CNN Reporting Bin Laden is dead

JeffreyS · May 02, 2011, 12:03:31 AM

Quote from: stephendare on May 02, 2011, 12:00:34 AM
Apparently it was a very small team of young men who took him out, at close quarters.

No one knows if they know the shooter who did it, but if they do, then I think there is about to be a new american Hero.

We should have parades for the whole team.

JeffreyS · May 02, 2011, 12:03:45 AM

And book deals too.

chipwich · May 02, 2011, 12:05:53 AM

I'm sure those guys don't want to be targets themselves. They will have the best story that no one will hear about for a long long time. They are truly selfless heroes deserving of the highest honor our country can bestow on them.

CityLife · May 02, 2011, 12:10:45 AM

Very strong chance that it was the CIA's Special Activities Division who did it. SAD is comprised of the best of the best in our special ops and pull off most of our major covert ops. They call in most of the drone attacks and were responsible for capturing Saddam.

The military command likes them flying under the radar though and will likely either give credit to another unit or downplay their involvement.

danem · May 02, 2011, 12:36:17 AM

Secret or not, I wonder if the team that carried out this act get the reward money?

Coolyfett · May 02, 2011, 04:14:31 AM

Its crazy how this is suppose to be a good thing yet all I keep seeing is the anti Obama comments online. Took the US long enough to get this guy.

BridgeTroll · May 02, 2011, 06:42:48 AM

Looks like the Navy SEALS got him...

Sea, Air, or Land...

Ocklawaha · May 02, 2011, 06:42:58 AM

What a freaking GREAT BIRTHDAY PRESENT! God bless those military boys that took that bastard out. Looks like he and ADOLPH HITLER both died on the same day...good because right about now, their both in the same place!

OCKLAWAHA

RiversideLoki · May 02, 2011, 07:46:34 AM

Burial at sea is the best possible outcome. Don't give the bastards the satisfaction of having a shrine built around the dude!

BridgeTroll · May 02, 2011, 08:23:50 AM

QuoteCNN is reporting that the operation had been carried out by the Navy Seals, who had practiced the mission several times.

The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) also confirmed bin Laden's death to SPIEGEL ONLINE. An ISI source said the world's most sought-after terrorist had been located and killed in a "highly secret action coordinated between Pakistani and US forces."

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, the operation began at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning when three US Apache helicopters attacked the complex. Bin Laden's people allegedly fought back to defend themselves and, according to eyewitnesses, one helicopter had to make an emergency landing. The ensuing firefight, according to the witnesses, lasted until 4 a.m. Several people, including women, were arrested, some of whom had been injured in the firefight and were then taken to the military hospital in Abbottabad.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,760025,00.html

fsujax · May 02, 2011, 08:54:33 AM

great news! Ock I like your post!

ben says · May 02, 2011, 09:03:41 AM

Am I the only one here who sees how ridiculous this all is....Bin Laden authorized/planned the killing of 2,000-3,000 people. He was a figurehead at best. Congrats, we 'got the guy'. Meanwhile, we invade 2 countries, kill hundreds of thousands of people, spend trillions of dollars, see 5,000+ American deaths, and ten years later, all we have to show for it is the death of this guy? Really people? How low are our standards.....

Probably the best rallying-cry/propaganda tool a US president has had since 9/11 itself...

Not glorifying the guy, or saying he shouldn't be dead, but this seems like the biggest "news that isn't news" in recent memory. Nothing about Al Qaeda or US foreign policy has changed or will change because of this ONE death. Yipee!

Moreover, very telling that Al Qaeda's new #1 enemy is Pakistan, or "friend and ally", and the US, the people who killed bin Laden, come in at #2. So, let's be frank here..our friend and ally, Pakistan, probably knew bin Laden was there, and was clearly hiding the guy via the ISI. Do I smell some double crossing?? And no, this isn't a conspiracy theory...this is 10+ years of careful reading/news watching.

Ocklawaha · May 02, 2011, 09:14:47 AM

Quote from: RiversideLoki on May 02, 2011, 07:46:34 AM
Burial at sea is the best possible outcome. Don't give the bastards the satisfaction of having a shrine built around the dude!

Don't know about that, this is REALLY going to piss Davey Jones and Neptune Rex off! Watch for a rough hurricane season. I just wish they'd of caught him alive then shoved him into fire... figure he needed a preview of things to come.

OCKLAWAHA

copperfiend · May 02, 2011, 09:22:49 AM

Mission actually Accomplished.

wsansewjs · May 02, 2011, 09:36:32 AM

Quote from: Ocklawaha on May 02, 2011, 09:14:47 AM
Quote from: RiversideLoki on May 02, 2011, 07:46:34 AM
Burial at sea is the best possible outcome. Don't give the bastards the satisfaction of having a shrine built around the dude!

Don't know about that, this is REALLY going to piss Davey Jones and Neptune Rex off! Watch for a rough hurricane season. I just wish they'd of caught him alive then shoved him into fire... figure he needed a preview of things to come.

OCKLAWAHA

Oh snap! NOT Davy Jones! I don't like that scum nor do I want to be around the vicinity of that ship if I was in the Bermuda Triangle.

-Josh