Osama Bin Laden is Dead

[Subotan]

Washington lied their tongues out. Anyone surprised?

First of all, it seems like OBM did not hide behind a wife. Just propaganda to make him look cowardly.
Secondly, President Obama did not see when OBM got captured/killed because of a technical error (HP machines remember?).

As a side note, eye witness reports say OBM got captured and then assassinated, the source might of course lie. On the other hand, that source might lie, where as pentagon and washington have their pants on fire already.

Something is rotten here.

Osama's chums who were in the compound have far, far more to gain from muddying the waters by lying to the notoriously unreliable Pakistani newspapers than the Obama administration has to gain from providing a slightly misleading account of his death.

So Fox is crap and ABC, a liberal network is better? You make me laugh Lemur.

I'm glad I can provide you with amusement. You might want to look into this guy named Brian Ross, who is a fairly serious journalist. Note: by using the term "serious journalist," I mean that he has a factual, checkable track record for uncovering true things before other people, with little regard to who the facts help or hurt. The organization with the biggest beef against Ross? Not the Republican party. Toyota.

It's sad how critical journalism is considered "bias" by ignorant people. True bias lies in doing what does not deserve to be written, and writing what does not deserve to be read.


On a side note, it is positively heartwarming to see the same men who fill the streets demanding the death of anyone who dares to criticise law against blasphemy reduced to a solemn silence by the Bin Laden's death. We can all have good reason to be cheered by that, even if we consider finding joy in Bin Laden's death abhorrent.

[Lemur]

It's sad how critical journalism is considered "bias" by ignorant people.

I don't know that it's ignorance, rather an attempt to divide the world cleanly into "us" and "them." In other words, everyone is either with my cause or against me. Seems like a very depressing perspective, and doomed to error, not to mention alienating for everyone who doesn't agree with all of your views. A very smart American conservative noted that "somebody who agrees with you 80% of the time is an 80% friend not a 20% enemy." Modern rightwingers would do well to think on this.

In more important news, details are emerging about the counterterrorism dog hero, but still no photos. Pshaw!

Little is known about what may be the nation’s most courageous dog. Even its breed is the subject of great interest, although it was most likely a German shepherd or a Belgian Malinois, military sources say. [...]

The training of dogs in Navy Seal teams and other Special Operations units is shrouded in secrecy. Maj. Wes Ticer, a spokesman for United States Special Operations Command, said the dogs’ primary functions “are finding explosives and conducting searches and patrols.”

“Dogs are relied upon,” he continued, “to provide early warning for potential hazards, many times, saving the lives of the Special Operations Forces with whom they operate.”

Last year, the Seals bought four waterproof tactical vests for their dogs that featured infrared and night-vision cameras so that handlers — holding a three-inch monitor from as far as 1,000 yards away — could immediately see what the dogs were seeing. The vests, which come in coyote tan and camouflage, let handlers communicate with the dogs with a speaker, and the four together cost more than $86,000. Navy Seal teams have trained to parachute from great heights and deploy out of helicopters with dogs.