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Osama bin Laden is dead
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Yeah, he dead and shit.
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It's not 9/11 that concerns me, its all the other stuff too.
i agree. people who only see the taliban becauseof their threat to the west are short sighted. What about the way theytreat their own women
The major news networks are claiming him as the mastermind over 9/11 in the reports of his death - and people are rejoicing and "have closure" now. They shouldn't be. They're mostly using weasel words [those that care about their rep] like he was believed to be... which is still wrong.
About time he's dead, but the news coverage and the way America is reacting to it is all wrong. Killing this man won't change anything, Al-Qaeda is still a threat, their driving force is their religious beliefs, not Osama.
He won't have a sucessor. Al-Qaeda isn't one organisation anymore, it became fragmented long ago. What we have now is just a load of small, loosely affiliated organisations. Osama was the figurehead, but nothing will change. Same way if someone killed the Queen, we'd be pissed off but the country would keep running.
Agreed. x
It's even stranger that he was hiding in a complex 100 yards from the Pakistani army training facility and that the US enacted a military operation on Pakistani soil without telling them or involving them.
TBH I think it is being lost in the hysteria of his death that the whole thing stinks!!
Easiest place to hide is often the last place people would look.
I can easily explain why they never told the Pakistani govt, because the US administration doesn't trust the ISI or the Pakistani government not to somehow leak the information. There have always been suspicions on the part of the US towards Pakistan.
He was buried at sea to stop his burial place becoming a shrine. Whilst he wasn't the organiser he was the 'public face' of AQ, it won't stop Islamic radicalism but its a blow to their morale and conversely a boost to those (especially Moslems) who are fighting against it
I also can't see why the UK's at bigger risk than before and the US is only hunting him because he bore prime responsibility for killing 3000 people on US soil - so I think its fair to say he got his retaliation in first.
DNA smeeNA. Has any one ever seen Obama and Osama in the same room? Why would their names be so similar? I smell a 'spiracy!
I think you are onto something, after all many people make up conspiracies even when faced with the truth.
Sorry, that one has already been done to death by the bumper sticker industry
I agree with sanitize, that the celebration of someone's death just seems distasteful - no matter who they were. The media coverage describes the killing of bin Laden as "justice", but surely it's more about revenge and bloodlust.
Id say it was more Karma.
And surely it'll just anger the terrorist groups more?
Women being allowed to walk around without being escorted, having the vote and other such freedoms annoys us anyway. I think that any terrorist actions are likely to be attributed to "avenging OBL's death" when in fact they were going to happen anyway. Terror groups who were planning attacks will deliberately intend to attribute their attacks as revenge, attempting to discredit the actions of the US Govt.
I think what people are trying to say, is that it is still a little tasteless to be celebrating a victory no matter how huge, when it has still been at the expense of someones life.
No doubt you're right. But, if the terrorists were able to attack, they would. There was no significant reason for 7/7 or for 9/11. All that'll change is that the next attack will be attributed to Osama, when it would have happened anyway.