Osama Bin Laden Dead

[Rich J]

Surely it would be better to wait til people were less suspect of an attack, when they have forgotten about all this and it comes out of the blue?

[dirt jumper jake]

Turns out he'd been living in that compound for nigh on 5 years. Sneaky little fanny. and the pakistanis knew about it too, tossers! Well, according to what the news lady said anyway

[club_card]

I feel so much safer no he is dead.

[Rusevelt]

To be honest, i am not convinced by all the media coverage. Even if Bin Laden is dead, it is by no means the end of of Al Qaeda, and their network of operatives around the world. Guess they will re establish a new leader before formulating a counter-attack against the Pakistan government for exposing Bin Laden to the US.

[craigjames]

Even if they do establish a new leader. Osama was well educated, well linked, extremely rich and charismatic. I don't think they have anyone to fill the position in the way he did. Al Qaeda certainly won't disappear, I think it won't continue to be the threat it was over the long term though.

[forteh]

I dont think its going to make any difference him being killed now, according to wikipedia (ok so its not always 100% but hey!) al qaeda has achieved most of its objectives for 2020...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Strategy

On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020".[38][39] Abdel Bari Atwan summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages:

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• Provoke the United States into invading a Muslim country.
  
• Incite local resistance to occupying forces.
  
• Expand the conflict to neighboring countries, and engage the U.S. in a long war of attrition.
  
• Convert Al-Qaeda into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be loosely franchised in other countries without requiring direct command and control, and via these franchises incite attacks against countries allied with the U.S. until they withdraw from the conflict, as happened with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but which did not have the same effect with the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
  
• The U.S. economy will finally collapse under the strain of too many engagements in too many places, similarly to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Arab regimes supported by the U.S. will collapse, and a Wahhabi Caliphate will be installed across the region.
  

[Revolver]

That looks remarkably like...

An evil scheme to take over the world.

[mat hudson]

the bin ladens family and the bush family have been good friends for years before 9-11 (if you dont believe me look it up, its well documented) i doubt he will have been killed to tell you the truth, he was only a scapegoat in the first place anyway.

ahaha

http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-Bush-and-Osama-Bin-Laden-are-now-friends-Gordon-Brown-likes-this/341100987523

Edited May 6, 2011 by mat hudson

[Martin Reynolds]

Never knew they took the bins out on a bank holiday

I didnt actually get that the first time i read it

You can tell its a friday

[Greetings]

i doubt he will have been killed to tell you the truth

Al Queida or whatever it's called seem to agree that Osama Bin Dead.

[mat hudson]

Al Queida or whatever it's called seem to agree that Osama Bin Dead.

says who though?

[casualjoe]

Says Al-Qaeda.

[Greetings]

Says Al-Qaeda.

Thanks for making that clear, my bad :$

[bikeperson45]

Apparently they're not releasing the photo's because of their graphic nature, I don't really want to see a picture of a guy with part of his head blown off.

Anyone else heard that rumor that he shot himself which is why he was shot twice...

[casualjoe]

Thanks for making that clear, my bad

It's ok, my comment was actually aimed at mat hudson who thinks Obama would stand up and lie to the thousands of people related to those killed in 9/11. I should have quoted him really

[Tom Booth]

Why on earth would he shoot himself?

Cowardice suicide vs Martyrdom/ never surrender heroics......

[LukasMcNeal]

He got shot twice because he got double tapped, that's what I have heard anyway.

[bikeperson45]

Now I just read in the Metro he was only shot once in the head by an American...

[LukasMcNeal]

Dunno how reliable this is but on wiki it says he was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap

[arw_86]

he's deeeeeeead. why would they lie? they aren't under any more pressure than they have been to ever find him. Why lie to victims/the world. Why make it up when all Al-Qaeda would do is denty it immediately or release a video with him saying hes not dead and quoting the events to prove its date. Why make it up when its going to seriously piss off a massive terrorist organisation?

he could of been shot a thousand times who cares. There is so much media relying on different sources all trying to get the attention of us consumers theres no chance their stories won't differ.

As always some of the story wont add up, but any story ever told can be made to not make sense if you ask a load of sources and spread it through millions of people and thousands of media feeds. Exactly like chinese whispers (on an epic scale)

he's dead, there is no reason to utter a word about him if he wasnt.

Edited May 7, 2011 by arw_86

[Simpson]

he's deeeeeeead.

Yep and everyone saying that the Pakistani's knew he was there, but theres something like a £40m price tag on his head... someone would have snitched! haha

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

he's dead, there is no reason to utter a word about him if he wasnt.

Unless you're the US president, quickly approaching re-election but doing really badly in recent polls... Just sayin'.

[Revolver]

Unless you're the US president, quickly approaching re-election but doing really badly in recent polls... Just sayin'.

If that was the case, al-Qaida would jump at the chance to screw things up for him. In fact, it's surprising they haven't denied it, even if it is true.

The only reason I can think of for them to admit he's dead when he's not is for him to go into hiding... but he was already in hiding for years.

I think he's dead.