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Bin Laden Took a Path of Fanaticism and Terror

Bin Laden Took a Path of Fanaticism and Terror
The most intense manhunt in history finally caught up with Osama bin Laden, but his life’s story will be told many different ways by different people. Reviled in the West as the personification of evil, bin Laden was admired and even revered by some fellow Muslims who embraced his vision of unending jihad against the United States and Arab governments he deemed as infidels.

Bin Laden’s money and preaching inspired the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed just under 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, and forever ripped a hole in America’s feeling of security in the world.

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His actions set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and a clandestine war against extreme Islamic adherents that touched scores of countries on every continent but Antarctica. America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.

Bin Laden was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday. A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden’s remains, Obama said.

Bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization has also been blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled

Perhaps as significant was his ability — even from hiding — to inspire a new generation of terrorists to murder in his name. Most of al-Qaida’s top lieutenants have been killed or captured in the years since Sept. 11, 2001, and intelligence officials in Europe and Asia say they now see a greater threat from homegrown radical groups energized by bin Laden’s cause.

Al-Qaida is not thought to have provided logistical or financial support to the group of North African Muslims who pulled off the March 11, 2004, bombings in Madrid, Spain — which killed 191 people — but they were certainly inspired by its dream of worldwide jihad. Likewise, no link has been established between al-Qaida and the four British Muslim suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005, but few believe the attack would have taken place had bin Laden not aroused the passions of young Muslim radicals the world over.

The war in Iraq — justified in part by erroneous intelligence that suggested Saddam Hussein had both weapons of mass destruction and a link to al-Qaida — has become the cauldron in which the world’s next generation of terrorists are honing their skills.

While scant evidence has emerged of a link between Saddam and bin Laden’s inner circle, there is no doubt that al-Qaida took advantage of the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq — helping to drag the United States into a quagmire that led to the death of some 5,000 American troops, and many scores of thousands of Iraqis.

Indeed, bin Laden’s legacy is a world still very much on edge.

Frightening terms like dirty bomb, anthrax and weapons of mass destruction have become staples of the global vocabulary; and others like Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition have fueled a burning anger in the Muslim world.

But long before bin Laden became the world’s most hunted man, few believed fate would move him in that direction.

Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia in 1954. He became known as the most pious of the sons among his wealthy father’s 54 children. Bin Laden’s path to militant Islam began as a teenager in the 1970s when he got caught up in the fundamentalist movement then sweeping Saudi Arabia. He was a voracious reader of Islamic literature and listened to weekly sermons in the holy city of Mecca.

Thin, bearded and over 6 feet tall, bin Laden joined the Afghans’ war against invading Soviet troops in the 1980s and gained a reputation as a courageous and resourceful commander. Access to his family’s considerable construction fortune certainly helped raise his profile among the mujahedeen fighters.

At the time, bin Laden’s interests converged with those of the United States, which backed the “holy war” against Soviet occupation with money and arms.

When bin Laden returned home to Saudi Arabia, he was showered with praise and donations and was in demand as a speaker in mosques and homes. It did not take long for his aims to diverge from those of his former Western supporters.

“When we buy American goods, we are accomplices in the murder of Palestinians,” he said in one of the cassettes made of his speeches from those days.

A seminal moment in bin Laden’s life came in 1990, when U.S. troops landed on Saudi soil to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

Bin Laden tried to dissuade the government from allowing non-Muslim armies into the land where the Prophet Muhammad gave birth to Islam, but the Saudi leadership turned to the United States to protect its vast oil reserves. When bin Laden continued criticizing Riyadh’s close alliance with Washington, he was stripped of Saudi citizenship.

“I saw radical changes in his personality as he changed from a calm, peaceful and gentle man interested in helping Muslims into a person who believed that he would be able to amass and command an army to liberate Kuwait. It revealed his arrogance and his haughtiness,” Prince Turki, the former Saudi intelligence chief, said in an interview with Arab News and MBC television in late 2001.

“His behavior at that time left no impression that he would become what he has become,” the prince added.

The prince, who said he met bin Laden several times years ago in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, described him as “a gentle, enthusiastic young man of few words who didn’t raise his voice while talking.”

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi, London-based newspaper, spent 10 days with bin Laden in an Afghan cave in 1996. He said bin Laden “touched the root of the grievances of millions in the Arab world” when he presented himself as the alternative to Arab regimes that have been incapable of liberating Arab land from Israeli occupation and restoring pride to their people.

He said bin Laden and his followers never feared death.

“Those guys spoke about death the way young men talk about going to the disco,” Atwan said. “They envied those who fell in battle because they died as martyrs in God’s cause.”

Still, bin Laden had a knack for staying alive.

After being kicked out of Saudi Arabia, bin Laden sought refuge in Sudan. The African country acceded to a U.S. request and offered to turn bin Laden over to Saudi Arabia in 1996, but his native country declined, afraid a trial would destabilize the country.

Back on familiar terrain in Afghanistan — allowed in by the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani — bin Laden and his al-Qaida network prepared for the holy war that turned him into Washington’s No. 1 enemy.

When the Taliban — who would eventually give him refuge — first took control of Kabul in September 1996, bin Laden and his Arab followers kept a low profile, uncertain of their welcome under the new regime. The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar called bin Laden to southern Kandahar from his headquarters in Tora Bora and eventually through large and continual financial contributions to the isolated Taliban, bin Laden became dependent on the religious militia for his survival.

In Afghanistan, he would wake before dawn for prayers, then eat a simple breakfast of cheese and bread. He closely monitored world affairs. Almost daily, he and his men — Egyptians, Yemenis, Saudis, among others — practiced attacks, hurling explosives at targets and shooting at imaginary enemies.

He also went horseback riding, his favorite hobby, and enjoyed playing traditional healer, often prescribing honey, his favorite food, and herbs to treat colds and other illnesses. In Afghanistan, bin Laden was often accompanied by his four wives — the maximum Islam allows. Estimates on the number of his children range up to 23.

Al-Qaida’s first major strike after bin Laden returned to Afghanistan was on Aug. 7, 1998, when twin explosions rocked U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Most of the victims were African passers-by, but the bombings also killed 12 Americans.

Days later, bin Laden escaped a cruise missile strike on one of his training camps in Afghanistan launched by the United States in retaliation. Bin Laden is believed to have been at the Zhawar Kili Al-Badr camp for a meeting with several of his top men, but left shortly before some 70 Tomahawk cruise missiles slammed into the dusty complex.

Since Sept. 11, bin Laden stayed a step ahead of the dragnet — perhaps the largest in history for a single individual.

As the Taliban quickly fell under pressure of the U.S. bombardment, bin Laden fled into the inhospitable mountains in the seam that separates Pakistan and Afghanistan, keeping up a spotty stream of chatter — first in video tapes and then in scratchy audio recordings — to warn his Western pursuers of more bloodshed.

Just hours after the U.S. assault on Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, 2001, bin Laden appeared in a video delivered to Al-Jazeera, an Arab satellite television station, to issue a threat to America.

“I swear by God … neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, peace be upon him,” said bin Laden, dressed in fatigues.

He reappeared in a video appearance broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Dec. 27, 2001, shortly after U.S. forces apparently had him cornered in Tora Bora, a giant cave complex in eastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of al-Qaida suspects are believed to have escaped the massive U.S. bombing campaign there, and bin Laden is believed to have been among them.

During the past decade, bin Laden and al-Zawahri have appeared regularly in audio and video tapes to issue threats, and comment on a wide range of current events, although the appearances trailed off in recent years.

In November 2002, bin Laden threatened Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia for their support for the United States, saying: “It is time we get even. You will be killed just as you kill, and will be bombed just as you bomb.” Later, he called on Muslims to rise up against leaders in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait he saw as Washington’s stooges.

In 2004, he tried a new tack, offering a “truce” to European countries that don’t attack Muslims, then later saying that the United States could avoid another Sept. 11 attack if it stopped threatening the security of Muslims.

After a long silence, bin Laden stepped up his messages in 2006, and the subjects he addressed became more political. In January 2006, he addressed his comments to the American people rather than U.S. President George W. Bush because, he said, polls showed “an overwhelming majority” of Americans wanted a withdrawal from Iraq. He even recommended Americans pick up a copy of the book “The Rogue State,” which he said offered a path to peace.

At several points in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden’s capture or death had appeared imminent. After the March 2003 arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials in Islamabad and Washington were paraded out to deny a consistent stream of rumors that bin Laden had been captured.

U.S. forces poured into the border region looking for him and former Taliban and Taliban in hiding said bin Laden had constantly been on the move, traveling through the mountains with a small entourage of security.

Through it all, bin Laden vowed repeatedly that he was willing to die in his fight to drive the Israelis from Jerusalem and Americans from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

“America can’t get me alive,” bin Laden was quoted as saying in an interview with a Pakistani journalist conducted shortly after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. “I can be eliminated, but not my mission.”

Comments (53)

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  • leary1
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 4:53pm

    osama`s remarks remind me alot of obama`s attitude, hmmmm. was this obama`s half brother??

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  • chips1
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:14pm

    This sounds just like the movie “THE GODFATHER”. Obummer just bumped off his competition.

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  • Hisemiester
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:34am

    Looks to me that Obama is following in Osamas footsteps. The USA is now a rogue nation. Is that the same as a path of fanaticism and terror? May be it’s the last gasp of the United States of America.

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:43am

    The CIA held his hand and walked him down this path.

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  • temple62
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 9:21am

    America propped up Bin Laden’s career and funded his operation until he turned on the U.S. His role as a leader of terrorism was a backlash against the double speak of the U.S. Even when suspicions were that he was hiding or being protected by other extreme muslim terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the American Congress and President KEPT sending foreign aid to these countries. Isn’t it time to 1.) stop the foreign aid to extreme muslim terrorist nations, 2.) quit trying to “prop” up our favorite dictators and thugs around the world and 3. start the prosecution of Obama, Holder, Napolitano and Clinton for doing the same in Mexico through the AFT’s Project Gunrunner!

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:29pm

      I THINK HOLDER should be fired for that scandal!! Where the H*LL is the press on this one? Too busy enjoying the “birther” issue still? Come on America.. wake up to this CRIME by our own government! OUR UNARMED AGENTS being KILLED by OUR GUNS sent to the drug cartels by OUR government. Pretend GEORGE BUSH DID it if you have to, but please, PAY ATTENTION to this story!

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  • Joshua Tyler
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 7:19am

    “You can count me among those who think Bin Laden is dead, by the way. I have always thought it, just like I’ve always known that global warming is a man-made hoax. We turned that place 2,000 degrees. We bombed the hell out of Tora Bora.” – Rush Limbaugh / December 1, 2009

    Oh oh, there goes Rush’s 98.6% accuracy rating. “Dittoheads’ believing that “accuracy” audit, that Limbaugh is always alluding to, has always cracked me up. Never the ground, do Dittohead knuckles leave.

    Limbaugh, of course, will not be detered from his cookie-cutter, “Liberals are evil meme”. Climate change will still be a scientific, conspiratorial “hoax”, and the birth of the BINthers will surely come. Trump and Limbaugh will now claim that Rush was right, Bin Laden was already killed in Tora Bora, and this is all just another Liberal hoax.

    The new BINther banshee cry, from Trump and Limbaugh, will look something like this… “Where’s the body? Why did they bury him so fast? Where’s the birth certificate? Where’s the proof? It’s a hoax!”

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:38pm

      “Never the ground, do Dittohead knuckles leave.” FIRST of all that’s a RACIST comment. Second, IF this administration were more forthcoming and HONEST, you would not see so many skeptics! BO withheld that BC ( I think because he is hiding things much more sinister) and he will WITHHOLD these photos. He just loves a good conspiracy and he feeds into any chance he gets, mostly to cover OTHER corrupt deeds.. like say GUN RUNNER, Nikki Diaz getting an award for being an admitted CRIMINAL.. you know, little things like that! Tell BO to CHANGE his ways.. that’s what conservatives HOPE for!

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  • sbenard
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 5:54am

    Live by the sword, die by the sword!

    Good riddance. The Devil needed some company!

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  • Ray2447
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 5:38am

    He sleeps with the fishes.

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  • suz
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 4:09am

    obama taking credit for this as if he was there and pulled the trigger. “at my direction” he says. honestly, what an ass. if i had fifteen of fame i’d use them to say to the country “at my direction the obamas must leave the whitehouse…now.”

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  • Country_of_Arizona
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:57am

    In January 2011, an American who worked out of the Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was arrested after killing two armed Pakistanis (they advanced toward him on a motorcycle) in a place called Lahore. Mr. Davis, as it turns out is a former Special Forces solider working for the CIA. Is this a coincidence that UBL was killed in Islamabad? Mr. Davis was found with a Glock, telescope and different ID papers. Now we know, that without this brave American Identifying UBL, he (UBL) would still be alive instead of dead! REMEMBER HE IS SPECIAL FORCES AND UBL KILLED BY NAVY SEALS, A SEPCIAL FORCES TEAM. This was a military mission that should tell the entire world YOU DO USA WRONG WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN however long it takes and KILL YOUR SORRY ASS! SING IT TOBY KEITH—“FROM THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE.”
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Raymond+allen+davies+pakistan&aq=f
    Hear the MSM tell the world what a bad boy he is, a CIA agent wondering the country killing (ARMED) men on motorcycles. Let’s see who they talk about for the next two years on just who got UBL. Remember it was President Bush who set-up the man hunt NOT OBAMA—If you are blame all the faults for the last two+ years on Bush 43, it’s only fair to give 43 credit on the good stuff,right?? I say let’s give that $25+million to the SOCOM at McDill AFB
    The Following is an email I sent to SOCOM:
    http://www.socom.mil/SOCOMHome/Pages/default.aspx
    Thank you for your continuing vigilance efforts on tracking down, with the help of Raymond Davis, this country’s “burr under the saddle” #1 SOB. Excellent job and I’m one of many Americans, who never doubted the military’s ability (especially in that part of the world) to obtain enough information to kill UBL. Some will say this will give UBL martyrdom but I contend it will and should give the world pause—if anyone or group or even countries thinks they can do harm to America without repercussions, well they are and will be sorry for thinking that. Because no matter how long or who’s President, America will hunt you down and issue the desirable justice they so deserve. So once again thank you for standing on the wall and May GOD bless SOCOM and the entire Military community in keeping you safe from the “EVILDOERS”

    Ric Moriarity
    Mesa, AZ
    USAF E-6 Retired

    This is very welcome news especially following the deaths of the USAF team sent to help train the Afghan military. If I may speak for them–“THANK YOU” our fellow countrymen.

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  • Alan
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:18am

    We are at war with Shariah. For Shariah is at war with us.

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  • p0wam3
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:55am

    Our DEEPEST GRATITUDE to the Navy Seals (not HRH) who risked their lives in an incredible action which “took out” OBL and did so without one drop of American blood being shed. YOUNG MEN, WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU AND SO VERY, VERY GRATEFUL! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:19am

      Yes..they sure can get the job done..no doubt about it…it‘s just too bad they didn’t get the perpetrators of 9/11

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  • Shilohbloo
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:48am

    Thanks be to God! And God bless President Bush and our military, who led the way!! (I’m hesitant to ask God to bless BO, mearly due to the fact that he’s so busy blessing himself, I’m not so sure he could take much more – especially from The Big Guy!)

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  • QuietRiot
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:48am

    Good job Seal Team !

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:32am

    Glad its done, just wish Clinton had done this years ago, now we have networkings of his all over the world because he was not killed sooner.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:15am

      Bin Laden did it, eh?……I guess he ordered the nano-thermite on eBay

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    • Country_of_Arizona
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 4:06am

      You are so right Clinton refused to send cruise missles into a compound UBL was at. The CIA had a visual on a tall, bearded man, in white garb and he was the tallest one there. CIA noticed a large group of men entering a building with UBL. When Clinton asked it there were women and children in the compound, regretably the CIA covert op said yes and the cruise missle attack was called off. Soon afterward 9/11 happened how many women and children plus others died that day. NOTE-It is believed in the intel circles that due to the size (of the group) it was the final meeting b4 911 most likely the 20 hijackers were part of this group.

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  • sadmanwhossane
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:19am

    Prove it!

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  • nptden
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:14am

    Al-Queda has been the smoke screen, while Obama’s real buddies infiltrate the country here. The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIRE, and the Black Panthers. Let‘s see if Obama’s ‘just war’ will be over, and our boys brought home?. Fact is Obama used the incident with Bin Ladin to reaffirm his believe in Islam. Our war is still against Muslims like Obama. It’s all smoke screen. He has already set the Muslim Brotherhood in place to take over Egypt, Obama is a NWO guy using Islam to weaken us and destroy Israel.

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  • Don
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:08am

    We should all be glad our military got osama ben laden, I know I am. Furthermore, I don’t give a hoot who gets the credit, I know who got him and it sure wasn’t Obama. I’ll be saving my celebrating until November 2012 when Obama is voted out. That is when our national troubles will begin to be solved, not until.

    Osama ben laden is responsible for bringing down the twin towers, Obama is bringing down the whole country, which is the biggest threat?

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  • chinqua
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:06am

    Thank you Lord! Now, maybe, FOX will stop re-running “that” wedding. How many more days were they gonna re-play that!!!! Enough is enough.

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  • Don
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:04am

    We should all be glad our military got osama ben laden, I know I am. Furthermore, I don’t give a hoot who gets the credit, I know who got him and it sure wasn’t Obama. I’ll be saving my celebrating until November 2012 when Obama is voted out. That is when our national troubles will begin to be solved, not until.

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  • Bennie Franklin
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:45am

    Some men become more powerful in death. I wonder if he would have been better off eating **** roaches crawling around in caves than being confirmed dead. Obama made a martyr out of him. Could end up being a bad move.

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    • calijohn
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:55am

      so, using your logic, clinton made the right move in not taking him out?

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    • Salamander
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:48am

      Clinton, who’s Clinton? Oh, yes, he was the Commander-in-Chief who was too busy applying fabric treatment to an intern’s dress to address the bin Laden issue! Lob a few air-breathers and get back to spritzing an intern! Heh-heh, what a dirt-ball!!!

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  • MidwestMomof3
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:31am

    I‘ve said since this broke that I’m concerned about what will happen NOW on our shores from those who studied under Bin Laden.

    All my “friends” say “It will be FINEEEEEEEEEEEEE.”

    I’m just not so sure.

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    • Mstrrlm
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:40am

      I say fight fire with fire just be ready for anything at all times and u have nothing to worry about

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  • Constitutional
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:29am

    Obama Bin Laden is no doubt in mourning over his muslim brother’s death. I am not impressed at all.

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    • calijohn
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:34am

      is your first name “richard”?
      ’cause you sure are a d ic k.

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  • WBoyd
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:25am

    Good Job to the team that exicuted the op

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    • Salamander
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:43am

      Yes, I can just hear the lucky guy that scored the headshot–“oops”! Poor guy probably has to fill out a report when he gets back to base! So far, our Commander-in-Chief hasn’t apologized for violating a noise ordinance in the neighborhood! Can you imagine the Carbon Credits that we earned–another Carbon-Dioxide breather eliminated!

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  • Sam Brown
    Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:06am

    Men die but ideas don’t until you give men better ideas. How will they ever stop terrorism without new ideas to guide them?

    Sam

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:30am

      Hey any expert want to tell me who was responsible for throwing over- board a disabled Jewish man in a wheelchair, off the Achille Lauro ??????
      Get a perspective plz

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:35am

      Live streaming :
      http://www.ndtv.com/video/live/channel/ndtv24×7?from=NDTV&from=NDTV

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    • Mstrrlm
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:37am

      You kill them all and let GOD sort them out no men no bad ideas

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    • home_of_the_brave
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:42am

      While I am very proud of American forces on this day, (should become a national holiday) I can’t help being a little cynical about the timing of this news. Sure the stock market will shoot up tomorrow and Obama’s poll number will rise but this is just a temporary reprieve. America is still in serious trouble and we should not become distracted by this little bit of good news. Stay vigilant, and pray for this Country we love so dearly.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 1:42am

      Seen his dead mug yet ? Its grrrrrreat …hahahah

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    • tierrah
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:10am

      @ Cheez: where’d you see it?

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:31am

      @Cheez In October 1985 ‘Palestinian’ Terrorists Abu Abbas commanded the hijacking of Italian cruise ship: ‘Achille Lauro’, the Arab Palestinian, Magid al-Molqi shot, murdered in cold blood a wheelchair-bound US [Jewish] citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, he then pushed the poor man overboard the ship. Basically, Palestinian terrorists shot Jewish citizen and throw him overboard. I remember when it happened.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:37am

      Obama said tonight that Bin Laden’s goal had nothing to do with Islam and that instead he was politically motivated. Someone better clue in Obama quickly. Bin Laden’s goal had everything to do with Islam! He was an extremely religious guy who prayed and observed his faith daily. His religion states that all infidels be killed, and we are to believe that he was not following the dictates of his religion? Nonsense. He is responsible directly and indirectly for the death of many innocent people.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:45am

      @Sam Brown:

      True. New ideals, and new ideas. It will start with the children, and the parents sick of the killing done to and by the children of theirs by these terrorist nutcases. One person at a time, one family and one generation at a time.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:15am

      @ walkwithme1966
      So is it safe to assume that islamic fanaticism and terror did not start with Osama,
      and
      islamic fanaticism and terror will not end with Osama ?

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    • Mee the People
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:57am

      if you play with the Bush you gonna get the Obama

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    • Devil Dog 7175
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 5:33am

      Burn in hell OBL… You POS! No suprise to anyone, but when the bullet blew your head off, they found nothing in it.

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 6:40am

      For some reason I am NOT feeling the JOY the rest of the country is about ONE man’s death .The Jihad is NOT about one man it is about Islam. Oh that is right we just Martyr the top Jihadists now instead of capturing them for Intelligence!!! Same ole story, the freaking POLITICIANS jump out and still the press from the real HEROS!!! The CIA and Spec-ops who want NO sound bites !!! I am sure we knew where Bin Laden was when Bush was President or had good leads!! Oh that is right lets talk about this in the news and how GREAT the Nobel Peace Prize ,freaking, “Speech Giver” is while our country is being raped by his policies !!!!! The Taliban in Afghanistan hated Bin Laden !!!! Oh and lets give the Pig a respectfull burial at sea with in 24 hours so we are POLITCALLY CORRECT Muslim ass kissers !!!

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    • MetalPatriot
      Posted on May 2, 2011 at 3:28pm

      To: 79USMC83
      You’re right. This is a chess move by Muslums & others that want one form or other of “one world government”. Don’t get me wrong, Bin Laden’s death is good news, however, his “martyrdom” inspires the rest of Islam.

      My buddy from the 7th Marines criticized me for “conspiracy theories” because I mentioned the timing is too good for election season. I recorded Obama’s speech (that he read) and noticed his taking credit for his guys lead on the intelligence & his own order to execute the mission. Blaring was Obama’s “one nation under God” & “God bless America” which he rarely says.

      His policies still make HIM an enemy to the Republic. There’s just too many things that Glenn Beck has showed us that keep me from leaping for joy with everybody else. It’s not over by a long shot. We have mosques in every major city and if people don’t think that a religion that wants it own laws implemented is a threat, then Islam has already won.

      Keep your eyes & your powder dry…Semper Fi my Brother

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