Just In: Osama is dead

[pmulcahy11b]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Front of the site.

NBC News is saying that it was a US military operation in Northern Pakistan and we have his body.

[Cdnwolf]

Just hope its not one of his doubles...

[Legbreaker]

And about bloody time too!

[Abbott Shaull]

Yeah, and he was in the suburbs of the Capital of Pakistan. Thanks you for being one of our Allies...NOT!

Now we will see his group splinter into couple groups and one will powerful enough to give us black eye once this settles down...

[Targan]

I'm a government media monitor... guess which direction the rest of my working day just went Frantic alerts to the Premier and government ministers going out in all directions.

I hope that bin Laden died in pain. In a perfect world there would have been a wet ops specialist kneeling on his chest and bitch-slapping him as he faded to black.

[Panther Al]

From what I am hearing, we got intel in august of last year he hangs out where we got him. The Paki military runs a academy there. The call was made to send in Spec Ops, we did not tell the government about it (A good idea since the politicians like the Taliban) but did tell selected members of the Paki military. The compound went apeshit when they saw the helo's sweep in (As they should considering who they was protecting), and during the battle, a Paki Helo was shot down. DNA match confirms we got him.

At least, thats what I have gleaned from the media so far.

My analysis so far: Massive bump in morale accross the board, Obama takes credit (I will admit that he does deserve some for keeping the hunt alive in spite of what he said he would do during his campaign), and AQ goes apeshit: The loss of leadership from OBL will be felt, but it won't cripple AQ. Expect an uptick in activity over the next two years.

[Legbreaker]

DNA match confirms we got him.

Umm, doesn't that take more than five minutes to run...

[Panther Al]

We got him a few days ago according to reports, we just now officially confirmed that it was him.

And it looks like the SEAL's are gonna be insufferable now.

[Ramjam]

All I can say is thank fuck for that.

And I hope the bastard burns in hell.

(Please excuse my language but after 10 yrs of losing friends it's about time).

[TiggerCCW UK]

Good result.

[Panther Al]

Indeed. As a friend said: Best Birthday Present Ever.


More info, seems the initial reports of Paki involvement was wrong, there was none at all, not even any response from the local paki authorities to the 40 minute fire-fight. The lost helo mechanicaled on the way in, which had to raise the pucker factor.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

A couple of thoughts at this late hour:

I wouldn't be surprised if the Pakistanis turned him out: just a week or two back we told them no more unrestricted drone flights over their borders. They were probably sick and tired of the heightened AQ presence in Pakistan caused by OBL being there which was drawing in more drones and causing pressure on the government.

As bad as Pakistan can be when it comes to Islamic conservatism, there's a bunch of those tribal folks who want nothing, nada, zip to do with the Taliban and their style of fundamentalism.

Second, I can't help but think the guy had "dead man switch" operations in place, to wit: "Hey, if you find out I've been martyred by the Americans, initiate these attacks."

I think things are about to get really, really sticky for a while. I just hope I'm wrong.

[Webstral]

Kicking a beehive generally produces an immediate if temporary negative reaction, even if the queen dies.

Webstral

[Matt Wiser]

About bloody time. Goodbye and good riddance to UBL. Now that Osama is rooming with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Milosevic, and Khomeni, let's find Ayman Al-Zwahari, AQ's #2-and presumably now #1, and liquidate him as well.

Bravo Zulu to all involved in the op, and glad there were no friendly casualties.

[Arrissen]

Ding dong the witch is dead!