Do not underestimate the effect this will have. Most understand that on the war against terrorism this accomplishes little more than bringing him to justice for his heinous crimes, but he's likely not been running the show for quite sometime. However, the news of his death is welcomed. Now we can put this behind us and hopefully get our troops home.
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It's a good day to be a member of U.S. military, regardless of the branch. Good day to be an American.Comment -
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That is some good stuff.Comment -
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie.
I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act.
Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."
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you are fukking stupid dude. where has anyone said the war on terror is over? this is a morale victory for the US and why should we not be happy.Goddamn americans are stupid!!
do americans actually think this is the end of the matter? any who actually watches the news (not foxnews) that he wasnt even in charge of al quaeda for years now and he probably more of a hero terrorists now after evading capture for 10 years, killing hundreds of americans soldiers and costing you hundreds of millions of dollars and where was he? chilling in a mansion in pakistan .
I understand that his death is very symbolic for americans but for every osama bin laden theres a hundred more people who will now look for revenge so when and where does the fight end?Comment -
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie.
I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act.
Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."
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I'm not quite sure I buy this whole buried at sea thing but someone from the White House claimed on the news here that they had to bury him at sea because they wouldn't have been able to find a country willing to "house" his body permanently while respecting his religious beliefs about the burial procedure.Comment -
This is some good stuff here. Probably going to Saloon soon.Comment -
OBAMA BIN LADEN dead!
FOXnews reported that Obama bin laden was killed.
FOXnews now called SLOPPYnews says this is an easy mistake to make. I agree, a 5 year old would probably do the same. A professional news service does not make dopey mistakes like this. Thats why none of the other news networks reported the story like this. Keep up the good work!Comment -
In the short run this is actually bad for the US... there's a high chance of retaliation and it isnt as if we actually hurt al queda in any way by killing their figurehead leaderComment -
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It is Gods job to judge Osama. It was the military's job to arrange the meeting.
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Do you think you have had some revelation here that the CIA, NSA, FBI and all the military Generals don't know. You think you are the only one that realizes this won't change much in the war on terror. Of course they realize this. Or maybe they know more than you and me and this actually will change something. Who knows, lets just see how it plays out. One thing is for sure, some of the worlds smartest people are working on this with intelligence that none of us know anything about.Comment -
WOW! May 1, 1945: Hitler dead. May 1, 2011: Osama Bin Laden dead. MAY DAY indeed!Comment -
The Americans had the right idea. If you simply go around killing everybody in the middle east, sooner or later one of them is BOUND to be Bin Laden...
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One for the good guys!Comment -
Cut his fck'n head off and parade it in all corners of the muslim world.
A little payback for all the cheering, laughing and partying they did when the towers went down.
They continue to do stuff to piss us off. Take two weeks to bury him or better yet, put him
on a stake and light him up like they do our flag. Video tape it and send it to all the media.
Sorry, I'm an eye for an eye type of person.Comment -
No we're not "all people"! There are real people who go about their daily lives living, work'in, and lov'in life, where they live, respecting the rights of others, and do'in their part to keep the world moving into what we hope will be a better future for the world we leave to our children. And at the opposite end of the spectrum, you have radical religious fuk's who believe some fake dick face muslim allah is gonna "give" them 72 virgins in a fictitious mecca heaven. Some ignorant assholes who read some lying bullshit out of a book (koran), made up and authored by another group of stupid ignorant fuk's who believe it's ok to make a woman wear a black bed sheet over her entire body and stone her to death if they feel she's broken one of their phony bullshit muslim laws! So no, when you compare barbaric behavior based on religious beliefs verses American freedom and the true belief that all men and women are equal, we kick any radical muslim's ass by a country mile! And as far as innocent iraqi/afghani civilians being killed, we didn't start this war, but we'll damn sure finish it! We didn't fly planes into their fuk'in mud huts and put roadside bombs in their goats! It's the price you pay for fuk'in with freedom and the USA, go ahead try and take it away from us, you talk about a fight to the death, Americans will always be the last man or woman standing. We can be your best friend or your worst enemy! And now that our allies and the rest of the free world have taken a final stand against radical islamic muslim fuks, you had better know your place or face extinction from the human race.Comment -
I say we prop Bin Ladens dead body up at ground zero and fly a bunch of Radio controlled airplanes into him!Comment -
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why do people want us to stoop to the savage level of terrorists? our human decency and dignity should be what separates us from those scumbags.
apparently they treated his body to islamic customs before burying him at sea, so short of returning his body (to avoid permanent enshrinement), his body was treated with respect.
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why did the Mods jam all the osama threads into one...makes for a more difficult read.Comment -
This is the best thing to happen to our country in years. For 10 years now we have been trying to find this asshole. Too bad it could not have been sooner...Comment -
Do You People Really Believe That...
c'mon man , they already burried him "at sea"...
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A PAKISTANI man provided live Twitter updates on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, without realising it.
IT consultant Sohaib Athar took to Twitter in the early hours of Monday (local time) when he heard helicopters in the night sky above his home close to the compound where bin Laden was cornered and killed by US forces.
Posting as @ReallyVirtual, Athar wrote: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."
Minutes later he reported: "A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty."
Athar went on to describe gunfire, explosions and the sound of a helicopter crashing as the raid continued. He estimated he was around 5km away from the firefight.
It was only hours after the raid took place that the he eventually connected the explosions to an announcement by President Barack Obama that a US military team killed bin Laden in strike at a mansion in Abbottabad.
"There goes the neighborhood," Athar tweeted.
"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who live-blogged the Osama raid without knowing it." After his unknowing reportage, Athar was being followed by more than 17,000 Twitter users as he tried to play down his role.
"I am JUST a tweeter, awake at the time of the crash. Not many twitter users in Abbottabad, these guys are more into facebook. That's all."
In the US, the news of bin Laden's death was broken reportedly not by the established news media but by the chief of staff for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn.
Shortly before President Obama announced the news to the world late Sunday, Urbahn tweeted: "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."
News organisations began reporting the rumor shortly afterwards. Urbahn quickly picked up more than 3000 new followers.
San Francisco-based Twitter said more than 4000 tweets per second were being sent at the beginning and end of the President's speech.Comment
