Osama Bin Laden is Dead

[Onus]

Kidney pbms. Probably high blood pressure. Those virgins may be disapointed.

Reread my post. Since they're guys, they won't need to care about bin Laden's "abilities."

 

[misry]

Really, Hitler died today as well?

OBL died a week ago. They took the time to confirm before they released.

 

[christop]

That great and all but the economy still sucks and jobs are hard to find .I am glad I had this to take my mind away from real problems.

 

[mw14220]

Reread my post. Since they're guys, they won't need to care about bin Laden's "abilities."

I should have gotten that, as a re-run of Deliverence was on last week.

 

[pjmelect]

Already, some Republicans are demanding to see the long-form death
certificate.

 

[badge]

Yeah and Obama won't deny his father was a citizen of Kenya, not the U.S.

 

[buwish]

I thought that Hitler kicked the bucket (on his own accord) on April 30?

 

[dogman_1234]

He did...

Anyways...just wading the conspiracies...

...I am glad to be alive in one of my country's greatest moments in history...no matter what you say...

 

[Reynod]

High points in your country's history include landing on the moon and gender and race equality, and equity ... don't foreget these as the assasination of one man hardly compares.

If it were not for these things you wouldn't have a group of extremist nutjobs wanting to tear down your way of life ... as it would be as miserable as the gutters they currently live in.

I'm getting all teary ... sniff ...

 

[wanamingo]

Most Arabs (Non *-stan Countries) completely forgot that Osama even exists. Although people around the world still want America to start withdrawing from the middle east.

How Orwellian is it that we have "Completed" the mission and still plan on hanging out for a couple years. How would you feel if a plaumber fixed a leak and then setup shop in your living room waiting for another one?

I would have been MUCH MUCH prouder of America if we had simply captured Osama and had him tried in the Hague for which he no doubt would have been sentenced to death.

Conspiracy Theory: Spell check corrects Osama as Obama! Bum Bum Bum...........

 

[mw14220]

Most Arabs (Non *-stan Countries) completely forgot that Osama even exists. Although people around the world still want America to start withdrawing from the middle east.

How Orwellian is it that we have "Completed" the mission and still plan on hanging out for a couple years. How would you feel if a plaumber fixed a leak and then setup shop in your living room waiting for another one?

I would have been MUCH MUCH prouder of America if we had simply captured Osama and had him tried in the Hague for which he no doubt would have been sentenced to death.

Conspiracy Theory: Spell check corrects Osama as Obama! Bum Bum Bum...........

Please! Osama and his minions declared war on us. He is not a criminal but a mass murdering war criminal. His operations were asymmetrical warfare practiced on the populis of America,Europe, and the Middle East. THEY WERE PAID FOR BY SOME-ONE! Now that he is dead Either Saudi money or Iranian money will have a cheap dollar puppet. Capture? Please Navy Seal let me kill 2 of you then I'll let you shoot my wife and I'll give up! All us overclocking, computer warfare loving,ME2 playing stay at homes, should buy the next Veteran we see a beer and thank him/her and their families. The Hague? We fought a revolution to get rid of that Euro-scheiss!

 

[jfs123]

Hopefully activision will make a Call of duty game and i will be able to kill him over and over again 😀

 

[fazers_on_stun]

I thought that Hitler kicked the bucket (on his own accord) on April 30?

That's pretty much what I've read as well - all the documentaries I've seen state that Hitler first administered cyanide to his wife Eva Braun and then shot himself in the head on April 30, just a day or so before the Russians invaded his bunker in Berlin. In observance of his last wishes, his staff took both bodies outside the bunker, doused them with gasoline, and burned them.

Of course, there's plenty of conspiracy theories, incl. my favorte - the Germans developed flying saucers and took Hitler, Josef Mengele and a bunch of the others to Mars where they all live in a new bunker hidden from telescopes, and get resupplied periodically by sending the saucers back to Earth to go shopping at, I dunno - KMart?? 😛.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Hopefully activision will make a Call of duty game and i will be able to kill him over and over again 😀

I've read where the producers of the "Hurt Locker" plan to do a similar film about SEAL Team 6 taking out Osama. So I imagine there will be some games along the same theme.

 

[dogman_1234]

No country wanted Bin Ladin...gamer... except the Indian ocean.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

No country wanted Bin Ladin...gamer... except the Indian ocean.

Fish & crabs are pretty much apolitical - they'll eat anybody including subhuman terrorists. So naturally they 'volunteered' to receive his remains..

Still it makes for a nice picture - Bin Laden twisting with the currents a mile deep in crushing, pitch-black frigid water, while the crustaceans have their way with him 😛. It's a safe bet he never saw that one coming..

 

[dogman_1234]

Sounds like a perfect movie pitch to finish the bad guy...doesn't it?

 

[buwish]

What I find most irritating about the whole situation is that bin Laden probably lived in that compound for 5-6 years, while we're in Afghanistan and such looking for him. The Pakistanis have a lot of explaining to do.

None the less, it sounds like both the CIA and military were on the ball with the whole operation. I'm rather impressed the CIA kept tabs on him for a few months prior to the raid at a "safe house" just a few doors down. The raid itself by the SEALS was flawless. All this talk about whether killing bin Laden was legal or not is moot in my mind- he deserved it, not to mention he would be a huge liability alive, no matter where he was held. The Pakistanis are throwing a fit about not informing them of the raid and violating their sovereignty, but as mentioned above, someone(s) was helping him and not informing them was and intelligent move.

 

[4Ryan6]

What I find most irritating about the whole situation is that bin Laden probably lived in that compound for 5-6 years, while we're in Afghanistan and such looking for him. The Pakistanis have a lot of explaining to do.

None the less, it sounds like both the CIA and military were on the ball with the whole operation. I'm rather impressed the CIA kept tabs on him for a few months prior to the raid at a "safe house" just a few doors down. The raid itself by the SEALS was flawless. All this talk about whether killing bin Laden was legal or not is moot in my mind- he deserved it, not to mention he would be a huge liability alive, no matter where he was held. The Pakistanis are throwing a fit about not informing them of the raid and violating their sovereignty, but as mentioned above, someone(s) was helping him and not informing them was and intelligent move.

I agree with everything in your statement except the flawless comment, as a general rule we don't crash our helicopters and have to destroy them, and call that flawless.

 

[buwish]

True- it turned out to be a minor issue though in concern to the mission as a whole. I believe it was reported as a mechanical failure. It happens I suppose. By the pics of the wreckage though, it looks like it may have been some sort of stealth helicopter- not something you see in the photos in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

[wanamingo]

True- it turned out to be a minor issue though in concern to the mission as a whole. I believe it was reported as a mechanical failure. It happens I suppose. By the pics of the wreckage though, it looks like it may have been some sort of stealth helicopter- not something you see in the photos in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I can completely understand this. they went in with 2 extras just in case something happened. It could have literally been something as simple as the copter wasn't achieving the right amount of lift, so being the badasses they are didnt want or need anything that couldnt run at 110% (like themselves) they put it out of its imperfect misery.

But from a mission point of view the transport couldnt be trusted to get the job done so they "Cut it loose" and blew it up. Bad ass.

 

[badge]

http://defensesystems.com/articles/2011/05/05/agg-helicopter-crash-bin-laden-raid.aspx?admgarea=DS

 

[4Ryan6]

A Stealth Black Hawk about 10 million maybe.

It was worth 1000+ times that to get rid of him.

 

[buwish]

Hard to tell if it was a Blackhawk for sure. Based upon the photos I've seen of them, they don't look like they have a lot of room. However, they do come in a lot of variants, so it wouldn't shock me if special ops has a few one of a kind models laying around.

 

[buwish]

I agree. Speculation about the top secret hardware the military is good fun. That $685.1 billion defense budget has to be good for something. I'm personally rather excited about the drone technology. The tech on some of the UAV's is amazing. For example, a Qinetiq Zephyr UAV can fly for 2 weeks straight. Eventually we won't even need pilots to fly dangerous missions. It'll be some years down the road before that happens, but it has the potential to.

Then again, unless there is a fool proof method of stopping all electronic interference and such, I don't think the military will be taking that chance anytime soon.