Yup, logged on to Facebook and all my friend's status updates were about it.
I've been sitting in front of my screen now for quite some time wilh a silly grin on my face.

Now we just wait on the circular event to come back around. The new leader avenges him..then probably gets hunted and killed. Then a new leader avenges that last one..so on and so forth.

Until there are no more 'leaders' to be had because they realize that taking on that role is a death sentence.
What would you have us do, sit quietly on our hands and hope everything will just go away?

Quote from: LSD72 on May 01, 2011, 23:12

Now we just wait on the circular event to come back around. The new leader avenges him..then probably gets hunted and killed. Then a new leader avenges that last one..so on and so forth.

Until there are no more 'leaders' to be had because they realize that taking on that role is a death sentence.
What would you have us do, sit quietly on our hands and hope everything will just go away?

Did not say anything like that. Just stating the possibility. I would love to do a preemptive solution but of course we have to keep up appearances to the world. I had to search cars for bombs from old Binnys threats back in 90 - 92.

It was great when I heard this news but I really wonder why he wasn't killed years ago and if it will make much difference in the long term?  I wont feel like celebrating until the middle east problems are sorted out and the terrorism threat has really subsided.  It isn't like killing the leader of a country, Al-Qaeda are scattered all over the world and I don't think they are going to stop because of this.

The body has already been buried according to Islamic Law . . . . . .  conspiracies anyone?

I'm a bit skeptical about this. Why no official photos released? (Osama didn't sign a model release ? )
Why such a hurry?

This reminds me about the death of Hitler. The soviets found dead Hitler and set his corpse on fire without even trying to collect evidence. And there still seems to be some debate if he fled to South America or other place.

BTW. That's a long way to the sea, about a thousand miles. They seem to have trough a lot to "bury the body in the sea"

They had to throw his body into the sea    The USA is just so desperate to produce something that gets the peons cheering. It was probably the 'northern alliance' once again that produced the body of someone with a big beard that looks like an arab, beause they needed some cash. They have been doing this since the start of the war on 'al quade', which of course doesn't exist.... so whenever they needed some money from the americans, they just captured anyone who looks like the "bright amarican soldier's" stereotype for an islamist, usually just dirt poor rural people who never had any papers.

Al-qaeda was founded in 80s by CIA in Afghanistan to fight against russian invasion. So there is no real terrorist organisation like Al-qaeda - its just all media crap. Most so called terorrist are logic result of the US invasions and takeover of independent business and countries. Regarding results - US pays several times more for "war against terrorism" then it pays for cancer or heart-attack problems research, while "terorrist" kill less ppl then are killed in cars every day in US only... isn't it silly? There are more ppl killed by heart atack from obesity, overfeeding and bad lifestyle every DAY in US then "terorrists" kill in the whole year worldwide...

There was exactly NO terorrism in Iraq before US invasion and Taliban in Afghanistan banned nearly all opium production - after US invasion, Iraq became extremely dangerous country and Afghanistan is producing most of worlds heroine. What a coincidence...

Bin Laden was not seen for at least decade and they suddenly kill him and bury the body into the sea. And they suppose ppl will trust this story? OMG!

The "thrown at sea" thing looks fishy to me. Maybe he's been dead fro� natural causes long ago?

That would be a good explanation. I don't think the US government would like to admit they have failed in the terrorist hunt.
IF Osama would have died from natural causes they would still have 1) Dead Osama 2) Dead Osama's DNA

What a suspicious lot you are. It's not iStock we're talking about, you know   If I was the US I would want the body permanently out of the way ASAP before it can cause any more trouble.

The Taliban also said he was killed today and they have always been quite open about their side's "martyrs" so there's no reason to suppose he's been dead for a while.

I'm so glad that the US is taking care to ensure he has a proper Islamic burial to help him on his way to his 72 virgins. Wasn't he always anxious to ensure that his victims were treated according to their religious rites? It's right to reciprocate.

They were showing a photo on Sky TV when I turned the TV on at 7am this morning.

There's a photo here that looks like it was taken from the TV screen.  Don't look if your squeamish.  It looks like him but he looks a lot younger than I thought he would, the photo has been dropped from the TV, perhaps because they have doubts that it's real?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-photo-of-al-qaeda-leader-s-body-115875-23101910/

edit:- looks like a photoshop job. http://i.imgur.com/dSuE6.png

there are 'bout 150 million ppl in the world who would look like that in that condition...