Bin Laden

ALang · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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!

sphelps · #7 05-02-2011, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Slick Fork

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

Probably not since most evidence actually supports his death several years ago, shortly after 911. Honestly if you really buy into all this you're only believing what is broadcast on American news and not looking into other reputable sources which actually show evidence supporting these so called theories.