Osama Bin Laden DEAD

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It could go either way, there may be an outbreak of extremist fervour, or, and I consider this more likely, there will be very few tears shed for bin Laden in the Islamic world.

Most truly Islamic groups - agree or not with their aims - are fully aware of Bin Laden's, and by extension al-Qaeda's, intentions, which had precisely sod all to do with faith or any particular variety of God, and lots to do with prostituting stupid young men's faith into giving up their lives for the political advantage of charlatans like Bin Laden.

Is this a positive thing? No, clearly not, the use of force is never to be considered a positive, but in this circumstance I'll not fret too much over his death and I rather doubt much of the Islamic world will either.

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Think my mates FB status say it all really

Yeah yeah, well done USA, but lets be brutally honest here... It's only taken you 10 years to catch a man in flip-flops and a dressing gown!

Capturing and then killing Saddam did very little in Iraq so I expect this to be the same. Okay, turned out Saddam had almost nothing to do with the extremists in Iraq at that time but still. One man falling, even a so called leader, means little. In fact it will probably strengthen their resolve to create more mayhem in his name. Bin Laden is now more dangerous than ever.

I sit firmly on the fence with this.
Yeah its taken 10years for a superpower to capture one bloke in flip flops and a bath robe which seems sort of embarrasing when you look at it like that. However the world is a pretty big place and I cant imagine him taking many long walks in the sun over the last 10years so as the article says they've found him through his associates rather than thru tracking the man himself - but think how right they needed to be... imagine if they did have the wrong guy. They needed to be 100% that this was him, mistakes would not be forgiven and so 10years unarguably is a long time but it sends out one massivly clear message.

Mess with the USA and they WILL find you, it might take 10years but they WILL come for you and the chances of it ending well for you are, well NILL!

If any of the extremists are smart enough to see that picture then maybe they wont be as keen to fill those vacant flipflops.

Originally Posted by maviczap

Do they think that by killing him anythings going to stop?

Nobody is saying this except Brits posting anti-American comments in response to all this. Both Obama and Cameron have said it's definitely not over. That doesn't prevent you from being glad the *******'s been dealt with, though, does it?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by metalangel

Nobody is saying this except Brits posting anti-American comments in response to all this. Both Obama and Cameron have said it's definitely not over. That doesn't prevent you from being glad the *******'s been dealt with, though, does it?

You missed my point, the way the yanks were celebrating gave the impression that its all over, which is naive.

My comments aren't anti American, I don't know where you get that impression

Never said I wasn't glad he's gone, quite the oppoisite, I hope he died in the most horrible and painful way possible, in fact I hope the spirits of the people who died in the 9/11 & 7/7 attacks dragged him to his own personal hell

The face of radical Islamist Terrorism has reaped what he deserved. However brainwashed radicals by their thousands exist today,masquerading under all manner of names.It is sadly not over.

Pakistan has much to answer as to why he has survived thus far,they are NOT to be trusted. He was living in a house that stood out as being "8 times" larger than anything else around and was situated just 1 kilometer from Pakistan's version of Sandhurst! Impossible to believe that certain high ranking Pakistani's were not aware of his presence.

Sorry maviczap, don't mean to attack, just this isn't the only forum where I've seen exactly that comment and I think it's unfair. It's a bit like telling people to stop dancing on May 8th, 1945 as there's still fighting in the Pacific.

They're especially cavorting in Washington and NYC because those were both hit in 9/11. Don't forget that Bin Laden has been (rightfully) demonized in the media there for a decade so this is a huge, pent-up sigh of relief they're expressing.

[maviczap]

No worries mate

Great news and to be fair it can't have been easy locating him he hardly ever had to leave his residence and had no internet/phone, a man used to living in caves and surrounded by guards/watchmen. Justice for America finally and a good example set to other terrorists (not that it will detere them, but you can't just take it).

Where are these pictures of him leaked? Anyone have a link?