Osama dead

[fiend540]

The Muslim tradition is burial within 24hrs of death, not Burial at sea. IMO dumping him at sea is much better than putting him in the ground, his grave would just become a spot for people to idolize much like people do with the graves of dead pop icons.

[OfficerK]

I am raising a :bsflag: on this one… I will wait for some ultra-mega-super convincing pictures to be released

edit: also anyone else think it was lame that people [college kids] congregated around the white house, ground zero, etc. to cheer?

[JayS]

Definitely a great day. Not a big fan of this burial at sea crap though. I’m worried that no matter what photos, DNA and other evidence we provide the nut jobs are going to claim we never killed him.

Lots of questions already popping up with this though. We’ve been told for years he’d be hard to find because he was going from cave to cave in the mountains. Now we find him in a specially constructed 3000 sq/ft mansion with 20 foot falls topped with barbed wire, that’s been there 5 years.

Here’s a big one that our “allies” in Pakistan are going to need to explain. The house was 100 yards from the gate of the Kakul Military Academy, an army run institution where top officers train. A Pakistan intelligence official said the property where bin Laden was staying was 3,000 square feet.

So no one noticed this secure compound right outside where Pakistan trains it’s army?

[TradersBASE]

I was kind of annoyed at how Obama said “At my direction” as if to take the credit. IF this is truth (that’s up to each individual to ponder) Obama didn’t do anything heroic. IF this is truth…props to the soldiers that carried out the mission and either way…props to all the soldiers risking their lives in the name of the US.

Burial at sea huh? This has me wondering where the real attention SHOULD be then. Sounds like a shell game with a “look over here” tactic. What else is going on under the other shells?

[Paulo]

@rugsr

osamas body was buried at see do to Muslim tradition?

[bing]

reuters article:

@Reuters"

(Reuters) - U.S. forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in a mountain cave on Afghanistan’s border, but with his youngest wife in a million-dollar compound in a summer resort just over an hour’s drive from Pakistan’s capital, U.S. officials said.

A small U.S. team conducted a night-time helicopter raid on the compound early on Monday. After 40 minutes of fighting, bin Laden and an adult son, one unidentified woman and two men were dead, the officials said.

U.S. forces were led to the fortress-like three-story building after more than four years tracking one of bin Laden’s most trusted couriers, whom U.S. officials said was identified by men captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“Detainees also identified this man as one of the few al Qaeda couriers trusted by bin Laden. They indicated he might be living with or protected by bin Laden,” a senior administration official said in a briefing for reporters.

Bin Laden was finally found – more than 9-1/2 years after the 2001 attacks on the United States – after authorities discovered in August 2010 that the courier lived with his brother and their families in an unusual and extremely high-security building, officials said.

They said the courier and his brother were among those killed in the raid.

“When we saw the compound where the brothers lived, we were shocked by what we saw: an extraordinarily unique compound,” a senior administration official said.

“The bottom line of our collection and our analysis was that we had high confidence that the compound harbored a high-value terrorist target. The experts who worked this issue for years assessed that there was a strong probability that the terrorist who was hiding there was Osama bin Laden,” another administration official said.

The home is in Abbottabad, a town about 35 miles north of Islamabad, that is relatively affluent and home to many retired members of Pakistan’s military.

It was a far cry from the popular notion of bin Laden hiding in some mountain cave on the rugged and inaccessible Afghan-Pakistan border – an image often evoked by officials up to and including former President George W. Bush.

The building, about eight times the size of other nearby houses, sat on a large plot of land that was relatively secluded when it was built in 2005. When it was constructed, it was on the outskirts of Abbottabad’s center, at the end of a dirt road, but some other homes have been built nearby in the six years since it went up, officials said.

WALLS TOPPED WITH BARBED WIRE

Intense security measures included 12- to 18-foot outer walls topped with barbed wire and internal walls that sectioned off different parts of the compound, officials said. Two security gates restricted access, and residents burned their trash, rather than leaving it for collection as did their neighbors, officials said.

Few windows of the three-story home faced the outside of the compound, and a terrace had a seven-foot (2.1 meter) privacy wall, officials said.

“It is also noteworthy that the property is valued at approximately $1 million but has no telephone or Internet service connected to it,” an administration official said. “The brothers had no explainable source of wealth.”

U.S. analysts realized that a third family lived there in addition to the two brothers, and the age and makeup of the third family matched those of the relatives – including his youngest wife – they believed would be living with bin Laden.

“Everything we saw, the extremely elaborate operational security, the brothers’ background and their behavior and the location of the compound itself was perfectly consistent with what our experts expected bin Laden’s hide-out to look like,” another Obama administration official said.

Abbottabad is a popular summer resort, located in a valley surrounded by green hills near Pakistani Kashmir. Islamist militants, particularly those fighting in Indian-controlled Kashmir, used to have training camps near the town

[rugsr]

again, since when does america care about a terriosts tradition?
So are they playing it safe so they dont piss off the muslims?

im sorry but I have a hard time believing people who have no problem lying.
If I can lie, and you can lie, and people in my family can lie etc…then IM SURE the gov. has no problem lying to someone (me/you) who they dont even “know”.

Where are the pictures? When we got Saddam there were pictures and videos. Could it be too early? Possibly but with how fast the world is now…theres nothing as of yet. I did hear this morning that Obama was watching it live.

Instead of dumping the body at sea they should have brought it to ground zero and held an auction. Highest bidder gets the 1st punch in the face and so on. I would gladly pay a few hundred bucks to blast him. All the money would go to the families!

AGAIN, I hope…I HOPE…I am wrong.

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@TradersBASE

I was kind of annoyed at how Obama said “At my direction” as if to take the credit. IF this is truth (that’s up to each individual to ponder) Obama didn’t do anything heroic. IF this is truth…props to the soldiers that carried out the mission and either way…props to all the soldiers risking their lives in the name of the US.

Burial at sea huh? This has me wondering where the real attention SHOULD be then. Sounds like a shell game with a “look over here” tactic. What else is going on under the other shells?

THIS

[RedGoober4Life]

I feel like I’m in an Orwell novel.

[rugsr]

The tee shirt should really look like this! Her arm is even in the perfect position!

I would buy one. He’ll Id buy a few. Maybe even cut the sleeves off and wear it to the gym =)

[ProgRocker]

@Charlie Kelly

“I’m gonna rise up, I’m gonna to kick a little ass, I’m gonna to kick some ass in the U.S.A., gonna climb a mountain, gonna sew a flag, gonna fly on an eagle. I’m gonna kick some butt, I’m gonna drive a big truck, I’m gonna rule this world, I’m gonna kick some ass, I’m gonna rise up, I’m gonna kick a little ass. ROCK, FLAG and EAGLE!!”

[snowracer101]

While the SEAL that squeezed the trigger and double tapped Osama’s face is probably the most humble person ever, he should be given every award out there… be exempt from paying taxes for the rest of his life…and NEVER spend his own coin on a beer for the rest of his life.

[JayS]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we never find out the identity of the people on that team. No sense making them and their families targets for wacko jihadists.

[rugsr]

Never and yea it wouldn’t help the fam’s.

[boardjnky4]

The CIA Director who led the mission’s name has been released…

An inside look at the raid that killed bin Laden

Navy Seal Elite Team Six

is that public record?

edit: looks like it’s pretty locked down lol http://www.ajc.com/news/what-is-the-navy-932118.html

[Beck]

I’m glad we got him, but it doesn’t change a thing. We’ll just need to appoint a new Hide 'n Seek world champion.

[boardjnky4]

@Beck

I’m glad we got him, but it doesn’t change a thing. We’ll just need to appoint a new Hide 'n Seek world champion.

I think it would be difficult to replace Bin Laden. His leadership level is equivalent to Hitler’s. This is a major stepping stone. My thought is that, if we keep pressure on them they will collapse.

Organized terrorists need a strong leader.

[Beck]

@rugsr

That should not be Obamas face burghs soldier that killed him. Obama did nothing n this matter.
He gave them the go ahead…I could do the same just as fast if not faster. He’s no hero. OUR TROOPS ARE!

Channel 2 this mornIng reported that osamas body was buried at see do to Muslim tradition?
Please someOne tell me channel 2 is wrong.

1. since when do we care about the tradition of a terrorist
2. I wanna see this body.

I’m calling BS
but, I hope I’m wrong

BTW anyone realize that his message interrupted the apprentice and trump swung “your fired”
Funny/strategy anyone?

1. since when do we care aboutthe tradition of a terriost

Islamic Law mandates that the body is buried within 24 hours of passing away. We are not fighting Islam, we are fighting terrorists. This is a huge step in the right direction if this administration hopes to make any movement forward with the countries we are invading. We will be the bigger man in the scenario. They also buried him at sea to prevent a gravesite from forming any sort of following or becoming a shrine.

[boardjnky4]

I think this capturing exposes a massive problem with the fight on terror.

WTF do we do with Pakistan now. They’re obviously harboring terrorists.

I think the issue is larger than the US can handle though…What the hell are we supposed to do?

[Beck]

@boardjnky4

I think it would be difficult to replace Bin Laden. His leadership level is equivalent to Hitler’s. This is a major stepping stone. My thought is that, if we keep pressure on them they will collapse.

Organized terrorists need a strong leader.

I agree. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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@boardjnky4

I think this capturing exposes a massive problem with the fight on terror.

WTF do we do with Pakistan now. They’re obviously harboring terrorists.

I think the issue is larger than the US can handle though…What the hell are we supposed to do?

So we invaded Iraq for WMD’s, didn’t find any.

We invaded Afghanistan for Osama. Didn’t find him there.

I don’t necessarily think that Pakistan knowingly harbored him. Who would’ve thought he’d be hiding in plain sight in a city? The Pakistani gov gave us the permission to fly in and land. They supplied the information that the house had no phone/internet. IMO, Pakistan is not a threat. At the very least they aren’t worth getting involved with now. Not now anyways.

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JUST IN: Pakistan supplied phone-tap clips/data to US. :tup:

[LowlyOilBurner]

Finally, after ten years I will be able to sleep soundly at night knowing the war on terrorism is over…