In addition to bin Laden, at least three other people were killed in the operation, U.S. officials said, including a man they believe to be one of Bin Laden’s sons. Officials said that the action also claimed the life of a woman whom one of bin Laden’s aides used as a human shield, they said. Two other bin Laden aides were wounded.
Just terrific people, these gentlemen. The debate about whether or not to take pleasure in bin Laden’s death with rage on, but it’s safe to say the planet is better of without these guys living on it.
And now Obama no longer needs to wear sunglasses, because there’s now just a permanent pair on his face, from all the badass.
UPDATE: It was Bin Laden himself. The woman? One of his wives. How romantic!
UPDATE II: Actually, he didn’t use his wife as a shield. And he wasn’t armed. Okay. But they seem to be still sticking to the story that he’s dead, so.
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teabagger to the very end. good riddance.
aaaaaand that's the dimmer switch, flicking off my belated Osama Been Beaten celebratin'
I'm loving the badass meme!
Kate and Wills high-fiving.
"The debate about whether or not to take pleasure in bin Laden’s death with rage on"
Well when I take pleasure in bin Laden's death it's always with rage on, but that sentence is still missing a verb.
What's the issue here? Using a non-human shield costs you face in the terrorist community. Think back to every "Die Hard" movie: did you see them using lamps as shields? Throw-rugs? I think not.
Whatever happened to using a shield as a shield, anyway? Yeah, it only lowers armor class by -1 unless it's magical, but every little bit helps, and large and tower shields have additional benefits against missile weapons. And yeah, I said lowers armor class, not raise; fuck that 3rd and 4th Edition shit.
Speak Engrish, pleez…or provide a translation.
Shouldn't that be "…speak ingrish, preez?"
I should've down-fisted you for that… but instead I'll argue about bonuses to Defense, Dodge, and Parry ratings. Learn to tank, newb!
Oh, cable news…
On Fox News you wouldn't even know Obama was president. MSNBC is acting like Obama pulled the trigger himself. And CNN is bragging about the awesome job they did covering the story.
That's sounds like CNN, alright.
Which is why my best friends are BBC, al-Jazeera, and Deutsche Welle.
Cable fiction. Not "news." Fiction.
Fixed.
On Fox News you wouldn't even know Obama was president.
Oh please. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes have been trying to strangle that story in the crib since January 21, 2009.
The debate about whether or not to take pleasure in bin Laden’s death with rage on
This is being debated? Seriously? By anyone other than the Sparticist League (you remember, those people on college campuses who still take communism seriously for some reason.)
Also: not surprised to see a misogynist like bin Laden hide behind a woman. I hope *she* is getting all those virgins, and that bin Laden can't even watch…
I suspect drips and drabs will leak out. There was some talk on one of the talking heads shows about O watching it live though no mention of what level he was viewing it from. It sounds like a text book operation at this point, we'll see how long that lasts.
One interesting statistic will be the ratio of medals awarded to trigger-pullers vs those awarded to REMFs at HQ. The rear-echolon motherfuckers usually score a lot higher.
True, but if the names of the guys on the sharp end leak out they will never have to buy booze or food again.
And rightfully so.
Agree with Gopherit — I don't want their names out there. But I would love for an anonymous fund to be started through which premium booze, cigars, steaks, strippers, whatever, could be sent to them.
Is there any of that good blow left from Iran-Contra? Let's send them some of that.
Ur prolly correct
She wasn't one of his virgins… 'cuz she was fucked.
Well fuck, in the movies the good guys can always pick off the bad guy with deadly accuracy without harming the hostage. You mean life doesn't imitate art? WTF?
I'm guessing Obama learned a lesson from the Carter administration. Don't sacrifice a successful mission on the altar of the perfect mission. Besides, unless she was a blonde no one in this country will care. American sentiment will follow like this "She certainly had many opportunities to turn him in and never did, so she got what she deserved " cuz in the 007 movies the hot girl that is sleeping with the bad guy always get's a conscience and helps out Bond.
Re: unless she was blonde… But if she was fat, well, better off dead.
Lindsey Graham is complaining about burying the body so quickly. No doubt many politicians wanted their picture taken with it.
They probably would have liked to cut off his pecker and sent it to W in a Mason Jar, for the Library.
Bush can display the jar next to his brother's.
Burying at sea so quickly is a bit fishy. Probably it will give rise to any number of "He's still alive" conspiracy theories.
Once again, humans prove to be really ineffective as shields.
Well, it was a woman, right? Need I say more?
As Mark Twain once said, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." Now can we get the fuck out of Afghanistan?
Or Clarence Darrow.
We need to get out of Clarence Darrow?
Better get lots of lube.
Hush now. Most of the internets say Twain said it first, so it must be true.
Of course not. If we were rational, we could have extradited him to Pakistan or Saudi in 2001, had him tried and hanged in 6 months. Vast numbers will continue to die.
I've got the biggest rage-on ever.
Luke Scott says his is bigger.
Well, okay, I was taking pleasure in bin Laden's death with a raging hard-on, but whichever works for you guys is fine by me.
Worst job in the world today: Abottabad real estate agent.
Best job in the world today: Abottabad real estate attorney.
Price reduced: handyman's special in the prestigious Islamabad suburb of Abbotabad. Needs some fixing up, but spacious and airy, especially with all the bullet holes.
There's also an Abbot & Costello joke in here somewhere, but you Youngs probably don't even know who they were…
Hey, I made that very joke in an earlier thread. I repeat it here for your reading pleasure: "This town Abbottabad…is it anywhere near Costellobad? (Too soon? No, not too soon.) "
Forgot to search the earlier comments: Kudos to you!Who’s on first, anyway?
1. Thanks!
2. Yes.
That was an awfully big place for 4 or 5 people to live. The rest of the residents must have been down the street attending class at the Military Academy.
"The rest of the residents must have been down the street attending class at the Military Academy. "
Yup, Oblios. Couldn't agree more. Methinks the Pakistani government has a lot of 'splainin' to do…
Oh, ISI 'splains nothing. Ever. Those folks are too busy planning their next strike on India via whomever's not busy right now in the self-'splodin' world.
Because nothing matters to them but getting India.
Exactly.
Maybe OBL was teaching classes?
It would be pretty cool if the burial at sea used the carrier's catapult as a launching tool!
This is the worst Van Halen tribute ever.
You can find that gathering any night in an Alaskan trailer. And the meth, too, also.
Phoenix suburbs also too.
Damn good
"Burial at sea" = "throw the motherfucker overboard."
No… they won't cancel his Moral Weakness® unless he gets 3 payments behind.
Then turn in your Wonketeer, badge, sir/madam/it. We're here for that.
Yet another failure…
Tomorrow morning Ayman al-Zawahiri (OBL rumored replacement) wakes up to find a camel's head next to him on the pillow.
Isn't that one of the guys who have been killed about five time each?
When I shoot a non-combatant I always go for the "human shield" defense. Works out more often that you would imagine.
Obama would've never ordered troops to shoot Bin Laden's human spouse shield if he was gay married.
Obama hates traditional marriage….which is between a man and a slew of slave-wives.
Gor?
It'll show up on LikiWeaks in about 3 days.
It wouldn't hurt a thing if it did. Might do some good. Might be a wake-up call to some would-be jihadists out there.
One of you guys owes me a monitor. Thanks.
Any time. I've found that a sheet of thin transparent plastic (e.g., dry-cleaning sleeves) laid over the keyboard and monitor keeps the spittle, sputum, food, and beverages from gumming up the IT while I'm avoiding work here.
Seals are pitching…and Osama is catching.
Another reason why OBL had so many wives. Never enough human shields around when you need them.
Well, that's gotta be the speediest divorce in history. Hooray, patriarchy wins again. Shortly before being shot, so there's that, at least.
Totally explains how they identified him quickly……she probably tore his nuts off after the headshot.
"Human shield." That's what they call the women and children they shoot by accident or for fun.
Probably true.
Maybe she gets to go to heaven for having to fuck him.
When I get married, I hope that's the way I go down too…forcing my wife as a human shield…or vice versa.
Pussy.
Finally getting a chance to read through everything, and all I can think, especially from this story, is that the Tea Baggers have just suffered a great loss.
They have my deepest sympathy. Oh, wait, no. No they don't.
They'll find another Boogy-man soon enough.
Not impolite, TREASON! Why do you hate America?
was she tall enuf' to be much of a shield?
Not likely. Hence the head shot.
Pretty sure my husband would do the same. Fortunately, no obvious reason for Navy Seals to raid our home.
The Brits would write the headline thus: Bin Laden 'is dead'
Gotta have those quotes to avoid McLibel suits…
I would be very skeptical of every rumor for at least a few days. All kinds of wild stories will be flying around.
You can be sure anything embarrassing will be edited out.
Goes w/o saying. Smoking that broad, for instance.
It wouldn't be TOO surprising if they raped the women before theykilled them; if so, it certainly won't be made public. Just likethose secret Abu Ghraib tapes: I strongly suspect they show GIs rapingtheir prisoners.
No way. Not that it would be below them, it would totally be in character; however, helmet cams, real-time video, and time constraints would make it impossible on this mission. Way too high profile an operation on way too tight a time frame. This type of raid is commonplace in A and I, so what you suspect is reality I'm sure on a nightly basis, but not this time. I am frankly puzzled as to why they admitted BL was unarmed. Who would know? What was gained by that revelation?
So, does using your wife as a human shield revoke your afterlife virgins?
Yeah, they're sure Jessica Lynch-izing this story when it comes to the woman killed. I wonder why some middle manager always decides to give out a fictional account at first which always gets debunked later to the (I hope) embarrassment of all involved. It was a successful military action. They are not pretty.
So, the implication is that Osama is not a very nice person. Wow!
Shoot my wife. Please!
Thank you. I'll be here in Pakistan all year. Try the veal.
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