Just In: Osama is dead

[Panther Al]

Wow: Even the Wall Street Journal is cracking jokes on Bin Laden.

In the best of the web feature for Friday, at the end of it there is a discussion on an article from London's Guardian reporting that Laden overpaid for his place: The Administration claimed it was a million buck place, the local appraisers say its closer to a quarter of that.

So, the journals writer points out that:

"Assuming bin Laden made the customary 20% down payment and took out a mortgage for $800,000 in 2005, he's going to be underwater for a long time."

[dragoon500ly]

For the WSJ....that's almost funny!

[WallShadow]

Just hope its not one of his doubles...

That gives me an idea for a really bad film base on several classically bad films:

"They Saved Hitler's Brain and Grafted It onto Bin Laden's Body" or, "The Thing with 1 1/2 Heads", with guest appearances by Rosie Greer and Ray Milland.

We can premier it in Allahabad. It'll be a smash hit, don'tcha think

[Legbreaker]

Oooooo, quoting a spammer.....

Still, I can see it coming out as a B movie in the near future.

[Cdnwolf]

Starring Leonardo and Angeline...

[Sanjuro]

When I heard he was unarmed, I immediately thought of Unforgiven;
Hackman: "You just shot an unarmed man!"
Eastwood: "Well he should have armed himself."

[Matt Wiser]

That's a very good line....and since there were AKs in the room, maybe UBL was trying to go for one when he got double-tapped.

Btw, some sites are saying that the weapon used to eliminate UBL was the HK-416.

Free steak and doggie treats for life for the German Shepherd or Belgian Malinois that accompanied the raiders, I say.

[Legbreaker]

I heard a few days ago that UBL was actually going for a weapon when he was killed. How true that is given the previous statement that he was cowering behind his wife.....
My guess is that he simply looked at a disposable plastic picnic knife that just happened to be in the room, which was just enough justification to warrant a bullet to the forehead. Given his reputation, etc I doubt it would have taken much more than that for the trigger to have been pulled.

[Targan]

My guess is that he simply looked at a disposable plastic picnic knife that just happened to be in the room, which was just enough justification to warrant a bullet to the forehead.

From quotes I've read from US politicians who have seen photos of OBL's corpse the bullet that killed him entered one eye and exited his ear. Now that's shooting!

[LBraden]

To be a shot like that, it would have had to been an angle shot, and would have been a left eye to right ear, or vice versa.

Though honestly, there are still numerous different iterations coming out of what happened, I doubt we will truly know, but I have to link this, if only for the chuckle.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/05/06/geman-tv-fail-star-treks-maquis-not-involved-in-bin-laden-mission/

[Mohoender]

I have no clue and no comment on Bin machin's death and, I'll probably won't have any viable opinion before 70 years (at which point I'll be dead).

However, when I look at the picture showing Obama and his staff watching the intervention, I can help it but to think that something didn't go as planned.

[mikeo80]

However, when I look at the picture showing Obama and his staff watching the intervention, I can help it but to think that something didn't go as planned.

From what I can gather from my reading, one of our choppers malfunctioned as they got to UBL's hidey hole. So, the "Plan" went out the window.

Who was it that said "In combat, a plan is great until there is contact with the enemy" This may be a mis-quote on my part, but I think the point gets across.

My two cents!

Mike

[dragoon500ly]

And to add insult to injury, two more jerks got tagged for pretending to be SEALs....one even discribed a Steven Segal movie plot to his home town paper, claiming to have really done this.

Guess the wannabes will be coming out of the woodwork now!

[Raellus]

Supposedly the heavily modified "stealth" Blackhawk crashed after hitting some sort of turbulence caused by the tall walls of the complex.

I'm sure when the news came through that a chopper had crashed during the op, Obama & co. had flashbacks to the Desert One debacle.

[Panther Al]

I would tend to think *everyone* involved had that flashback hit them at that moment.