Osama Bin Laden is dead.

[Stillsy]

There will be a retaliation.

Your right mate but there will only ever be one winner and that's america

 

[Akai]

Pakistan Taliban says bin Laden 'is still alive'

Bloomberg

Last Updated: May 2, 2011

Pakistan's Taliban said Osama Bin Laden is still alive and reports of his death are baseless, GEO television reported, citing a statement from the group.

Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by a team of US operatives early yesterday morning after a firefight at a house where he had been hiding, President Barack Obama said in Washington.

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would be hilarious if he sent a video tape to Al-Jazeera tomorrow!
Obama's reaction would be epic! :)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

All photos online at this time are fake. U.S. officials have not yet released the photos of his body.

Apparently one of the soldiers on the mission took the picture on his phone & emailed it to his dad, who put it up online.

Unfortunately I doubt very very much that this will be the end of Al Qaeda! I said from the start that you can fight a person or a country, but you can't fight an ideology especially militarily!

Bin Laden as we know him was created and funded by the US when it suited their purpose during the Afghan/Russian war.

Saddan Hussein as we know him was also created and funded by the US when it suited their purpose during the Iran/Iraq war.

Extremism is extremism whether Muslim or Christian. Religion is the one thing that is supposed to bring mankind together, yet the very few at the top use it as an excuse to maim & murder millions just as Bin Laden and George Bush did. The people who have to deal with the consequences are you and I and the likes of you and I in the Muslim world.

2 Questions:

1. Can anyone hand on heart honestly say that this will be the end of Muslim extremism?

2. Can anyone actually recall what this conflict was originally about? Not 9/11, but what actually started the hatred between Al Qaeda and the West and led us to where we are today?

1. No
2. IIRC it was originally about US troops being on sacred Saudi soil following the first gulf war.

 

[quiet_riot]

Apparently one of the soldiers on the mission took the picture on his phone & emailed it to his dad, who put it up online.

Course he did. He's on a top-secret mission with a crack team of other deadly specialists, they have equipment coming out of their arses, but of course, he still takes his blackberry with him...

 

[Damocles]

I'm looking forward to Damocles' contribution to this thread.

I have very little to say about this as I've only just found out. I'm genuinely disgusted with the amount of people who are cheering and hollaring at the execution of somebody but I understand why they are. OBL became a mythical beast, something bigger than a person and Obama has just slayed the dragon. The townspeople now think that their lives will go on and be full of happiness and wonderment.

In reality, Al-Qaeda as a big organisation with a head guy has never existed. All that's happened is that somebody has shot a nasty old man in the face. The U.S. has just walked into a sovereign nation and assassinated somebody, then proudly told the world about it.

Maybe this is the U.S. breaking its habit or maybe it is them overdosing, I can't figure this out yet.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Although the guy was patently a fruitloop that the world is better off without,this could actually rebound on the allies,as he will now be seen as a martyr,and could become a recruitment poster-boy for every fundamentalist nutter on the planet who wishes to 'avenge' his death by strapping on the semtex belt.
Robert Fisk,who knows more about the Arab world than most,is of the opinion that Osama was pretty much a figurehead and talisman,rather than an influential figure within Al q'aeda nowadays,so its unlikely to lead to a sudden collapse of the organisation overnight.
As I say,(and I very much hope I am wrong),extremists now have a point to prove,in that they are still a force to be reckoned with,and it is actually debatable whether or not taking him out has made the world a safer or a more dangerous place.

 

[warhawkmoski]

All photos online at this time are fake. U.S. officials have not yet released the photos of his body.

Apparently one of the soldiers on the mission took the picture on his phone & emailed it to his dad, who put it up online.

Unfortunately I doubt very very much that this will be the end of Al Qaeda! I said from the start that you can fight a person or a country, but you can't fight an ideology especially militarily!

Bin Laden as we know him was created and funded by the US when it suited their purpose during the Afghan/Russian war.

Saddan Hussein as we know him was also created and funded by the US when it suited their purpose during the Iran/Iraq war.

Extremism is extremism whether Muslim or Christian. Religion is the one thing that is supposed to bring mankind together, yet the very few at the top use it as an excuse to maim & murder millions just as Bin Laden and George Bush did. The people who have to deal with the consequences are you and I and the likes of you and I in the Muslim world.

2 Questions:

1. Can anyone hand on heart honestly say that this will be the end of Muslim extremism?

2. Can anyone actually recall what this conflict was originally about? Not 9/11, but what actually started the hatred between Al Qaeda and the West and led us to where we are today?

Yeah, because Navy Seals take their cell phones with them on special operations. That makes a whole lot of sense. I stop reading your post after that sentance alone.

 

[Mr Rich]

There will be a retaliation.

Is that a threat?

 

[without a dream]

What difference will it make? Precisely fuck all imo. Though I'm sure Obama's ratings will shoot up, I get the impression that lots of Americans think that Al Qaeda is one big baddie and they'll be safe now.

 

[quiet_riot]

Proof of fakery....