President Obama may be doing his best to make the Democratic Party, home to the guy who oversaw the murder of the world’s number-one terrorist kingpin, seem effete again by refusing to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse because, like, eww! It’s covered in blood and stuff! Gross! Why do you guys even want to see that? But Reuters has no such qualms. It bought (outbid Gawker?) a series of photos taken by a Pakistan security official at the compound just an hour after the U.S. made their hit and left, and they’re on the Internet. There’s a lot of blood! But no weapons are anywhere to be seen, except for what appears to be a little green plastic water pistol halfway under one of the corpses. Uh, did these guys have actual weapons? Did the terrorists just want to have a Super Soaker fight in the yard with the SEALs, but the SEALs forgot their guns were real? Uhhhhh. [Reuters] - Experts tell ABC News photos of the helicopter American forces burned and abandoned at the scene is a magically quiet stealth helicopter that was only rumored to exist. No wonder the SEALs blew it up! Must have been annoying riding in a helicopter and not even getting to hear that cool helicopter sound. [ABC News]
- President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after the capture of that one terrorist guy America’s teens have never heard of. Over half of the country now likes the job he’s done! Good for him! If there’s one thing we know, presidential approval lasts forever. [Quinnipiac]
May 26, 2012
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA
May 5, 2011
Non-Bin-Laden Bloody Compound Corpse Photos Released
by Jack Stuef 9:34 am May 5, 2011
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Wonder what they did with all that weed he was growing on the compound?
If they give it to me I will steel my resolve to do my patriotic duty for God and country and dispose of it in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. Otherwise the terrorists win.
You are a real American! Thank you for your dedication. Sorry about your glaucoma.
Celebrate a successful mission.
Are you joking? This is the team of SEALs that had just killed Osama Bin Laden. Those motherfuckers packed that weed up, and took a well-deserved week's vacation with it.
And the FBI had better not say jack shit to them about it.
The SEALS my dad drank with during the Vietnam war as a Naval Signal Intelligence officer were relatively moderate drinkers for the time, they have crazy discipline.
Goats ate it.
If you find a bag of weed on the floor motherfucker, what the fuck you gon do? Pick it up, pick it up!
I'm sorry… I'm not calling you a motherf-er. Redman is, that guy is nuts…
Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump……
Ravers…
Approval #'s is up? Bin Laden is soooo four days ago. What has the Halfrican done for us lately?
Signed
The Right
When they realize that "oh shit hes still black" it'll go back down.
Just a lot of Kenyan PussyFoot dancing, that's what.
The next "Number Two" AQ operative killing should be accompanied by Sarah and a Polaroid camera (won't she be surprised when we secretly replace the film with Velveeta slices!).
According to NPR, it's still business as usual for the House Republiklans, voting to stop funding for Obamacare, federal funding of abortions, etc.
Holy crap, that is corpse porn.
"But, Randall, that's necrophilia".
"At it's finest, I hope".
This is nothing. You should get a load of Matthew Brady's censored photos from the Civil War for Southern (but not slave) Independence.
Kind of makes you wonder about the wingnuts that are screaming that they need to see the Osama Death Photos, doesn't it?
Does anybody really feel bad for the guys guarding bin Laden? You know who else didn't have any guns? Pretty much everyone in the WTC. Sorry, I just can't get my liberal dander up on this.
Even if the bin Laden corpse photos never emerge, perchance the name of the site of the shootout/capture/execution will be the push RZA needs to release the lost ODB tapes (The Abbott & the Drunk Monk).
The bin Laden bunch chose this location over a shorter, thicker complex in Costellobad
Been there, done that, but it's still a good 'un.
I thought it was "Costello and the Drunk Monk." My bad.
So the second story means Airwolf was real; awesome.
Nah, they were riding with Roy Schieder in "Blue Thunder."
Yes. Blue Thunder > Airwolf, even with the Borgnine factor.
Stop making me relive my childhood you bastard!
So JMV killed OBL then?
Apparently; with the help of Ernest Borgnine of course.
Nah, he just beat the dickens out of all of his wives.
I mean this was SEAL Team Six clearing a terrorist safehouse, not Wasilla Girl Scout Troop "B" going door to door selling cookies….
Although Wasilla Girl Scout Troop "B" probably has as much weapons and combat tactical training as SEAL Team Six.
Don't spoil the surprise of Joe Mc Ginnis's
NAMBLA newsletterexpose of the Snowbilly Grifter.The "they were unarmed" meme makes no sense to me. First, the President said there was a fire fight. Maybe he was wrong about that or maybe the weapons aren't in the photos because either our guys or the Pakistanis took them? I've seen enough action movies to know you don't let the bad guys keep their guns after you shoot them. Bad things will happen.
Although Wasilla Girl Scout Troop "B" probably has as much weapons and combat tactical training as SEAL Team Six
"Hey, man, were you there?! Then STFU! That one year, after the girls ran out of Thin Mints in Wasila, those fucking meth-heads got real ugly with us. We decided right then and there that Girl Scout Troop B would not put up with their shit ever again, which is why now we up armour the minivans and hand out the 7.62 before we start selling these damn delicious cookies. House to fucking house, man. CQB? Any pussy can do that shit, but selling Snicker Doodles to these jack wads takes balls. Balls!. The only unfair fight is the one you lose…" **Jane takes a long drag on her Marlboro**
-End scene
… and then flicks the smoldering butt into a pool of gasoline, igniting an immense fireball which serves as the backdrop to her walking away in slow motion.
Beautiful! We'll call it "Girl Scout on Fire." Think Denzel can pull off a playing a girl scout? He is a pretty good actor, but…
I can only weep at the awesomeness of this. These script screams for Lori Petty to play the role of Jane.
After 6 years of Kicking it like Koresh, you might let your guard down.
President Obama’s approval numbers shot up…
One sure way to have your ratings shoot up is to shoot someone somewhere.
Even worked for Jared Loughner, but only in Arizona polling.
Since a Presidential bump typically lasts a month or two it would seem he only need find a few dozen more folk to have shot in the head to wrap this thing up.
I've got a little list . . . .
Can anyone say sending in SEALS (or some such) finally to take out Li'l Jong &/or his presumed* heir?
*He could change his mind, still.
No, North Korea would lay waste to Seoul, unless you have something that can deal with 100's of artillery emplacements buried deep in mountains., all at once. Oh, and the 10 rounds a minute of artillery any surviving piece of 1000's will be pounding into the streets, high rises and animation studios. Are you willing to give up the Simpsons so North Korea can be free?
Say, doesn't Rush Lardbutt have a suspiciously large, walled-off compound in the middle of a residential neighborhood?
Between that and his hatred of the United States of America, why do you think he is blubbering so much about bin Laden's death?
Well, he is the mouthpiece and god-creepy-uncle for the movement that's more pissed off about 5/1/11 than 9/11/01.
I mean, seriously: how could the Islamofascist in the (Not) White (Anymore) House go & ruin the pageantry of May Day?
What part of "this is not a trophy, you fucking savages" don't you understand?
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that everything after than the word "this" would offer a cognitive struggle for most of these 'tards.
So, you don't think that OBL's skull and spine are cooling in Obama's hidden spaceship?
The skull and spine specifically? Then one of the SEALs must have been Scorpion. Fatality.
That was Sub-Zero's fatality. Noob.
Or perhaps you just think all Ninjas look alike. Ninjaist.
OBL or not, the not showing the photos thing also puts a pall over the fact Bush or his cronies loved to "show the photos'. This, as a subtle rebuke of another Bush Cowboy policy, is enough to get the rightistas in an uproar.
Any and all rebukes of W's junk are welcome here.
Please don't mention W's junk. Eeeeew.
All of it, Katie. ([I am just cold killing this bit.]
Be glad 99% of you don't have to look at graphic pictures of violence very often. Real violence is disturbing in ways movies and tv will never even approximate.
Also, I'm glad to see that ABC News has reached the Coast to Coast AM level of respectability.
Well said
I am.
The pictures of the three corpses should satisfy the blood hunger of the American public for a couple of hours.
Not really. Some asshat Rep. from Texas (duh) was on NPR this morning braying about how the American public "deserved" to see the OBL photos because we were all personally affected by 9/11.
I believe the correct response to that moran is "F*#k you and the horse on which you rode in here." [No dangling prepositions here.]
Well, and we also have the well-reasoned logic of Bible Spice claiming that it will send a lesson. Of course, the lesson will be that Americans are blood-thirsty lunatics.
And also, fuck you ABC News for having auto-playing ads with sound; some of us would prefer not to unintentionally annoy our coworkers.
And also, fuck you ABC News for having auto-playing ads with sound; some of us would prefer not to unintentionally piss off our bosses.
Fixed.
This is why I keep my headphones plugged in at all times. And that shizz was still so loud my co-workers heard it anyway.
What they don't mention is that terrorists fill their plastic pistols with lemon juice… that shit burns… top level danger, man.
And if there were sheets of paper — those paper cuts really sting. And don't get me started on manilla file folders.
Paper cuts AND lemon juice… I can feel the OW from here.
Presidential bump – really helped G. H. W Bush after Iraq I.
Future-president bump helped G. W. Bush at certain parties in Houston in the late 70s.
Reuters won't pussy foot.
Fap fap fap fap.
Sincerely,
Billy Kristol
That is also the sound that the silent helicopters make. Coincidence?
I think not…
The one thing keeping them from being completely silent.
Has anyone thanked Kristol for his own service in the military? Oh, wait…
Oddly, bin Laden's approval numbers also went up though he still refuses to participate in tonight's Fox News debate.
OBL's policy folder would have checked off most of the GOP's boxes.
It's okay. They have an impersonator standing by at all times.
True. Attacking the president to mollify religious fundamentalists IS their shtick.
He's forming an exploratory committee. In Hell. In which I wish I believed.
"Experts tell ABC News photos of the helicopter American forces burned and abandoned at the scene is a magically quiet stealth helicopter that was only rumored to exist. No wonder the SEALs blew it up! Must have been annoying riding in a helicopter and not even getting to hear that cool helicopter sound."
…except that guy in the neighborhood who was twittering about the attack said he heard helicopter sounds. Maybe it's like a really really quiet helicopter that sneaks up right overtop a building….THEN turns on super loud helicopter noises and immediately gives everyone in the building an immediate heart attack.
I have no earthly idea if this is correct or part of the early often mistaken info that has since been corrected, but my understanding (insert more caveats here) is that the two assault choppers were backed up by larger conventional whirlybirds.
My understanding, from Faux News, is that all the noise is stored in a box that has to be vented before landing.
And who would know better than Fox, which is pretty much just a box that vents noise…
Well done!
Very similar to the sound of Fox and Friends farting.
As I understand it, one of the mods was doing the same thing as recessing a speaker cone, to give the sound more directionality. If the "speaker" is pointed right at you, you'll hear it, as you notice the aircraft flying overhead. Before then, not so much.
That word "before" would be the critical take-away.
Or maybe it was a normal chopper and the listener was upwind of it. I've been at airshows where a helicopter was moving upwind and you really couldn't hear it until it was almost on top of you.
I had an XO in Vietnam who always wanted to 'drop smoke' because, he said, "Then we come in upwind and Charlie can't hear us." His stupidity was unexcelled. At Hamburger Hill he landed a UH-1H, over loaded with ammo boxes, perpendicular to the slope and rolled the thing down the hill. Sadly, all were loast.
Doppler Effect is a bitch.
I am wondering if the SEALs would not just take any weapons on these people so that folks just like how they took the computers. It makes a lot of sense to me anyway.
Worst Geek Squad house call evar.
At an operational level, you would have to consider weight, especially given the fact that you lost a good chunk of your lift capacity blowing up the helicopter you rode in on. When you weigh your team, target, and intel against some cheap-ass AK's… well, the word ballast comes to mind.
Apparently there were weapons all over the compound, but the SEALs would be doing a pretty shitty job if they left them anywhere near the bodies. SOP (as any reader of Clancy warporn will tell you) is to assume anyone you take down could have a magical recovery and get to a weapon, so you truss them like a turkey and take the weapons the hell away.
BTW, if anyone but SEAL Team 6 had inserted at night and taken fire from the first person they encountered (the courier apparently popped off some shots) there would have been a lot more than 4 isolated kills, each of which was a military age male with a weapon within reach and/or who made a lunge at the operators. Like everyone in the compound at least, and likely half the neighborhood.
Big smoking crater with friendly fire casualties.
Even to a non-Clancy-reader, it seems pretty obvious that you collect the fucking weapons.
The Quinnipiac poll is obviously flawed. It doesn't show any increase in approval of Obama's handling of the economy since the bin Laden killing.
I'm sure that some one who lives in a high walled compound topped with razor wire would certainly feel as though all their security needs are taken care of and that there would be no need to keep weapons handy.
Yeah–those prison movies with the guards carrying submachine guns (I might as well say "Tommyguns") aren't real at all.
Oh, wait–they're trying to keep people in?
That, and the fact that they lived 1000 yards from a MILITARY ACADEMY, which I'm sure contained lots of troops with weapons handy.
If we shopped a beard onto the Daniel Pearl video, would that be a close enough approximation to satisfy your execution porn fetish?
Dark and smart. Well-played.
When my 12 year old nephew can look up pictures of Saddam Hussein's two dead sons and the actual hanging of the once mighty bunker-hunker dictator, or former Track-mate Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla holding the lifeless head up from the dirt of a dead, unarmed farm boy, Pictures of OBL or GTFO don't seem like a public right.
I was wondering what imaginary constitutional right to free snuff films Breitbart and the other clowns are whining about myself.
Come on Right Conspirarists – why are we taking the LEFT and the LSM's word for it that Gabrielle Giffords suffered a grievous head-shot wound?
This could be a PR stunt against the Tea Party's violent rhetoric and attacking the 2nd Amendment this whole time! Photo's, Photo's of GG in the ambulance or surgeon's table or GTFO!
And it better be signed by the doctor, and any and all nurses, too. With the name of the hospital! And Gabby's footprints! And I'm still going to call it a forgery anyway!
Honestly, back when the fact of those Abu Gharaib rape and torture pixx -which, unlike this other terrible stuff, actually *did* have legitimate proabative value- came to light, the rationale that it would inflame "our enemies" (again, presumably on account of the rape and torture) was deemed good enough for the Lamestream Lubrul Media. Who knows, maybe if we had actual evidence there, maybe that whole "splashing water in their face" line of bullshit would have been stopped in its tracks.
But, no, totally legitimate to argue we shoudl release photos of murder-porn with no actual investigatory value behind it.
Finding the photos on wikileaks would be positively head exploding.
I see what you did there. Or did I?
Does this mean Riley is too depressed today? I'm starting to feel guilty that we've let him down.
"Did the terrorists just want to have a Super Soaker fight in the yard with the SEALs…?"
Why not? It's how Oliver Crahm-Emanuwell brought sexy back to garden-party terrorism.
There are some words being bandied about with this….political assassination, mobster, mafia style hit, unarmed man, witnessed by child…
I have a feeling this is going to go pig ugly fast.
I may have to turn in my liberal card for this, but honestly, the fact that OBL was unarmed and his wife and kid were watching makes this even better for me.
Well, it does project a "don't EVER fuck with us" vibe, so there's that.
I'm fine with that actually, too.
I don't think the photos should be released. Beyond any other issues, not releasing them is a big F you to his followers. No, we don't owe you a chance to see the corpse. We don't owe you jack s$%t.
Also, if you think Bin Laden is not actually dead, then produce him. Simple.
Exactly my thought. Releasing the photos isn't a message for people who trade in photos of corpses. They love that stuff. Denying them a picture of martrydom is a good way to give them the big middle finger.
Although I am not a big fan of violence, I have a hard time feeling bad about these guys being gone. They were committed to killing you, me and everyone else in America who doesn't buy into their particular God myth.
For being a multimillion dollar compound it looks like a real shit hole. If this is Pakistan, Taliban, Al Queda affluence I will pass thanks.
No matter what is released it will never be enough.
The conspiracy oriented will still claim it isn't Osama who was shot but Charles Lindberg's kidnapped son or Jimmy Hoffa….or?.
If the pictures are released (or leaked), they'll immediately find some bullshit reason to claim it's a photoshop.
If the pictures are released the new meme will be that BO caved to the pressure/ morally weak.
If the pictures are released the new meme will be that BO caved to the pressure/ morally weak.
And that the pictures are fake. Teabaggers are not real big on facts and logic.
Nor are OBL's followers. Funny that.
needs mor Riley
(But I gotta admit I am glad I didn't have to look at more war porn this AM. Thanks Jack, you may be late but you are easy on the eyes.)
After viewing those photos, I believe I speak for all of us when I say, reverently, "Holy shit! the SEALS killed the everloving fuck out of those guys!"
Wha.., aren't the Glenn's doodles enuf?!
Well, the Seals may have forgot their Super Soakers, but did they remember the Slip-n-Slide to wrap OBL up in?
Reminds me of the water slide in 'Nam. We wanted a log ride like they had in Danang, but they never built us one. That war was hell on all of us.
"Did the terrorists just want to have a Super Soaker fight in the yard with the SEALs, but the SEALs forgot their guns were real?"
Well, they don't call it "wet work" for nothing…
A hunting trip without shooting something really isn't a hunting trip. Pew! Pew! Pew!
Wow, I was gonna ask if the world really was this sick, but then I remembered who the Republican front-runner was. Never mind.
A special tip for our "special/differently abled" conservative pals.
Real America does not care if someone gets gunned you down while unarmed sometime around the 1000th or so murder.
I'm having a disconnect here. I've reading that this was a "luxury" compound. For starters, the place looked like an abandoned factory in a tacky industrial park. Then, the pictures from the inside…was that a bare piece of foam on a rickety cot? Seriously…I was homeless once and had to live in my car (station wagon) for a few weeks. My car was more luxurious that this dump.
Did you have your own personal walled-in yard for your goats?
Naaaa-aaa-aa
Being sprayed with a water gun is grounds for being shot in the head…at least in my book it is!
PRODUCT LIBEL!
The 24-hour news cycle has become boring.
And snow is cold, also, too.
Oh shit, I was supposed to like those people?
NYPD, wallet.
NEEDZ MOAR DETH CERTIFIKITS!!!11!!
Dear Downfister,
The basement was supposed to be a only temporary thing until Walmart started hiring again.
Sincerely,
Your Mom
Scripts don't read comments.
You are correct, sir: Jimmy and Randy Script can't read!
As if any photograph on the web is "proof" of anything. The naysayers are incapable of satisfaction. They have an itch that can't be scratched, an ailment that can't be cured; it has a name: Obama.
I think withholding the OBL pics is a brilliant strategic move on Obama's part. Just as he made it all but impossible for the wingnuts to still be birfers, he gave them an even more absurd conspiracy theory, involving hundreds if not thousands of career military and intelligence officers who would have nothing to gain and everything to lose by participating in such a charade, as well as a number of political rivals of Obama. All these people are risking their careers to improve Obama's re-election chances? Waiting to hear from Trump on this one! I bet someone spouts it at their debate thingy.
I think you're right on, Daddy. Keeping secrets in Washington is next to impossible in the best of circumstances. It just doesn't seem possible that this is faked.
But the people who won't believe it won't believe that the sky is blue, either.
I'm more entertained by the conspiracy theorists that claim the Osama Bin Laden has been dead for years and Obama is claiming credit now for political gain.
I believe you should remove your tinfoil helmet before putting your head in the microwave oven.
Shoot a militia member and the helicopter involved will be Geraldo Rivera's.
Yeah…I guess in the long view there would have no good way to do this. If OBL died in a firefight, he would have been an inspiration. If he had been killed execution style, the seals would be murderers. Meh…like I told a friend of mine, regardless of how I feel, I think most people could give me 3000+ reasons why they don't give a fuck. Besides…isn't this all ancient history now? It's been what…4 days? What's up next in the news cycle?
I think we all saw what the picture of "No good way to do this" looks like.
Cats playing ukuleles.
Well, when I think of Arab Luxury, those groovy bachelor pads owned by Saddam Hussein come to mind. Did this place even have running water?
Did this place even have running water?
Afghanistan?
Jack! What have you done with Riley?!?!
Or perhaps I should more properly say "What has Andrew Breitbart done with Riley?!"
And snark aside…liberal that I am, I have to admit that many of the poorest of the poor in the US live better than many of the poors overseas. Now, don't blast me for this. I've never been outside of the US (I'm one of those near-poors) so I have no first hand experience.
Cheney went a step further and insisted his victim apologize to him.
Oh please, like photos of random bloody corpses can't compete with today's TOP news story… |||Donald Trump is driving the pace car at the Indy 500.
You mean his chauffeur, right?
You say that like Donald Trump driving the pace car at the Indy 500 won't create a bunch of random bloddy corpses.
now, now… there ARE teens out there who know/knew? who OBL was. In fact, they even go out of their way to correct their compatriots who think the Trumpster should be POTUS. It makes a Mama sooooo proud!
For whatever reason, I can't see the snuff pix on my internet machine. Why does Reuters hate my freedumbs?
Amadou Diallo – Cell phone – 41 shots, NYPD The Boss wrote "American Skin (41 Shots) about it.
Flight of the Valkyries . . .
ugh, well it's quite a nasty mess we left for the housemaids to clean up!
According to all the reports I read there were guns all over this place, some in caches and some of which the SEAL teams took away. And this morning the reports say that there were two guns within reach of OBL at the time he was shot.
The only reason there wasn't a bigger firefight is they had become complacent hiding out for years in a safe house. The only difference it would have made if they were armed is a couple of wounded or dead SEALs and more casualties on the other side,
Breaking video of the helicopters used for the raid!
http://www.break.com/index/helicopter-blades-stop...
Joey?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aciWaZkvXGI
I used to play a mayor in a fictional internet city named Boston.
Ah yes…The Rascal King.
Good luck. So long as they handle the same they're going to keep using the loud-as-fuck ones where it doesn't matter if people hear them.
Only way you can make them switch is by taking potshots at the birds every time you see them.
That will, in fact, earn you a quieter environment.
I tried my best, but no snarky comments: the new white large-font background is too distracting.
My guess is you've never been to Mumbai. Man. Indescribable.
The sherrif is a ninja!
His what?
One of the neatest things to come out of this is finding out about that awesome helicopter. If your country has got weapons and equipment that is "rumored to exist," and it really does, then you are a bad ass!!
You make it sound like these are separate groups?
Well you know what they say about the followers of magic beardy men.
Habeas corpus. So to speak.
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