retired and was adopted by his handler, but Cairo died in 2015.\u00a0 He never got a medal, but he did get a book.\u00a0 Maybe a movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The New York Post put out a story entitled: The Inside Story of Cairo, the &hellip; <a title=\"The Dog Who Helped Catch Osama Bin Laden\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98433\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dog Who Helped Catch Osama Bin Laden<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":98435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98438,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98433\/revisions\/98438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}