OT- Osama Bin Laden is Dead
Apparently something big is happening in the world. We have NO idea what. But I suggest you get to a television.
The only thing they have said is that it is "national security related."
EDIT: Twitter is abuzz with a rumor that we got Bin Laden. Waiting for TomVH to confirm. Also, If this is too political, feel free to delete. But I thought this might generate some interest.
EDIT II: CNN confirms: the United States has the body of Osama Bin Laden. War on Terror Muppets.
EDIT III: Thread locked to prevent the inevitable political flame war from escalating. [ZL]
Some death is cause for revelry.
Longer than 10, we've been after him since the late 90s.
My wife suggested we celebrate tomorrow with free gas nationwide.
Same thing here.
Fuck Yeah!!!!
Hail to the victors, Hail to the USA
Remember, Bin Laden is NOT wanted for 9/11. There is no evidence connecting him to 9/11.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm
Just check the FBI page.
Bin Laden himself claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Nope, that's not true. I'm pretty sure Bin Laden is at fault for 9/11, the Gulf War, the Kennedy Assissination and the Great Depression. I also blame Bin Laden for a C+ in organic chemistry.
bin laden is the one who started this idea for Islam to basically take over the world and used the militant Islamists in Al Queda to carry out his ideas.
Fuck Yeah!!!! Osama Bin Hiden no more. Way to go U.S. troops!!!
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Lordy you beat my CNN breaking news email alert
America: All we do is a win. Posbangs for freedom!
Bye bye, you rotten son of a bitch.
America, Fuck Yeah! !!!!!!!!
thank God that bastard is finally dead.
I won't believe that bin Laden is dead until I see the long-form death certificate...
THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD #ALLCAPS
...morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably- dead!
Except for him.
I wonder how long he's been dead for. The whole no videos thing had me convinced he was killed in a drone attack or something years ago. I wonder if we actually got him or just found the body in some rubble.
I love the fact he's dead, but it sucks it took us 10 years to get this job done.
(Also is it wrong to suggest we stuff the body and toss in a trophy case somewhere?)
we should quarter the body and display them at the four corners of America, William Wallace style.
I was thinking he's look good stuffed and in a case in front of the 9-11 memorial.
Also I wonder what country we found him in. Afghanistan? Or is Pakistan about to be facing some very awkward questions.
Just outside the capital of Pakistan in Islamabad. Oh yeah he was in a mansion.
Really? Well time to go update my Selective Service card in the event we decide to end Pakistan over this. As for my feelings on foreign policy at this point:
Dear India,
You know what whole Kashmir thing and those issues you have with Pakistan? We just want to stress that we are totally looking the otherway. I mean 100% the otherway. We got this Libya thing going down and we see nothing.
Seriousily we mean it, we see nothing.
Love,
America
PS: Would you like to buy some missiles and drones priced as a very competitive rate?
If any members of the international community bitch about how we "violated Pakistan's sovereignty" with this operation, they can EAD.
I don't think many people will say much, at least not in the near future. We've made it pretty clear that we're in a killin' mood.
If we had guys on the ground, it was with Pakistani permission. A bombing on the border isn't that big of a deal, but troops on the ground in Islamabad means there was definitely permission or collaboration.
The next few days are going to be interesting as to Pakistan's future. CNN's reporting is making it sound like Pakistan wasn't cooperative whereas other sources make it sound like Pakistani Intel helped us get him. It's all BS speculation.
Keep in mind troops on the ground might just mean we told Pakistan we were killing OBL and their options were letting Delta Force in or us carpet bombing the city.
I do know when we invaded Afghanistan that Pakistan was not keen to let us fly over their country to do it. That led to Powell's you can join us in the 21st century or live in the stone age comment (translation: We will bomb your country to rubble and then merrily fly over it on our way to Afghanistan).
Since I posted that I went from being under the impression that there were regular forces on the ground to being under the impression that it was more likely a platoon level ground intelligence unit. I don't think we would have to have explicit permission for that level of activity, but I do agree that it will be interesting.
Pakistan can't exactly come off as too pissed about that given the geopolitics at play right now, but it's pretty clear that bin Laden had a good amount of support there.
Obama's speech kind of made it sound like we talked to them after the fact about this. He talked about calling the President of Pakistan after confirming Bin Laden was dead. Given the fact that the Pakistan government leaks like a sieve it wouldn't surprise me if we never consulted them on this and the CIA just did it.
Man if I was an American citizen in Pakistan right now I'd be heading for our embassy or the airport.
As my wife commented this suddenly makes that whole "CIA contractor gets attacked by Pakistan thugs" story from a few months back rather interesting.
It's going to be rough for a while.
As to notifying Pakistan, it wouldn't surprise me if they had no idea, and it also wouldn't surprise me if there was a high enough ranking official that hates bin Laden and would be willing to sit on our news for a few days. Ultimately, the Pakistani government doesn't seen to be up in arms over this and that would be the only sticking point.
the U.S. will expand its 'unofficial' footprint in the remote Western mountainous regions of Pakistan now. This is a huge gain for U.S. prestige and we will have a powerful, if brief, initiative to do whatever we darn well please in a few key spots for a few days at least. This will in turn strengthen our de facto control of Pakistan and aid our efforts to lend stability to that part of the world. Boom, realpolitik'd.
Ultimately, this will be very good PR (as you said) but other than that I'm definitely not sold on the actual strategic impact of killing bin Laden. Since 2001 they've become less Sicilian mafia and more Russian mafia. Given how radioactive bin Laden must have been, I wouldn't be surprised if there were many people more dangerous than him at the time of his death.
Not saying this is a bad thing at all, but how much operational control and planning input he had was probably greatly reduced over the past decade.
I think we had Pakistani permission and that the Pakistani government was trying to contain bin laden, whatever that means. I heard that Admiral Michael Mullen who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was in Pakistan last week coordinating the attack.
I also heard about the Delta Force being involved so I'm not exactly sure if it was a predator drone.
Just outside the capital of Pakistan in Islamabad. Oh yeah he was in a mansion.Very telling. The power players in Islamabad have never been exactly supportive of the civilian government.
Pakistan has some splainin to do
Supposedly he was killed in a bombing attack last week. They had to do DNA testing to see if it was him for sure.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Pray for the troops.
I hope that son of a bitch is rotting in hell right now...and also I pray for all of our men and women defending us right now...this is an extremely dangerous time for all fo them (more so than before)...I pray for the safety of us all
What do you say if you're Obama? There's only one thing I can think of...