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OK OK let's not get too excited

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake

This is fishy as.  Anyone who doesn't question the US government in this case has a screw loose.  Come on, Osama was supposedly hiding for 10 years and he pops up in a major city in a mansion?  They found him in this mansion June 2010 and only just killed him?  He was shot in the head by a single bullet and no American was killed or injured, yet one of the four helicopters was shot down from the ground and crashed into the compound causing it to burn down?  They claim they have DNA evidence that it was Osama Bin Laden?  When did they gather this evidence? Before or after the compound was burnt down?  But they still managed to apparently withdraw Osama’s body from the burning wreckage?  They bury his body at sea in such a hurry?  They apparently shoot this man in the head but respect him enough to give him an Islamic burial? 

I don’t often get into conspiracy theories but nothing of this adds up at all.  I’m betting Osama hasn’t been seen for a decade or so and the US has no clue whether he is alive or dead.  The US economy is under turmoil and they can’t afford to keep their troops in Afghanistan any longer so they need to come up with a body whether it’s real or not.  They would look pretty stupid having to admit that they’ve been trying to find and kill someone who possibly isn’t even alive... for over a decade!  The majority of Americans are gullible and will believe Obama’s story.  I'm not having a go at Americans because it wouldn't be too difficult for Obama to convince them that they 'got him' when so much emotion is involved.  To top things off, Obama gets to be a hero and elected for another term

I agree that there's something fishy about it, but there always is with these things. The true details are always murky in covert ops.
I don't think the basic fact that he's dead (or that the US thinks he is) can be disputed. Al-Quaida would have kicked up a stink by now if he wasn't.
The political stink that finding him living it up in suburban Islamabad causes also makes me think it's all pretty much genuine
Anyone that thinks the Pakistan authorities didn't know he was there (very close to a military training academy) is crazy.

On a side note, the most astonishing thing about all of this is that twitter has not crashed 

Sure they could have dumped his body in the sea but what was the hurry?

Proof?  What proof?  How will we get proof now?  We have no body, the mansion has been conveniently burnt down.  The video footage they've just shown on CNN of the aftermath seems dodgy.  They claimed it was a 40 minute firefight but the room doesn't look messed up enough.  They're currently gathering DNA evidence?  lol, come on!  Did the US government at some stage manage to retrieve one of Osama's pubes from under a rock in a cave in Afghanistan back in 2001 in order to make that match?  Any 'proof' they come up with now will most likely be doctored like everything else seems to be.

I think they have DNA from other family members.  There's no way it wasn't him, I think conspiracy theories are 99.9% made up and usually have much less evidence than the truth.

If he weren't dead he would pop up in a video three days from now, waggling and admonishing finger at the US and discussing the headlines. Obama would look a complete fool if that happened. Ergo, he's dead. Whether he went down fighting or got a bullet after being captured (I can't imagine they wanted to put him on trial) is anybody's guess.

Not if he was already dead.  Remember this?

http://www.infowars.com/red-alert-government-had-osama-bin-laden-frozen-for-years/


Another interesting fact they've just revealed on CNN is that they found a bunch of computers with their harddrives ripped out.  Yet they had no internet.  I'm guessing bin laden was a hardcore vector illustrator.  It's quite possible he was planning to upload his portfolio on iStock before the Navy Seals came along and not only shot him down but also his life long dream.

Yeah, but you can't actually trust the details. Remember the woman soldier who was captured by Saddam and after she was released full details of her heroism were released, only she spoiled it all by dismissing it as nonsense. Or the heroic way that US sporting hero died fighting Taliban warriors in Afghanistan, until they were forced to admit he was accidentally shot by one of his comrades.

The story that eventually comes out will be designed to fit whatever fantasy is considered most appropriate by the Pentagon/White House, without regard for whether or not it's true.

So everyone who has a computer *has* to have internet?

You people remind me of "The Birthers" who don't believe Obama was born in the US. No matter what evidence will be presented, you won't believe it. You can be called "The Deathers". LOL

Nah, I didn't miss the joke.

There's a lot of things I can't imagine, doesn't mean they aren't real or didn't happen. For instance, I can't imagine killing millions of Jews or people flying planes into buildings. I'm sure Bin Laden know the minuted he connected to the internet he would be tracked. I'm not surprised at all at the low-tech approach. And who even knows what kind of active role he was even playing he was even playing anymore.