Osama Bin Laden Is Dead

'The administration was investigating who within Pakistan provided support to bin Laden to allow him to live, remarkably, in a fortified compound in a town, not tucked away in a cave as often rumored. Critics have long accused elements of Pakistan's security establishment of protecting bin Laden, though Islamabad has always denied it, and did so again.

Bin Laden went down firing at the Navy SEALs who stormed his compound, a U.S. official said. Brennan said one of bin Laden's wives was used as a human shield to try to protect him and was killed, too, as a result. Brennan, speaking of bin Laden, said that revealed " the nature of the individual he was" ...

... Based on statements given by U.S. detainees since the 9/11 attacks, they said, intelligence officials have long known that bin Laden trusted one al-Qaida courier in particular, and they believed he might be living with him in hiding.

Four years ago, the United States learned the man's identity, which officials did not disclose, and then about two years later, they identified areas of Pakistan where he operated. Last August, the man's residence was found, officials said."

Good thing club Gitmo was kept open.
I hope they investigate with armed missle strikes, I do give Pres. Obama credit for not wasting that resource.

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

Is this your net link, bob?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/dai...108.guest.html

It's all in there, from the "I-I-I" and the glorious Gitmo to the "photo on a Spanish website" and the "kill vs capture" :laugh:

Don't ask me how I knew :laugh: :laugh:

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I said I was listening to Limbaugh.
Glad you can read.http://foolstown.com/sm/kngt.gif

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Originally Posted by Sonic

Personally I wouldn't say I'm "happy" he's dead, more satisfied with the conclusion of the man hunt. I do take your point about his Matyr status, but wouldn't that happen anyway if he was captured, and, almost certainly, sentenced to death?

The head of the monster has been cut off, but the body is still twitching and is deadly dangerous.

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I'm afraid that from now on things can get only worse and it's not a time time to celebrate yet. Funny to see people on the streets and celebrate someones death. Pretty ironic to me and it shows how much the western population does not have a glue about what they are really facing. Monsters head has been cut off, but it has made him even more angry

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Originally Posted by cali

Pretty ironic to me and it shows how much the western population does not have a glue about what they are really facing. Monsters head has been cut off, but it has made him even more angry

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I think that some of us are only too aware if what we're facing.
Do you include the groups responsible for the Madrid railway attacks, the two sets of Bali bombings, the Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad as being "inspired" by or having connections to al-Qaeda?

The problem is that the monster's head has been cut off but it would appear that the monster we're dealing with is actually a Hydra. Cut off one head and the beast still has many others.

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Originally Posted by cali

I'm afraid that from now on things can get only worse and it's not a time time to celebrate yet. Funny to see people on the streets and celebrate someones death. Pretty ironic to me and it shows how much the western population does not have a glue about what they are really facing.

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I would respectfully suggest to you that perhaps the people on the streets celebrating are not representative of the Western people as a whole.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I don't see why Pakistan has anything to answer for? Does the UK know exactly who is here?

Trust an Indian person to blame Pakistan.....

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well, they clearly do. How can the most wanted terrorist in the world stay around 2 KM from a pakistani army base in a town with a population of 80,000 km :?:

if you expect me to believe that he could stay there without government support , i'd find it impossible to do that....

it's not exactly the first terrorists who are being kept hidden by pakistan....

the whole taliban issue could have been so easily avoided had the US not given them arms in the first place.....oh and do continue funding and trustingthe key ally in the war against terror...

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Originally Posted by harsha

if you expect me to believe that he could stay there without government support , i'd find it impossible to do that....

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Let's ask the question differently. How much control over the country does Zardari have? I was under the impression that outside of Islamabad the government's influence wasn't particularly all that stable; one only needs to look at Balochistan and the conflict there.
In fact the Pakistani government has accused India in the past of supporting Baluch rebels with the intent of destabilisation.

If you expect me to believe that the governmet in Islamabad even had a clue that Bin Laden was in Pakistan "i'd find it impossible to do that...."

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Originally Posted by Rollo

Let's ask the question differently. How much control over the country does Zardari have? I was under the impression that outside of Islamabad the government's influence wasn't particularly all that stable; one only needs to look at Balochistan and the conflict there.
In fact the Pakistani government has accused India in the past of supporting Baluch rebels with the intent of destabilisation.

If you expect me to believe that the governmet in Islamabad even had a clue that Bin Laden was in Pakistan "i'd find it impossible to do that...."

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Nah , most of the pakistan territory with the exception of territory alongside AfPak border is under the control of Zardari...They've really controlled the Pakistani Taliban of late too...Balochistan is only one problem , one which had existed ever since the Ind-Pak Partition. That and the lack of resources allocated to Balochistan have exaggerated matters.

Pakistan has a known history of shielding Terrorists....1)Dawood Ibrahim , wanted for the Mumbai blasts, Safe Haven in pakistan. 2)the planners of the Mumbai attacks 3)the LeT guys who are arrested, released and still go about their business

and needless to say that the Pakistani Government has a habit of pointing fingers at anyone or any country when it wants to , The accusations of India supporting Baluch rebels may or may not be true , but Pakistani sponsored Terrorism has cost India much more lives. Pakistan is probably the one country which is the major irritant in world politics at the moment , They've got a nuke , they train terrorists and the US gives them funds to fight the very terrorists that they train...go figure

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Originally Posted by harsha

well, they clearly do. How can the most wanted terrorist in the world stay around 2 KM from a pakistani army base in a town with a population of 80,000 km :?:

if you expect me to believe that he could stay there without government support , i'd find it impossible to do that....

it's not exactly the first terrorists who are being kept hidden by pakistan....

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I doubt very, very, very much that Pakistan was totally ignorant of what was taking place. A helicopter of that size cannot go where it was un-noticed. If you have watched some news sources a Paki was tweeting about the helicopter hovering overhead, which was one that dispensed Seals.

Pakistan probably has great fears about reaction if they were involved in the execution of bin Laden. This was kept to a true need-to-know level including people on defense committees in the U.S. which the head Repubclican applauded, he was not in the know, as he said had this not been kept to the absolute minimum people knowing it. it would have been leaked out before taking place.
I would bet money that the proper Pakis knew about it, long ago when it was being set-up.