Osama bin Laden found dead, body in US custody

[Denny]

You do realize what could have potentially happened if things went sour right? A couple of dozen SEALs were about to set feet in Pakistan a good ways past the border and light up a house in a fairly calm neighborhood. Not exactly the kind of thing you decide like you're choosing what to eat for lunch.

3km from a military compound as well. Unidentified armed men = another Mogadishu. (Blackhawk Down pun not intended)

[openroadracer]

What did they have to match the DNA to?
Doesn't DNA matching require one confirmed DNA to match the 2nd set to in order to identify a person?

they had the brain of one of his sisters who previously died.

[Forever_frost]

You do realize what could have potentially happened if things went sour right? A couple of dozen SEALs were about to set feet in Pakistan a good ways past the border and light up a house in a fairly calm neighborhood. Not exactly the kind of thing you decide like you're choosing what to eat for lunch.

So what you're saying is he has to take more than 1 meeting with his security council to go to lunch? We have known Osama was in Pakistan, we were pretty sure, and before they would send in the SEALS they'd have had eyes on for a while so there were no surprises. Remember how long it took him to order the SEALS to shoot the pirates last year? Oh wait, he did it AFTER they shot the pirates.

Obama is an asshat.

[Broncojohnny]

So what you're saying is he has to take more than 1 meeting with his security council to go to lunch? We have known Osama was in Pakistan, we were pretty sure, and before they would send in the SEALS they'd have had eyes on for a while so there were no surprises. Remember how long it took him to order the SEALS to shoot the pirates last year? Oh wait, he did it AFTER they shot the pirates.

Obama is an asshat.

Am I the only who finds it amusing that some spec ops dude needs to hear from the president in order to shoot a pirate? Micromanagement much?

[SS Junk]

You do realize what could have potentially happened if things went sour right? A couple of dozen SEALs were about to set feet in Pakistan a good ways past the border and light up a house in a fairly calm neighborhood. Not exactly the kind of thing you decide like you're choosing what to eat for lunch.

He had no choice. On the flipside if it became known the target was legitimate and he did nothing he would've had a lot of explaining to do and his presidency would've been even further in the toilet bowl.

[Forever_frost]

Am I the only who finds it amusing that some spec ops dude needs to hear from the president in order to shoot a pirate? Micromanagement much?

Obama micromanages everything so he can take credit, yet if this was a botched job, we'd have never heard of it.

[2k4Terminator]

[jw33]

You're certainly entitled to your opinion and whether or not it took one meeting or twelve. I just believe your dislike for Obama might be swaying your opinion of how the operation went down. At the end of the day it was almost perfect and they got to smoke his sorry ass in person. Just like he can do no wrong in some folks eyes, he can't do right in others. I don't like his politics anymore than anyone else around here, but the old saying, "You're damned if you do, damned if you don't" applies here I think. This kind of shit is bound to come up no matter what 100% of the time and I'm actually shocked it took so long.

[Dacotua]

SHOW me the picture of Bin Laden DEAD or it didn't happen.

Hell many countries are now doubting that we've killed him.

Obama needs to release these so called pictures. The AP has reported that Bin Laden is going to release a video soon.

As much as I want to believe the coward is dead, I will not believe it until I see his dead corpse.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

The AP has reported that Bin Laden is going to release a video soon.

AP? Where did you see this?

[Forever_frost]

You're certainly entitled to your opinion and whether or not it took one meeting or twelve. I just believe your dislike for Obama might be swaying your opinion of how the operation went down. At the end of the day it was almost perfect and they got to smoke his sorry ass in person. Just like he can do no wrong in some folks eyes, he can't do right in others. I don't like his politics anymore than anyone else around here, but the old saying, "You're damned if you do, damned if you don't" applies here I think. This kind of shit is bound to come up no matter what 100% of the time and I'm actually shocked it took so long.

He didn't do anything. His speech makes it sound like he fast roped down and shot Osama himself. Fuck Obama and his glory hounding ass. There has been no pictures released, no video of the kill and the body was disposed of within 12 hours. And that body was wrapped in cloth and dropped in the ocean. Again, all anyone saw was a body in white. What did we do with Saddam's kids? We had video and pictures and let them be buried after everyone saw it. Osama? The most hated person in the world? Ocean burial before anyone lays eyes on it.

But then again, some say "Hey, I trust Obama. I mean look how he closed Gitmo, ended the 2 wars and fixed the economy like he said."

[Forever_frost]

AP? Where did you see this?

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/international/osama-bin-ladens-prerecorded-tape-to-not-be-released-over-fears-of-making-al-queda-leader-a-martyr

[jw33]

Did you all read the article?

[BERNIE MOSFET]

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/int...eader-a-martyr

Interesting. Didn't see that. Thanks.

[GSRGuy94]

Just read this article

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/03/2011-05-03_osama_bin_laden_death_photos_will_be_released_says_cia_boss_as_white_house_weigh.html