OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD

Madre · 05-01-2011

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T1

(CNN) -- The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night.

Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces have the body of bin Laden.

The enormity of the destruction -- the World Trade Center's towers devastated by two hijacked airplanes, the Pentagon partially destroyed by a third hijacked jetliner, a fourth flight crashed in rural Pennsylvania, and more than 3,000 people killed -- gave bin Laden a global presence.

The Saudi-born zealot commanded an organization run like a rogue multinational firm, experts said, with subsidiaries operating secretly in dozens of countries, plotting terror, raising money and recruiting young Muslim men -- even boys -- from many nations to its training camps in Afghanistan.

He used the fruits of his family's success -- a personal fortune estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- to help finance al Qaeda in its quest for a new pan-Islamic religious state. How much bin Laden got in the settlement of the family estate is still a matter of contention. Estimates range from tens of millions to hundreds of millions.

Even before September 11, bin Laden was already on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

He had been implicated in a series of deadly, high-profile attacks that had grown in their intensity and success during the 1990s.

They included a deadly firefight with U.S. soldiers in Somalia in October 1993, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 in August 1998, and an attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors in October 2000.

Bin Laden eluded capture for years, once reportedly slipping out of a training camp in Afghanistan just hours before a barrage of U.S. cruise missiles destroyed it.

On September 11, sources said, the evidence immediately pointed to bin Laden. Within days, those close to the investigation said they had their proof.

Six days after the attack, President George W. Bush made it clear Osama bin Laden was the No. 1 suspect.

"I want justice," Bush said. "There's an old poster out West that said, 'Wanted, dead or alive.'"

Zanahoria_Picante · 05-01-2011

Just finished watching the president's speech.

"GOT 'IM!"

cstoll · 05-02-2011

It's about time.

Bravo.

EmperorChaos · 05-02-2011

He will be missed.

I mean... who do we have to hate now?

SketchImpressions · 05-02-2011

^ don't worry, there are still plenty of bad guys out there to play hide and go seek with for the next decade.

also, MADRE!!!!!!

Zanahoria_Picante · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by EmperorChaos

I mean... who do we have to hate now?

Justin... Bieber?

Slightly less meaningful, perhaps. Just slightly.

A victory in a sense, but by no means the end of ter'r. Obama was just a scapegoat. A rightful scapegoat, but a scapegoat nonetheless....

*Knowing stare*

Hardly matters, anyway; the world's about to end. Shee ya on the othah shide, kidsh! Haw haw!

EmperorChaos · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by Zanahoria_Picante

Obama was just a scapegoat.

Oh yeah?

Zanahoria_Picante · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by EmperorChaos

Oh yeah?

Yeah, hence:

Quote:

Originally Said by Zanahoria_Picante

*Knowing stare*

I literally had to consciously focus on NOT typing "Obama" the first time, so I thought I'd just leave it in there that way, and see if anyone else would notice.

*Crazy eyes of easily amused*

(I do not typo. You know this; you have foreseen it.)

Christian · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by EmperorChaos

I mean... who do we have to hate now?

Quote:

Originally Said by Zanahoria_Picante

Justin... Bieber?

> ! <

I actually can't say that I heard too much of him, though.

Quote:

Originally Said by Zanahoria_Picante

A victory in a sense, but by no means the end of ter'r. Obama was just a scapegoat. A rightful scapegoat, but a scapegoat nonetheless....

*Knowing stare*

Hardly matters, anyway; the world's about to end. Shee ya on the othah shide, kidsh! Haw haw!

I'd have rather liked it to have him caught and jailed then just killed.
I mean, he's replaceable, even in his own organization.

Now I have to be afraid of acts of vengeance, I'm flying to Colorado in less then 4 days.

Oh nice not typo you did earlier, I didn't even notice at first :D

EmperorChaos · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by Zanahoria_Picante

(I do not typo. You know this; you have foreseen it.)

It is a risk we all took.

The time of Osama is over. Do we live the Middle East to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?

SpudNuts · 05-02-2011

he died of old age.

Zanahoria_Picante · 05-02-2011

Quote:

Originally Said by Christian

> ! <

I actually can't say that I heard too much of him, though.

I pray you to do everything you can to maintain your oblivion. Please.

Quote:

Originally Said by Christian

I'd have rather liked it to have him caught and jailed then just killed.
I mean, he's replaceable, even in his own organization.

Now I have to be afraid of acts of vengeance, I'm flying to Colorado in less then 4 days.

Oh nice not typo you did earlier, I didn't even notice at first :D

That is very true; it would have been better that way.

And exactly; that's why the way the news is reporting this (i.e., completely tactlessly) seems... not smart.

It's no small wonder that America is "not the most popular" nation, at times. In a way, this does not seem like justice at all; it seems more like vengeance, and vengeance will be returned with vengeance. *Hears dark, undulating strings beginning to play*

Quote:

Originally Said by EmperorChaos

It is a risk we all took.

The time of Osama is over. Do we live the Middle East to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?

Frodo (cheerfully): "Let's go get smashed!"

SketchImpressions · 05-02-2011

^ exactly! its Sadam all over again for me. I am ashamed that we revel in someone's death so publicly and heartlessly. its not like he was our over lord causing daily horror....
my friend in dc said its a freaking frat party out there. kinda gross

<hates corporate media for sensationalizing EVERYTHING

Blackass · 05-02-2011

Awesome day. Just awesome.

Tala · 05-02-2011

Two things come to mind here.

Foremost, I thought this was appropriate: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Also appropriate: The ordinary girl married a prince and the bad guy was killed. This week brought to you by Disney. o.O

SpudNuts · 05-02-2011

What were you trying to rescue him for anyway?

Blackass · 05-02-2011

Not killing him would have prevented him from being a martyr. Not that we probably wouldn't have ended up killing him anyway.

SketchImpressions · 05-02-2011

they(media) are making it sound like they gave him the option to give up but he refused and fought back (duh! fuck you infidels! i die on my soil!!). its a bs loop hole, he should of been tazed beyond compared, locked up and shipped to the un to under go trial. or what ever the international protocall is for terrorist. Instead we look like Team America blowin shit up and naming it justice later
like DUH!!! he would of been killed without a doubt! due process?

Jenn and tonic · 05-02-2011

A trial would have made it into a circus and it would be really easy to make him into a martyr in the extremist muslim world that way. If they'd taken him into custody there would have been questions about who could take him, all sorts of questions about logistics, who would to the trial, be the judge, etc, etc, and then there's always the small possibility that justice wouldn't be served. Personally, I don't care whether they 'gave him a chance to surrender,' I think it's better that it happened the way it did.

EmperorChaos · 05-02-2011

I agree with Jenn.

He was an outlaw, essentially. How many outlaws can you think of who ever got a trial? Most of them are just gunned down at the OK Corral.

Good riddance.

05-01-2011	#1
Madre Double Plus Good Mod! Join Date: Feb 2003 Age: 67 Posts: 3,403 Rep Power: 65	OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ex.html?hpt=T1 (CNN) -- The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces have the body of bin Laden. The enormity of the destruction -- the World Trade Center's towers devastated by two hijacked airplanes, the Pentagon partially destroyed by a third hijacked jetliner, a fourth flight crashed in rural Pennsylvania, and more than 3,000 people killed -- gave bin Laden a global presence. The Saudi-born zealot commanded an organization run like a rogue multinational firm, experts said, with subsidiaries operating secretly in dozens of countries, plotting terror, raising money and recruiting young Muslim men -- even boys -- from many nations to its training camps in Afghanistan. He used the fruits of his family's success -- a personal fortune estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- to help finance al Qaeda in its quest for a new pan-Islamic religious state. How much bin Laden got in the settlement of the family estate is still a matter of contention. Estimates range from tens of millions to hundreds of millions. Even before September 11, bin Laden was already on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He had been implicated in a series of deadly, high-profile attacks that had grown in their intensity and success during the 1990s. They included a deadly firefight with U.S. soldiers in Somalia in October 1993, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 in August 1998, and an attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors in October 2000. Bin Laden eluded capture for years, once reportedly slipping out of a training camp in Afghanistan just hours before a barrage of U.S. cruise missiles destroyed it. On September 11, sources said, the evidence immediately pointed to bin Laden. Within days, those close to the investigation said they had their proof. Six days after the attack, President George W. Bush made it clear Osama bin Laden was the No. 1 suspect. "I want justice," Bush said. "There's an old poster out West that said, 'Wanted, dead or alive.'" __________________ III.IIVIVIXIIVIVIIIVVIIIIXVIIIXIIIIIIIIVIIIIVVIIIV IIVIIIIIIVIII - Solomon (I Kings 7:23) Last edited by Madre; 05-01-2011 at 11:54 PM.

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Zanahoria_Picante Orange you glad she's not a banana? Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 4,952 Rep Power: 146	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD Just finished watching the president's speech. "GOT 'IM!" __________________ Zanahoria_Picante ..\| \| .\| \| \| _____ \ love /-\| -\__/--\| "When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything." Steven Wright Almost Smart Store Almost Smart Arcade ;

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cstoll ?! Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,154 Rep Power: 82	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD It's about time. Bravo. __________________ "I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel." --Blackadder

05-02-2011	#4
EmperorChaos Ruin you like this website. Join Date: May 2005 Age: 41 Posts: 11,726 Rep Power: 151	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD He will be missed. I mean... who do we have to hate now? __________________ The first thing that came into being, void and without form, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, the Prima Materia from which all comes, influenced by forms and given structure by matter it becomes all that is, with increase in entropy it is into which all shall fall, endlessly and in all directions, a self-reflexive paradox. -=-=-=- "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." -Isaac Asimov

05-02-2011	#5
SketchImpressions AlmostSmart Goddess Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 35 Posts: 2,153 Rep Power: 69	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD ^ don't worry, there are still plenty of bad guys out there to play hide and go seek with for the next decade. also, MADRE!!!!!! __________________ "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." — Dr. Seuss What we have is socialism for the rich and trickle down economics for the rest of us. I am part of the 99% of Americans left outside of Economic Elite circles...

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SpudNuts Just Bubblin' Join Date: Mar 2004 Age: 37 Posts: 2,179 Rep Power: 52	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD he died of old age. __________________ Alba gu bràth

05-02-2011	#13
SketchImpressions AlmostSmart Goddess Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 35 Posts: 2,153 Rep Power: 69	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD ^ exactly! its Sadam all over again for me. I am ashamed that we revel in someone's death so publicly and heartlessly. its not like he was our over lord causing daily horror.... my friend in dc said its a freaking frat party out there. kinda gross <hates corporate media for sensationalizing EVERYTHING __________________ "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." — Dr. Seuss What we have is socialism for the rich and trickle down economics for the rest of us. I am part of the 99% of Americans left outside of Economic Elite circles...

05-02-2011	#14
Blackass groingrabbingly good! Join Date: Mar 2003 Age: 34 Posts: 2,458 Rep Power: 63	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD Awesome day. Just awesome.

05-02-2011	#15
Tala iGor Join Date: Jun 2008 Age: 33 Posts: 282 Rep Power: 49	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD Two things come to mind here. Foremost, I thought this was appropriate: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Also appropriate: The ordinary girl married a prince and the bad guy was killed. This week brought to you by Disney. o.O __________________ But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? ~ T. S. Eliot

05-02-2011	#16
SpudNuts Just Bubblin' Join Date: Mar 2004 Age: 37 Posts: 2,179 Rep Power: 52	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD What were you trying to rescue him for anyway? __________________ Alba gu bràth

05-02-2011	#17
Blackass groingrabbingly good! Join Date: Mar 2003 Age: 34 Posts: 2,458 Rep Power: 63	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD Not killing him would have prevented him from being a martyr. Not that we probably wouldn't have ended up killing him anyway.

05-02-2011	#18
SketchImpressions AlmostSmart Goddess Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 35 Posts: 2,153 Rep Power: 69	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD they(media) are making it sound like they gave him the option to give up but he refused and fought back (duh! fuck you infidels! i die on my soil!!). its a bs loop hole, he should of been tazed beyond compared, locked up and shipped to the un to under go trial. or what ever the international protocall is for terrorist. Instead we look like Team America blowin shit up and naming it justice later like DUH!!! he would of been killed without a doubt! due process? __________________ "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." — Dr. Seuss What we have is socialism for the rich and trickle down economics for the rest of us. I am part of the 99% of Americans left outside of Economic Elite circles...

05-02-2011	#19
Jenn and tonic "maaaaagic!" Join Date: Jul 2003 Age: 37 Posts: 5,965 Rep Power: 125	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD A trial would have made it into a circus and it would be really easy to make him into a martyr in the extremist muslim world that way. If they'd taken him into custody there would have been questions about who could take him, all sorts of questions about logistics, who would to the trial, be the judge, etc, etc, and then there's always the small possibility that justice wouldn't be served. Personally, I don't care whether they 'gave him a chance to surrender,' I think it's better that it happened the way it did. __________________ When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. – Thomas Jefferson

05-02-2011	#20
EmperorChaos Ruin you like this website. Join Date: May 2005 Age: 41 Posts: 11,726 Rep Power: 151	Re: OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD I agree with Jenn. He was an outlaw, essentially. How many outlaws can you think of who ever got a trial? Most of them are just gunned down at the OK Corral. Good riddance. __________________ The first thing that came into being, void and without form, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, the Prima Materia from which all comes, influenced by forms and given structure by matter it becomes all that is, with increase in entropy it is into which all shall fall, endlessly and in all directions, a self-reflexive paradox. -=-=-=- "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." -Isaac Asimov

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