# Al Quaeda confirms bin Laden's death **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958 "2011-05-06T14:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/1 "2011-05-06T14:24:13Z")
[Take that](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/asia/07qaeda.html?hp), conspiracy nuts. Any chance this will shut them up? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/2 "2011-05-06T14:28:01Z")
Nope. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/3 "2011-05-06T14:28:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Any chance this will shut them up? Is this a trick question? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/4 "2011-05-06T14:31:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Any chance this will shut them up? Oh sure. I’m also expecting them to apologize for that whole birth certificate thing too. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/5 "2011-05-06T14:34:26Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Oh sure. I’m also expecting them to apologize for that whole birth certificate thing too. Yeah, nothing has shut them up so far, but the words of a few anonymous terrorists will surely do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/6 "2011-05-06T14:35:20Z")
The thing about conspiracy nuts is that they’re **nuts**. Anything that contradicts the theory is all part of the conspiracy, duh. The link you posted? Planted by the CIA. There is no al Queda, there never was any al Q, it’s all a big hoax perpetuated by the Illuminati and the Jewish Bolshevik World Bank. Wake up, people! See? It’s easy. All too easy. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/7 "2011-05-06T14:36:05Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Oh sure. I’m also expecting them to apologize for that whole birth certificate thing too. Really? Can I have a pony too? I fully expect that we will now have the nutters saying that Obama is not a legitimate president because bin Laden should have been captured alive - or something. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/8 "2011-05-06T14:44:41Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Really? Can I have a pony too? Sorry, no. I gave my pony to the SEAL who pulled the trigger. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/9 "2011-05-06T14:50:35Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Really? Can I have a pony too? > > I fully expect that we will now have the nutters saying that Obama is not a legitimate president because bin Laden should have been captured alive - or something. No,bin Laden was killed because he has Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and was about to go public. See? Easy as pie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/10 "2011-05-06T15:22:43Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > No,bin Laden was killed because he has Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and was about to go public. > > See? Easy as pie. 😃 Now _this_ is a conspiracy! I bow to you **runner pat**! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/11 "2011-05-06T15:40:14Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > No,bin Laden was killed because he has Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and was about to go public. > > See? Easy as pie. 😃 Or - and I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here - Osama was Obama’s real father and had home movies of them together. And there’s that whole name similarity: Osama bin Laden; Obama been Lyin’. Also, they’re both tall. Too much of a co-inkydinky. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/12 "2011-05-06T15:55:07Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Osama was Obama’s real father and had home movies of them together. What do—sorry, did—Osama’s ears look like? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/13 "2011-05-06T16:00:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What do—sorry, did—Osama’s ears look like? He didn’t _have_ ears. He was one of the Lizard People. Which is one reason why those home movies would have been so very revealing if they’d fallen into the hands of the media. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/14 "2011-05-06T16:14:16Z")
Its nice to see that the liberal media have managed to get you to pull the wool over your own eyes. Makes it SO much easier to hide the real truth. You didn’t hear this from me, but what REALLY happened has nothing to do with your silly ramblings and pointless conjectures. No. What Really happened is just more trilateralist/illuminati shenanigans. Obama and Osama are just puppets jerking on the invisible strings of those who are actually running this planet. The Mice. That’s what killed Douglas Adams. He knew too much and wrote about it. I for one welcome our tiny, cute pink eyed masters, and have stocked up on cheese. Be warned! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/15 "2011-05-06T16:35:00Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > He didn’t _have_ ears. He was one of the Lizard People. Which is one reason why those home movies would have been so very revealing if they’d fallen into the hands of the media. Damming evidence, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/16 "2011-05-06T16:47:37Z")
The fact that a Muslim terrorist group is corroborating Obama’s story proves beyond a doubt that Obama really is a secret Muslim. That was easy. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/17 "2011-05-06T16:49:20Z")
Well, _of course_ the CIA is going to say Osama’s dead and was killed recently. What do you expect? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/18 "2011-05-06T17:01:04Z")
> [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](#): > > Its nice to see that the liberal media have managed to get you to pull the wool over your own eyes. Makes it SO much easier to hide the real truth. > You didn’t hear this from me, but what REALLY happened has nothing to do with your silly ramblings and pointless conjectures. No. > > What Really happened is just more trilateralist/illuminati shenanigans. Obama and Osama are just puppets jerking on the invisible strings of those who are actually running this planet. > > The Mice. > > That’s what killed Douglas Adams. He knew too much and wrote about it. > > I for one welcome our tiny, cute pink eyed masters, and have stocked up on cheese. > > Be warned! This is just of the **many** reasons I surround my house with hungry cats and mouse traps. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/19 "2011-05-06T18:10:52Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > This is just of the **many** reasons I surround my house with hungry cats and mouse traps. So what do you do with all the cats with mousetraps on their feet? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958/20 "2011-05-06T19:16:35Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > So what do you do with all the cats with mousetraps on their feet? No, no, the cats _fly_. I thought that was obvious from my post. If they couldn’t fly then the Illuminati would just waltz right on in. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quaeda-confirms-bin-ladens-death/580958.md?page=2)