usa has announced bin ladin is dead

[paul]

dead

[paul]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/

[mx250]

Just checking.... is it the 1st of April.

Nope, it in the papers, the USA has said, so yeah it must be true .

"BREAKING NEWS: THE world's most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, is dead.

The news came shortly after the White House announced an unscheduled press conference for 10:30pm ET by President Barack Obama.

The subject of the president's statement -- which was then delayed -- was not announced, but FOX reported that "multiple sources" have confirmed the terror leader, behind the 9/11 attacks and many other plots, is dead.

He was killed a week ago by a US bomb, FOX reported.

Late last month, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned al-Qaeda would unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if bin Laden was captured, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks.

The terror group also planned to make a 9/11 style attack on London's Heathrow airport in retaliation by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed.

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CBS newsCapitol Hill producer Jill Jackson tweeted a short time ago "House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body."

US President Barack Obama has called a press conference in the White House, which will begin shortly."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/osama-bin-laden-is-dead-white-house-confirms/story-e6frf7jo-1226048336052

What took them so long.

It will be interesting to see what the Islamic and al-Qaeda et al re-action is.

May you live in interesting times .

[mx250]

It may destract enough to cover the collapsing money problems 

Ah, the cynical Walter .

But you might just be right.

I don't think Bin Laden has been too important to anyone in the last 9 years. And I don't think the military/terrorist/political situation is going to vary much know either. Except Obama will get a '2 min news bite' . And talking heads around the world will be employed for 12 months to diagnosis and discuss and write books and news articles endlessly .

[Mick D]

He has been a tricky bugger. I wouldn't go poking him in the eye with a blunt stick or nothing, he has probably just consumed twenty pounds of C4 and is just playing possum, or some similar diabolic scheme for his last hoorar. He has probably realized he is getting on and its time to collect his 72 virgins before they stick him at the "done rooting table"

[mx250]

Obama's statement says he was killed by a 'raiding party' (C.I.A. or SEALS or sim??) on a mansion in Pakistan, and that the US has the body 'in custody' (not killed by bomb as was the first reported).

The "body 'in custody' " now that gonna make life interesting. The Islamist will want the body buried A.S.A.P. for 'religious reasons' where as the US will probably have other ideas in mind. Like probably buried in an unmarked grave inside an unspecified American prison - treated as a criminal they claim he is. Given a proper christian burial of course . No grave site memorial come martyr shrine for Mr Bin Ladin .

May you live in interesting times .

[Freakshow]

no not osama 

its his brother jim bin laden,   or the son of jim bin laden.   

you know they all look the same..   hehehe

if it is him cover him in pigs blood or at least report it as so and all we be back in balance   

[TM BILL]

General 'Black Jack' Pershing vs. Muslim Terrorists

HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS...... it worked once in our History...

Once in U.S. history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.

Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The U.S. soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

Pointing a gun into the face of Islamic terrorists won't make them flinch.

They welcome the chance to die for Allah. Like Gen. Pershing, we must show them that they won't get to Muslim heaven (which they believe has an endless supply of virgins) but instead will die with the hated pigs of the devil.
 

[Lozza]

Geez Bill you fall for every urban myth that makes it onto a chain email 


http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_jack_pershing.htm

[TooFastTim]

How long before Bin Laden is spotted working in a (halaal) butchery in Bankstown?

Yes folks Elvis has re-entered the building.

[cyclegod]

Can't wait for the South Park episode.....

[Marc.com]

Well the Americans have plenty of experience of taking scalps so I guess they just added Osama to the list with Che and Crazy Horse oh and Gadaffi's grand children.

If they were going to execute him then I would have skipped the party on the lawn at Pensylvania Avenue and done it covertly .... he may terrorise them from the grave far more than he did in life.

I just have a feeling that history may be kinder to Osama and Saddam than you may expect, todays revolutionary is tomorrows freedom fighter.

[trailietrash]

No pictures of the body and the US have already claimed to have buried him at sea. Thanks to the US for making a  martyr that will earn more than Elvis in the Arab world.

and sorry Tim, he can't share the hideout with Elvis as Salman Rusdhie is hiding there too ...

with apologies to Mr Larson and The Far Side  ;

[TooFastTim]

I just have a feeling that history may be kinder to Osama and Saddam than you may expect, todays revolutionary is tomorrows freedom fighter.

"History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it." W.S. Churchill.

Marc, I'm with you re: Bin Laden but I think Hussein was just a political gangster. Bin Laden is somewhat more complicated. Face it, the west has treated the Arabs abysmally and Bin Laden was a product of the poverty (well not his poverty but that of the Arab world) and the bitterness is understandable. I'm by no means condoning his actions just saying that Bin Laden was a lot more complicated than most in the west realise.

[mx250]

It's been a tonic for America - good to see. They need something to shout about.

Already 'buried at sea'. The Yanks probably won't even say which sea.

It will be interesting to see the Arab/Islamic reaction. Bin Ladin was killed in a mansion - living in the lap of luxury: not the cunning fox living a spartan chaste life in a remote cave. The Arab World has been turning away from fundamental Islam towards People Power democratic revolutions. It will be interesting to see if this is this 'betrayal' accelerates the rejection the power of fundamental Islam that Bin Laden promoted.

It will also be interesting to see the al-Qaeda et al re-action. If it is swift and deadly it will show they are still a 'force to be reckoned with'. If it is slow and weak it will show they are a force 'in decline'.