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[Nickbat]

According to sky news Bin Ladens body has been buried at sea, why the rush to get rid of the body?. :-/

We don't want a land-based shrine. 

[Shimmy]

[Nickbat]

Well Jaimie wanted something else on the news, this will run for a long time no doubt.  It appears he was killed by US forces working in Pakistan and his body has been recovered.  It has only taken 9 years.......

I wonder if this was the reason the Royal honeymoon was postponed?  If they were going to a Muslim country when this was kicking off you could imagine how nervous the Royal Protection Squad would have been.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

Stay alert peeps, I get the feeling we have just kicked the wasps nest :-/

I get the feeling we have just kicked the wasps nest

I certainly agree with you G.

Not so sure, Den. Most organisations like this require charismatic leadership and when that is eliminated, the structure falls apart. Much like the Bader-Meinhof gang, methinks. Hope I'm right, anyway! 

[Olympia5776]

The yanks have killed him, took them long enough, but alls well that ends well I suppose.
Hopefully it will have the effect of cutting the head off a snake.

Sadly Albs I doubt it.
It will have no detremental effect on Al Qaeda operations, in all probability only further galvanize them and potential supporters .
After being targeted as Americas no 1 enemy Bin Laden would have long since set up a devolved command structure to deliberatly thwart any effect his demise would have on Al Qaeda .
In a decade this will have rendered him a " brand name only " and all power from tactical to finance  will be in the hands of a myriad of very capable successors .
It's a tremendous coup for Obama from a PR point of view but I suspect that the vast majority will see it as that and that alone .
I have to say though that I do feel a sense of justice and even satisfaction re his death for the deeds he initially masterminded.
This and will remain a growing problem for the West irrespective of what the political leaders of the day and the media will proudly tell us .
Be vigilant...................

[Dishevelled Den]

Well Jaimie wanted something else on the news, this will run for a long time no doubt.  It appears he was killed by US forces working in Pakistan and his body has been recovered.  It has only taken 9 years.......

I wonder if this was the reason the Royal honeymoon was postponed?  If they were going to a Muslim country when this was kicking off you could imagine how nervous the Royal Protection Squad would have been.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

Stay alert peeps, I get the feeling we have just kicked the wasps nest :-/

I get the feeling we have just kicked the wasps nest

I certainly agree with you G.

Not so sure, Den. Most organisations like this require charismatic leadership and when that is eliminated, the structure falls apart. Much like the Bader-Meinhof gang, methinks. Hope I'm right, anyway! 

It would be good if it were to have that effect Nick but I don't think it will - sadly.

There seems to me to be a particular tendency within certain elements of the Middle Eastern region to believe that violence towards outsiders is the only means open to them to ensure the sanctity and promotion of their way of life and the ‘truth’ that is Islam.

Whilst Bin Laden was the public face of this extremism there are others just as ‘visionary’ and charismatic to carry this fight forward, and although this successful military mission may well create a pause in Al Qaeda’s overall aim to rid the world on the Infidel, the lust for this desire is too ingrained, too well established and capitalised to be truncated by his death.

[Gaffers]

I don't know who Lupin is, but Lucan rings a distant bell

If anyone's looking for missing Lupins I'm sure I've got some in the back garden amongst the weeds.

Yeah, alright.... I was up early ok?!?!? 

[Banjax]

freudian slip from Weasel News 

[aaronjb]

According to sky news Bin Ladens body has been buried at sea, why the rush to get rid of the body?. :-/

We don't want a land-based shrine. 

But this way none of the conspiracy theorists will believe he's actually dead.. or that he even existed (see Cem's links)..

Like others, I certainly don't think this is going to stop terrorism, or achieve anything other than rattling their cage and making things worse - and since we're lumped in with America on this, they aren't the only ones who should be vigilant against retaliatory attacks - look out for them coming to a city near you soon, I imagine.

[Nickbat]

Amongst all the reactions of world leaders to Bin Laden's demise, this one sticks out like a sore thumb:

Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas administration in Gaza Strip:

We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.

No wonder there is little likelihood of a settlement to the hostilities in that region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256956

[Banjax]

another Black Hawk down due to "mechanical failure" again I see - the seals blew it up as they left 

[M]

another Black Hawk down due to "mechanical failure" again I see - the seals blew it up as they left 

Super Stallion I heard?

[mantahatch]

Was watching on the BBC news this morning. The film of americans gathering at ground zero (the site of the two towers) and shouting an screamng like maniacs. They actually looked like people demonstrating in the middle east, short of firing off AK47s.

I actually found it somewhat disturbing how the americans are "celebrating" his death. I am no fan of his or terrorism in general, but what seperates us from the terrorists when people celebrate the death of someone ?    :-/

[cem_devecioglu]

just think of a scenario.. a terrorist living very close to a city in a luxury house with high walls.. :-?

and all the west searching for him

and obama come into the tv and said "we killed him"

really funny story.. and no way on earth I would believe that.. he was a muppet.. job finished .. and dead , may be earlier may be now.. but doesnt matter.. and by the way you can find thousands of similiar faces in arabia..

at least one thing is good, I was fed up with this story and its finally over..  I do never believe those people have the ability to do 9/11..

[Banjax]

Was watching on the BBC news this morning. The film of americans gathering at ground zero (the site of the two towers) and shouting an screamng like maniacs. They actually looked like people demonstrating in the middle east, short of firing off AK47s.

I actually found it somewhat disturbing how the americans are "celebrating" his death. I am no fan of his or terrorism in general, but what seperates us from the terrorists when people celebrate the death of someone ?    :-/

must admit, watching footage of this tall, gentle looking cleric with kind eyes and then cutting to baying mobs of americans dancing and celebrating his death - an alien looking on would think we were the bad guys 

wonder if George Bush will say a few words at his funeral - both families are very close 

[Olympia5776]

Give the Americans a break.....
They've put up with TV footage of wide eyed middle eastern pistol wavers dancing with utter glee at every opportunity they could at America's expense .
I too was initially unsure of the young inebriated revellers dancing in the street but what the hell if we had suffered nigh on 3000 dead on 7/7 I think we'd have had a little cheer too......