Osama Bin Laden is Dead

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 05-03-2011, 15:04

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. ...

I always did enjoy the bard of Baltimore. What a charming cynic!

**Strike For The South** · 05-03-2011, 17:19

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

I always did enjoy the bard of Baltimore. What a charming cynic!

I'm fully aware of the man I quoted

I figured the esteemed backroom didn't need me to hold their hand through every refrence I make, of course times being what they are....

**gaelic cowboy** · 05-03-2011, 17:54

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

A fair point. AQ was, in many ways a "coalition of the willing" that coalesced around Bin Laden. They may well splinter into a much less coherent group. Though that would make continued extirpation efforts more difficult, it would also limit their total threat potential.

He was like a figurehead monarch or the Leader from the Simpsons basically groups all over the place gained press and funding by invoking his name however the majority never met him or anyone even remotely connected to him. Broadband Jihad is what were dealing with here and it will likely be impossible to get rid of, maybe we need an Islamic version of angry birds for web enabled radical muslims to give em summit to do other that downloading the terrorist cookbook from rapidshare.

**Viking** · 05-03-2011, 19:08

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I'm fully aware of the man I quoted

I figured the esteemed backroom didn't need me to hold their hand through every refrence I make, of course times being what they are....

You'll get kicked out of uni one day, I fear.

**Don Corleone** · 05-03-2011, 19:40

I'm not exuberant, as I had imagined I would be. I am very, very glad my children no longer have to share the planet with that murderous, dehumanizing, misogynistic bag of puss. And as Lemur and others have related in excellent fashion, the viper of Al-Queda has been defanged. Yes, Islamic militancy will continue, but it will exponentially less effective in the years to come. Beyond the cult of personality OBL brought to Islamic Terrorism, many of you have missed his second, only slightly less beneficial gift to the jackals of the terrorist world: He was the conduit of funds/exchange of communication to the Saudi, et. al., financial sponsors of all of this mayhem.

When Leon Panetta talked about "a startling amount of actionable intelligence", I strongly believe that chief among that is a names list of the boys back in the Kingdom coughing up for all of this. Were I a Saudi wife-beather, funding Wahabist lunatics to try to ease the pressures at home, I would be wetting my bed on a nightly basis, especially given the current political clime of the Middle East. Al-Queda has always been only half the problem... their support network, which we could not penetrate, has been the other half. First, I imagine we picked up at least some directly actionable intelligence yesterday. But secondly, the great-qualifier, the one man who stood in both worlds and could tell the Saudi sheikhs which bomb-throwers were real and which ones were CIA plants (and vice-versa) is gone. They must now either accept that this link can and will be breached (leading to their capture) or they must sever it. Either way, those who pursue freedom come out ahead.

And I am very, very proud of our military, our intelligence services, and yes, our President, of whom I have the highest praise. He made many diffficult decisions over the past few weeks, and did so with a jackass taunting him on international media at every turn. I may not always agree with the man's politics, but I give a heartfelt salute to our Commander in Chief, who earned the title.

But none of this raises to the level of exuberance or joy. Why?

I guess even though Bin_Laden got what he had coming to him in a much more merciful way then he deserved, my friend Jim Greenleaf didn't... and I won't/can't equate their two deaths. Jim was so much more, and his death, a true loss, is not validated or felt less painfully because this flyspeck of humanity has been removed.

But I certainly welcome the cheering in others. Make merry for me.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 05-03-2011, 19:43

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I'm fully aware of the man I quoted

I figured the esteemed backroom didn't need me to hold their hand through every refrence I make, of course times being what they are....

I was simply complimenting your choice.

**Strike For The South** · 05-03-2011, 19:48

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

I was simply complimenting your choice.

Well then my new thread sounds insane

Mea Culpa, I'm seeing things that aren't their

**Greyblades** · 05-03-2011, 21:42

Hmm... Ive seen alot of these images of a dead osama floating on google's image search and found this image while searching the net, I gotta say while it isnt exactly 100% convincing me I realy got to wonder, where did the first image come from?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Its probably just that the image is faked and not one of the actual images taken by the US SEALs.

**Rahwana** · 05-03-2011, 21:45

so, there's a possibility OBL is still alive....

**Lemur** · 05-03-2011, 22:08

Originally Posted by Rahwana

so, there's a possibility OBL is still alive....

Anything is possible. The sun could be made of cheese. It is overwhelmingly likely, however, that OBL is dead.

**Ronin** · 05-03-2011, 22:04

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Hmm... Ive seen alot of these images of a dead osama floating on google's image search and found this image while searching the net, I gotta say while it isnt exactly 100% convincing me I realy got to wonder, where did the first image come from?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Its probably just that the image is faked and not one of the actual images taken by the US SEALs.

that image has been floating around the net for a very long time.
some moron in a tv station or newspaper picked it up yesterday and started circulating it.
now people are using it as "proof" that the US is lying.....the US government hasn´t released any photos yet.

**Azi Tohak** · 05-03-2011, 23:26

Originally Posted by Ronin

that image has been floating around the net for a very long time.
some moron in a tv station or newspaper picked it up yesterday and started circulating it.
now people are using it as "proof" that the US is lying.....the US government hasn´t released any photos yet.

I hope they don't. I don't know what would be gained by releasing a brutal picture of some old bearded guy with half a face. If you believe he's dead, it will be Osama himself. If you don't, then you'll claim it is some innocent old dude who happened to get REALLY unlucky. Keep the images, keep the names of those who participated, and give me a Call of Duty level where I can pretend I get to infiltrate his compound.