CNN reports Bin Laden is dead
May 1st 2011, 5:38 pm
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FFS you get some good news for a change and all you can do is moan.
May 1st 2011, 6:54 pm
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I'm not sure about this. Have they produced the death certificate?
May 1st 2011, 7:32 pm
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May 1st 2011, 7:33 pm
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If it was US troops in Abbotabad, 50 km from the capital, and I assume that they will not have confided in ISI (as OBL was still there) then the real story will be the fall out over this between US and Pakistan governments and their future co-operation regarding Afghanistan.
"Members of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, were on site in Abbottabad during the operation, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...aid/index.html
May 1st 2011, 7:57 pm
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Reports I have read have said Pakistan cooperated with the US, so it appears atleast now that Pakistan was aware of the mission.
"Members of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, were on site in Abbottabad during the operation, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...aid/index.html
"Members of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, were on site in Abbottabad during the operation, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...aid/index.html
"Another senior administration official told reporters that Obama's administration did not share intelligence gathered beforehand with any other country -- including Pakistan -- for security reasons. The official said that only a small group of people inside the U.S government knew about this operation in advance.
However, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said members of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, were on site in Abbottabad during the operation. There was no way to immediately resolve the apparent discrepancy."
(for all we know the 'courier' guy, was the ISI guy
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May 1st 2011, 10:17 pm
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OK, BS meter is going off! Osama found 100m from a Pakistani military academy, shot in the head, "had" to used facial technology to identify him, still waiting for confirmed DNA and now buried at sea! WTF!
May 1st 2011, 10:19 pm
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Killed on the anniversary of GWB's "mission accomplished" speech?
May 1st 2011, 11:05 pm
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Will never happen! any nation and its alies that takes out a leader such as OBL will always be a target for the next threat, get ready for even more increased measures at airports....
Some closure at least.
Should burn him, why polute any body of water!
As Abraham once said " it may come from abroad or rise within" and it did on both occasions!
I say " We should not be complacent on the recent event" we have just thrown a few more logs on already burning fire!
As Abraham once said " it may come from abroad or rise within" and it did on both occasions!
I say " We should not be complacent on the recent event" we have just thrown a few more logs on already burning fire!
May 1st 2011, 11:09 pm
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The bogeyman is dead & justice done finally after almost a decade (or longer if you count the Kenya bombings etc.)
May 2nd 2011, 1:12 am
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Now that is done perhaps Obama can get on with the real business of the day and kill the UIGEA.
May 2nd 2011, 2:03 am
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Can't believe the w@nker on Fox News who has just said regardless of what may happen in the future and what retribution Al Queda seeks it will be worth it for today. Hope he doesn't live to regret those words.
Really is it going to make any difference anyway? There will be plenty of people wanting to take his place and trying to prove they are worthy
Really is it going to make any difference anyway? There will be plenty of people wanting to take his place and trying to prove they are worthy
I am also sure he had it set up that upon his death there were certain targets/missions that had to be implimented, I hope I am wrong!!
May 2nd 2011, 2:30 am
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