Deader than a Doornail
Just released: Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a CIA operation. US ground forces were involved. The USA is in possession of his body. DNA testing was be done.
The President is due to speak soon. Updates to this post will be supplied as information becomes available.
The impact on the troops will be tremendous, according to military spokespersons.
The man-hunt is over but we must continue to be vigilent. We can never let our guard down. The war against Al Qada is not over.
The President’s Speech:
And he preempted Celebrity Apprentice where Trump was locked in a debate with rapper Lil’ Jon to announce that we got Osama Bin Laden. I wonder where Bush left the Mission Accomplished banner?
Justice is sweet. Revenge sweeter.
Exclusive footage of the bomb that killed Bin Laden here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0
The markets are upbeat. 🙂
All I have to say on this subject is, AMERICA F*K YAH!
I just hope they brought his body back encased in bacon. 😉
@Marin
I hear it is a great preservative and it is also good for leeching boils.
@Cato, another night on the sofa?
People are outside the White House wavings flags and cheering USA USA. That’s a welcome sound!
Same thing in Times Square, where all victories are celebrated!
“Victory? Victory, you say? Master Obi-Wan, not a victory. The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.”
Congratulations to the Obama Administration and our troops for destroying this evil man. God bless our great nation
and if the evil bush were still in office, would you be congratulating him? the hypocrisy of the left is blatant
bleeding heart liberals have been protesting for years to stay the execution of cop killers and other murderers on death row, oh how immoral and unjust to needlessly take a human life, oh how war is never the answer, oh how violence begets violence, oh but now if it makes your man child in the white house look good then by golly throw all your balderdash out the window and flex your chickenwings and strut your stuff, the fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of the sf folks and most other triggerpullers in the military despise obama and loyally serve their country
God bless our military! They have done more to “restore our position in the world” than any obeisance apology tour could ever do. Our men and women in uniform ROCKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel as though a big “congratulations” is due to the Obama administration. They appear to have accomplished something the previous administration could not/did not. Gotta hand it to him!
Oops.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/02/typo-msnbc-correspondent-accidentally-reports-on-twitter-that-obama-killed/
[sigh…I did the same thing, Slow. There. I confessed. MH]
He was “smoked out of his caves”. He ran but “could not hide”. We would “find him
wherever he may be”. “Tora Bora”
Took a while and its soooooooo good that it happened during Barack Obama’s term of office.
(Trump – go lay an egg!)
HEY! e!
I bow to no one in partisanship, but, right now is not the time. Tone it down. MH has never demonstrated what you described. And has been very supportive of the military. Everybody involved did a great job and that includes the CINC that gave the orders. Well done, President Obama.
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD.
KILLED BY AMERICANS.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD AS HE HID BEHIND A WOMAN.
HIS BODY HAS BEEN DROPPED INTO THE OCEAN, TO BE EATEN BY FISH.
THE WAR IS NOT OVER.
AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
I thought that I would put up a celebratory post. But, I feel no elation, just satisfaction. He’s just another target. He’s nothing but a symbolic target in the greater war. His death ends nothing. My first thought upon hearing about his death was to think, “NEXT! On to Zawahiri!”
My thanks go out to those brave men and women who made this possible. You removed a blight from the Earth. God bless you and keep you all safe.
such jubilation over the death of a fellow human being. whatever happened to liberal compassion? hate the sin, love the sinner? or are all liberal exhortations facile and facetious, to be thrown to the winds for the slightest whiff of political expediency?
Is it proper to celebrate Osama Bin Laden’s death?
http://www.aish.com/ci/s/When_Evil_Falls.html
@e
I think “relief” is the better word.
yes, agreed. although according to the conspiracy theorists, ubl was captured by bush years ago, and was holed up at camp david, and probably choked on a chicken wing watching the jon stewart show or something
closure for those who lost loved ones
@Cargosquid
You are right MH has NEVER demonstrated what e described. Furhtermore, he may not know that Moon supports the death penalty, and that’s what OBL has been dealt.
I can’t believe the few a-holes that are spewing conspiracy theory BS. From my FB wall.
Lafayette is really speechless to see a few friends don’t believe OBL is DEAD. UFB! This is a day each and every American should be proud, not spouting conspiracy theory BS. Sorry if that offends those the don’t believe he’s dead, I’m offended by their disbelief. I was working 3 miles from the Pentagon that morning, and a friend of mine’s son was the co-pilot of American Flt 77.
good, then let’s not wring our hands and bemoan the fate of ksm and other thugs who were waterboarded to extract valuable information from them that thwarted other nefarious plots from unfolding. let’s get off our high horse and stop referring to treating those thugs as torture. we all damn know we would stop at nothing to gain the release of our loved ones, and waterboarding would hardly be the most extreme measure we would employ to gather the information to gain their release. for all we know the information of where ubl was hiding was extracted through waterboarding or some other such practice? either we live in the real world or we don’t
Its sad to me actually, that on a day where most Americans should be able to come together, there are those, so consumed by their own ideological hatred, that they are incapable of any sense of good will.
e, Moon and I have discussed this, and for now, all your comments will have to be approved. If this were President Bush, and a poster reacted this vile towards him, I would say the same thing. Although I may have had my policy disagreements with Bush, I NEVER EVER doubted his patriotism. As much as I will not allow vile statements towards President Bush, nor do I have to be compelled to read yours regarding President Obama. Furthermore, your disrespectful comments about all those “liberals” not only insults me, but most of my family who are NOT rabid visceral haters of Republicans.
@Elena
Thank you, Elena & Moon. I’ve not heard back from her, yet. e-is making me sick to my stomach. I was going to activate the good ole IGNORE BUTTON, which I’ve not unleased in a couple of years. If he’s in moderation, I can contiue to read this thread. Otherwise, I would have had to stayed away.
While there are other places that “bemoan” such things, I don’t remember MH being one. And while we’re on it, some conservatives have a problem with waterboarding. Personally, if it catches a terrorist, red goes to positive……
And, while I accept that the bastard is dead, I would like to see some pics. Because, until we have those, the conspiracies will flourish, especially in the MidEast. Taking away the body and dumping it at sea is…… convenient. The current picture hitting the web is a fake.
I always thought that he was either buried in Tora Bora or living in Pakistan.
Oh, and I’m stealing the idea of Toby’s song and posting it. Now that I’ve had time for it to sink in…. a little jubilation is surfacing.
Agreed, everyone. e’s behavior has been unexceptable at times. Today, his obnoxiousness has landed him in moderation–probably permanently. He has been ignored too long.
Bye e. There really was no reason to be so obnoxious.
AMF, e!!!
Spectacular news. I would have preferred to have seen him burned alive on pay-per-view using bacon grease as an accelerant, or perhaps his head on a spike at Ground Zero, but one can’t have everything I suppose. Well done, now lets bring our boys home.
http://www.thighswideshut.org/twsdo/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/osama_obama.gif
@Cato, I liked the ground zero idea. Sort of brings a new dimension to eternal flame doesn’t it? 😉
@Cato, have the markets turned around at all over the Osama news?
Obama-1, Osama-0
The power of the peace dividend: http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/05/02/what-do-peace-dividends-look-like/
Ya know…..its awfully convenient that it has leaked on BBC America that Obama ordered this to be a “Kill” strike instead of a “capture or kill” strike. And then….his body is whisked away to be dumped,….I mean, buried at sea “according to Islamic traditions.”
There’s going to be conspiracy theories galore that he’s actually being held at a secret location…….being interrogated…….tortured….etc.
Wouldn’t that be cool?
U.S. team’s mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture
– 46 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters.
“This was a kill operation,” the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.
“http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_binladen_kill;_ylt=AhEAisCMjX.1OWXGP5vlUdus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrdDJkdWw5BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwNTAyL3VzX2JpbmxhZGVuX2tpbGwEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDdXN0ZWFtMzlzbWlz”
Mission Accomplished!
DNA tests are forthcoming and photos were reportedly taken.
As the birthers have demonstrated, there will always be conspiracy theories no matter the evidence.
@Moon-howler
There was a spike up at the announcement, but it pulled in a bit. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a little selling here, but the overall trend is up and the doom and gloom crowd is being chased back to their bear caves. What you want to see here is a sustained pullback in oil prices, and if that happens that could be fuel for another strong leg higher.
How Obama’s focused, hands-on pursuit of Osama Bin Laden paid off
By John Dickerson
Slate
At approximately 11:30 p.m. Sunday, President Obama announced to the nation that on his orders U.S forces had killed Osama Bin Laden. His reputation for lawyerly inaction may never recover.
Obama’s critics have said that he is a weak leader in general and in particular does not understand what must be done to combat terrorism. “They are very much giving up that center of attention and focus that’s required,” said former Vice President Dick Cheney in March 2009, in a typical remark. Yet what emerges from the details of Bin Laden’s killing (offered, like the heroic accounts of the Bush years, entirely by officials who work for the sitting president) is that from early in his administration Obama was focused on killing Osama Bin Laden and that he was involved in the process throughout.
In June 2009, Obama directed his CIA director to “provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice” Osama Bin Laden. By August 2010 intelligence officials had identified the suspicious compound where Osama lived. Thirty-five minutes outside Islamabad, the walls were up to 18 feet high and topped with barbed wire. The largest structure, a three-story building, had very few windows. Though the house was valued at $1 million, it had no Internet or phone service. Its residents, unlike their neighbors, burned their trash.
Detainees being held at Guantanamo provided some of the strongest information about those who were trusted by Bin Laden. They identified a courier and his brother who lived inAbbottabad, Pakistan, an affluent suburb where a lot of retired Pakistani military officers live.
The final phase of the painstaking process started in mid-February. Intelligence officials started to get good information on the compound. A series of meetings were held in the White House to develop aggressive intelligence gathering operations. A family lived at the compound that matched the description of the Bin Laden family. By mid-March the president was chairing the national security meetings on the operation. (In all he would chair five such meetings, including the ones on the day the operation took place.)
Early Friday morning before departing to view tornado damage in Alabama, the president gave the order to initiate the operation to kill Bin Laden. On Sunday, he met throughout the day in the Situation Room, making final preparations and receiving updates.
Thus did the president both answer his conservative critics and rise above them. Yes, he was saying, I do believe in American exceptionalism—and so should any terrorist who would wish America ill. All in all, it was a good night to be president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/analysis-how-obamas-focused-hands-on-pursuit-of-osama-bin-laden-paid-off;_ylt=AglvO2TE6C888r4RZo._iUhn.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTRvNDgwbDh2BGFzc2V0A3libG9nX2V4Y2x1c2l2ZS8yMDExMDUwMi9hbmFseXNpcy1ob3ctb2JhbWFzLWZvY3VzZWQtaGFuZHMtb24tcHVyc3VpdC1vZi1vc2FtYS1iaW4tbGFkZW4tcGFpZC1vZmYEY3BvcwM1BHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDaG93b2JhbWFzZm9j
thanks for the link Starry!
@Cargosquid
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Maybe this is the time to remember all those wearing the uniform who died in this cause, whether in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their efforts were not in vain.
I hope everyone who lost someone feels some sense that their loved ones did not die in vain. I hope everyone who came home maimed, physically or emotionally, gets some sense of accomplishment from the killing of Bin Laden. Perhaps they contributed to achieving the impossible.
This is mostly to Laf but could be to E as well.
He’s dead and I don’t need any proof of it. The way that I see this is:
1. He’s dead, we killed him and we disposed of him in the toilet of every nation..the ocean.
2. He’s been captured by friendly forces (us) and we’re gonna beat the piss out of him for the rest of his miserable life — either way he’s not a factor anymore.
3. He died of natural causes and we’re just saying we killed him. Either way, he’s dead.
Pick whichever you want. To me he’s dead. I encourage everyone to drop a duece and show him how you feel. 😉
Apparently Osama was given a respectful burial. He was bathed, wrapped in a clean cloth, and gently put into the ocean. He was given a proper burial , one he denied so many from on horrible day, September 11, 2001.
This act of civility and respect IS what sets the United States apart from animals like Bin Laden.
I would have preferred he been embalmed with pork fat, dressed in a bacon suit and left at the gates of town for the dogs. Lest anyone forget, it was not just 9-11 but all manner of atrocities before and since. Slicing off someone’s head with a butter knife doesn’t leave me with much capacity for civility much less respect.
@Elena and Mom
I would have felt better had it gone Mom’s way, but in any event this is a good day.
This is something everyone can feel good about – MH, BVBL, Republican, Democrat, anyone.
@Mom
I do understand what you are saying, but I would continue to say, that is what makes them animals and we will never be reduced to such depravity.
@Elena
Except that the torture of humans…works. 🙂
To lighten the mood some. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0qsx-ZG8c
I understand our basest fantasies. In my mind, he is a big gold fish being flushed down the toilet…thus, the burial at sea.
There really is no use in us becoming the pigs that he and his followers were. Those thoughts belong in our jokes and our heads. Our govt. did the right thing.
When we come like them, they have won.
As no one can presume with absolute certainty that the tenets of any particular faith are absolutely incorrect, I would have preferred covering my bases through the judicious use of pork products to ensure the dirtbag doesn’t enjoy the fruits of what many will consider martydom.
I am SO going to enjoy taking a leak next time I visit the beach……
Did you hear what happened when UBL showed up in the after life? He awoke to a terrible pain in his genitals. His bleary eyes focused on a tall man pulling his foot back for another kick! Try as he might to move, he was immobile and helpless.
Focusing on the man, who was leisurely taking his time aiming his foot, UBL realized that he had seen this man’s face before…..where?……..where? The American Dollar Bill! It was George Washington! And what was that….there’s a line behind him….UBL recognizes Jeffers—–!!!
and another kick connects! And another!!! And yet, another!!!!! CRUNCH!!!!
UBL looks ups and cries out, “But I did my duty! I killed in the name of Allah! Where are my virgins?”
George Washington replies, “Didn’t you know….there was a mistranslation….you get to enjoy the administrations of 72 VIRGINIANS for all eternity.”
@ Cargo
And then someone came along and said, if you can read George Washington’s sign, thank a teacher!
Good one Cargo. Will this be a special trip down to Virginia Beach for the official ‘christening?’