The Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is dead and his body in the hands of U.S troops. After ten years of searching finally a page of history is, with luck, being turned. What a coup for President Obama too. Nice that it comes as he steps up his game in the coming political seasons in the U.S
I think this is good for the whole world and will be of relief not only to the west but to the Muslim countries and Muslims around the world.
Good news say I
It won't be long before another, equally deadly if not more so, fruitcake comes on the scene waging war on innocent people.
The closing of a chapter, yes. The potential opening of another, absolutely.
I also just hope that this doesn't give the Americans what they will believe to be a moral right to seek out and destroy Gaddiffi who they also believe was responsible for killing innocent Americans. They've already made one bungled attempt on his life allegedly killing his youngest son and family.
If he is dead, it will stop the politicians from making some shabby deal in the future when they decide that a former enemy can be an ally.
Standby for the backlash!!!
Its bound to come a wave of bombings or something...
If he had half a brain he would have already arranged a succession plan. We may see little difference in the level of attacks.
Has it really?
Eye for an Eye....and all that?
Not sure myself that I would call it justice. Seems to me that he got out quite easily without having to answer for anything. I also agree with those that have alluded it to it above, he is sure to have had a succession plan and I fear the worst is yet to come but hope I'm wrong.
I'd suggest OBL was more of a figurehead these days rather than a commanding general.
More a Hirohito than a Yamamoto if you want a WW2 analogy.
But always good to see a bad guy get it in the end.
Any attacks on the West which occur would have been going to happen anyway and will just now be "in revenge for the killing of OBL".
John
Digging a grave in the sea?
10 years.
Trillions of dollars spent.
Thousands of soldiers dead.
State of the art technology.
The US finally find Bin Laden...................in his house :doh:
Dave_Notts
and so the recriminations begin. "How on earth did OBL manage to live in Pakistan for so long undetected?" "The Pakistani Government must have known about it" etc etc.
The plain fact of the matter must be that it could equally well have been a nice large secluded house in the suburbs of West London or the outskirts of New York (apart from the fact the weather conditions might not have been so pleasant).
If someone wants to remain undiscovered and they are careful enough about it - as OBL seemed to have been - anything is possible. I doubt we will ever know the truth about the intelligence leading up to his discovery but DC and BO must be sighing some relief that it was not in their back yard :grin:
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