Bin Laden Dead

[CitadelGrad]

Not sure if it's real or not, but this pic of his body is beginning to make the rounds on the internet:

Spoiler: show

This is probably real. You know the guys who conducted the operation brought along their cameras for trophy pics.

[SuperHornet]

Next to positive it was Delta. As soon as they confirmed i was a boots on the ground op I figured that's who it was.

Except they've confirmed it was Navy SEALs. Sucks for the Army....

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw those posts. The first two groups that popped in my head were the SEALS and Marine Force Recon. Besides, given President Obama's statement that CIA was running the show, it could have been anybody, even a mixed group of elite special operations folk. I'm sick of this Army-centric trash.

[Baldy]

local fox anchor: Obama tells nation & world President Obama is dead.

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MSNBC "reporter" tweeted that Obama was killed.

Typo: MSNBC correspondent accidentally reports on Twitter that ‘Obama’ killed

[SuperHornet]

Anyone wanna hazard a guess at another important event that took place on 01 MAY in another amazing year?

[UNHWildCats]

bin laden has been burried at sea.

[UNHWildCats]

Anyone wanna hazard a guess at another important event that took place on 01 MAY in another amazing year?

in 1945 it was announced on May 1 that Hitler was dead, he died the prior day.

[∞∞∞]

bin laden has been burried at sea.

He's probably a pirate too. What a rebel.

[UNHWildCats]

NYPA has upped security on bridges and tunnels within New York City.

[CID1990]

Except they've confirmed it was Navy SEALs. Sucks for the Army....

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw those posts. The first two groups that popped in my head were the SEALS and Marine Force Recon. Besides, given President Obama's statement that CIA was running the show, it could have been anybody, even a mixed group of elite special operations folk. I'm sick of this Army-centric trash.

Yeah I just saw that they confirmed it was the SEALS. That's even better, since most of those guys aren't under much cover. Maybe we'll actually get to hear from them at some point (which we wouldn't if it was Delta).

[UNHWildCats]

On April 29, Obama approved an operation to kill bin Laden. It was a mission that required surgical accuracy, even more precision than could be delivered by the government's sophisticated Predator drones. To execute it, Obama tapped a small contingent of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six and put them under the command of CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose analysts monitored the compound from afar.

Panetta was directly in charge of the team, a U.S. official said, and his conference room was transformed into a command center.

[CitadelGrad]

Interesting side note. Obama's compound is only about 200 meters from the Pakistan Military Academy. In November of 2010, Gen. Petraeus visited the Pakistan Military Academy. His car must have driven right by bin Laden's compound. The intelligence community has had a pretty good idea where bin Laden was since August of 2010. Petraeus must have known what he was looking at when he drove by the bin Laden compound. I'm sure he had some CIA guys with him doing a little recon on that trip.

Petraeus at the Pakistan Military Academy in November 2010.

[CID1990]

All this hoopla aside, I really hope that the administration has a plan for verifying the death to the American public. Seriously I hope they don't play this like the birth certificate thing. Within a week Expandspanos and the rest of the tinfoil hat brigades are going to be on here and elsewhere talking about how this was just a political ploy by an embattled president.

Let's see some pics, too. I really want to see the guy dead. (Something funny about that one pic that has been circulating)

[Gil Dobie]

bin laden has been burried at sea.

Why is following a religion so important for our government, aka burial within a day. This guy was a disgrace to his own religion.

[93henfan]

Btw, I did an image search for "Bin Laden dead" last night right after I heard the news and that same pic came up, dated 2009. I'm 99.9% sure it's fake.

EDIT: Did the search again today and the pic is everywhere. Who knows? Now I'm only 66.67% sure it's fake.

[93henfan]

I'll have to go ahead and disagree with the decision of burial at sea, unless the CIA has put together a very convincing media piece showing the body being handled. People want tangible proof. Bringing the body to the US and establishing a ton of witnesses would have been the better move, IMHO. Fuck Islamic tradition.

As mentioned previously, I see the wackadoodle element of the right jumping all over this. Those people are so stupid and so numerous that they can convince themselves of anything.

[BDKJMU]

Would have happened a long time ago if the rube that was in office wasn't so worried about getting Osama's family out of the country and invading the only secular country in the mid east with no nukes because his diddy was punked.

Yeah it would have happened a long time ago if that rube in office Clinton had not one turned down the Sudanese offer to hand over Bin Laden and then later deny an airstrike on a compound Bin Laden was positively IDed by assets on the ground because Clinton was worried about a few civilian casualties. And you want to pin all the blame on Bush

Iraq a secular nation?

[T-Dog]

[93henfan]

FYI on the mugshot. Actual gunshot wound was to side of head, so earlier pic is likely fake:

(CNN) -- DNA matching is under way on samples from the body of slain terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, a U.S. government official told CNN on Monday.

There are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual who is not unrecognizable as bin Laden, the official said.

No decision has yet been made on whether to release the photographs and if so, when and how...

[mrklean]

Except they've confirmed it was Navy SEALs. Sucks for the Army....

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw those posts. The first two groups that popped in my head were the SEALS and Marine Force Recon. Besides, given President Obama's statement that CIA was running the show, it could have been anybody, even a mixed group of elite special operations folk. I'm sick of this Army-centric trash.

Force Recon is not part of U.S. Special Ops!!!! Anyway, great jobs by the SEALS......

[mrklean]

[kalm]

Interesting side note. Obama's compound is only about 200 meters from the Pakistan Military Academy. In November of 2010, Gen. Petraeus visited the Pakistan Military Academy. His car must have driven right by bin Laden's compound. The intelligence community has had a pretty good idea where bin Laden was since August of 2010. Petraeus must have known what he was looking at when he drove by the bin Laden compound. I'm sure he had some CIA guys with him doing a little recon on that trip.

Easy mistake to make, and when I first read the thread title I thought it said "Biden is Dead."

Osama Bin Laden

Obama Biden

[T-Dog]

Pics of campuses across the country including ASU.

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[BDKJMU]

Great news (even though Barry, who doesn't deserve it, will get a bump in the polls).

He absolutely deserves a bump in the polls. Carter was criticized for a failed Iran hostage rescue attempt, Clinton was criticized because he supposedly could have have Bin Laden but let him get away; Obama gave the order for an operation in Pakistan and now Bin Laden is dead.

Give credit where it's due. If this mission had failed Obama and the U.S. would have been embarrased and there would be lots of people on here blasting Obama because of it.

Sometimes people should try being an American first and a Democrat or Republican second.

This.

And there is the post of the year, ladies and gentlemen.

Obviously for a lot of you donks.

[kalm]

He absolutely deserves a bump in the polls. Carter was criticized for a failed Iran hostage rescue attempt, Clinton was criticized because he supposedly could have have Bin Laden but let him get away; Obama gave the order for an operation in Pakistan and now Bin Laden is dead.

Give credit where it's due. If this mission had failed Obama and the U.S. would have been embarrased and there would be lots of people on here blasting Obama because of it.

Sometimes people should try being an American first and a Democrat or Republican second.

This.

And there is the post of the year, ladies and gentlemen.

Obviously for a lot of you donks.

I rooted for Bush.

[89Hen]

That same info was then givn by CNN, ABC, BBC, etc... Yet you didn't call them out. Take you mouth if the liberal dick for two seconds would you? You have the time. It's not like you work, or are even looking for work

well sorry that I aint watching every news orginzation at the same time. I knew FOX said it happened a week ago and that CNN didnt say that... what others said I dont know.

Libs hate Fox, but it's the one they choose to watch.