Obama announcing death of Osama bin Laden [edited title]

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

@Shmendrik

Not sure if that’s photoshopped, but apparantly an MSNBC reporter made that mistake as well.

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.

[Shmendrik]

@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.

[PapSett]

@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

[Morgyn]

@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.

[appleciders]

@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.

[Sampiro]

@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.

[PlainJain]

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.

[Shayna]

@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, 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.

[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.

[Morgyn]

@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. Which does not, of course, mean that Delta Force wasn’t.

[Bridget_Burke]

@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?

[Alessan]

Isn’t *that *some good news to wake up to.

Well done, America. That was old school.

[devilsknew]

@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.

[Shayna]

Don’t click if you don’t want to get choked up. Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat.

[levdrakon]

@devilsknew

… So convenient with the Prince being married.

And Pope Paul II is beatified!

[PlainJain]

@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.

[HazelNutCoffee]

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. Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat.

That is an awesome photo.

[zoid]

@PlainJain

I’d do 'em.

Shit - I’d think about it and I’m a straight dude.

[appleciders]

@Shayna

Don’t click if you don’t want to get choked up. Excuse me while I clear the lump from my throat.

Wow. I clicked expecting something else. That’s relatively understated, and I liked it.

[Magiver]

A helicopter crashed in the vicinity. Anybody know what that’s about?