Osama Bin Laden Dead!

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:00 pm

I was just watching the show 60 Minutes and at 7:47 PM West Coast time, CBS broke in with a special report. Bin Laden has been killed and we have his body! I can't find anything else on the net yet, so keep an eye out. Yeah!

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:03 pm

You can keep his body...

Seriously though- it feels a little better now that we got him, no matter who took credit for it. He's gone. The specter of 9/11's mastermind is gone.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:06 pm

They got him in Pakistan and he was shot in the head. Good!

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:15 pm

It won't bring anyone back or change what happened, but at least we managed to get the little fucker.

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:18 pm

He was in a Pakistani mansion- IN ISLAMABAD.

Right- like the ISI (former patron of the Taliban) had NO IDEA???

Pakistan was never this 'ally' of ours we were so buddybuddy with.

I wonder whose mansion that was he was hanging out in with his family and buddies?

CUDA · Post by **CUDA** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:29 pm

no body shown. not dead yet.

I recommend that we all take to the streets and start shouting Durka Durka and shooting off our AK47's in celebration if it's true

Bet51987 · Post by **Bet51987** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:35 pm

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:58 pm

ThunderBunny wrote:You can keep his body...

Seriously though- it feels a little better now that we got him, no matter who took credit for it. He's gone. The specter of 9/11's mastermind is gone.

You mean they got him. There is no we.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Sun May 01, 2011 10:07 pm

Here's a link to a story.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun May 01, 2011 10:15 pm

ThunderBunny wrote:..

Pakistan was never this 'ally' of ours we were so buddybuddy with. ..

Pakistan was never any one thing to anyone. the former president, Musharraf, was kind of friendly to us and at the same time al queda/bin Ladden loyalists were a big part of his personal protection team! He had to walk a very fine line. I don't think you can think of middle eastern governments in the same way you see western democracies when it comes to what they stand for. They are just playing around with the format of a single governing body or unified voice... always just one assassination away from a total 180 degree change.

Too bad they shot bin Ladden. I always hoped he would rot in a federal prison in New York.

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Sun May 01, 2011 10:49 pm

allahu akbar.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sun May 01, 2011 11:06 pm

so what did they do.. go to some mountain in pakistan and dig up his bones?

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Sun May 01, 2011 11:50 pm

More operational details.

a) see the Google map link there,

b) I love one of the comments to the article

BarbarianAtTheGate wrote:Seal Team Six - when you care enough to send the very best....

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:02 am

Bet51987 wrote:I would give his body to the New York police and firefighters. Maybe they can find a good place to hang him for display purposes.

Bee

I like this idea very much.

I've never been one to wish for the death of anyone, but in this case I'll gladly make an exception.

(Singing very loudly) "...Ding Dong - the witch is dead..."

HE'S GONE WHERE THE GOBLINS GO - BELOW! BELOW BELOW!! YO HO!!!

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:07 am

dissent wrote:allahu akbar.

Well Said!!

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon May 02, 2011 7:08 am

So bin Laden was living in a mansion. Wonder what his cave dwelling followers think about that. As the saying goes, "You can run but you can't hide."

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon May 02, 2011 7:19 am

Wait....wut?:

"The U.S. official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. "

Something smells "fishy". You mean the US is too chicken to have his corpse brought here? Or at the very least taken to Guantanamo?

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Mon May 02, 2011 8:00 am

They should cremate the body, put it on display, and charge money to see it…then all the receipts should go to the 911 fund.

CUDA · Post by **CUDA** » Mon May 02, 2011 8:33 am

Woodchip wrote:Wait....wut?:

"The U.S. official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. "

CUDA wrote:no body shown. not dead yet.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon May 02, 2011 8:36 am

So now we can all carry on with our lives just like we've been doing for the last 10 years? Security at airports will get lax again and we'll be happy? This means nothing to the war. Carry on.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:02 am

CUDA wrote:
Woodchip wrote:Wait....wut?:

"The U.S. official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. "

CUDA wrote:no body shown. not dead yet.

Were you also skeptical about the execution of Saddam Hussein until the grainy cell phone footage appeared?

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:55 am

null0010 wrote:
CUDA wrote:
Woodchip wrote:Wait....wut?:

"The U.S. official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. "

CUDA wrote:no body shown. not dead yet.
Were you also skeptical about the execution of Saddam Hussein until the grainy cell phone footage appeared?

I was sure of Saddam when I saw the vid of the Iraqi slitting his throat. Besides Saddam was in custody for a good long time

CUDA · Post by **CUDA** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:07 pm

Personally I would have been satisfied if they had cut off his head and hauled it to every country in the world that backs Terrorism and told them if they continued to do so that they would be in for the same fate. but that's just me

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:25 pm

I hope his 80 virgin demons in hell are treating him appropriately.

CUDA · Post by **CUDA** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:33 pm

I agree with Woodchip, We should have taken his remains, and buried them at Arlington, right outside the Visitors center and given him a functioning toilet as a head stone, But that's just me

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:58 pm

tunnelcat wrote:They got him in Pakistan and he was shot in the head. Good!

How do you know that? If it was that stupid picture of someone that had taken a bullet just over the left eyebrow, it was doctored; a very blatant and poorly done "Shop-job".

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon May 02, 2011 1:29 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwtDrRWHgr0

flip · Post by **flip** » Mon May 02, 2011 1:46 pm

New Penny

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Mon May 02, 2011 4:32 pm

Duper wrote:
tunnelcat wrote:They got him in Pakistan and he was shot in the head. Good!
How do you know that? If it was that stupid picture of someone that had taken a bullet just over the left eyebrow, it was doctored; a very blatant and poorly done "Shop-job".

Naw, I hadn't seen that picture. It was something initially reported last night during all the speculation going around on TV. Couldn't find anything on the web at first either, then it was bedtime.

But if I was that particular Navy Seal that just happened to have Bin Laden in my gun sights, I would have enjoyed getting off that little double tap to the head and then ask questions later. No sense in chancing this target might get away.

"Ding dong, the bastard's dead, the bastard's dead, the bastard's dead. Ding dong the evil bastard's DEAD!

Thank you Navy Seals. You rock!

I also don't believe that 'buried at sea' crap. You just know they're gonna keep his body somewhere for posterity. Why dispose of the greatest mass murderer of Americans in history? They just made up the burial line to keep the Muslim natives from getting restless.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon May 02, 2011 5:45 pm

For once (

) TC makes sense.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon May 02, 2011 5:50 pm

And on a positive note:

"DEARBORN, Mich. — Drivers honked their horns in celebration along the main avenue of Arab-American commerce in the heavily Middle Eastern suburb of Dearborn as news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread across the city. Yet more gathered outside City Hall, chanting “U.S.A.” and waving American flags.

“It’s a special day for us to show Americans we are celebrating, we are united,” said Ahmed Albedairy, 35, of Dearborn, who came to the U.S. from Iraq in 1996 and was one of about 20 people outside City Hall very early Monday. He said it was important to celebrate the “death of the evil Osama bin Laden” in “the center of Dearborn.”

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/0 ... Laden.html

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon May 02, 2011 10:06 pm

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:33 pm

Ferno wrote:"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr

I agree. Not to sound like an ★■◆●, but I don't think we should celebrate death, ever. It's okay not to mourn death, but to celebrate it is sick.

That said, I'm glad that he has finally been brought to justice (as we couldn't have captured him), and that we didn't kill him by bombing, but by Special Forces.

Also, on a more humorous note:

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue May 03, 2011 12:28 am

Ferno wrote:"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr

I think I prefer a quote by Mark Twain myself:

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue May 03, 2011 1:27 am

Dakatsu wrote:Also, on a more humorous note:

straight from compton and still poppin caps in dem asses

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Tue May 03, 2011 1:50 am

straight from compton and still poppin caps in dem asses

Stereotypical bordering on racist generalization there Fern?

dem asses

I also don't think democrats would appreciate your crude characterization of their mascot.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Tue May 03, 2011 7:29 am

More like straight outta Locash.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:04 pm

ThunderBunny wrote:
straight from compton and still poppin caps in dem asses
Stereotypical bordering on racist generalization there Fern?

think whatever you want.

null0010 · Post by **null0010** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:49 pm

Ferno wrote:"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr

For the sake of accuracy, that's not an MLK quote. It came from Twitter.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue May 03, 2011 3:25 pm

And the quote I posted was apparently by Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain. Thanks for the facts, social media!