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check out this picture of Obama and company following the operation. That’s Brig. Gen. Marshall B. Webb of the Joint Special Operations Command at the head of the table.
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I think that will become a famous picture.
Also, I wonder what’s blurred out of HRC’s laptop.
I was listening to Rory Block’s cover of* Crossroad Blues* and noticed that CNN was showing clips of Bin Laden. It was freaky. “Save Old Bob, if you please.”
She’s playing the modified Doom wad where the imps look like Bill.
Was that the English or Arabic site?
ObL gave no indication of being anything but another Saudi rich kid until the Soviet imperialist adventure in Afghanistan gave him A Cause[tm].
I was practically ecstatic when I heard the news. THANK GOD! I was humming the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” throughout the day, really appropriate song especially the “terrible swift sword” part.
Also fuck Venezeula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_death_of_Osama_bin_Laden:
The comment just makes me sick.
Porn. Duh.
That picture, and this article suggest that I might be able to be proven wrong about the human shield thing. I hope I’m not reading too much into it, but it sounds like there is video of the raid:
I don’t know how I’d feel about watching the footage, or even it being released . . . but part of me hopes it’s out there so we don’t have to suffer decades of tinhatters on this one.
Funny thing is, they were actually watching The Apprentice when this photo was taken.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m already getting tired of all this self-congratulatory nonsense. So you pointlessly murdered an old man in Pakistan… So what? At what point do you stop patting your own backs and start explaining how this changes anything for the better?
I believe that it has long been crystal-clear that Osama bin Laden was no longer a relevant player in today’s world. Given that he had apparently been entirely marginalized as a commander and a policy-setter, what exactly is the supposed military or political value of his murder? What is there to celebrate? Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second: the Afghani double-agent that recently suicide-bombed a number of high-level CIA operatives in Kabul saved a lot more lives with his actions than did bin Laden’s killers.
Nor does this make any sense from a viewpoint of retribution (assuming that you are a rational person and not an unabashed hypocrite). As has been mentioned in this thread (and conveniently ignored by subsequent posters), Little Bush killed hundreds of times more people than bin Laden by even the most forgiving of estimates. Hell, so did pretty much every US President ever. Bin Laden was a relatively minor world player, all things considered. Once again, why the celebrations?
Sometimes I do not understand Westerners.
It looks like it it could even be a surveillance photo of the compound taken from the air. It seems to be the right shape, but maybe I’m trying to see it.
The door is on your left.
Justice, just like Israel nabbed Eichmann. A murderer of thousands of people, the evilest man alive in the world.
The CIA is fighting for justice and humanity in Afghanistan against reactionary forces who would imposed a theocratic, mediaeval Caliphate where rape victims are publically executed and kept illiterate.
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And I don’t understand commies, considering OBL was an enemy of your beloved USSR.
I’m getting tired of all this “old man” nonsense. He was 54! Are we that youth-obsessed?
What’s the statute of limitations on 9/11?
William Henry Harrison was especially efficient at it.
The matter has nothing to do with “Westerners”; Osama bin Laden was inspired to get into the jihad business in response to Soviet Communist imperialism. Please try to keep up with the class.
Except the vast majority of them had nothing to do with 9-11; that’s one of the things that made Bush and America’s post-911 behavior so disgusting. At least bin Laden was actually guilty of something.
Does the word swift have another meaning I wasn’t aware of?
Come on Christians! Enjoy and Celebrate MURDER!
Well, strictly speaking, the Mujhadin were created out of the intersection of religious fervor, Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan, and the US’ attempts to keep Afghanistan from being dominated by Russia. But without the Russian attempt to dominate Afghanistan, Bin Laden would’ve just been an egghead schmuck with a fondness for Qutb. Which brings me to:
Not really. Bin Laden’s grudge against Saudi Arabia went far beyond his hatred of the US or our stationing troops there. He was essentially a product of Qutb’s teachings and the religious fervor that typified much of the resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.