Bin Laden Dead?

first

lol

http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

MJ GONE / OUR NIGGA DEAD

i feel so much safer

guess i need to go figure out what channel cnn is

Don't know what difference it makes now, he was not the cause of 9/11, nor the reason Bush put us at war, but still...it's significant given he has been a hunted man for a decade.

x-post It's on like every channel right now.

MJ GONE / OUR NIGGA DEAD

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 1, 2011 10:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

CNN and others are reporting it. Wolf Blitzer is babbling about it with little information. President Obama is going to speak about it.

mostly i'm just pissed that this is preemepting msnbc's airing of "sex slaves: uk"

wait hasn't the statute of limitations passed?

x-post - lol

wolf blitzer + john king making sure you know that you will always, always, always remember the moment you heard the words "osama bin laden is dead"

these guys are the stupidest assholes on the face of the earth imo

Obama hits the airwaves in 1/2 hour

aero otm

I had to change the channel because it depressed me that I would remember that I was watching Wolf Blitzer.

i will remember that daniel, esq told me on ilx -- where the elite gets its news

o well, miss u big guy

Osama Bin Laden was completely responsible for 9/11.
WE WON

good night, not-so-funny man

this is the death of swag

wolf blitzer + john king making sure you know that you will always, always, always remember the moment you heard the words "osama bin laden is dead"

i was eating a bowl of cereal, lamenting my life...now i'm eating a bowl of cereal and celebrating america

my ipad told me
good.

i was watching a season 4 mad men episode and refreshing ilx

I'm not trying to be funny. I'm pissed off.
Who knows what sorts of disinformation will continue to spread and how many people will eat it whole

let's take a moment to think of the budding comedy writer who was controlling his fake twitter account -- what will become of his career aspirations?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsj5Neo11qdmmiqo1_500.gif

finally, something that will shut Trump up

maybe

emergency gif

Obama to allow Trump inspect the alleged body at noon tomorrow

maybe u should concentrate on yr bro murdoch, pato

http://files.myopera.com/bcdc/albums/35555/osama%20bin%20laden%20(bert%20is%20evil)_jpg.jpg

If David Gregory says "breathtaking" one more time I want to see some actual hyperventilation.

^^ YES. RIGHT ON.

can i get an ilx 2011 death pool update

obama right now

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/reddfoxx724/obama.gif

Alex Jones
CIA Asset Bin Laden 'killed'.
about a minute ago · 755 · Like ·

Although I kind of dug David Gregory's whole flashlight-under-the-chin ghost-story delivery.

[Approved commenter] mypalfish

I'd rather have Bin Laden hiding for many more years than have Obama get the credit...and guaranteed re-election. How could Bush fail for 8 years and Obama gets him in just a few? Ugh.

Now at the Phillies/Mets game, the fans are chanting USA and OBAMA. This is the worst possible news.

x-post lol yes re: gregory

omg thread's too fast

no one had bin laden!

Dead Pool 2011

i will always remember. i was at an anime convention, watching "full metal panic" in a dark conference room when i got bored and opened twitter on my iPhone.

RIP BIG MAN

I hope Obama just comes out and goes 'WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE HOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE???'

^^winner xp

^Seconded

@estekella - ROFFLES and OTM (pardon the pun).

Man I wish he'd bring Biden out with him for the statement. We need some giddy.

smoke something, bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvzWH9O4as

..."Shot in the head". N-I-C-E.

the USSR was not really right-wing at all in any meaningful way -- they didn't support existing hierarchies, they wiped them out en mass

I was gonna say this very thing but Morbz kiboshed it... but yeah the USSR in a way was beyond ideology together. It was just gangsters and the naked exercise of power, with a thin veneer of "leftist" rhetoric.

xp

even if you get into the 'state capitalist' critiques of the USSR, right wing isn't the right term

but hey, Morbs wasn't wrong on the first usage. If you want to use a random pejorative to denote hostility to civil rights and liberties, the Soviets are as good as any.

i give the prez a ton of credit for killing OSL, but i wouldn't consider my positions on foreign affairs or OSL to be traditional ilx-lib opinion

saying that the US will likely resemble the USSR in 40 (10?) years does not mean it will be "Communist,"

USSR didn't have corporations so um no

it's just such an outlier though - warrantless wiretapping and arrest is scary because it can happen to anybody and on a large scale. teams of navy seals busting down our doors or drone strikes on us citizens not so much

I don't think OBL getting whacked is actually the point here - the secrecy on something like this, something so popular around the world that it was celebrated, is representative of the Obama White House's general hostility to openness and furtherance of Bush-era civil liberties abuses

"compromising secret systems and techniques used by the CIA and the military" - gee, can't believe phrases like this get a strict civil libertarian like GG het up

by any definition "right wing" denotes embrace of property, tradition, and at its cleverest an appropriation of leftist discourse to hide reactionary tendencies (e.g. Reagan quoting Thomas Paine again and again). The USSR um didn't do any of this.

I don't think OBL getting whacked is actually the point here - the secrecy on something like this, something so popular around the world that it was celebrated, is representative of the Obama White House's general hostility to openness and furtherance of Bush-era civil liberties abuses

otm

corporations are our Central Committee, Shakes

well again what are they being secretive about in this particular case...? seems like tons of details leaked

don't we have more important things to be doing, like clamoring for the release of j edgar's fbi files?

Last August, The New Yorker published what it purported to be a comprehensive account of the raid, based on mostly anonymous White House claims, that made Barack Obama look like a mix of Superman, Rambo and Clint Eastwood

why does GG have to do this? he has to add his extra layer of sweaty bullshit to everything. yes, the NYer account read like an airport novel, yes, it was thinly and anonymously sourced, but it made Barack Obama look like a dude in an office saying "ok let's do it". it had a boner for the SEALs, sure.

maybe the obl stash will be unsealed in 50 years like the JFK file

ah the "sooooo not important" card

xxp

there's an entire Greenwald column linked here about what's they're being secretive about, and 2/3 of it isn't actually on OBL

yeah, the late great's look here is worse than Morbs'

Dismissing concerns about the security state with a handwave and a WHOOOOO CARES is a half-step from "if you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about"

i'm not saying that. i'm just saying i'm a lot more troubled by things like knowing the criteria for airport watch lists or what exactly people in fuantanamo are charged with than knowing the details of the obl raid

fight the real enemy etc

On March 14th, Obama called his national-security advisers into the White House Situation Room and reviewed a spreadsheet listing possible courses of action against the Abbottabad compound. Most were variations of either a JSOC raid or an airstrike. Some versions included coöperating with the Pakistani military; some did not. Obama decided against informing or working with Pakistan. “There was a real lack of confidence that the Pakistanis could keep this secret for more than a nanosecond,” a senior adviser to the President told me. At the end of the meeting, Obama instructed McRaven to proceed with planning the raid.

superman, rambo and clint must've been having a pretty slow week when the NYer decided to base its portrayal of obama on them.

"I trust Obama not to use the powers he just signed into law (in spite of neverending evidence), and surely they will be repealed before a Mormon dog-roofer possesses them."

morbs, your goal-post shifting, unwillingness to engage with those engaging with you, obtuseness, etc is legendary but today's apparently a banner day.

o i c

oh idk, there's a lot about the BL raid that's nasty, and while i'm wearily jaded about its use politically, that's pretty nasty too.

I am sure glad killing OBL at least put an end to all that airport security Terror Theatre, I'll give ya that!

t/f: extralegal black hits are bad but if anyone on earth deserved one it's osama bin laden

the trouble is the capability to do the thing doesn't exist in a vacuum; OBL might have been 'exceptional' as a person but the act of killing him turns out not to be

tbh it said more about the state of things re: Pakistan/US than anything

you know pre-9/11 i had an opportunity to work at lawrence livermore national lab on a naval oceanography environmental remediation project that was yanked because they didn't think it was worth the effort to try to get a security clearance for a nationalized citizen who was born in iran

where was the aclu on that day is what i wanna know

uh...

true story! (joeks bruv)

:(

oh man did i just kill the thread??

:-(

nah

The fact is, OBL was in a sovereign nation that is nominally an ally, but an absolutely unreliable and often hostile one. That also meant that taking the legal path, by formally sharing info with the Pakistani government, obtaining its permission and planning a joint operation, with OBL taken into their custody until extradition could be arranged, was more or less a doomed option. Once legality is taken off the table, it is entirely off the table.

My reaction to the whole thing is still kind of mouth-hanging-open awe in that it was "Hey, sorry Pakistan but we found Osama hiding in your country so we sent an elite kill squad in. Uh, what is up with him being in your country anyway? Kind of weird, hope you don't mind. Love, US"

viva

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/05/man-who-claims-he-found-bin-ladens-body-doesnt-have-bin-ladens-body/51818/

Bin Laden is the new Titanic

Unless they somehow tagged the body or container with a locator beacon or something, no one is ever finding that.

Brian Williams, on bended knee in the Situation Room.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/03/nbc_news_top_hagiographer/

RIP

Conspiracy theorists just got a new tank of high-octane...

Newly released emails say no sailors watched bin Laden’s burial at sea after Navy SEAL raid

WASHINGTON — Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.

The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader’s death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.

http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?click=pp

guy has no healthcare

isn't that against the law now

read the memo, Shakey Mo.

I meant not having healthcare. somebody tax that guy!

Government don't care shocker!

Government don't health care shocker!

shakey otm

Conspiracy thoughts: this guy sold his story to Hollywood (a breach of govt contract) and so the govt says "peace, good luck".

Happy almost anniversary.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/30/osama-bin-laden-death-white-house-oral-history-484793

10 years after the operation against Osama bin Laden, President @BarackObama and Admiral Bill McRaven sat down to reflect on the thousands of people who made that mission possible—and what that meant to the families of the victims of Sept. 11. pic.twitter.com/Mhy7cSDmpz

— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) April 30, 2021

finally, something that will shut Trump up

maybe

― I've seen it in your eyes and I've read it in blogs (King Boy Pato), Sunday, May 1, 2011

Oh those starry-eyed days.