Osama was essentially stateless, he was no longer a Saudi Citizen and he wasn't a Pakistani citizen either. He selfishly ensured his own well being and choose to live by his own rules, so why should any set of rules of fairness be applied to him?
Sitting in a compound well within Pakistan meant he could be well away from the action and misery that he helped to create.
The conspiracy theories will grow and the actual details of how this all came to pass will never be fully known.
Without celebrating the death of any human being, I reckon the ends justified the means in dealing with him in the way that they (the US) did.
I will most probably cop a pasting for the above, but my belief is that he had it coming and that that the fight that he was picking was ultimately going to be his undoing.
Spent a lot of time waiting around because of the weather today, and to ease the boredom I turned on the truck radio and tuned into ABC News Radio.
All fecking day they continued to tell me that the reason they have not released any photo's was because it was potentially inflammatory.
They must take our stupidity for granted. I fail to see how showing a photo of Osama Bin Deadawhile can be any more inflammatory than invading Iraq on falsified evidence, occupying Afghanistan for ten years, invading Libya and killing over a million muslims, and supporting Israel in the occupation of Palestine that makes Apartheid proponents look like angels.
As with all of the "investigations" into events surrounding 911 they have got rid of the forensic evidence ASAP.
Now I wonder why that is?
it is heartening to see people use their scepticism to question things (exceptions given to die hard dollards the like of pweedas, ginger pomp & co)
, I am used to seeing people come round to my way of thinking.
I find all this hard to believe.
I find there is little evidence to say he is dead.
I find all those USA'ers in there "our sh!t don't stink" society as bad as the terrorists themselves. To see them shouting cheering and carrying on about the death of someone who has never been brought to trial over the atrocities mildly disturbing to say the least.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
Unrich Relo
It's a bit harsh to say people celebrating the death of Bin Laden are as bad as a Terrorist who kills hundreds of people.
So should we lock up those celebrating people in Guantanimo Bay?
Not that I don't understand your point, but if a family member of mine was killed in 9/11, Id probably be cheering too.
Went to a coffee shop today and had a Osama Bin Latte
White fluffy head with 2 shots in it
This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan, Taliban Minister of
Emigration, Mohammed Omar warned Australia that if military action against
Iraq & Afghanistan continues Taliban authorities will cut off Australia's
supply of Cab Drivers and if this action does not yield sufficient
results, Telstra Customer Service Reps will be next, followed by
Centrelink Officers, Telemarketers and finally, Queensland Doctors.
THIS IS GETTING UGLY!!!!!!
Not really sure how I feel about it all but what were the alternatives?
If they had caught him and put him on trial I suspect that he would have been tried somewhere where he would have fried anyway.
No doubt he's a martyr to some, but the longer and more drawn out his trial and sentance would have been would only have got him more support with fanatics. To me the "freedom fighter" living in a cushy mansion and shot dead in his pj's is a better result than him getting executed later.
They should've just flown a f***ing jumbo into his house, called it an accident and never mentioned that he lived there. At least then we wouldn't have to listen to more conspiracy sh1te*.
*Air crashes linked to increased chemtrail activity...
One group of terrorists killed the leader of another group of terrorists, business as usual tomorrow.
here's a new conspiracy
just like donald trump did to obama
obama is saying that bin laden is dead just so bin laden will have to reveal himself to prove otherwise, then, they will shoot him.
booyaa
had a strange experience last night at sports club.
Canadian guy starts talking to me about obl possible death.
i remember talking to him years ago about evidence in Loose Change documentary, he thought i was off my rocker,so i was not really interested in talking to him about obl.
anyway,i cut to the chase real quick and told him this obl death is all fake and anyway he had nout to do with 911.
to my surprise he agreed with me! then went through the physical evidence proving it was a you know what a .........
funny thing was, just after he left out front door,the bloke running the club who overheard our conversation said 'you know i used to respect that guy,not anymore.'
sums up why so few are willing to go there.
Felix...d...cat, you missed two major points
it now appears we are to get thousands of Indians
to fix the mining shortfall, and we are building them an ,
anfo plant in south australia where they will make explosives
Could this be "Custers last stand" allover agen ???? Scary..
The USA military has unveiled their newly issued bodybags.....
....called the Osama Bin Liner
The US isn't exactly blameless. There wasn't much stopping American troops (and private contractors like haliburton) from killing random iraqis, except for American public opinion... which was ambivalent if it meant something to oil prices or house prices.
OBL's death can't be compared to his victims either.
A Going to work on 911 and being killed at your desk by a jet place crashing into your office (unless you were evil because you worked in financial services or unless you believe it was the us government)
B Being killed by armed forces after claiming to have caused the death of civilians. And not as collateral damage, but because you regard them as guilty because of their association with their governments eg 7th July bombings - OBL said that because the UK people re-elected labour then they were to blame for the bombings and therefore deserved it....
The US is pretty bad to be honest but I'm trying to think of a large country (>50m people) that doesn't have a pretty poor record ... any suggestions?
It would have been better if OBL had been taken and tried, but under what law and in what country. That said, shooting an unarmed man to avoid having the complexity of a trial is a pretty poor justification. There would have been an opportunity to find the moral high ground.
That said, at least he died quickly and relatively humanely. A lot of the food we eat would die slower...
My sister works for a charity in London that deals with victims of torture and a lot of their former patients are now employed by the charity. I've met a few of them. There would have been a much easier opportunity to take the moral high ground, while the US was trying to find him. Less extraordinary rendition, less outsourcing of torture to Egypt... Guatanamo bay was a much stronger example of where the US could have been stronger morally. For every person in an orange boiler suit, there was a small shift towards radicalisation of islam - and inevitably this small shift would have taken people over the edge into direct action.
