Bin Laden is dead

[BENTLEY]

Wouldn't that suck if it was real and it was the only picture they bothered releasing? They might as well release a screen shot from a Call of Duty game. Should be interesting to see the official White House release.

 

[kwb]

Speaking of Call of Duty, I'll be happy when I can reinact this on my PS3 next year. I won't be online though. Thanks Sony.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

(AP) White House: bin Laden was not armed during US raid on Pakistani compound.


How much does this matter?

 

[kwb]

I thought he was armed with a female. ; )

 

[kwb]

Everytime I read this thread title I get Chris Farley's voice in my head at 2:05. hahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBIyGxV7Ek

 

[Scat]

Here is the new Bin Laden photo that is floating out now:

It's a crap photo. Here's what they are saying about the actual photos...

https://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/03/even-more-on-the-photos/?hpt=T1

The senior us official also says the White House received 3 sets of photos yesterday. The photos included:

1. Photos of OBLs body at a hangar after he was brought back to Afghanistan. This is the most recognizable with a clear picture of his face. The picture is gruesome because he has a massive open head wound across both eyes. It’s very bloody and gory.

2. Photos from the burial at sea on the USS Carl Vinson. Photos of OBL before the shroud was put on and then wrapped in the shroud.

3. There are photos of the raid itself that include photos of the two dead brothers, one of OBLs dead son (adult adolescent, maybe approx 18 yrs old) and some of the inside scene of the compound.

The official says the challenge is that the picture that includes the most recognizable image of OBLs face – from the hangar in Afghanistan – is so gruesome and mangled its not appropriate for say the front page of the newspaper. On the other hand, this is the one that is most identifiable as him.

The photo you linked to (which is now a broken link) is pretty tame based on the description above.

 

[YB85]

I wonder if the picture of OBL is as gruesome as some of the photos that were taken of the bodies of the people who leaped from towers. You know, the innocent people who made the mistake of going to work that morning.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Another fake. I call it the Bin laden cookie:

 

[Duck Rodgers]

(AP) White House: bin Laden was not armed during US raid on Pakistani compound.


How much does this matter?

It doesn't really unless you want to believe that all the Seals looked like Matt Damon, the Star Spangled was piping in the background, and God threw confetti down on everyone once Osama was officially dead.

 

[One Brow]

(AP) White House: bin Laden was not armed during US raid on Pakistani compound.


How much does this matter?

If no one from the house was shooting, that would mean we executed him without even a trial.

If Osama had no gun, but other people in the house (and in particular in the room with Osama) were shooting, it's no big deal.

 

[sirkickyass]

It doesn't really unless you want to believe that all the Seals looked like Matt Damon, the Star Spangled was piping in the background, and God threw confetti down on everyone once Osama was officially dead.

The local John Birchers have advanced the following claims:

(1) Osama actually died of kidney failure in 12/2001; Benazir Bhutto was murdered for reporting it;

(2) Osama's CIA name was "Tim Osman" and he dined at the White House;

(3) US intervention in the Middle East is meant to change Muslim culture to accept central banks.

What say you oh jazzfanz guru of conspiracies?

 

[sirkickyass]

If no one from the house was shooting, that would mean we executed him without even a trial.

If Osama had no gun, but other people in the house (and in particular in the room with Osama) were shooting, it's no big deal.

My understanding from reading the reports is that the latter was true.