According to the news, Prez about to address nation to announce death of Osama bin Laden.

Rest in Pieces!

Good to see justice finally done, but I do pity the 42 virgins!

PS: if my above statement is too contriversial, I'll be happy to withdraw it to keep the thread alive.

dph

To all our men and women in uniform.  Thank you!

Special thanks goes to the seriously overworked grunts!  Ooh Rah!

actually, it's 72, but who's counting?...;)

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Now he's not the same age as me any more...

May all of his many, many victims rest in peace. May their families find peace of mind and healing.

And the body was thrown into the sea....., he, he, he..... no problem, Obama always tells the truth....

Sheesh, you really think they faked his death this long before the election?. Time to renew your tinfoil hat :-)

Quote - And the body was thrown into the sea....., he, he, he..... no problem, Obama always tells the truth....

 

OOPs!!! should have Photoshopped a Different photo

THE FAKE DEATH PHOTO SOURCE :MSNBC

Cheers

Quote - And the body was thrown into the sea....., he, he, he..... no problem, Obama always tells the truth.... OOPs!!! should have Photoshopped a Different photo

Some people just never seem to quite get it.

dph

I really hope that his death brings some people peace and closure. 

The unfortunate thing is that even if he IS dead, there is always be more willing to stand up and take his place.

Quote - I really hope that his death brings some people peace and closure. 

The unfortunate thing is that even if he IS dead, there is always be more willing to stand up and take his place.

Might be true but as long as there justice there will be no safe place for them to hide. Now we got there leader. Thier ether fall apart of kill themselves trying to take his place an while there doing that. Our allies will swoop in an finish them off.

Quote - Sheesh, you really think they faked his death this long before the election?.

And the just released photograph that was Photoshop again ?

In any way he is dead, he had cancer and died long time ago, even before 9/11 !!

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

Quote - Good to see justice finally done, but I do pity the 42 virgins!

If he does get 42 virgins, they are probably other male terrorists...  and they are probably a little mad at him right now.

Anyways, I just saw this on drudge, both OBL and Hitler's deaths were announced on the same day, May 1st.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist now has someone to talk to. :>

Really surprised to see that he was only 54 years old.  Thought him to be much older.

Quote - Really surprised to see that he was only 54 years old.  Thought him to be much older.

Thirty years ago he was fighting the Russians, so he had 24. Ten years before he decided to use his fortune for the Islamic cause, he was 14 years old. Before this he was a great business man making more fortune and he was only four years old, amazing !!!!

Uh, lost me there.   He never finished college, and had inherited all his wealth, no?

The Bin Ladens (family) are quite the construction tycoons in Saudi. He's like one of more than a dozen children himself.

http://hot-topics2.blogreaction.com/bin-laden-death-photo-fake,110743/. My Lord, I can do a better job in photoshop.

Nobody will be able to see his body beside squids, Photoshop, 54 years old, .... What's more ?

one trillion dollars of fear becomes crab bait.

Having disposed of the body in the way they did it will fuel conspiricy theories for a thousand years. Bin Laden is alive and well and living with Elvis Presly.

There are photos and the head gear cam video from the operation that the U.S. govt is thinking about releasing. I feel they need to be released or it will be just like it was with Hitler after WWII. For years Hitler was seen alive and well all over the globe this should not be th case with OBL.

I also feel that his  home in Pakistan where the operation was conducted should be leveled. The U.S. govt buried him at sea for fear of a grave site becoming a shrine. His muti-million dollar compound in Pakistan is a shrine all its own and should be leveled. If not it will turn into the Graceland of Pakistan for extremists.

Belief without evidence is just faith, so I need more than a handful of people, from an already distrustful government, telling me stuff to actually take it seriously.

Bin Laden may be dead, but unfortunately, Al Qaeda isn't! :(

I wonder if his evil sidekick is the next target...

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.asp

It's still hard to believe they got him.  maybe zawahiri is next.

With people bragging about the intel we got during the raid, not likely.  I'm sure zawahiri is playing it safe now and finding a new place to hide, as well as scrapping/changing plans, as the WH decided not to keep their mouths shut.

It's amazing to see how ridiculous and stupid is this story even if is true. The killing of a man turned into a a greatest event with great celebrations. I am not speaking about moral values, I am speaking about stupidity.

Bin Laden was nothing more than a man, he was not God, nobody killed God. The final destiny of humans is death and nobody can escape this. A leader also is not God, he can die by cancer, smashed by a car, stepping on a soap in the bathroom or by an American bullet and when a leader is dead comes another human to take his place, you can be sure that it is a large queue of people waiting their turn and many will die by any reason before be able to become the leader. The famous phrase, " The King is dead, long live to the King"

Not only Americans are happy with Bin Lade dead, Kadafi and Iran also are very happy and the death of Bin Laden is a tragedy for the rebels that are fighting against Kadafi.

Bin Laden is dead, there is nothing to celebrate, someone else turned to be the new leader and nothing changed. And this time, you don't know who is the leader and what he does. Many times the new leader is even worst than his predecesor because he can be more intelligent and expert. What happens if this new leader is more friendly towards Iran instead to be an enemy ?

Is Iraq and the world better with Saddam Hussein dead ??????

On a more pleasant note, if you google his hideout, Abbottabad, you can see some of the local honeys. Too bad he probably didn't get out much. Dibs on number five from the left :-)

If you find a rattlesnake in your yard you kill it.

You are quite aware that there are many more rattlesnakes about.

That is not the point.

The rattlesnake you just killed will never harm your family.

Except this rattlesnake was not in anyone's yard, it was in the nest itself, so Kawecki's point stands, it's pointless, and the media coverage as well as the raction to the event borders in the ridicule.

The world is my yard.

"There is none so blind, as those who will not see"

  -  Matthew Henry

However, I must agree with your most salient argument "the raction to the event borders in the ridicule"

Similarly, the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain!

In case I might offend someone, when I said riducule reaction, I meant the media, acting like war has been won somewhere, or that it's somehow a victory over something, when it is none of that. A criminal died, with a long list of succesors waiting for such an opportunity, nothing changed on the big scheme of things, IMO.

I agree with ricardo - if we had killed somebody's god, they would be madder than a wet hen - situation normal.

Quote - In case I might offend someone, when I said riducule reaction, I meant the media, acting like war has been won somewhere, or that it's somehow a victory over something, when it is none of that. A criminal died, with a long list of succesors waiting for such an opportunity, nothing changed on the big scheme of things, IMO.

I do think this minimizes the symbolic effect that his continued existance had ... and his energizing effect on Al Qaida's minions.  I respectfully disagree with the contention that his removal from this earthly plane is not a victory over something.  To remove a well known leader from a group dedicated to strapping bombs on men, children and women and targeting them at civilian populations, is a victory over the nihilistic beasts who propagate such hate in the name of religion, or nation, or any other rationalization.

I believe it was Mark Twain who said something like, "I never wished anybody dead. But there are times I enjoy reading the Obits when I see certain names I recognize!"

We have truthers and birthers....do we get deathers now?

I find celebrating another human being's death to be distasteful. But, hey, since it's a victory of sorts, people will, I suppose, celebrate and in whatever manner they choose. Fair enough. Let them.

What I hope is that with the bogeyman dead, the world can finally begin to address the real and widely varying motives for terrorism, instead of pretending that it's just a case of deluded people mindlessly following a charismatic leader. That was and is clearly a part of it, but it was and continues to be, a whole lot more too. But I always got the impression that failing to firmly point the finger at OBL as the ultimate cause was tantamount to siding with the enemy. I hope we can stop that silliness now and actually get down to the business of learning who ELSE we're dealing with, and also -- why. "Because X Leader is evil," is, and always has been, a cop out.

The body thrown into the sea, Photoshop, 54 years and I have one more:

"The story of the eleite forces attacking Bin Laden's compound"

Americans don't use more comandos, instead they always bomb the place with planes or drones killing everyone there, no matter who is. They don't use more comandos because it always resulted in the death of the comandos and the hostages, in case of hostage resque. Rambo only has success in Hollywood.

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Now with Bin Laden dead, who will scare the population ? No more forged speech?, no more forged videos ?, no more forged terrorist attacks!!!

I say "forged" because is very easy to know the difference between a forgeg and a real terrorist attack. Real terrorists attacks in Al Qaeda style are always very bloody with lot of people dead, even a failed attack has as result many security forces and innocent civilians dead. If in a terrorist attack nobody was killed then it is a forged or faked or some stupid psychopat or IRA or ETA, but no Al Qaeda there.

Quote - Americans don't use more comandos, instead they always bomb the place with planes or drones killing everyone there, no matter who is. They don't use more comandos because it always resulted in the death of the comandos and the hostages, in case of hostage resque. Rambo only has success in Hollywood.

This statement is an insult to the brave men and women who put their lives in danger daily so that idiots may enjoy the freedom to spout nonsense.

If it is too much effort to be gracious, at least be grateful.

I agree on the courage and skill of those guys who did the raid.  I was amazed they could go in there and get him in 42-minute time frame, given the locals spot anybody new after a few minutes (during daylight hours).  typically the perps' metabolic low points are 3 a.m. and 3 p.m., hence the timing.  however, they left behind the prototype copter tail which the locals can't use, but which may be sold to PRC, depending on whether it's a red herring, e.g. they only blew up the new parts.  PRC can make copies, but if it's defective, they'll spin their wheels for several months before they realise they were duped.  keywords echelon, carnivore.

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He, he, he. Nice theory, at 3 a.m. I am at the top of my activity.

WAG THE DOG was more convincing.

thou shalt not kill

With Bin Laden dead soon will come another 9/11, who will be the new responsible this time ?, Ahmenidijad ?, Chavez ? Kim Jong ?, Kadafi ? , Hezbollah ?, the old and famous Fidel ?, maybe Putin ???.... oh, yes , I know, Mao !!!

Yep, so many to blame, so few taking any resposability.

Quote - With Bin Laden dead soon will come another 9/11, who will be the new responsible this time ?, Ahmenidijad ?, Chavez ? Kim Jong ?, Kadafi ? , Hezbollah ?, the old and famous Fidel ?, maybe Putin ???.... oh, yes , I know, Mao !!!

Donkey Kong

Quote - With Bin Laden dead soon will come another 9/11, who will be the new responsible this time ?, Ahmenidijad ?, Chavez ? Kim Jong ?, Kadafi ? , Hezbollah ?, the old and famous Fidel ?, maybe Putin ???.... oh, yes , I know, Mao !!!

 

I find this confusing.  Doesn't 9/11 come every year?

Also, didn't I read somewhere that Mao is dead?

I'm assuming you mean Mao Tse Dung.  If you meant Larry Mao, the butcher down at Price Chopper, I don't think he's involved in that sort of thing.

Not only Elvis, Mao is alive too and there more than a billion Maos.

The death of Bin Laden is very good, now nobody remembers all the disasters in Afghanistan, the fiasco of Libya, the green energy of Fukushima, the Global Warming, the Ozone Hole, foreclosures, jobs, money printing, birthday certificate, BP, 2012, the new asteroid reaching Earth, ghosts, snakes, gasoline and the always useful Satan. Every body is living happy in Paradise.

Kelbnor 9/11 refers to sept. 11, 2001. When there were several terrorist attacks in the US including the destruction of the world trade centers.