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Osama bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan

Thatcher's death will not be violent. Other than that your are correct. And what upsets and scares me most is the lives that will be lost in retaliation for bin Laden's death.
 
Just a thought were will they bury the buggar ,will they take him to the us,just wondering
 
Oh FFS everyone, grow up, everyone knows Osama Bin Laden is actually your parents - like the tooth fairy, or Jesus.
 
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see below quote

(CBS) - Senior administration officials tell CBS News that the operation to find and kill al Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden began in earnest when the CIA learned the world's most wanted terrorist was in a specific compound in Pakistan.

The president ordered the raid by a small U.S. team, which found bin Laden in a home on a fortified compound in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.

Intelligence agents believed there was a "high probability" bin Laden was hiding at the compound.

U.S. officials say inside information was key to the successful operation. The CIA has for decades tried to gain the confidence of people close to the al Qaeda boss. Terror detainees "flagged to us people who were providing direct support" to bin Laden. A lone courier in particular, an associate of other senior al Qaeda members, proved crucial in the end.

CBS News is told that the courier was "trusted" by bin Laden. "We identified areas where this courier and his brother operated, but they had extensive operational security," said the official -- and those elaborate security procedures made the U.S. even more suspicious of whom they were catering to.

Bin Laden's residence was identified in August 2010 in Abbottabad, Pakistan, an affluent area home to many retired military officers.

American agents were "shocked by what we saw" at the compound, calling it an "extraordinary" complex many times larger than the other homes in the neighborhood, surrounded by an eight-foot high, barbed wire-topped wall.

CBS is told there were secondary perimeter walls inside the compound, with two security gates. One thing intelligence operatives noticed was that the residents of the complex seemed to burn their trash, an unusual measure to maintain privacy which set them apart from their neighbors.

The lavish home had a terrace on the third floor, surrounded by its own seven-foot high privacy wall.

Another unusual feature of the unusually expensive home -- it had no telephone or internet connections. That set more alarm bells ringing.

The raid:

Early Sunday afternoon, Mr. Obama ordered the "surgical" U.S. helicopter raid on the compound in Abbottabad. It was planned as an elite strike by a small team to minimize any collateral damage or death in the area.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the team went in aboard two Blackhawk helicopters. It was a military team of about two dozen, but they were operating under the authority of Leon Panetta, the CIA Director, since the U.S. military does not have authority to operate in Pakistan. A second team of about two dozen orbited out of sight in case they were needed.

U.S. troops were at the compound for less than 40 minutes. In addition to bin Laden, three adult males were killed, including bin Laden's adult son and two couriers.

Bin Laden did not go peacefully, according to officials. He resisted arrest and was killed in a firefight as U.S. troops entered the compound.

One woman was killed when she was used as a human shield, U.S. officials say.

Two women were injured in the raid.

One of the U.S. helicopters had mechanical failure before leaving the raid and was destroyed.

None of the specific intelligence resulting in the raid was shared with another country. Only a "very small group of people" inside the U.S. government knew it was to happen. Officials say Pakistan's government was notified after the fact.

The officials, all of whom spoke to CBS News on condition they remain anonymous, said care was being take to ensure bin Laden's body was handled in an "appropriate manner" according to Islamic custom
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yardbird said:
I find celebrating this as rather weird and a bit 'American'.
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Weird, but understandable.

I guess today is their day of celebration, tomorrow they can start worrying about the reaction.

A martyr created ?
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Guess so, but if he had been captured and jailed he would just become a prolonged excuse for action in an attempt to get him released anyway.

Better off the cunt is dead IMO.
 
Stoat Boy said:
Those scenes of people 'celebrating' in Washington strike me as beng rather distasteful.
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One of my Facebook friends is over there and posted up a video she took. I had to turn it off.

I can understand why they are celebrating though.
 
I find it hard to understand that it took them so long, he was living in a Pakistan city.

The guy has a $25,000,000 bounty on his head.

People in Pakistan aren't very rich, I find it hard to understand that someone didn't see him, then before their eyes watch him turn into as a walking mountain of cash and get onto the US embassy.

One thing I learnt quite quickly about Asia generally, its money 1st and every else a fairly distant second.
 
Sunray said:
I find it hard to understand that it took them so long, he was living in a Pakistan city.
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A Pakistan city with a large military presence including a Military Academy that was apparently very close to the compound where he was "hiding". Maybe he'd got a job as a lecturer?
 
Fuchs66 said:
CNN reporting that the body has been "disposed of at sea".
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Burned in a Viking longboat, was it? Why dispose of it 'at sea'? I remember when Pol Pot died, there were photos of his corpse with cotton wool stuffed in his nostrils to prove he wasn't breathing.

For Osama, on the other hand, it's burial at sea. Hmmmm.
 
Free Republic is an amusing read right now.

Small minority of 'great, we got the bastard'

Large majority 'how dare obanana take credit!' , 'I've just defriended 16 liberals on facebook for gloating'

Plus some really charming stuff from freepers outraged that the corpse will be 'handled according to islamic practice' rather than violated using pork products and a bunch of crazies who think it's all a plot to sell out Israel to the 'muzzies'
 
Idris2002 said:
Burned in a Viking longboat, was it? Why dispose of it 'at sea'? I remember when Pol Pot died, there were photos of his corpse with cotton wool stuffed in his nostrils to prove he wasn't breathing.

For Osama, on the other hand, it's burial at sea. Hmmmm.
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Conspiraloon, Gerry?

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Idris2002 said:
Burned in a Viking longboat, was it? Why dispose of it 'at sea'? I remember when Pol Pot died, there were photos of his corpse with cotton wool stuffed in his nostrils to prove he wasn't breathing.

For Osama, on the other hand, it's burial at sea. Hmmmm.
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If this is true, this be'll given as proof that the USA have defiled an Islamic tradition by not letting his "family" etc bury him. Well played America - any more petrol you want to add to the fire?
 
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