Bin Laden is dead.

Oh come on T, surely you can find a link to put in the OP, don't be so lazy. I'll even give you something.

PROOFREADING!

As for the news: I am surprised. I don't know what else to say. I doubt it will have much of an impact on anything. 

But if you captured him alive and held him for trial what do you think would happen? Al Qaeda would plan something terrible(a massive bombing,maybe threaten to release some tasty anthrax or smallpox spores on an unsuspecting city) unless we released him.He might be a martyr in death,but I think it was better than taking him alive.

TheProgtologist wrote: JJLehto wrote: Well...Obama claims he had some knowledge for months now and it was his orders that eventually resulted in this. Considering he was shot in the head, that would make sense. I mean how impossible is it to find a man with ungodly resources to hide? If anything a missile or bomb would get him. An actual person getting him, being able to verify it was him? Sounds like we must've known something and was actively seeking him. ...... Well, that would be a second term for Obama.   Obama said some tips about a year ago pointed to Pakistan and Bin Laden being holed up in a compound there.Took quite a few months to verify all the intel and then a small team was sent in to take him out,probably the Joint Spec Ops Group.I really don't think he was killed in the firefight,I think he was executed,which is fine by me.

So that's this "JSOP" that the news keeps talking about.
Yeah, they've been saying we're going to hear that acronym a lot very soon.

Pretty much Jody, this was not a firefight obviously. It was a search and kill.
Great for all the families affected that can feel some closure, but if Osama was killed in a firefight well OK....what are you going to do?
Now that it seems this was a specific operation targeted to get him, I really wish he was captured, brought here, tried and forced to rot in jail for the rest of his life.

Those that are dedicated to terrorism will use this for their own purpose as well. Instead of a martyr I'd like him to be a coward, sitting in isolation and wallowing in his failure.

I need to see the body...

I thought he died like 3 years ago

cannon wrote: I think Bin Laden has been irrelevent over the last few years. The Moslem world, particularly the Middle East has figured out the thier own governments are the infidels, not the west.

Indeed.

This doesn't have to be symbolic only for us.
It's sad how horrid and idiotic our thoughts and beliefs have been towards the Arab World have been.
Would be great if those fighting their own government's in the Middle East could use this to stand strong. Kinda like "yeah the old days are dead"

The US pretty much picked this fight. Long ago. When they pretry much settled on holy land. And also when they armed Bin Laden. Twofold way of picking the fight.

Atkingani wrote: Just remembering that Al Qaeda killed innocent people around the world including in poor countries like Kenya and Tanzania, and also Spain and the UK. Even in the rich countries the majority of the victims were common people, simple workers... Their "war" was (is) insane!

Best Facebook status I've seen on the matter:

"Osama or Anne Frank for hide and seek champion of the world." At least that made me lol a bit.

Seriously though, I'm not really sure this is a good thing in the end.

JJLehto wrote: but jesus christ.....for one day let's feel something good.

Better do it fast. Obama's speech will be a shining pillar of opportunism.