Bin Laden

viperfish · #1 05-02-2011, 05:05 PM

Bin Laden was only a figurehead for Al Qaeda, with him gone they'll appoint another leader who will have a bigger axe to grind because he will have to prove himself. The amount of destruction and threats that have been attributed to the Al Qaeda have not been the work of one man, and the US in all their ignorance would have to be fools to think this is over because Osama is gone.

ALang · #2 05-02-2011, 05:43 PM

I really don't think that anyone really is naive enough to think that with Bin Laden gone, so goes the terrorists. They, and we, are celebrating his demise is largely due to the fact that he ordered the 9-11 murder of thousands of innocents. So that chapter has a bit of a closure.

Now, who know what idiot will head this sorry bunch!

sgreen · #3 05-02-2011, 05:58 PM

Yes there will be someone else that will step up and take over Al Qaeda. Terriorists will always be out there, But it is a small closure on the man that supposedly called the shots on 911.

reef-keeper · #4 05-02-2011, 06:09 PM

If he is dead way to go but some real proof would be nice, not just someone saying that they got him.
that was a real fast burial!

Slick Fork · #5 05-02-2011, 06:20 PM

I was surprised to read that this was a locate and kill operation as opposed to a locate and capture. I would have thought the US gov't would have been very interested in a very public trial and execution/lifetime incarceration.

I don't think bringing the body back to the states and parading it around Washington DC would have provided any more proof than what they already have. I can see them not wanting a physical grave for fundamentalists to turn into a shrine or monument and dumping the body at sea solves that problem.

phi delt reefer · #6 05-02-2011, 06:30 PM

i dont think capture was an option. There was a firefight from what i was reading so i doubt Bin Laden would have surrerrendered. Also had they captured him and extracted him the outlash from other terrorists would have been huge (though killing him isnt much better) - they would have proabably taken a few high value targets hostage and asked for an exchange.

I would like to see some better proof though - the whole execution of this leaves a lot of questions. Maybe they did capture him or still have his body but said they disposed of it to prevent a hostage exchange situation. No less than a 100 conspiracy theories will come of this, lol.

Slick Fork · #7 05-02-2011, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by phi delt reefer

i dont think capture was an option. There was a firefight from what i was reading so i doubt Bin Laden would have surrerrendered. Also had they captured him and extracted him the outlash from other terrorists would have been huge (though killing him isnt much better) - they would have proabably taken a few high value targets hostage and asked for an exchange.

I would like to see some better proof though - the whole execution of this leaves a lot of questions. Maybe they did capture him or still have his body but said they disposed of it to prevent a hostage exchange situation. No less than a 100 conspiracy theories will come of this, lol.

Yeah, I'm sure that the conspiracy theorists will be working over time now!