“Justice has been done,” Obama said in a dramatic, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the New York and Washington.
Obama said U.S. forces led the operation that killed bin Laden. No Americans were killed in the operation and they took care to avoid civilian casualties, he said.
“The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children,” Obama said…
U.S. officials said that after searching in vain for the al Qaeda leader since he disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2001, the Saudi-born extremist was killed in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad and his body recovered.
Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.
This death alone does not mean victory. But, this death is a significant moment and hopefully may be the beginning of an end to a deadly chapter.
UPDATE: Here’s a link to the IT geek’s tweets – Sohaib Athar – @ReallyVirtual – who liveblogged the raid without knowing what he was watching. Getting away from the city for the day, relaxing in the mountains.
>A million dollar mansion in a poor neighborhood
That neighborhood isn’t that poor. In the Google Earth photos, this compound doesn’t stick out that much.
Bobbo, you are an exception to the members of the Left that engage in such criticism of Israel. It is mostly not real criticism, but just grasping at whatever they can to bash Israel.
#95 “A few more terrorists and the world will be a safer place.”
Pity none of them have the balls to take on Syria.
Well, thank you for the compliment Mike but I am not aware of liberal “bashing” of Israel. I am aware of PUKES criticizing liberals for bashing Israel, but that is all. Do you have any favorite examples? I have a hunch, such “bashing” is really only a questioning of our priorities and such, not the mindless “bomb, bomb, bomb” of neo-con fame.
I “support” Israel but am quite ready to bash them should they deserve it. Right now, I’d say they have allowed their war against the Palestinians to go on for way too long thereby sowing the seeds of their future problems. Time to experience a little Nation Building, Manifest Destiny, and give the sword to their enemies.
Tally Ho.
Prrrrrrrrrr….. what a joke!
He resisted arrest (under an international warrant) and the Navy Seal took his MP-5 and gave him an Indian Beauty Mark.
Well done, Seals!
Seahawk Helicopter: $12 Million. AvGas: $4000. 9mm government-issued parabellum cartridge: Priceless.
Point of Fact: Leon Panetta is not a Bush holdover, he is an old Clinton cronie. You may be thinking of Norm Mineta.
Clinton should have given the order to kill him when he was still in Somalia. Our SpecOps guy had him in his sights, but could not get the kill order. So Barry is cleaning up after Bill.
Still, this now gives us a face-saving excuse to ass out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which even this conservative agrees is way past time to do.
Interesting about the timing of all the changes announced last week, though. Patreus has been a joke in the field, the Joint Chiefs don’t like him, and they would not have accepted him as DoD head. Leon slides over to take Gates’ job instead, to preside over the Carter-like dismantling of our military in the Democrat plan to staunch the deficit. The only good thing was that a Marine will finally be in charge of the Marines in the ‘stan, returning it to a 3 star billet as before.
Echoing other sentiment above, congrats to President Obama for finding his nutsack and issuing the go order. I still won’t vote for you in 2012, but today you don’t suck quite so bad.
#105 Thanks for the correction & the expansion on the subject. Appreciated.
A perfect time for a new group to form, demanding to see Bin Laden’s death certificate.
C’mon Deathers, don’t let us down!
# 93 Olo Baggins of Bywater said:
“Somebody: Is it fun being divorced from reality?”
We were never married.
What an amazing man, President Obama.
Pirate killer
Economic recovery mastermind
Healthcare for Americans
Exit Iraq
Directing the elimination of Bin Laden.
Wow !!!!!
Next in line
- exit Afganistan
- topple G’Daffy, Chaves, Castro
- bring Cheney and Bush to World court
- balanced budget
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This speech will hurt Obama. He claims everything as if he did it personally, saying I directed, I approved, etc. That in itself is bad, but then you contrast to how many times he lays the blame at others in his administration and he knew nothing about it.
#110 Don’t think so.
Bush rightfully congratulated him and suggested he parachute onto an Aircraft carrier with a cape.
Obama just said No, George, I won’t. This is my job and this is what I do. and moved on to the next assignment of the day.
The whole story stinks. First of all, as most people have forgotton, Bin Laden was a CIA asset. Second, he was probably a patsy for the 9/11 false flag operation. Not even the FBI believes there’s enough proof that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks, which is why they aren’t mentioned on his profile for the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. Third, he probably died a long time ago from kidney failure. Of course it doesn’t really matter whether he died 10 years ago or last night. The warmongers will create more boogeymen to scare the masses and false flag attacks to pin on patsy boogeymen.
#111 Go back to licking Obama’s steps on the floor Dolly
>If you bury him, his grave becomes a shrine for others to rally around.
Well, they have shut down Yucca Mountain, so you bury some of that waste in the area of his shrine, and problem solved.
Bobbo, I think you know better. You can just search this site for Israel and you’ll find some examples.
Ones that come to mind, are the complaints every time Israel responded to rocket attacks. Saying she was building an apartheid wall. Just about every use of ‘disproportionate’. And as I said, the highlighting of civilians being killed in operations.
Now my original point might not have been as valid, if the dead shield was one of Osama’s wives.
#114, Yeah! Kinda like a Roach Motel. Cool, I’m down with it.
#113 Shut up and learn from Obama how to run a country and be a Commander in Chief, babble sheep.
You know and hate that Prez Obama is a superhero, pirate and terrorist killing ninja.
Just dealing with ego-smitten dolts like #67 who think Obama’s speech had too many “I”s…
Of 1367 words, “I” was used 12 times.
#117 No, I just hate the waste of genetic material you are. They should have used you for stem cell research. At least you would have been useful to humanity that way.
pedro,
You make us proud.
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