Osama Bin Laden Dead
After nearly 10 years of searching US forces finally found and killed Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011) the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, top leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network, hero of the anti-American Muslim world population, and general thorn in the side of the US military.
US officials confirmed yesterday that Bin Laden, was killed during a raid by US forces on a mansion and compound in Pakistan yesterday where Bin Laden had been staying for an unspecified period of time.
President Barack Obama spoke to the nation last night and said that Osama bin Laden was killed by “a small team of Americans” during a raid on a safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. “After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body,” Obama said. No US personnel were killed during the operation. According to multiple sources, “senior US officials” have said the operation was conducted by US NAVY SEALs inserted by multiple helicopters, one of which crashed due to mechanical failure. At least 3 other people, including one of bin Laden’s sons, were also killed in the firefight.
Obama, the humble, took full credit for the kill, of course. Notice the use of “I” in pretty much every place he could use it. I kept waiting for him to say he called play by play instructions in while the hit was going down. I found it distasteful and slightly offensive that he would imply that it was only after he became President that our forces were directed to actually find Bin Laden…as if Bush never had the idea and we haven’t spent the last ten years looking for him. And then Obama implies that it was because of his leadership that we somehow managed to find Bin Laden. Listen, Mickey Mouse could be President right now and we still would have found Bin Laden in exactly the same way. Obama didn’t do anything to find Bin Laden that Bush didn’t do and he didn’t do anything that John McCain or any other President would have done.
My wife is the one who told me about the news and she lead by saying “Obama just got reelected.” She had a good point and one which I was inclined to agree with in the moments after learning about Bin Laden’s death. After some careful thought, however, I’ve decided his reelection might not be a foregone conclusion.
One thing that leads me to believe this is the groundswell of voices already calling for us to pull out and end the war. Thinking people know, of course, that the war doesn’t just end when one person dies…especially this war that probably wasn’t being led by Bin Laden in the first place. However, that won’t stop people from wishing an end to all of this and for Obama to bring our troops home. It’s very unlikely that Obama is capable of doing so or will do so. We’ll have to keep fighting and this could definitely hurt Obama in the long run. Someone like Donald Trump could come out, guns blazing, demanding that Obama bring our troops home and Obama would have little to counter with except common sense which seldom wins in a war of words. Obama will have to play President and this could result in some blowback from the public. Conversely, Obama could immediately start pulling troops back. Of course, if he did that he would then be attacked for giving up the fight before it’s finished. Neither position is enviable for Obama.
At any rate, our long national nightmare is over (sort of) and Bin Laden is dead. Crowds outside of the Whitehouse chanted “USA” long into the night. President Bush posted this on his Facebook page:
Earlier this evening, President Obama called to inform me that American forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al Qaeda network that attacked America on September 11, 2001. I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude. This momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.
I wish Bush could have found Bin Laden on his watch but it is what it is. At least Bin Laden is dead, buried at sea, and will not be planning any other attacks. Americans are celebrating but it remains to be seen if al Qaeda has the strength to retaliate.
I think Charles Krauthammer might have summed it up best:
It’s a great day, and it’s a great moment for America, and I think the principal effect, and there will be many, but the most important is to demonstrate the reach, the power and the efficiency of the United States Military.
That I think is going to reverberate around the world.
We have suffered over the last decade or so, and longer…we were attacked in 1998 by al-Qaeda for the first time in a major way, and after a indecisive war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it looks like we are losing, or at least sliding backwards with the operation in Libya, and I think the world had this fantasy that the United States didn’t have the power, did not have the efficiency, it did not have the might.
The way the world saw us right after Iraq, the Gulf War, the war in 1991 where there was this awe about what America could do, and this tells the world, that it could take a decade, you could be hiding anywhere in the world, we will stay on the trail, we will find you, and we will kill you.
And it’s like the Entebbe raid the Israeli’s pulled off in 1976 where they reached all the way into Uganda and extracted all the hostages and killed the hostage takers, the demonstrations of strength is the most important effect.
…it reinforces the symbolism here because al-Qaeda attacked all those different countries but the only one that could do, the only one that had the power, the reach, the global scope, the wherewithal to do it is the United States, and in a way acting in the name of the world in a way only we can do, which is how we have been seen since the fall of the soviet union, early on in that period, again after the gulf way, as the only one who could do it easily and with great triumph, lately people have been thinking America has slipped, I think this is a great restoration of that image.
Wow Jason. I knew I could come here to find some perspective. Much like how Americans stood behind President Bush as he stood at ground zero after 9/11 and declared that those responsible would answer for their crimes, we should all be standing behind President Obama now. This isn't about party or politics or reelection. Also, who do you think makes the ultimate call to go in? The President. Ultimately its his call, and if the mission were a complete failure, you would be here blaming him for the loss of civilian and/or American lives. Indeed, President Bush made the call to invade Iraq, and then, humbly I might add, stood on an aircraft carrier and declared mission accomplished – 8 years ago. Come on.
Hello from Mexico, i guess the Osama`s org will attack soon, may be USA must not kill Osama
Good trophy for Barack, reelection at sight
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Interesting how some believe that he's been dead for years. Hmm.
I really don't understand why he isn't dead since 2001 , cause we have a lot of technology, he hasn't what we have. We could find and punish him since he planned the attack at WTC.
It is a difficult topic and very complicated, everything that will be do against it is not without a negative effect.
All people thinks that he is dead but the news channels and other TV channels are not satisfy with the report
NO one knows exactly that Osama died or not only Osama knows that does he alive or not:P
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I read a blog that Osama Bin Laden is still alive does anyone know if there is some truth in this? Thanks and sorry for my bad accent.
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Gratz USA. Good to see him go.
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This is Usama. I don't think so he is usama bin ladin, Because U.S.A is not given solid prove.And all the news Chanel says this not usama.
The military operation took mere minutes.
U.S. helicopters ferrying elite counter-terrorism troops into the compound identified by the CIA as bin Laden's hideout — and back out again in less than 40 minutes. Bin Laden was shot in the head, officials said, after he and his bodyguards resisted the assault.
Mr. Obama chaired no fewer than five National Security Council meetings meeting on the pursuit of bin Laden, CBS News has learned, and gave the order to plan an attack on his suspected compound on the morning of April 29. He gave final order for the attack Sunday morning.
U.S. officials said the helicopter raid in Pakistan was carried out by CIA paramilitaries together with the elite Navy SEAL Team Six.
U.S. warns of possible bin Laden backlash
The U.S. official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. Mr. Obama said the remains had been handled in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires speedy burial.
"I heard a thundering sound, followed by heavy firing. Then firing suddenly stopped. Then more thundering, then a big blast," said Mohammad Haroon Rasheed, a resident of Abbottobad, Pakistan, after the choppers had swooped in and then out again.
I agree with you spill and surprise about this news even they don't show a person who kill many people as they said.
I seriously get sick when I see pictures of this bastard. I'm glad he's dead.
Even I can not believe !
American officials said last night they were ‘99.9 per cent confident’ that DNA evidence proved Osama Bin Laden is dead.
Scientists compared forensic samples from the body in the Pakistan hideout with those taken from the brain of the terror mastermind’s late sister.
Photos of the corpse have also been passed to experts in facial recognition, who are comparing them to previous indisputable images of the Al Qaeda leader.
America has carried out such tests before on tissue samples from unrecognisable victims of drone bombing attacks on remote Afghan and Pakistani terror nests, who it was thought might have been Bin Laden.
The apparent speed of the Bin Laden tests raised yet more questions about the U.S. operation last night. Merely transporting samples to laboratories where DNA profiling can be carried out usually takes time, as does the process itself.
However, new technology means that the process can be speeded up and it is entirely possible that the Americans kept a Bin Laden family
President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.
The Seal then carried out what is known in the military as a ‘double tap’ – shooting him again, probably in the chest, to make certain he was dead.
The footage of the battle in Bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout – which played out like an episode of 24 – is said to show one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.
Everyting looks like Osama Bin Laden is the evil by himself, I don't belive so. That sound like 1 man against the whole USA Army.
I seriously get sick when I see pictures of this bastard. I'm glad he's dead.
he was an bad terrorist
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