OT": bin laden dead!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

per cnn and fox.

[rocky_warrior]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/01/national/main20058777.shtml

(CBS News)

The founder and spiritual figurehead for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is dead.

Several officials confirmed the report to CBS News, and say that his body is currently in U.S. hands.

CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that bin Laden was killed by forces in Afghanistan.

The long-lost terrorist mastermind had eluded an aggressive hunt by U.S. authorities for nearly ten years since the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Twitter: "#BinLaden's death does not eliminate the threat from #alQaeda, but it is hard to see anyone playing the same organizational role he did."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/01/usama-bin-laden-dead-say-sources/

Usama bin Laden is dead, multiple sources confirm to Fox News.

President Obama is expected to deliver a statement from the White House Sunday night to discuss the major development.

Sources said bin Laden was killed by a U.S. bomb a week ago. The U.S. had been waiting for the results of a DNA test to confirm his identity.

The announcement comes nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks which started a tireless hunt for the terrorist mastermind and Al Qaeda leader.

[4everwarriors]

Trump demands Obama show the body as proof.

[Ben Golds Five]

Boom

[WildBill77RT]

*modified to appropriately express how proud I am of our troops that our mission of eliminating Bin Laden was accomplished.

[MUFan11]

USA USA USA!!!

[SoCalwarrior]

FYI, find another forum to make your political jokes. I've already deleted posts from the usual suspects.

[rocky_warrior]

And Victor McCormick steps up to be the first banned after SoCal's succinct warning.  Folks, we're not joking here.

[ChicosBailBonds]

FYI, find another forum to make your political jokes. I've already deleted posts from the usual suspects.

Then why isn't Mission Accomplished deleted....if that isn't meant to be a hit on the former President I'd love to know what is.  Especially if someone actually READ what actually happened on that carrier that day (I had 2 friends on that carrier that specific day).

Perhaps it's just hard for some to separate the wheat from the chaff

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/main551946.shtml

[muhoosier260]

Then why isn't Mission Accomplished deleted....if that isn't meant to be a hit on the former President I'd love to know what is.  Especially if someone actually READ what actually happened on that carrier that day (I had 2 friends on that carrier that specific day).

Perhaps it's just hard for some to separate the wheat from the chaff

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/main551946.shtml

get a life. can the US take this in before all the partisan BS begins, taking credit, placing blame.

[warrior_rugby15]

Kind of wished that MU celebrated OBL death this way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnhDK2j4yag

also through scott van pelts twitter bunch of campuses across the nation were out celebrating, especially at Ohio State, penn State, Iowa state

[ATWizJr]

Celebrations everywhere with the possible exception of Madistan. (Meant this to be in teal)

[willie warrior]

Finally! Hey Osama, how did that work out for you?

USA!

[MUBurrow]

not to poop in the punchbowl, and i guess im posting it here because i feel the most comfortable opening up here and dont think anyone will take this the wrong way, but isnt celebrating the worlds biggest military industrial complex's assassination of a single terrorist who had been on the run for a decade and hiding in caves sort of counter-productive? we want to hold these thugs up as common criminals, but we take to the streets and chant USA at sporting events - it seems to only reinforce the jihadists' extreme recruiting message of martyrdom and glorification.
 
idk, maybe thats just my response because it seems weird to celebrate the death of a single person, and im not quite sure how to respond/how im supposed to respond.

[ATWizJr]

not to poop in the punchbowl, and i guess im posting it here because i feel the most comfortable opening up here and dont think anyone will take this the wrong way, but isnt celebrating the worlds biggest military industrial complex's assassination of a single terrorist who had been on the run for a decade and hiding in caves sort of counter-productive? we want to hold these thugs up as common criminals, but we take to the streets and chant USA at sporting events - it seems to only reinforce the jihadists' extreme recruiting message of martyrdom and glorification.
 
idk, maybe thats just my response because it seems weird to celebrate the death of a single person, and im not quite sure how to respond/how im supposed to respond.

  Yeah, that's how most people felt after Hitler killed himself, too.  All this so that one mass murder was eliminated?  Wow!

[MUBurrow]

its not what was done SO a mass murderer was dead. i wasnt criticizing the military action or any of that lead up at all.
im not even criticizing the response.
i guess im just expressing that i dont understand or identify with that response after he is dead. the actions to bring a murderer to justice and the celebration of a discrete instance of death afterwards could not be more different. i guess im just saying that when people attend the executions of those responsible for murdering their loved ones, we don't see them throwing post execution parties, and many might think it odd if they did. the nationalistic response makes me uncomfortable and unsure of how to feel. thats all im trying to say.

[tower912]

My 16 year old daughter completely sums up my attitude.   When I came home from the station this morning, she was getting ready for school and humming "Ding dong, the witch is dead" from the Wizard of Oz.   I chuckled, because this song was going through my head intermittently while I was running alarms last night.     20 minutes after I came home, after a few minutes on facebook, she came into the kitchen and said "I cannot BELIEVE how immature some of the boys in my class are."   Apparently they were posting some stuff that was pretty out there.    And I completely understood both impulses.    I'm glad bin Laden is dead.   It doesn't bring back any of his victims but closure is a good thing.    But in the big picture/long term, I don't know what it changes.   On a philosophical/theological aside,  I wish I could somehow see where his soul is right now so that I would know if his theology was right or if ours is.    And finally, thank you to all of the troops who accomplished this and other heroic deeds over there.   Well done.

[Skatastrophy]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Having a few helicopters kill a guy next to Pakistan's biggest military academy and then immediately dump the body to give him a quick sea burial seems fishy to me. 

[nyg]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Having a few helicopters kill a guy next to Pakistan's biggest military academy and then immediately dump the body to give him a quick sea burial seems fishy to me. 

Photos will be released soon to verify the death and to show terrorist sympathizers that the face of world terrorism is deceased.

Quick burial was conducted within 24 hours as to abide by Islamic beliefs and burial at sea was not to make a homage terrorist burial site. 

[mu_hilltopper]

This is pretty cool:

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/heres-the-guy-who-unwittingly-live-tweeted-the-raid-on-bin-laden/

[GGGG]

+1 tower.

I am very happy but in a solemn way. Cheering and chanting seems a little misplaced to me but I guess others must feel differently.

[radome]

not to poop in the punchbowl, and i guess im posting it here because i feel the most comfortable opening up here and dont think anyone will take this the wrong way, but isnt celebrating the worlds biggest military industrial complex's assassination of a single terrorist who had been on the run for a decade and hiding in caves sort of counter-productive? we want to hold these thugs up as common criminals, but we take to the streets and chant USA at sporting events - it seems to only reinforce the jihadists' extreme recruiting message of martyrdom and glorification.
 
idk, maybe thats just my response because it seems weird to celebrate the death of a single person, and im not quite sure how to respond/how im supposed to respond.

I 2nd your sentiment. I grew up in NY and have been on active duty since 83. I was on duty on 9/11. I have many reasons to feel otherwise but this is just another sad chapter to a terrible story. Nothing to celebrate ... worse yet, I suspect that there will be retaliation.

[MUMac]

+1 tower.

I am very happy but in a solemn way. Cheering and chanting seems a little misplaced to me but I guess others must feel differently.

I am not cheering, but I do not begrudge those that do.  I worked for a company that lost hundreds of people on 9-11.  Worked with some of them.  Knew some of the survivors.  Horrific story and many who lived it are happy to see obl dead.  I can understand some of their celebrations today.

Images are still etched in my mind of the celebrations in some Middle Eastern Countries when they learned of our tragedy.  Yes, I think some who are celebrating are venting against those images.

We have made bin laden to be THE enemy.  He was an evil man who met his fate, albeit far too late.  Some may think this is the end of al queda.  But I am guessing some are celebrating this as the end of the conflict against al queda.  I doubt it is, far from it.

A tip of the cap to the brave soldiers who went into the belly of the beast and cut off the head!

[Skatastrophy]

Quick burial was conducted within 24 hours as to abide by Islamic beliefs and burial at sea was not to make a homage terrorist burial site. 

That makes a lot of sense.  Thanks

[GGGG]

I'm not criticizing those who are celebrating. It just found it odd. Funny that some FB friens who I thought would be celebrating feel the same way I do...and vice versa. I guess people just have different emotional reactions.