Osama Bin Laden is dead

GWB: “The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done

Wouldn't it be strange if that useless show of lavish entitlement actually contributed to AQ's gaurs being down?

Ali wasn't knocked down

pretty sure that's a fake photo.
it appears they took the photo on the right and photo-shopped...

Do you really think that passivity will deter folks like that? Do you have any historical evidence with which to support that notion? (I think not.)

NEXT !

Some thought into why this man and his cronies attacked the US
in the first place might also be justified.

georgeob1 wrote:

Where's your proof of that commonplace but superficial assertion? The fact is incidences of such terrorism have been reduced significantly since we took out their sanctuary in Afghanistan; imprisioned those we caprtured there; and started killing them where we could find them. The facts aren't with you.

Correlation something something causation.

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Ali wasn't knocked down

A perfunctory view of the film of that fight would, I'm sure, lead you to conclude that you are talking crap.

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Ali wasn't knocked down

A perfunctory view of the film of that fight would, I'm sure, lead you to conclude that you are talking crap.

You mean like the British assassinations of IRA men 30 years ago?

joefromchicago wrote:

I'm confused. George W. Bush said it wasn't important whether we got Bin Laden or not. When did it become important again?

Apparently when the intelligence services, perhaps using enhanced techniques, got a tip from a prisioner in Guantanamo - which the hapless Obama three years ago promised to close without delay - and the lead was recognized as important in Obama's enhanced assassination program in Afghanistan & Pakistan.

I just thought everyone was now going to speculate about what kinds of terrible things might happen, so I thought I'd join in the prognostication of doom.

It's a lot more likely that one of the captives was successfully turned to our side, not through torture - why **** around with pretty words?? - but through more effective, long-established techniques of psychological coercion.

Osama bin Laden[a] was the leader of al-Qaeda and was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda is alleged to be responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, which killed 17. Although bin Laden later appeared on the first publicly released FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on October 10, 2001, he was listed there for his alleged role in the 1998 embassy attack, and not for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, because the most wanted lists name fugitives charged with a crime by a prosecutor or under indictment by a grand jury. Bin Laden was named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in, for instance, the federal indictment against convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, but has not been formally indicted for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001, attacks. On May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was confirmed killed by United States special forces by an announcement from the President of the United States, Barrack Obama in a press conference in the White House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives

And remember that Osama was a close US friend right up until 9-11.

The following text is a fatwa, or declaration of war, by Osama bin Laden first published in Al Quds Al Arabi, a London-based newspaper, in August, 1996. The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."