Bin Laden is dead.

the whole action is very questionable for several reasons:
a) just reverse the situation - a Pakistan elite squad invades USA territory and kills a person who is alleged to be a terrorist, without informing the USA government. what would you think of that? would you all applaud it to? I seriously doubt it, and the USA would probably take it as an act of war, and rightly so.
b) there has never been any trial against Bin Laden, not even an in effigie trial. you may say that Bin Laden himself confessed to have been behind  the 9/11 terrorist acts. that, however, is no evidence at all; anyone could confess to that; he may just have been bragging about it (interestingly in Talmudic law the accused can't even bear witness against himself, by the way). all we have as proof that he is behind the 9/11 attacks are the allegations of the Bush administration (which were made just a few hours after the 9/11 attacks, by the way - quite miraculous crime solving).
get me right: I am not trying to defend a terrorist, I am just questioning the legality of the American actions. what if Bin Laden had hid in your country? would you have wanted an USA elite squad eliminating him, without even telling your government about it? I seriously doubt it


Edited by BaldJean - May 04 2011 at 10:59

Jim Garten wrote: Personally I'm surprised it happened last weekend - usually, no Bins are taken out on a bank holiday. Maybe that only translates to Brits...

Obama is the first coming. Jesus was an impostor. 

The T wrote: manofmystery wrote: It's been over 24 hours and oh, how the world has changed.  It's glorious.  We are no longer fighting three seperate wars, the Patriot Act is gone, we can take shampoo on a plane again, the TSA is not longer feeling up our junk and our kid's junk......oh wait....hang on a sec.  Killing one b*****d doesn't change anything.  We let Osama win already, what's his being dead going to change? Well the Miami Heat has won two in a row... Who knows this year the Dolphins make it to the playoffs...

Teo, Obama's second term + the second coming of christ won't make that happen!

manofmystery wrote: It's been over 24 hours and oh, how the world has changed.  It's glorious.  We are no longer fighting three seperate wars, the Patriot Act is gone, we can take shampoo on a plane again, the TSA is not longer feeling up our junk and our kid's junk......oh wait....hang on a sec.  Killing one b*****d doesn't change anything.  We let Osama win already, what's his being dead going to change?

Cheer up, here is a picture of a baby seal to temporarily distract you from the real world:



Wasn't that cute?  How could you say no to that fuzzy face? 


Now, back to our regularly scheduled bouts of pointless whining and bitter complaining.

^ Yikes

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I posted a link before. That report was inaccurate.

Typical quality of journalism from the United States I suppose (unless it was a report from another source outside the U.S.)

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Maybe with a trial he would get to reiterate the reasons for the 9/11 attacks and people would actually listen and demand a change in our foreign policy?  Sorry I believe in trial even for mad dogs, whatever they are.

• • 1.1 February 1993 World Trade Center
  • 1.2 March 1993 Bombay bombings
  • 1.3 1994 Bojinka, Philippine Airlines Flight 434
• 2 1998 U.S.-embassy bombings
• 3 2000 USS Cole bombing
• 4 September 11, 2001, attacks
• 5 October 2002 Bali bombings
• 6 November 2003 Istanbul attacks
• 7 February 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing
• 8 March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings
• 9 May 2004 Khobar massacre
• 10 July 7, 2005 London transport bombings
• 11 July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks
• 12 November 9, 2005 Amman hotel bombing
• 13 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings
• 14 April 2007 Algiers bombings
• 15 February 2008 Kandahar bombing
• 16 June 2, 2008 Danish-embassy bombing
• 17 Dec 4, 2008 Khost Intelligence Base Bombing
• 18 June 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
• 19 December 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253
• 20 Dec 30, 2009 Khost Suicide Bomber
• 21 January 2010 Lakki Marwat suicide bombing
• 22 May 2010 attacks on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore
• 23 September 2010 Quetta bombing
• 24 October 2010 cargo plane bomb plot
• 25 Iraq attacks
  • 25.1 August 2003 Imam Ali Mosque bombing
  • 25.2 February 2004 Irbil bombings
  • 25.3 March 2004 Iraq Ashura bombings
  • 25.4 April 2004 Basra bombings
  • 25.5 July 2005 Musayyib bombing
  • 25.6 September 2005 Baghdad bombings
  • 25.7 November 2005 Khanaqin bombings
  • 25.8 April 2006 Buratha Mosque bombing
  • 25.9 November 2006 Sadr City, Iraq bombings
  • 25.10 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing
  • 25.11 March 2007 Tal Afar bombings
  • 25.12 April 2007 Baghdad Iraq bombings
  • 25.13 August 14, 2007 Yazidi community Iraq bombing
  • 25.14 August 2009 Baghdad bombings
  • 25.15 October 2009 Baghdad bombings
  • 25.16 April 2010 Baghdad bombings
  • 25.17 May 2010 Iraq attacks
  • 25.18 November 2010
  • 25.19 January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks

I am as uninterested in his taking a bullet to the head as he was in slaughtering thousands upon thousands of innocent men. women and children -- Muslims, Christians, Jews or those holding no religious or political beliefs whatsoever. Even a few anarchists, I am sure.

The Dark Elf wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Henry the order was to shoot him. He was getting shot if he waved a white flag.    Osama bin Laden already admitted to perpatrating the 9/11 attacks. A trial woud have been nothing but a farce and a media circus with possible suicide bombers or at the least a defiant bin Laden spewing his militant nonsense for Al-Jazeera to broadcast to his adoring zealots. A bullet to the chest and a bullet to the head and he's dead. That's what one does with mad dogs. Next comes al-Zawahiri.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Henry the order was to shoot him. He was getting shot if he waved a white flag.