Bin Laden Is Dead

[Ben]

Osama bin Laden is dead, reports CNN's John King citing three U.S. sources. The U.S. government has the Al-Qaida leader's body. In moments, President Obama is expected to announced bin Laden's death from the White House. "We can't overemphasize how significant this is," says CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "It's one of those moments that we will always, always remember."

Sounds like it was US forces that located and killed him, not a lot of details on how they got him yet though.

 

[Reid]

America FUCK YEAH.

 

[KaneMM]

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[StoneCold]

Ghadifi (whatever his name is) is the new Osama

 

[Blazin Viper]

Pretty much my reaction

 

[OMR]

about time. took forever but finally it looks like he is dead.

 

[SAIYANS]

Took long enough and costs enough fucking lives. Now they need to actually find some damn WMD's

 

[Kylie]

^^Do they actually exist?

Here's a news report I just read:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8243521/bin-laden-is-dead-reports

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, President Barack Obama has confirmed in a televised address.

Obama said bin Laden was killed in a fire fight with US forces earlier today.

A small team of US intelligence forces carried out the attack on a mansion "deep inside Pakistan" where bin Laden was hiding.

"Following a fire fight, they killed bin Laden and took custody of his body," the President confirmed.

Crowds have gathered outside the White House in Washington, waving flags, cheering and singing in anticipation of the President's pending announcement.

Obama is imminently to address Americans in a highly unusual Sunday night (local time) appearance on television.

US armed forces have been hunting the Saudi terror kingpin for years, an effort that was redoubled following the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon which killed 3000 people in 2001.

But Bin Laden always managed to evade US armed forces and a massive manhunt, and was most often thought to be hiding out in Pakistan and Afghanistan border areas.

The death of Bin Laden will raise huge questions about the future shape of Al-Qaeda and also have steep implications for US security and foreign policy 10 years into a global anti-terror campaign.

It will also raise fears that the United States and its allies will face retaliation from supporters of bin Laden and other Islamic extremist groups.

Born in 1957, bin Laden was a son of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest construction magnate.

Saudi sources remembered him as a typical young man whose intense religiosity began to emerge as he grew fascinated with the ancient mosques of Mecca and Medina, which his family's company was involved in rebuilding, ABC News reports.

He was expected to join the family business after attending university, but chose a different path.

It was at university that bin Laden met the Muslim fundamentalist Sheik Abdullah Azzam, perhaps his first teacher of religious politics and his earliest radical influence.

And if you scroll towards the bottom of the page is Obama's address (which was actually pretty damn good):

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/

 

[SAIYANS]

Obama accomplished more than Bush did in his whole two terms

 

[SAL]

Let's calm down about what Obama has accomplished. He's getting credit, and he deserves it, but it's not like he was the one pulling the trigger. And we don't know what if anything the effects of this will be. The symbolism of it is hugely important, America hasn't really been able to put a face to the "war on terror" until tonight. It's like we've just killed a ghost. It's making a lot of victimized people very happy around here, and it should. But it's not like we've just defeated terror. If anything, this will make some people more motivated to strike back.

 

[Kylie]

I agree completely and it's funny because I was just talking to a few collegues in the office about that. We were saying that it's great that they finally got Bin Laden and full credit to the troops, but this isn't going to stop them. Someone else will come into power and could very well strike back even harder than 9/11.

 

[Kingslayer]

Good to see Bin Laden's finally in Hell, but like Bill Maher said, this will have the same effect on terrorism as Ray Kroc dying had on McDonalds. The franchise has been built.

 

[TheGShow]

Yes! Took so long too. Hopefully the U.S doesn't get terrorist attacked because of this..

 

[Kairi]

Man Unknowingly Live Tweets About Raid on Osama Bin Laden's Compound

By MEGAN CHUCHMACH
May 2, 2011

When 33-year-old Sohaib Athar began sending out live Twitter messages detailing a mysterious blast, shaking windows, and a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad, Pakistan, he had no idea he was apparently documenting the U.S. military attack that took down al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Beginning at 3:58 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, which was past midnight in Pakistan, Athar wrote, "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."

He went on to write about "a huge window shaking bang" and says "it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or a very poor spy craft it was."
At 4:48 p.m., Athar wrote: "The few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani." Then at 5:02 p.m.: "Since Taliban probably don't have helicopters , and since they're saying it was not 'ours,' so must be a complicated situation."

At 5:10 pm: "The Abbottabad helicopter/UFO was shot down near the Bilal Town area, and there's report of a flash. People saying it could be a drone."

There were two helicopters, he said, one of which was "down."
The White House has since confirmed it sent two helicopters full of Navy Seals from Afghanistan into Abbottabad to raid the high-walled Bin Laden compound.

During the ensuing raid, one helicopter was damaged and then destroyed by the SEALs before they boarded the remaining helicopter with bin Laden's dead body and flew back to Afghanistan.

Athar, who describes himself online as "an IT consultant" who is originally from the major city of Lahore, Pakistan, but is "taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops" has since been added by thousands of Twitter followers in the hours after bin Laden's death was announced.