Osama Bin Laden

[HeroOfCrapsalot]

According to latest newscasts, Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is dead.

" Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members" - CNN

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How this news is taken can vary, but I can honestly say I am relieved that the mastermind of a major terrorist group is eliminated. The only problem I see this may bring a time of safety from the group or a stronger backlash then ever before.

 

[Tyloric]

I'm just scared about how they're inevitably going to retaliate.

 

[Skotekal]

 

[D3m190d]

I haven't been on my laptop for ten minutes, this morning, and this is the third thing about Bin Laden I see. Oh well, I guess I should be happy about it... But same as with bad things happening: It's simply too far for me to feel a thing. I don't really care. But I'm glad for those who do ^_^

Now we wait for Al Qaeda's next move.....

 

[Dentie]

How this news is taken can vary, but I can honestly say I am relieved that the mastermind of a major terrorist group is eliminated. .

He hasnt been the mastermind for a long time but he still was a symbolic person for Al Qaede.

Now we wait for Al Qaeda's next move.....

Al Qaeda will probably do some things in the lands where they are big so mostly in the middle east.

 

[Purple Nurple]

The recently Wikileaked files talk about a 'Nuclear Hellstorm'.

 

[queenofdisco]

Like it matters, they do have other bosses, ever heard of promotion?

Some other insane bearded guy just got one.

 

[Tsuyu]

Too bad it is 10 years too late.

 

[Angel]

I'll put what I posted over on REN:

I don't think this is going to change anything - the root causes of extremism are not being addressed here and nothing more than a figurehead has been removed. If anything, people can expect some rather severe retaliation all over the place - I mean, if you were part of a group which all but worshipped the leader and your enemies killed said leader, you wouldn't go running with your tail between you legs. You'd want to beat the crap out of them for it.

It's good he's no longer here to cause trouble but there's no way he didn't plan for this eventuality and someone (or more than one person) is bound to take his place immediately and with an added measure of vengeance on the agenda.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

mixed feelings. glad he's gone and it'll do wonders for how Obama is remembered in history (for the US anyway). on the other hand everyone seems to be on about some sort of backlash. i don't know about you all but i know next to zip about Al Qaeda. they live in a desert, they hate us, and they send us tapes of prisoners and robed men brandishing assault rifles from time to time.
yeah, i have a vague idea of why they were founded (our fault/US trained militia i think), but i honestly have no reason to assume definitively that they'll make a counter strike or fall apart. they're just too... unknown for me to think anything, really. it's like firing shots in the dark.

for all i know bin ladin was just a terrible translator and all this time they just wanted to invite us over for lunch. who can honestly say they don't? apart from videos assuming responsibility i haven't seen any rock solid evidence that they were behind the terrorist attacks other than they dress accordingly. i know that confessing to murder without any proof necessary may satisfy a court of law, but still... i'm not saying i don't think they did it, i do. but i find it hard to hate a group or a person for something just because they say they did it and so does everyone else.

 

[Firis]

Mixed feelings, part sad, part glad.

EDIT: I shouldn't say sad, just affecting me negatively(?)

 

[Hermit]

I'm worried, I think alot of people are going to get hurt for this.

EDIT: I just realized my previous posts were inappropriate, sorry

 

[Dark Drakan]

PSN goes down and then suddenly Bin Laden is found & killed during the downtime, amazing what people can achieve when deprived of CoD.

 

[HobbeBrain]

In other news, Charlie Sheen returns from Pakistan.

 

[Dentie]

PSN goes down and then suddenly Bin Laden is found & killed during the downtime, amazing what people can achieve when deprived of CoD.

And tomorrow PSN is back. Obama I see what you did thar!

 

[Necromancer]

Well...

At this point, what I'm most worried about is whether or not there is going to be some other kind of "Al Qaeda terrorist" attack (please take note of the quotation marks) on American soil because it will now be easier than it has ever been before to pin the blame for that sort of thing on Al Qaeda. "They are retaliating for Bin Laden's death," we would be told. Then the American public would line up behind the government and the military like the bewildered herd of sheep that it is and support them as they send more troops into the middle east looking for the person who was supposedly responsible for this attack, looking for the new Osama Bin Laden. Maybe they would just keep the search for this person confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan like it was during the search for Bin Laden, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they started marching into some other middle eastern country that just happens to be sitting on a massive plot of oil.

apart from videos assuming responsibility i haven't seen any rock solid evidence that they were behind the terrorist attacks other than they dress accordingly.

If by "the terrorist attacks," you mean the 9/11 attacks, Bin Laden was not behind it. He only bombed American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya a few years earlier. Don't get me wrong, that was a horrible thing to do, and it's good that he was killed for it, but he was never the insanely evil monster that the United States government made him out to be. Taking him down wasn't worth all the time, money, energy, and resources that were wasted over the past nine and a half years.

 

[Tsuyu]

..especially since it took them ten friggin' years to do so. It's like if Hitler had escaped and they killed him in '55 - big whoop.

 

[Dentie]

..especially since it took them ten friggin' years to do so. It's like if Hitler had escaped and they killed him in '55 - big whoop.

http://cheezburger.com/Denties/lolz/View/4718311936

 

[Arseface]

Seems sus to me. There's no pictures/videos of his body or death, and they immediately dump his body in the ocean so that no one else can see it.

And Obama keeps emphasising his part in the matter, basically claiming the whole thing was his idea. The whole thing happening as he's going into a reelection campaign... I'll just say that it'd be pretty silly to run against him at this point in time.

 

[Tsuyu]

Seems sus to me. There's no pictures/videos of his body or death, and they immediately dump his body in the ocean so that no one else can see it.

Especially when you consider the Saddam execution. Osama was an even bigger price, so you'd think they'd display "their catch" for all to see and eventually have the new government of Iraq execute him, like Saddam.