Bin Laden Dead?

how many of these people hit the ground covered in dog piss

not really sure how much of a fuck the navy seals should give about the superstitions of people they're about to mercilessly gun down

http://www.olive-drab.com/gallery/photos/patton_willie_and_papers_sm.jpg

Poor Willie

http://www.pattonhq.com/willie.html

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2542/3793065982_96fd12be38.jpg

http://www.pattonhq.com/willie/dogwag.gif

READY FOR ENHANCED INTERROGATION

http://www.dogmine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/crazy-dog.jpg

not really sure how much of a fuck the navy seals should give about the superstitions of people they're about to mercilessly gun down

― kind of like Madonna and the gays (history mayne), Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:57 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agreed

Werent the combat dogs in Vietnam left over there? they couldnt bring them back?

What did you think about the Daily News' headline, "Rot in Hell"?

I wasn't thrilled by it because bin Laden couldn't see those three words.

But didn't you agree with the sentiment?

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door. I thought of all those people--the ones who jumped out of windows, the firemen, people running down the jammed hallways trying to get out. I thought more of them--but I'm glad they got bin Laden. I have no sympathy whatsoever for him--he was a tall rich kid who thought God talked to him. He used money he'd never earned to kill people and called it a holy mission.

Isn't that what The Deer Hunter's about?

that's pete hamill btw

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/pete-hamill-on-9-11-jihads-and-why-bin-ladens-death-cant-bring-closure/238406/1/

i thought that was what chrlie sheen's stage show was gonna be about

In March, Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.) held hearings on Capitol Hill about Islamic faith and whether it was generating radical Islamists who become terrorists. Did you support his inquiry?

No. I thought the hearings were preposterous. Look, the most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence. In places such as Indiana, the Klan had more members than they did in Alabama. But even in those days, nobody suggested having an investigation of Christian churches because the vast majority of the guys with the hoods were Christians. I can't find anybody in the history of our country who ever had Congressional hearings into the Christian church as an instigator of violence. Peter King is a nice fellow, but he was badly served by his staff when he came up with that dumbbell idea.

oh that is awesome

"badly served by his staff" is such a hardbody zing

They had no idea how or program to rehabilitate the dogs from Vietnam afterwards, so they were destroyed. Read some interviews with the K9 guys and they're emotionally wrecked about it to this day.

Fortunately, things got better.

roo ront ro ran, roo rerrent rere

ROR

Aw, great great Hamill interview, that

Actually, sorry to apply lyfe to this, but my Asian and Somali neighbours are startled by dogs - I walk a whippet for my friend twice a week and if I'm walking him when school's just let out, I'm aware that the mums and small kids from Muslim families will jump back from even the smallest puppy. Mitigating circumstances: lots of numpty tracksuit guys and their Staffie/Bull Terrier/Mastiff/insert jowly drooly breed here. These guys kind of profile as bigots and their pets don't make a great intro to PUPPY for little kids or their parents who don't keep pets, but a 13-year-old attention-whore whippet with help-me eyes that enjoys being met with DOGGIE! by the other kids is not the dog to be frightened by.

Because they are my neighbours and I know them, I explain that this dog's nice and offer the 'petting zoo' experience and/or just try to look like a more friendly person if they are further away.

Just dont ask hammill about the Brooklyn Dodgers and their departure from New York. He makes a fool out of himself on that topic.

Bummed about the Vietnam dogs.

Bill, he only said he loves seeing the take-over?

Anyway, I know nothing about baseball so I'm not hindered by that

bin laden liked baseball ;_;

al-Qaeda means "the baseball" in Arabic.

FWIW, my wife used to live in Pakistan, and they had tons of trouble with their guards abusing their dog (and other dogs, too). Don't know how isolated that kind of stuff is, though I'd think twice about keeping a pet pig.

Bill, he only said he loves seeing the take-over?

^no, he has this weepy nostalgic thing about how the owners at the time (late '50s) left Brooklyn purely out of greed for the greener pastures of California. He says it was some sort of blow to the heart of Brooklyn or something stupid like that and he hates the family that owned the team for ripping the heart out of his hometown. The facts show something else. 1) the Dodgers were forced out of town by the city and 2) the Dodgers had terrible attendance, nobody really gave a fuck. So he's totally full of shit.

Ok, but he didn't say that in the interview linked above, which was what I was on about. (this is the only quote about it in there: "Oh, I love it. I'm the Brooklyn Dodger fan who will never forgive and never forget. There are few of us left. And the idea that this guy would steal the name of a great Irish-American writer—that's why penitentiaries exist."

"Peter King is a nice fellow"

this is more preposterous than any Dodger stuff

nice to have a poison with

i'm wondering if that "nice fellow" was delivered with a dose of something else.

arsenic iirc

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains, but U.S. officials say they have no recent intelligence indicating such a plot is active.

A Homeland Security intelligence warning sent to law enforcement officials around the country says as that of February 2010, the terror organization was considering tampering with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a valley or a bridge. The warning was obtained by The Associated Press and marked for official use only.

This information appears to be the first widely circulated intelligence pulled from the May 1 raid on bin Laden's secret compound. After killing bin Laden, Navy SEALs took computers, DVDs and documents from his house.

Next it would have to be a freeway overpass.

oh god welp there goes our dreams for high speed rail

Sabotage during a railway worker strike in France

"I love that this historic thread will forever be remembered as being started by ILX user Wiggywoo
― br8080 (dayo), Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:28 PM (4 days ago)"

"i keep singing wiggywoo to the tune of the Pazant Bros song sampled in Main Source's "Lookin At The Front Door"
WIGGY WOOO WOOO WOOOOOOO
― bananas foster wallace (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 2, 2011 12:20 AM (3 days ago)"

Love, love, love these.

this really has been one of the best threads this year; scuba-chihuahua clinched it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WM8cGJQdlM&feature=related

Whole buncha vids on YT about stray dogs and the U.S. military trying to save them in Iraq. Some of them will make you cry.

http://m.kotaku.com//5799114/abottabad-gamer-likens-bin-laden-raid-to-call-of-duty-town-to-smallville

Local Pakistani gamer/metalhead tries to tell the world about his town, and how that night was straight out of Call Of Duty

Taliban love Counterstrike, but they "always play as the terrorists"

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/1461435194_c187609f59_z.jpg

sup

finally, a response from the jazz world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acjlgrC2yjk

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/04/war_dog

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/110504_wardogs5.jpg

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/110504_wardogs3.jpg

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/110504_Fin96160586b.jpg

In October 2010, the Pentagon announced that after six years and $19 billion spent in the attempt to build the ultimate bomb detector technology, dogs were still the most accurate sniffers around. The rate of detection with the Pentagon's fanciest equipment -- drones and aerial detectors -- was a 50 percent success rate, but when a dog was involved it rose 30 percent.

http://www.slate.com/id/2293034/

Canine Commando
Why did the military send a dog to help kill Bin Laden?
By Brian PalmerPosted Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 5:54 PM ET

thanks for that fp link!

from a page from that photo essay [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/04/war_dog?page=0,6]:

Not only are these dogs fierce assault weapons, they are loyal guardians. When Private First Class Colton Rusk was shot after his unit came under Taliban sniper fire during a routine patrol in Afghanistan, Rusk's bomb-sniffing dog, Eli, crawled on top of his body, attacking anyone -- including Rusk's fellow Marines -- who tried to come near him. Rusk did not survive the assault, but Eli was granted early retirement so he could live with Rusk's family.

can't wait for our World War III thread to be derailed by kitties.

Greenwald:

Once you embrace the bin Laden Exception, how does it stay confined to him? Isn't it necessarily the case that you're endorsing the right of the U.S. Government to treat any top-level Terrorists in similar fashion? Again, this isn't an argument that the bin Laden killing was illegal; it very well may have been legal, depending on the facts. But if we just cheer for this without caring about those facts, isn't it clear that we're endorsing a dangerous unfettered power -- one that runs afoul of multiple principles which opponents of the Bush/Cheney template have long defended?

http://www.salon.com/news/osama_bin_laden/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/05/06/bin_laden

I am looking forward to ww3 more now, knowing that it will be fought using warrior kitties

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fsm_actiekatten_shortfilms

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5457/irix7aheoriginal.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4562/cat3518tank1.th.jpg

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-your-cat-has-an-army1.jpg