Bin Laden Dead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HdUZsWpHQ&feature=player_embedded

I randomly googled 'Osama Bin Laden' before I went to bed last night, just to see if they were any closer to finding him. I wake up this morning and he's dead. Biggest WTF moment ever.

plate of shrimp

seemed like most of the educated guesses were in that direction. living in a remote mountainous area on dialysis, doubts over the authenticity of later tapes, etc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/opinion/the-death-of-bin-ladenism.html

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Well, that was 2002, but point take. I don't know, personally I'm not at all surprised that he had relatively quite good conditions and medical aid probably. The man had made some friends for life, surely.

that fox news guy's moustache is the real story

I think it's great that they got him, but it's gonna be hard to forget Geraldo's breaking news report on this in which he started laughing hysterically, could not form a single coherant sentence, and referred to Osama as "Obama" a couple times; I've never seen a guy get a bigger newsboner

I bored some friends at length on bin Laden's likely death one evening back in 2004, next morning I wake up and he'd issued the tape condemning Bush & Kerry

Ugh. Roy Edroso on the rightbloggers.

i had my doubts abt his health after the videos stopped coming, i mean he can organise 9/11 but not get anyone to pop down to the karachi branch of dixons for a new camcorder?

Matos tipped me off to this, from Jason King:

The craziest moment of a crazy night comes from Nicki Minaj. RT @harryallen: RT @NlCKIMllNAJ: Obama found Bin Laden! Now what would be challenging is Finding a @LilKim song on the radio. #MissionImpossible

she's right you know

daaaaamn nicki

xp yeah this is pretty much gonna bring out the worst of the internet, I've already started purging fb friends over this, people are already posting shit like "guess what america? the world is going to be the same tomorrow as it was today" and "well we spent billions of dollars, but we got the guy with the funny name. congrats america"

I keep seeing people snickering about Fox News' spelling of "Usama". They've been spelling it that way for years, though. I don't know why.

probably to keep their fat-fingered interns from typing "Obama" by mistake

tbh I remember it spelled "Usama" when I first heard the name in the Clinton years.

Usama (D)

lol

USA is a MONSTA

the preference for "usama" over "osama" seems to be a pretty consistently right-wing thing--i remember seeing it a lot in reference to the meme that ollie north had warned clinton about bin laden (& therefore 9/11 is clinton's fault)

so this is proof that if you build a house with massive security walls, gates, and no phone/internet access anywhere in the world, it will eventually raise suspicion.

Usama (D)

*dying*

you'd have to think it has something to do with our current president's last name

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/obl050211/s_b13_RTR2LVRD.jpg

No, they were spelling it that way on 9/11/01

any reaction from Reagan yet?

wikipedia sez "Most American government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin" [...] The spelling with "o" and "e" [in bin Laden] comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time."

xxp i don't remember that, I thought until recently it always had an "O"

LOL at the idea it was spelled that way to avoid confusion. "Oh, Usama? I thought you said Osama! My bad. We let Usama go."

ummmm the media has a history of doing things like that

"one man was holding up a t-shirt that said, Thank You President Bush."

Misread this as Osama:
"One man was holed up in a t-shir that said, Thank You President Bush."

also proof that no one, given the resources, wants to spend 10 years living in caves

ya, even hardcore terrorists love suburban sprawl

ESPECIALLY hardcore terrorists amirite?

There was fringey but perceptible speculation on "Was That Hitler's Body?" well into the '70s, so this is more than made to order for plenty o' that.

They hate us for our suburbs.

These frigging people.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ-haRKUDZ8/Tb4sCOZ6ZnI/AAAAAAAAHjo/-uQkHFbMRXg/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-05-01%2Bat%2B10.58.40%2BPM.png

Would make sense if they'd hate you for

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SvsaNpaytxU/TFd37a9DKlI/AAAAAAAAI2Y/qtP_uB-aEuk/s1600/Arcade-Fire-The-Suburbs.png

xp

tbh the he was 'living in a dope secret mansion' aspect made me happier about this than I'd otherwise be...if we just threw a grenade in his cave or whatever it would be more 'eh whatever'

Let's see, here are all former Pres. Bush's notable interactions vis a vis Osama bin Laden:

1. Failed to react to intelligence advisory regarding his wish to attack the US.
2. Failed to capture him in Afghanistan when it was remotely possible to do so.

THANKS, DUBYA!

yeah that whole thing is kind of sickening

Obama even credited Bush, and secondly why does it really matter which president ultimately "took him out"

it matters if the black Democrat did it

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

If Bush had taken out Osama, than Obama never would have caught him. So Bush gets the bizarro-world assist.

If Bush had taken out Osama, it would have been sometime in the 80s and it would have been to a steakhouse

haha

"do u liek baseball"

At least from now on the absurd right wing "Obama is soft on terror" meme can now be met with this news.

and it wouldn't have been quite so teal and orange xp