Bin Laden dead.

[kcballer]

FU all those who are politicizing this issue.  It's a win for all Americans, Bush and Obama included. 

Attacking another American over this is nothing but divisive rubbish

[Soul Crusher]

True.   I'm glad they finally got this monster. 

[240 is Back]

Wow... a million dollar compound with giant walls and barbed wire.  TWO MILES from a military base there?  Any they didn't know?

I call bullshit on that one.  I'm thinking militaries tend to vet their neighbors, particularly ones that look like military compounds. 

[OzmO]

Supposedly no phone or internet lines to the compound either.

[garebear]

Supposedly no phone or internet lines to the compound either.

So no Getbig?

[newmom]

Supposedly no phone or internet lines to the compound either.

that's what I posted and they burned their own trash not have it picked up

[Soul Crusher]

Pakis definately knew. 

[240 is Back]

Supposedly no phone or internet lines to the compound either.

jim mclsheski from pentagon/nbc news reporting that was a major red flag for us invetigators.  you're that rich, you have a computer, period.  pakis totally knew.

[tu_holmes]

Of course they knew... Ain't no fucking way they didn't.

How the fuck do we not nuke their asses for aiding him?

[newmom]

and why does the paki govt get to interrogate the survivors of the compound and not the US. Why not both...

[Soul Crusher]

Officials: CIA interrogators at secret prisons developed first strands that led to bin Laden
Star Tribune ^ | 05/02/2011 | Adam Goldman



WASHINGTON - Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden's most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed's successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.

The news is sure to reignite debate over whether the now-closed interrogation and detention program was successful. Former president George W. Bush authorized the CIA to use the harshest interrogation tactics in U.S. history. President Barack Obama closed the prison system


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[Soul Crusher]

Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden's sea burial (Clerics: Burial may provoke revenge attacks)
AP via Google ^ | 5/2/2011 | AP



CAIRO (AP) — Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial — as with many issues within the faith — a wide range of Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.


(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...


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ha ha ha ha ha ha! ! ! ! !  ! ! ! !

[Soul Crusher]

ABC News: U.S. Had Muslim Seaman Pray Over bin Laden Corpse Out of Fear of Muslim Wrath
Monday, May 2, 2011 | Kristinn



ABC News' Jake Tapper reports here and here on the Obama administration giving Osama bin Laden a Muslim-led Islamic burial at sea so as not to "inflame" the Muslim world.

...The SEALS shot the terrorist leader dead after he refused to surrender.

Bin Laden's corpse was taken to Afghanistan to have his DNA tested for positive identification. The body was then flown to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, officials told ABC News and he was buried at sea. The burial was done in accordance with Islamic law, officials said. A Muslim seaman conducted the process and said the prayers, with bin Laden's body wrapped in the "appropriate way."

Obama administration officials said it was important to handle the body in accordance with Islamic practices so not to inflame the Muslim world.

Really. My attitude is if the Muslim world wanted to ensure a proper Islamic burial for bin Laden they should have killed him and buried him.

I can't wait for the video of our non-Muslim sailors forced to stand at attention as bin Laden is dumped overboard.



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Fuck that!   

[OzmO]

They will probably release a pic. 

[Kazan]

ABC News: U.S. Had Muslim Seaman Pray Over bin Laden Corpse Out of Fear of Muslim Wrath
Monday, May 2, 2011 | Kristinn



ABC News' Jake Tapper reports here and here on the Obama administration giving Osama bin Laden a Muslim-led Islamic burial at sea so as not to "inflame" the Muslim world.

...The SEALS shot the terrorist leader dead after he refused to surrender.

Bin Laden's corpse was taken to Afghanistan to have his DNA tested for positive identification. The body was then flown to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, officials told ABC News and he was buried at sea. The burial was done in accordance with Islamic law, officials said. A Muslim seaman conducted the process and said the prayers, with bin Laden's body wrapped in the "appropriate way."

Obama administration officials said it was important to handle the body in accordance with Islamic practices so not to inflame the Muslim world.

Really. My attitude is if the Muslim world wanted to ensure a proper Islamic burial for bin Laden they should have killed him and buried him.

I can't wait for the video of our non-Muslim sailors forced to stand at attention as bin Laden is dumped overboard.



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Fuck that!   

Have to agree here, I can still remember in '93 US Soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

[Soul Crusher]

WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'protected' by Pakistani security
Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files.
 
By Tim Ross 5:31PM BST 02 May 2011
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8488236/WikiLeaks-Osama-bin-Laden-protected-by-Pakistani-security.html




American diplomats were told that one of the key reasons why they had failed to find bin Laden was that Pakistan’s security services tipped him off whenever US troops approached.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) also allegedly smuggled al-Qaeda terrorists through airport security to help them avoid capture and sent a unit into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.

The claims, made in leaked US government files obtained by Wikileaks, will add to questions over Pakistan’s capacity to fight al-Qaeda.

Last year, David Cameron caused a diplomatic furore when he told Pakistan that it could not “look both ways” on terrorism. The Pakistani government issued a strongly-worded rebuttal.

But bin Laden was eventually tracked down and killed in compound located just a few hundred yards from Pakistan’s prestigious military academy in Abbotabad.

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The raid by elite US troops was kept secret from the government of Pakistan. Only a tight circle within the Obama Administration knew of the operation.

In December 2009, the government of Tajikistan warned the United States that efforts to catch bin Laden were being thwarted by corrupt Pakistani spies.

According to a US diplomatic dispatch, General Abdullo Sadulloevich Nazarov, a senior Tajik counterterrorism official, told the Americans that “many” inside Pakistan knew where bin Laden was.

The document stated: “In Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t an invisible man, and many knew his whereabouts in North Waziristan, but whenever security forces attempted a raid on his hideouts, the enemy received warning of their approach from sources in the security forces.”

Intelligence gathered from detainees at Guantanamo Bay may also have made the Americans wary of sharing their operational plans with the Pakistani government.

One detainee, Saber Lal Melma, an Afghan whom the US described as a probable facilitator for al-Qaeda, allegedly worked with the ISID to help members flee Afghanistan after the American bombing began in October 2001.

His US military Guantanamo Bay detainee file, obtained by Wikileaks and seen by The Daily Telegraph, claims he allegedly passed the al-Qaeda Arabs to Pakistani security forces who then smuggled them across the border into Pakistan.

He was also overheard “bragging about a time when the ISID sent a military unit into Afghanistan, posing as civilians to fight along side the Taliban against US forces”.

He also allegedly detailed “ISID's protection of Al-Qaida members at Pakistan airports. The ISID members diverted Al-Qaida members through unofficial channels to avoid detection from officials in search of terrorists,” the file claims.

[Kazan]

Now there is a surprise the ISI helping a terrorist

[Soul Crusher]

Obama might also have known that this info was about to come out and wanted to avoid a potential situation with the pakis.   Better to just get Bn Laden ourselves.   

[Jadeveon Clowney]

So no Getbig?

gh15 used a satlink. RIP.

[240 is Back]

Suppose he covered the body in bacon bits and burned it.  Yay, cowboy style, bring it on right?

Then you'd have 333386 starting threads next week blaming obama for an incident of violence as a result.

He erred on the side of caution for our men and wmoen in the field.  can't hate on him for that.  You do'nt poke 1 billion muslims with a stick when our forces are vulnerable in the field.  Even bush admitted "bring it on" was a mistake.  Abusing the body of a dead man in the eyes of those billion, just for shits and giggles, risks troops lives for nothing.

[Soul Crusher]

White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden’s Corpse
ABC News ^ | 5-2-11 | Jake Tapper



The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News.

“There’s no doubt it’s him,” says a US official who has seen the pictures and also reminds us that OBL was 6’4”.

The argument for releasing them: to ensure that the public knows and can appreciate that he's dead. There is of course skepticism throughout the world that the US government claim that it killed bin Laden is true.

The argument against releasing the pictures: they’re gruesome. He has a massive head wound above his left eye where he took bullet, with brains and blood visible.

In July 2003, the US government released photographs of Saddam Hussein’s dead sons Uday and Qusay Hussain but not until after they’d been touched up by a mortician, making them look not quite real.


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[newmom]

like when we saw the be headings of our military but those crazy fucknuts isn't gruesome.

[LurkerNoMore]

I can only hope that somewhere over there, there were millions of tv stations broadcasting all the US people in the streets in front of the White House celebrating, partying and laughing it up.

Just like we saw occurring over there when 9/11 happened.

[Soul Crusher]

Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143848
by Hillel Fendel
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Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin-Laden. The rioters were throwing stones at police and attempting to block roads.

While most of the free world praised the United States for having rid it of arch-terrorist Bin Laden, the Hamas organization - which has recently all but merged with Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas - condemned the act.

The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an "Arab holy warrior."

Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, "If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world."

Haniyeh expressed his strong condemnation for the killing or assassination of Bin Laden, whom he referred to as "Mujahed" - someone in engaged in jihad, holy war against infidels. He said he was praying for mercy for Bin Laden.

Hamas reached a "reconciliation" agreement with Fatah last week, calling for the formation of a joint interim government in the coming days, and preparations for elections a year from now throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The agreement was hailed by most left-wing and anti-Israel organizations, but even President Shimon Peres, a strong supporter of a two-state solution and the Oslo process, said, "Israel would like to see the Palestinian people become united for peace - [but] this is not an agreement, this is a split. Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization. According to this agreement Hamas doesn't have to change their charter that calls for the destruction of Israel, they can continue to shoot at us as they did when firing [last month] on a yellow school bus [and murdering a teenager]. Hamas is a branch of Iran -  Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah want a union for war..."

[240 is Back]

92% of Afghans have never heard about 9/11.

Think about that.

I don't worry too much about the d-bags who danced on 911, nor the morons offended by our dancing in the streets now.  Most of them don't have TV and have no clue why we're in there capping their asses.  CNN will put 40 morons dancing, and play that clip like there's 2 billion people raging over it.  And al-jaz may do the same, acting like a few hundred at white house are an entire nation dancing in streets.

It's just tv being some dramatic bitches.  Most people here cheer and move on, and most people there aren't even aware of it.  Why we worry so much about what some moron in a mud hut who will never go more than 10 miles from his house in his life... it's beyond me.