Bin Laden Dead?

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_Cats

Warriors is a series of children's fiction novels published by HarperCollins and written by Erin Hunter, a pseudonym used by authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland; the plot is developed by editor Victoria Holmes.[2] The series follows the adventures of four Clans of wild cats in their forest homes.

i see, thread over

The cover of this week's international edition of the Telegraph:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/292500378.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1304758592&Signature=Z5%2BX5Si0WoEfqwPWvfxA2BL%2FS4M%3D

haha can't believe that wasn't here sooner, so amazing

of course

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Military-dog-Navy-SEAL-Team-6/208342825865273

Telegraph cover not loading for me, lemme check

A correction on one of the troubling facets(to me) of the initial report(s) on the military dogs, that of the removal of the dog's teeth for titanium replacements. Turns out its one of the many initial media reports of a world event that gets thing wrong:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/no-navy-seal-dogs-dont-have-titanium-teeth/

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/05/4861156546_623df7770d_z.jpg

No, Navy SEAL Dogs Don’t Have Titanium Teeth

By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
May 5, 2011 |
5:51 pm |
Categories: Terrorists, Guerillas, Pirates

Military dogs are awe-inspiring creatures, especially when attached to elite troops like the Navy SEALs. All day, the media have been in a frenzy over the fact that a military dog accompanied SEAL Team 6 on its mission to wax Osama bin Laden.

But let’s kill a misleading meme before it spreads further: Navy SEAL dogs don’t have titanium teeth.

A piece in The Daily took a good, detailed sniff around the German shepherds and Belgian Malinois that accompany special operations forces on patrol. But overshadowing all the cool radios and cameras strapped to the dogs is the claim that their “razor-sharp teeth are made of titanium,” at a cost of $2,000 per chomper. Getting bit by them “is like being stabbed four times at once with a bone crusher,” one dog trainer told The Daily. To quote enhanced-grille expert Pall Wall, that got the internet going nuts.

There’s one problem. If the dogs do have Kanye teeth, it’s a sign something’s wrong with them.

“It would not be possible for them to use titanium teeth to make them even more aggressive,” says Jeff Franklin, owner of Cobra Canine in Virginia Beach. “They’re not as stable as a regular tooth would be, and they’re much more likely to come out” during a biting.

The only reason to have titanium teeth? Medical reasons, he says, like “if a dog breaks a tooth … it’s the same as a crown for a human.”

Franklin should know. Cobra Canine got a $550,000 contract in April from the U.S. Special Operations Command to train military working dogs for Naval Special Warfare Group 2. (He says it’s been “three years” since he’s worked with the very secretive “DevGru,” or Team 6.) That’s a re-up from the past two years, when he’s had contracts for dog training with the command that paid out $470,000 each.

Indeed, the command’s requirements for dog teeth don’t seem to account for the circumstances that would lead to grille enhancements. “All four canine teeth must be present and must not be weakened by notching, enamel hyperplasia or abnormal, excessive wear,” it reads.

In other words, if for some reason you see a SEAL dog with light glistening from its titanium teeth, your proper reaction is pity for the creature. “It’s a detriment, not a help,” Franklin says. On the other hand, if you’re coming into close contact with the jaws of a SEAL’s dog, you’re in for a lot of trouble from his very deadly master.

(Despite the many thousands of ethical issues in this mission, the dog thing is what sticks in my head. I care about animals; humans can fuck right off.)

To quote enhanced-grille expert Pall Wall, that got the internet going nuts.

lolll

watching bin laden watching himself on al jazeera

chomsky's take:

http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/

party pooper

My reaction to Chomsky: that is such shit.

It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”

gypsyschmitt does have a certain ring to it.

Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden

I mean, you could just blockquote the whole thing.

certainly he sweems unaware half the country wd be celebrating a hit on W

Wait, he's positing an Iraqi hit on W? Doesn't he mean AQ lashing out at, I dunno, Laos?

gawd

http://www.igp-web.com/laois/lmap-Laois.jpg

who let captainlorax write for guernica

Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s

Unchallopsly

yeah the "uncontroversally" is kinda...disingenuous to say the least

bush pretty much is worse than bin laden tho

http://www.gamebanana.com/maps/156014

aaaaaand the CS mods are out

not a mod, a map.

fy maps suck.

though cs or de hardly applicable here i guess. although both sides being armed also not accurate. whatevs.

map then.

still, took longer for that to hit than i'd expected

yeah, true. on september 11th i remember a dude on with the name "osama bin lagging".

I remember hearing about the CS mods/maps like either that day or the next

the last decade summarized:

It's a pity the towers weren't filled with the Clinton & Bush families, but 3000 dead ten years ago isn't too bad of a bloody nose for an empire that unstintingly supports Zionists maniacs.

TA DA!

this guy

Is Chomsky right about the lack of evidence implicating bin Laden?

let ye who call thyselves challopsists acknowledge thy master

Morbs Partiers' perennial "Draft Chomsky 20xx"/"Chomsky, that Puppet?!" infighting would be so tedious..

plz I know no one less homicidal than Bam Pimp will ever be prez, y do u think ive given up?

An admitted fan of the herb, Osama may have been stoned as part of his pain management program since there was a marijuana patch outside in the allotment and, like any world star in retirement, Osama liked to smoke a lot of weed and made DVDs of important speeches which stacked up forlornly on the bookshelf next to the bottles of pills and the Koran, hoping to get picked up by Al Jazeera or HBO. How his lieutenants must have yearned for his summary martyrdom as they received his importunate bulletins that they derail a train during Obama’s State of the Union and other madcap schemes.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05062011.html

oroborbius: a snake that summarizes its own tail