Since President Barack Obama commanded the success of nail biting "dead or alive", "surgical strike" in the heavily fortified complex of Osama Bin Laden in the rich, 400,000 people, Pakistan's Abbottabad district, more and more information are becoming available as to exactly what when down.
One of the things we now know is the name of Bin Laden was the Geronimo code. As a matter of fact, while President Barack Obama and Joe Biden vice president, along with members of the national security team is watching a live broadcast or updates to the mission against Bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House May 01 2011, an officer heard reports, a commander at the scene at the mansion of Osama say, "Geronimo E-KIA." That meant, Geronimo code name for bin Laden. "Enemies killed in action" and that E-KIA
Who was the real Geronimo and why the Geronimo code name?
There's no comparison between the real and the terrorist Geronimo most despicable of all time - Bin Laden.
Geronimo was a Chiricahua Apache freedom fighter who fought against the invasion of their homeland by foreigners of suppression. Was a prominent indigenous leader of the Chiricahua Apaches who fought against Mexico and the United States for its expansion in Apache tribal lands for decades during the Apache Wars. The U.S. government at the time had ordered the military to pursue, subdue, Geronimo and return to the U.S., dead or alive.
According to Wikipedia,
On March 6, 1858, a company of 400 soldiers from Sonora Mexico, led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked Geronimo's camp outside Janos, while men were in the commerce of the city. Among the dead were Geronimo's wife, his children and his mother. His chief, Mangas Coloradas, sent him to Cochise's band for help on revenge against the Mexicans. Mexicans are so named Geronimo. This name derives from a battle in which, ignoring a deadly rain of bullets, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, making the total calls to St. Jerome ("Jerome"). The name stuck.
Wikipedia also adds
In 1886, General Nelson A. Selected Miles Captain Henry Lawton, commanding Troop B, Fourth Cavalry, at Ft. Huachuca and First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood to lead the expedition that captured Geronimo. Many stories abound as to who really captured Geronimo, or who surrendered, but most contemporary accounts and later Geronimo's own statements, most of the credit given to negotiate a surrender with Lieutenant Gatewood. By Lawton, was given orders to direct the actions south of the Mexico-United States, where it was thought Geronimo and a small group of his followers took refuge from U.S. authorities. Lawton was to pursue, subdue, Geronimo and return to the U.S., dead or alive.
