Bin Laden Dead?

surprised the initial account didn't include "bin laden revealed his plans for world domination to the navy seals shortly before they escaped his booby-trapped lair"

i hope they don't take out william sadler next~!

any stories about the actual action are straight up last scene in Angels With Dirty Faces biz imo

i mean its obviously e3's "B"--but the fact that the white house is already, not 48 hours after the announcement, scrambling to cover its ass about the story? shouldnt that indicate that the forces at play here arent nearly as sophisticated and mysterious as theyve been implied to be?

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I think the news media's blind eagerness to present bin Laden in cartoon-villain dimensions

haha what

the guy was hard to exaggerate

max otm obv

whether shield means bin laden was a viking in his dreams or just that he's really good at sleeping

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^ this post is awesome and totally impenetrable

any stories about the actual action are straight up last scene in Angels With Dirty Faces biz imo

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:31 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

^ this post is on point

http://in.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110502&t=2&i=402039372&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=img-2011-05-02T230618Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-567190-1

48 hours after the announcement? it's already legend in sheboygan.

xpssss

am0n is that a giant cake or

i dont think it had time to make it to sheboygan, my friend

"OK boys, let's go say a prayer for a guy who couldn't stick with the CIA when he had a good thing going"

Shootout was also preceded by a taunting monologue by Philip Seymour bin Laden.

Who am I to argue with a group of Navy SEALs about the best way to safely complete such an operation? If they said they did things by the book, sounds fine to me.

srsly hope that is enormous chocolate mousse bin laden

but were arguing at cross-purposes anyway. no one in this country--sheboygan least of all--would care if we just straight-up shot bin laden in the dome piece! so the fact that there appears to be some argument about whether or not he was resisting indicates that this isnt like a planned info release by the pentagon or whomever

aero, OTM re: Wiggum's vikingocity and the layers thereof vis-a-vis OBL.

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I think the news media's blind eagerness to present bin Laden in cartoon-villain dimensions

Cf. http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/05/modes-of-representation.html

i dont think anyone on this thread who is arguing is arguing with someone in this thread

max otm but im not sure who is off tm

i guess except the guy who wants us to appreciate the subtle ethical nuances of bin laden

xxp wait does this mean that Obama is going to appoint Parker & Stone to the Dept. of Defense?

i am arguing with steve shasta i think (?)

The strike team at Abbottabad retrieved 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices: disks, DVDs, and thumb drives, a U.S. intelligence official said.

In addition, the team retrieved written material, not further described, but in the past, U.S. forces have retrieved notebooks and address books that were helpful in locating other terrorists. The U.S. intelligence community is willingly releasing this materal, hoping that those who believe their names and personal data are on those devices will go to ground, thus reducing even further the terrorist threat.

however the media treated this (i dont have cable news) based entirely on that quote max posted it didnt sound like dude was describing it like a michael bay film to me but maybe i missed some important quotes there

The strike team at Abbottabad retrieved 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices: disks, DVDs, and thumb drives, a U.S. intelligence official said.

turns out the terrorists are kickass spider solitair players

bin Laden loved him some "Space Channel 5"

presumably they were smuggling in hard drives loaded with new tv shows, what with their compound not having television or internet access.

Osama actually was a big Battlestar Galactica fan

Imagine bin Laden being all "the new season of 'Dexter'? PRAISE ALLAH!"

He would like that one.

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fave hard drive joke so far was that it was "said to contain unfinished raps and FlipCam videos of the terrorist leader skateboarding around his compound"

actually I can't decide which would be more incongruous; bin Laden digging "SP5" or bin Laden digging "Samba de Amigo"

vids he planned to upload to worldstarhiphop

Hawkins: What's he saying?
Leary: Something about your mother.
[Hawkins lowers his gun and slightly alters his aim, hitting the terrorist directly in the forehead with a well-aimed shot]
Hawkins: NEVER talk about Mom...

Do we actually know the names of the people who shot him?

Chep Theodore Knollblazer Jr.

― Let me help you with your URL problems (blueski), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 4:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

belated YEAAAAAAAA-

Belated 'that must be from an automatic name generator for Martin Amis characters'.

here's what the media reported, obv based on what they were fed from pentagon and/or WH

Armed with an automatic weapon, the al-Qaeda leader's last act was to force his young bride to sacrifice her life as he tried to fire back at the US Navy Seals storming the compound.

Bin Laden was killed with a single shot to the head after being tracked down to a million-dollar compound just 35 miles from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where he is thought to have been living for six years.

The extraordinary details of his last stand were disclosed by the White House as the 13-year hunt for the world's most wanted man finally reached its bloody end.

and this is what the takeaway in sheboygan will be. it's not the 19th century. everybody knew what "happened" by monday morning. the small percentage of ppl who actually pay attention to the news will hear about the retraction, and the rest of them, well unfortunately you will be arguing with them at family barbecues for the next 5 years as they insist bin laden died in a hail of bullets behind his beautiful concubine-wife human shield while unloading his weapon on navy seals...

"Bin Laden was killed with a single shot to the head"

give or take 300 shots or so...

(i mean, i'm just speculating, but i'm guessing everyone in the room would want in on the action once they saw who they were shooting.)

The special forces involved in the attack work under the aegis of the Joint Special Operations Command, which does not routinely provide accurate public information about its activities or "secret warriors," according to National Journal's Marc Ambinder. He reported Monday:

Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That's the code.
The new "narrative" laid out by Tuesday was written by the Department of Defense, Carney said.
I don't imagine that many Americans will care whether bin Laden was armed or not when he resisted the individual who confronted him in Abbottabad. His "nature" was revealed to us long ago.

But the "narrative" of his death remains of significance to those who might seek to follow in his foot-steps. That's why its worth looking at these early reports with a skeptical eye.

How many casualties were there on the US side?

I am challopping that this hit was a "gimme"* courtesy of some level of Pakistan ISI/mil/gov cooperation, a culmination of 3-4 weeks ramped up power broker meetings between Petraeus/envoy diplos and various Pakistan military/intel chiefs. (*rather than the primary result of Bush/Obama interrogation and intel.)

Also, I'm suggesting that a lot of the facts that the US press has been given is fairy tale hawk fodder ($250M stealth helicopter "mechanicals", bin laden's "last stand", bizarrely contradictory details despite multiple video/photo documentation at scene).

xp just TRUTH

do you think these guys care about a press conference? retractions are for pussies!

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yeah e3 i just dont think its quite as sinister as all that. like the idea that the pentagon's plan all along was to feed the press a bullshit story and then retract it six hours later? so that sheboygan (which, again, like most of the country, couldnt possibly care less if osama used anyone as a human shield or was carrying a gun) would hear the human shield bit and then, being naturally incurious, not read anything else about the death? for... what purpose? i mean why bother? why bother retracting, for one thing?

oh wait i keep forgetting O and everyone where watching the whole thing. so i guess they didn't really get to take target practice on osama or anything...

i mean guys the pentagon is not that smart. they couldnt keep their shit together with pat tillman or jessica lynch, what makes them such public-relations badasses all of a sudden?

jihadist operatives hacked into the livefeed of the attack and are about to expose administration lies

I remember working one summer a few years ago picking up trash around the college of a conservative business college...from what I gathered the student apts. were mainly occupied by kids from the Netherlands for some reason; they were constantly burning chairs and couches. I'd drive out there monday morning to see the charred remains of some new piece of furniture.

They liked to throw jars of jam against walls too