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What ? No trial ?

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No body either.

Identified through DNA 99.9% sure, then buried at sea.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...rms-death?bn=1

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So much for the judicial system then.

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You mean Guantanamo Bay?

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Ah yes, well said sir.

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The US govt. has stated that it was an assassination (not in those words).

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Save your tears, hand wringing, indignation for someone who matters.....justice, albeit 'Summary' in nature, long overdue, has been done.

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Yep certainly looks that way.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...-laden-110502/

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Hmm, so, for the sake of argument, say Im a navy Seal sent to go get him, and I am facing a terrorist mastermind in his own compound. If the subject is putting up some resistance that might be a threat to my plans for later in the week that involve things like "breathing in and out", am I going to lose too much sleep over shooting the SOB dead before he does the same to me?

No, I dont think I am...

Did it happen that way? We will never know...

Burial at sea, an inspired way to maintain Muslim death traditions and rituals while avoiding a heap of political headaches, and removing the obvious dangers of a shrine appearing if he was buried. I just hope everything was documented and the information is available to all to limit the inevitable conspiracy theories.


Will his death change anything in terms of how Al-Qaeda operates? I guess we will see, but I doubt it. There are bound to be some revenge attacks though, and a high profile martyr wont hurt recruitment any...

What would a trial have acheived I wonder. In theory transparent justice is the way to go, but he did send a video out that left little doubt that he was behing the 9/11 attacks, so all it would do is provide a platform for more rhetoric, allow the muslim extremists to claim it was all a sham and the verdict was pre determined, and then end up with him dead anyway after 20 years of legal appeals. Just look at the farce surrounding the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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Summary justice is always a bad thing. He should have been tried for murder. I think this sets a very bad precident. Although I'm glad he's dead, he's now a martyr.

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did Bin Laden actually exist? I mean why not cremate his body after a public showing and then sell ash filled pendants for those who want them?

EDIT: i dont want one!

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You will have to wait for the movie to find out. Should be out shortly.

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Or fed him to the pigs....then sell the very exclusive 'Bin Laden' cured bacon....:cool:

EDIT....I don't want any!

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Agree with all of that. There will be more questions than answers though about how he was living in that place for so long undetected etc Also will this be for Obama what the Falklands was to Mrs T?

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Didnt the CIA or somesuch list the Pakistan joint intelligence agency as a pivotal part of Al-Qa'ida operations? Thats something Bob Fisk has been saying for years... that probably goes some way in explaining his living in suburbia rather than a mountain cave. Its not insignificant that the pakistan authorities were only informed of the operation after its completion.

Good for Obama? I suspect so. Not quite like a proper war though, and a terrorist backlash is to be anticipated I would guess. He needs the economy to bounce back though big time.

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