Osama Bin Laden is dead

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Osama Bin Laden is dead. Whoa.

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[+10] - mysteryman - 05/03/2011The open displays of joy by so many Americans, while I understand them, I have a hard time accepting them. Yes, I am glad he is dead. However, after the 9/11 attacks, there was video of people...
[+9] - izzythepush - 05/10/2011If that were so he would not have acted as if Bin Laden had written his script for him. There was a huge amount of internatioal goodwill for America following 9/11. Even Iran was feeling...
[+8] - Setanta - 05/02/2011Bin Laden and his organization made war on the United States, and did so before 2001. In war, taking out the enemy leadership is a reasonable tactic. Do you think it was wrong for the United...
[+8] - Finn dAbuzz - 05/03/2011Sometimes coming late to a thread can provide an interesting perspective. One thing I've definitely noticed with this story in the news, is that reported details differ widely and daily. I...
[+7] - engineer - 05/02/2011Wake up in the morning, eat breakfast and suddenly you are seven pages behind the lead thread. My thoughts: - I think this is mostly symbolic since I doubt BL was directing day to day...
[+7] - farmerman - 05/02/2011you are certainly a one trick pony JTT. Whats your agenda in all of these threads. Youve even demonized the Union during the US civil war. CAn I start a fund to buy you a ticket to Yemen?
[+7] - izzythepush - 05/12/2011It's all about fear. If you keep a population frightened you can control it. Just look at what's going on in the Middle East to see what happens when people stop being frightened, admittedly...
[+6] - kuvasz - 05/01/2011from the 'Kos [img]http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/8411/Obama_got_bin_Laden.jpg[/img]
[+6] - Ticomaya - 05/04/2011[quote="Cycloptichorn, speaking of JTT,"]... and you really have become quite trollish.[/quote] You make it sound like this is a recent development. Just [i]ignore [/i]the schmuck.
[+5] - georgeob1 - 05/01/2011He orchestrated the killing of 2000 of my countrymen. Do you expect us to take that passively, because his angry supporters might blow up a train in Madrid or London - oh, wait, they have done...

NBC said it was 'due to an action we took.'

I'm never happy when anyone dies, but I certainly am not sad in this case. Would have rather seen him taken alive tho.

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TPM and other sites reporting that the CIA lead a raid and killed him, and NBC is now stating that 'we have his body.'

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Bomb strike was last week. They took time to verify the body.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Now maybe we can finally get all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I won't be celebrating his death. Way too many people have died in order to achieve it.

Was it worth it?

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Whoa, that rocks.
Justice American style.

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@Cycloptichorn,

If this is true, then I'm wondering why it has taken so very long to capture him.

I'm also wondering (with considerable concern) about what the reaction to this news will be from the more aggressive fundamentalist Muslim leaders.

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@Butrflynet,

Took the words out of mouth. Please Obama, use this as being "enough" and get us the he'll out of one or both ASAP. This will grant you some political muscle. Use it!

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@failures art,

Mission finally accomplished. Sort of.

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@msolga,

msolga wrote:

If this is true, then I'm wondering why it has taken so very long to capture him.

I'm also wondering (with considerable concern) about what the reaction to this news will be from the more fundamentalist Muslim leaders.

Took so long because people aiding and protecting Bin Laden were loyal enough not even to be moved by a 25 million dollar reward. Also, the hills of Afghanistan and pakistan are notoriously treacherous to get around in - it wasn't like they could just go in with a raid and take him whenever.

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Yup those are my two thoughts right now. Will there be immediate terrorist retaliation, and how many hundreds of thousands of young American soldiers enlisted just because of what bin Laden set into motion.

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@snood,

Yes, I know that many were loyal to him, snood.
Apparently his death (I think, from that brief report? Correct me, someone, if I'm wrong here, please.) was the result of a drone attack ?

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/2011522132275789.html

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US president Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly in which he is expected to announce the death of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.

Obama's address was due at 0300GMT from the White House.

Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said that Afghan officials have confirmed that Bin Laden had died and that his body was with the United States.

Officials would not confirm whether he had been killed in Afghanistan or Pakistan, and said that the death of the al-Qaeda leader was more of a "symbolic victory", as he was no longer directly connected to the group's field operations, Azimy reported.

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Now they're saying he was killed in a mansion outside of Islamabad.

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@msolga,

I heard it was not a drone attack. He was shot in the head.

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@msolga,

msolga wrote:

Yes, I know that many were loyal to him, snood.
Apparently his death (I think, from that brief report? Correct me, someone, if I'm wrong here, please.) was the result of a drone attack ?

The way I'm hearing it, it wasn't an unmanned attack, but the death came as the result of an armed mission with boots on the ground.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

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Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'

Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, according to US media reports citing officials.

The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly.

Mr Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list.

He is accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.

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@wandeljw,

Ah.
Thank you, wandel.
There was some mention of drone attacks in that report, apparently not the actual cause of his death.

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