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Bin Laden Was Found at Luxurious Pakistan Compound
Reuters via CNBC ^ | May 02, 2011 | Reuters

Posted on 05/02/2011 3:14:56 AM PDT by CutePuppy

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To: CutePuppy

If you will recall, the official position for any high level kills was that the body would be prominently photographed and the body put on display so that the bad guy’s followers and the common people would be able to see that the bad guy was dead and would never bother them again. Only after this would the body be disposed of.
They did this with Saddam’s sons and torture buddies; they did this with al-Zarkawi, why not Osama?
This is too convenient, and, comes at a time that Obama needs a boost in the polls to deflect the birthers, the economy and the daily sky rocketing oil prices.
Give me a break. Buried at sea? And before the official announcement? This just reeks of HOAX.


21 posted on 05/02/2011 4:32:34 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama did not learn incompetence; he was born to it.)
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To: stlnative; nuconvert

What did they do with the other bodies? Buried them at sea or left in the compound for more “traditional” Islamic burial?


22 posted on 05/02/2011 4:34:01 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

no reason to tunnel, no reason to hide. He was enjoying the protection of the Paki military. The guy was probably sitting in the open air markets, drinking tea and nailing goats in the keister in plain sight of the military establishment.

Our war is not with him, it’s with Islam. When are we going to wake up?


23 posted on 05/02/2011 4:34:16 AM PDT by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: Defend Liberty

Okay, good, I am not the only one who thinks this stinks.

We supposedly kill the spiritual leader of a terrorist group, a man who is supposedly over 6 feet tall and on some form of dialysis in a firefight with 6 Navy Seals? And then they supposedly confirm his ID through DNA sampling (where did they get the comparative samples?), then dump his body in the ocean?

I am sorry, but the US Military customarily shows proof of HVT kills through video or imagery. Saddam, and esp. his sons were shown on international TV through pictures and videos. Khalid Sheik Mohammad was dogged-and-ponied around the news outlets in his nasty stained shirt. But the biggest terrorist leader in the world is just dumped overboard, and we are supposed to believe that?

If Osama comes out in a video/audio tape in the next couple of days, I am going to literally laugh until I pee myself. I do not believe a damn thing this administration does, and I think this is a feint on their part.


24 posted on 05/02/2011 4:34:35 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Yes, Uday Husssein and Qusay Hussein and al-Zarkawi were on prominent photo-display despite fake “outrage” from the press and Islamic “community”.

This handling may open bigger can of worms than LFBC, unless it’s well documented.


25 posted on 05/02/2011 4:40:36 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy

Hopefully they were left there as proof that they did get bin Laden.


26 posted on 05/02/2011 4:42:08 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: RoseyT
Buried at sea? Who made the decision to do that and why? The regime decided it would be just "too difficult" to find any country to take the body. By Islamic custom he had to be buried within 24 hrs and that was the directive.

Islam allows burials at sea in select circumstances including if there's risk an enemy may dig the body up.

That really ticks me off!

I'm sure you're not alone! We'll only have the regime's "so say." Imagine if this had been under W's watch. No one on the Left or press would accept that.

27 posted on 05/02/2011 4:42:59 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. - W, 9/20/01)
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To: CutePuppy

“but unfortunately doesn’t do much for the WOT....”

I disagree. Terrorist organizations require paymasters, planners and operational leaders among others to carry out attacks. OBL was not only a Saudi paymaster but also a planning and operations leader. His removal is tremendously significant.


28 posted on 05/02/2011 4:43:17 AM PDT by Justa
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To: rarestia

6 seals? Not likely. I think you are very confused. Google Seal Team 6.


29 posted on 05/02/2011 4:46:21 AM PDT by ironman
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To: rarestia
I'd heard we have DNA samples from a deceased sister. There's no way they confirmed his DNA in a matter of hours. It's just not possible in the real world.

An Al Queda spokesman says Osama "will be avenged" although WA Times didn't ID who this was and whether they were confirming Obama's story.

30 posted on 05/02/2011 4:48:53 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. - W, 9/20/01)
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To: ironman

My local news outlets are reporting 6 Seals. I know all about Seal Team 6, and that makes a lot more sense.


31 posted on 05/02/2011 4:49:03 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Saudis were paying Pakistan to protect Bin Laden

If true (it seems reasonable that some important Saudis may have helped him), the recent uprisings in the Arab world cannot be a coincidence in regards to diming out Bin Laden, at this point in time.

32 posted on 05/02/2011 4:51:04 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: BuffaloJack

“They did this with Saddam’s sons and torture buddies; they did this with al-Zarkawi, why not Osama?”

It’s all about jurisdiction over the body. The Iraqi government had jurisdiction over bodies killed in Iraq and did as they chose with them. OBL’s body was technically the jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Dumping the body before notification of the death removes all diplomatic obligations to those nations.

It’s that old diplomatic phrase: diplomacy first; when all else fails use force. It’s what makes diplomacy legitimate.


33 posted on 05/02/2011 4:55:37 AM PDT by Justa
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To: newzjunkey

I will gladly shut my mouth as soon as they show us photos of his body and 100% confirmation that the DNA collected is his. I’d also like to hear from an actual military officer about it.

This has been the Obama Show up to this point. “I, me, my...” from The One. Credit where credit is due if all of this pans out to be true, but I’m going to remain skeptical.


34 posted on 05/02/2011 4:56:00 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Kozak

I guarantee the SEALs shoved some pork into his mouth.

He should have gone down sewn inside a pigskin.


35 posted on 05/02/2011 5:06:20 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Castigo Cay" will be out in a few weeks.)
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To: CutePuppy

Who pays for million dollar compounds?


36 posted on 05/02/2011 5:06:20 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Those people tunnel like crazy.”

Mexicans do, too.


37 posted on 05/02/2011 5:07:12 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: Justa
Terrorist organizations require paymasters, planners and operational leaders among others to carry out attacks. OBL was not only a Saudi paymaster but also a planning and operations leader.

Paymaster and planner / "organizer" in the beginning, certainly. Lately, more likely, none of the above.

Most of the al-Qaeda operations and recruitment has been shifted to Iraq, where 90% or more of al-Qaeda met with dismal fate of martyrdom (unless 72 virgins changes the qualification of the outcome for them).

There even has been a lot of talk about the strife between aQI and al-Qaeda leaders about the future of al-Qaeda organization and leadership before the "surge" in Iraq.

Osama would have been on the run most of the time since the Afghanistan campaign and the fallout of al-Qaeda and Taliban - that doesn't a planning and operational leader make.

For all the talk by liberals of the "military adventures in Iraq" being a "recruiting tool" for al-Qaeda, they are now awfully silent and unconcerned about more recent events in Africa and ME (and particularly, idiotic involvement in war in Libya) fueled by Obama's destabilizing "foreign policy" in the region.

38 posted on 05/02/2011 5:17:03 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: RoadTest
Who pays for million dollar compounds?

People who have the money to do so. Ever heard of Kennedys?

39 posted on 05/02/2011 5:18:51 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Vermin do that


40 posted on 05/02/2011 5:19:18 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.)
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