OSAMA BIN LADEN CONFIRMED DEAD.

[Adios]

Rumsfeld is now saying the information "may have come from Gitmo".



Because OBL has obviously been hiding in the same place for 9 years.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

That's probably the least of the stupidity that is going to be coming down the line in the next few weeks.

Urgh, I feel another holiday from the news coming on...good thing I may be starting a new job and looking at doing some serious writing.  Stop me watching the TV.

Get rid of your cable/satellite. I did and I don't miss it one bit.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Rumsfeld is now saying the information "may have come from Gitmo".



Because OBL has obviously been hiding in the same place for 9 years.

I think he had a tent there for the first four years until they built the compound

[Cain]

I suspect the Al-Qaeda network is too diffuse and fractured to mount any big attacks.

However, they may just step up suicide bombing attempts instead.  Those are cheap and easy.  On the other hand, it doesn't really keep in step with their image as the Scary Terrorist Organisation That Does Spectacular Attacks.  Any idiot can pull off a suicide bombing, after all.

[Adios]

I suspect the Al-Qaeda network is too diffuse and fractured to mount any big attacks.

However, they may just step up suicide bombing attempts instead.  Those are cheap and easy.  On the other hand, it doesn't really keep in step with their image as the Scary Terrorist Organisation That Does Spectacular Attacks.  Any idiot can pull off a suicide bombing, after all.

Except on New Years Eve. 

[Cain]

That's probably the least of the stupidity that is going to be coming down the line in the next few weeks.

Urgh, I feel another holiday from the news coming on...good thing I may be starting a new job and looking at doing some serious writing.  Stop me watching the TV.

Get rid of your cable/satellite. I did and I don't miss it one bit.

I did, and also didn't miss it.

But digital TV in the UK is required, if you want to have a TV (they're switching the analog off, this year) and comes with BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN, Al-jazeera, Russia Today and a couple of other news stations automatically.

[Adios]

Here is a very good article describing the compound.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.raid/index.html?hpt=T1

[Thurnez Isa]

Is it wrong that I keep thinking "wow Osama must have been really good at hide and seek when he was kid"?

[Adios]

Is it wrong that I keep thinking "wow Osama must have been really good at hide and seek when he was kid"?

I'm not a big conspiracy nut, but I have felt for some time that the Bush regime needed a boogeyman much more than they needed a confirmed kill.

[Luna]

Is it wrong that I keep thinking "wow Osama must have been really good at hide and seek when he was kid"?

I'm not a big conspiracy nut, but I have felt for some time that the Bush regime needed a boogeyman much more than they needed a confirmed kill.

Entirely possible.

[Suu]

Too bad Obama couldn't have pulled this off within the first year of his term.

[Luna]

Too bad Obama couldn't have pulled this off within the first year of his term.

Yeah, well, hide and seek in the back yard is one thing.  The whole planet, with another country apparently running interference?  Gonna take a little longer.

Bush had 7 years, and couldn't do it.

[Suu]

Too bad Obama couldn't have pulled this off within the first year of his term.

Yeah, well, hide and seek in the back yard is one thing.  The whole planet, with another country apparently running interference?  Gonna take a little longer.

Bush had 7 years, and couldn't do it.

Couldn't? Or wouldn't?

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Too bad Obama couldn't have pulled this off within the first year of his term.

Yeah, well, hide and seek in the back yard is one thing.  The whole planet, with another country apparently running interference?  Gonna take a little longer.

Bush had 7 years, and couldn't do it.

Couldn't? Or wouldn't?

I was under the impression that Bush's family was friends with the Bin Laden family - not necessarily Osama, but his father or one of his 25 brothers or something. Whoever controls the oil side of the Bin Laden empire. I can see it being a favor to give Osama a seven year head start from the Bush family to the Bin Laden family.

The guy does have 25-ish brothers and 20-ish sons, doesn't he? I wonder how his family is taking this news.

[Cain]

Bin Laden isn't exactly popular with the rest of his family though - they make a lot of money due to how close they are to the House of Saud and profit from their financial investments in American firms.  Two groups of people not exactly on Osama's Happy Hanukah card list.