# Obama announcing death of Osama bin Laden \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435 "2011-05-02T02:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/281 "2011-05-02T05:30:34Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > Not sure if that’s photoshopped, but apparantly an MSNBC reporter [made that mistake as well.](http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/02/typo-msnbc-correspondent-accidentally-reports-on-twitter-that-obama-killed/) Geraldo did it too on Fox. It’s just a slip of the tongue (or keypad). Fox’s petulant spelling of Bin Laden’s first name as “Usama” is more telling. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/282 "2011-05-02T05:30:55Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I thought I saw or heard someplace that they were SEALS. I had it in my head for some reason that they were, but I’ve been surfing so much media, I don’t remember where I saw it. > > Whoever it was, I think it might actually be better if we never learn their names. We never learned the names of the teams that shot those Somali pirates. Being the guy who got the kill shot on Osama bin Laden and not being able to talk about it would be a hell of a thing, though. > > On the other hand, anyone in a bar who says they were on that team will be a liar. The guys who really get on thsoe kinds of ultra-elite teams are there partially _because_ they aren’t the types to run their mouths off in bars. They aren’t loudmouths or blowhards. They’re professionals and adults. I would also bet that they wouldn’t say who got the kill shot even if they know. It was a team operation and a team kill. I expect that people will learn their names, but maybe not for a few decades. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/283 "2011-05-02T05:31:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Please note that the smiley face was after the second sentence, not the first one. OMG I am so sorry! I surely did not mean to leave the smiley in that quote box! Now I am all: :o ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/284 "2011-05-02T05:34:20Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Fox’s petulant spelling of Bin Laden’s first name as “Usama” is more telling. Isn’t that an accepted alternate spelling? It’s not as if it exactly transliterates between Arabic and English letters. Sort of like Cecil’s column on the spelling of [Khadafy](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/513/how-are-you-supposed-to-spell-muammar-gaddafi-khadafy-qadhafi). ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/285 "2011-05-02T05:35:49Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > No, but that is what is being reported. Where? I’ve been looking for this specifically and can’t find it. EDIT: Nevermind, found it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/286 "2011-05-02T05:37:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It was the first thing that popped into my mind. But I posted in jest. Of course you did sir. Very funny. Now come with us please, we just have a few questions. May want to tell your wife to not wait up. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/287 "2011-05-02T05:37:59Z")
That’s what I heard as well. ETA: Missed the edit > [@tnetennba](#): > > Since you reiterate my point, I guess it’s not news to me. Not that it matters, but I did not re-iterate your point. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/288 "2011-05-02T05:39:09Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I thought I saw or heard someplace that they were SEALS. I had it in my head for some reason that they were, but I’ve been surfing so much media, I don’t remember where I saw it. > > Whoever it was, I think it might actually be better if we never learn their names. We never learned the names of the teams that shot those Somali pirates. Being the guy who got the kill shot on Osama bin Laden and not being able to talk about it would be a hell of a thing, though. > > On the other hand, at least we’ll know that anyone in a bar who says they were on that team will be a liar. The guys who really get on thsoe kinds of ultra-elite teams are there partially _because_ they aren’t the types to run their mouths off in bars. They aren’t loudmouths or blowhards. They’re professionals and adults. I would also bet that they wouldn’t say who got the kill shot even if they know. It was a team operation and a team kill. It was carried out by [JSOC](http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dod/jsoc.htm), which consists of both Delta Force and Navy SEALs. I, too, heard Navy SEALs, but I suppose it’s possible it was a joint effort and both were involved. > [@](#): > > Much of the hunting for senior Taliban and al Qaeda members in Afghanistan is being conducted by a unit called Task Force 11, composed mostly of Delta Force soldiers and SEALs. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/289 "2011-05-02T05:40:51Z")
We’ll probably never know who was on the team that pulled the trigger, but if we did, man, those guys would get so much pussy. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/290 "2011-05-02T05:40:58Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > It was carried out by JSOC, which consists of both Delta Forces and Navy Seals. I, too, heard Navy Seals, but I suppose it’s possible it was a joint effort and both were involved. CNN International is quoting a senior defense department official who said that the [Seals are involved](http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.raid/). Which does not, of course, mean that Delta Force wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/291 "2011-05-02T05:42:59Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > What’s the Islamic tradition for dealing with the corpse of an individual responsible for crimes against humanity? Bury the corpse promptly & let Allah sort it out? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/292 "2011-05-02T05:45:11Z")
Isn’t \*that \*some good news to wake up to. Well done, America. That was old school. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/293 "2011-05-02T05:45:19Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Do we know for sure that they were SEALS? I mean, certainly they could have been, but it seems equally possible to me that these were Delta Force or any of the other elite military organizations who do this sort of thing. Well, as much as I hoped Tom Clancy’s CIA precision, surgical strikes, were employed rather this 10 nyears of alternate reality. Rainbow Six did this. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/294 "2011-05-02T05:46:17Z")
[Don’t click if you don’t want to get choked up](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/02/world/02binladen4_683/02binladen4_683-custom11.jpg). Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/295 "2011-05-02T05:47:41Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > … So convenient with the Prince being married. And Pope Paul II is beatified! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/296 "2011-05-02T05:48:31Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > We’ll probably never know who was on the team that pulled the trigger, but if we did, man, those guys would get so much pussy. I’d do 'em. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/297 "2011-05-02T05:50:58Z")
No worries, **rigs**. I wasn’t 100% sure I’d heard right either. > [@Shayna](#): > > [Don’t click if you don’t want to get choked up](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/02/world/02binladen4_683/02binladen4_683-custom11.jpg). Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat. That is an awesome photo. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/298 "2011-05-02T05:53:22Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’d do 'em. Shit - I’d think about it and I’m a straight dude. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/299 "2011-05-02T05:53:39Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Don’t click if you don’t want to get choked up](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/02/world/02binladen4_683/02binladen4_683-custom11.jpg). Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat. Wow. I clicked expecting something else. That’s relatively understated, and I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/300 "2011-05-02T05:59:09Z")
[A helicopter crashed in the vicinity](http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/helicopter-crash-near-siteus-operations-against-osama/133637/on). Anybody know what that’s about? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=16)