Bin Laden is dead.

Jim Garten wrote: The media also released various 'home videos' yesterday, most of which are effectively 'outtakes' from OBL broadcasts (bloopers, if you like ), but one of which showed a huddled old man they claimed was OBL watching videos of himself on a portable TV set - from the angle this was shot from, it could have been anyone & the sole purpose of this appears to be to portray OBL as a pathetic old man reliving former "glories". If it wasn't him, it's just fodder for the conspiracy theorists, if it was him, congratulations, you shot an unarmed pathetic old man who could easily have been taken into custody & tried in a court of law.

Obama should be doing all he can to throw water on the conspircacy theorists. Instead, it's as if he chooses to bait them; as if he's just poking fun at the whole alternative news media phenomenon. They capture the worlds most wanted terrorist mastermind, after a decade of searching, and instead of capturing him and interogating him, they throw him in the sea a few hours after blowing his brains out, while presenting only minimal evidience that any of this happened at all.

The world better make the most of all this jubilation and 'ding dong the witch is dead' nonsense. I suspect there will be a signifcant wake up call within the next 18 months, as AQ tries to assert itself after OBL's alleged death. Pakistan will be on high alert for the forseeable future, and I expect there will be terror attacks in the near future, in the west, which will be blamed on Pakistan.

"so what if they broke the law"

Oh my.

There is a big difference between justice under the law & revenge; however, Vibe does make an interesting point here:

I think it was justified. Bin Laden was a commander in the field in a war

Jim Garten wrote: There is a big difference between justice under the law & revenge; however, Vibe does make an interesting point here: I think it was justified. Bin Laden was a commander in the field in a war

No he wasn't. There's no war declared. He was in a country in which we were not conducting military operations besides on the border.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Jim Garten wrote: There is a big difference between justice under the law & revenge; however, Vibe does make an interesting point here: I think it was justified. Bin Laden was a commander in the field in a war No he wasn't. There's no war declared. He was in a country in which we were not conducting military operations besides on the border.

Good counterpoint ; I guess it depends on the definition of The West's "War On Terror" as opposed to one man's terrorist being another man's freedom fighter. It could be seen as a grey area, but I do come back to my original thought that I'd have preferred OBL to have been brought to trial in a court of law...

...then again, you'd have had the whole legal process of "I don't recognise this court", "my client was not extradited legally, he was taken by military action"...



My head hurts.

Jim Garten wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Jim Garten wrote: There is a big difference between justice under the law & revenge; however, Vibe does make an interesting point here: I think it was justified. Bin Laden was a commander in the field in a war No he wasn't. There's no war declared. He was in a country in which we were not conducting military operations besides on the border. Good counterpoint ; I guess it depends on the definition of The West's "War On Terror" as opposed to one man's terrorist being another man's freedom fighter. It could be seen as a grey area, but I do come back to my original thought that I'd have preferred OBL to have been brought to trial in a court of law... ...then again, you'd have had the whole legal process of "I don't recognise this court", "my client was not extradited legally, he was taken by military action"... My head hurts.

Sounds like good tv to me.

Jim Garten wrote: but one of which showed a huddled old man they claimed was OBL watching videos of himself on a portable TV set - from the angle this was shot from, it could have been anyone & the sole purpose of this appears to be to portray OBL as a pathetic old man reliving former "glories". If it wasn't him, it's just fodder for the conspiracy theorists, if it was him, congratulations, you shot an unarmed pathetic old man who could easily have been taken into custody & tried in a court of law.

Uhm, actually: