Bin Laden Dead?

US news agencies saying that Osama is dead.

first

lol

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MJ GONE / OUR NIGGA DEAD

i feel so much safer

guess i need to go figure out what channel cnn is

Don't know what difference it makes now, he was not the cause of 9/11, nor the reason Bush put us at war, but still...it's significant given he has been a hunted man for a decade.

x-post It's on like every channel right now.

MJ GONE / OUR NIGGA DEAD

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 1, 2011 10:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

CNN and others are reporting it. Wolf Blitzer is babbling about it with little information. President Obama is going to speak about it.

mostly i'm just pissed that this is preemepting msnbc's airing of "sex slaves: uk"

wait hasn't the statute of limitations passed?

x-post - lol

wolf blitzer + john king making sure you know that you will always, always, always remember the moment you heard the words "osama bin laden is dead"

these guys are the stupidest assholes on the face of the earth imo

Obama hits the airwaves in 1/2 hour

aero otm

I had to change the channel because it depressed me that I would remember that I was watching Wolf Blitzer.

i will remember that daniel, esq told me on ilx -- where the elite gets its news

o well, miss u big guy

Osama Bin Laden was completely responsible for 9/11.
WE WON

good night, not-so-funny man

this is the death of swag

wolf blitzer + john king making sure you know that you will always, always, always remember the moment you heard the words "osama bin laden is dead"

i was eating a bowl of cereal, lamenting my life...now i'm eating a bowl of cereal and celebrating america

my ipad told me
good.

i was watching a season 4 mad men episode and refreshing ilx

I'm not trying to be funny. I'm pissed off.
Who knows what sorts of disinformation will continue to spread and how many people will eat it whole

let's take a moment to think of the budding comedy writer who was controlling his fake twitter account -- what will become of his career aspirations?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsj5Neo11qdmmiqo1_500.gif

finally, something that will shut Trump up

maybe

emergency gif

Obama to allow Trump inspect the alleged body at noon tomorrow

maybe u should concentrate on yr bro murdoch, pato

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If David Gregory says "breathtaking" one more time I want to see some actual hyperventilation.

^^ YES. RIGHT ON.

can i get an ilx 2011 death pool update

obama right now

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Alex Jones
CIA Asset Bin Laden 'killed'.
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Although I kind of dug David Gregory's whole flashlight-under-the-chin ghost-story delivery.

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I'd rather have Bin Laden hiding for many more years than have Obama get the credit...and guaranteed re-election. How could Bush fail for 8 years and Obama gets him in just a few? Ugh.

Now at the Phillies/Mets game, the fans are chanting USA and OBAMA. This is the worst possible news.

x-post lol yes re: gregory

omg thread's too fast

no one had bin laden!

Dead Pool 2011

i will always remember. i was at an anime convention, watching "full metal panic" in a dark conference room when i got bored and opened twitter on my iPhone.

RIP BIG MAN

I hope Obama just comes out and goes 'WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE HOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE???'

^^winner xp

^Seconded

@estekella - ROFFLES and OTM (pardon the pun).

Man I wish he'd bring Biden out with him for the statement. We need some giddy.

smoke something, bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKvzWH9O4as

..."Shot in the head". N-I-C-E.

http://www.animenetzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/full_metal_panic.jpg

?

From HRO
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i'd thought a few times lately how fucked up and depressing it was gonna feel when we hit the 10 year mark with him still alive and out there, but now that he's not, it's like oh yeah nothing about 9/11 or anything that's happened since feels any less fucked up and depressing

yeah i mean whatever fuckin' kill the guy but i feel p. neutral about it

The news comes eight years to the day that President George Bush declared "Mission accomplished" in Iraq

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this calls for some pizza!

The news comes eight years to the day that President George Bush declared "Mission accomplished" in Iraq

this is a great little factoid

xp and then, some slimming fruit

lol missed that

Well, it must be p tough to type headlines while patriotically masturbating furiously.

damn @ it being a "human operation"

assassinating motherfuckers

i'm picturing that south park episode right now

so he was chilling in a mansion when this all went down? i mean

yeah wtf

oh man

M**** E****
ok so OBAMA BIN LADDEN is DEAD but wat about GHADAFI... HE JST LOST 3 OF HIS GRANDKIDS ND HIS YOUNGEST sON.. NGA IS GOING TO COME BACK AND MERK NGAS #JUSTSAYING
C******* GHADAFI IS A G ! NIKKAS GOTTAH TAKE HIM OUTTTTTTTTTTTT
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K**** T***** Not Obama u dumbass Osama lmao
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Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

disappointed that we'll miss out on the try him in guantanamo/military tribunal/civilian court/nyc conundrum

does this mean that i have to go to work tomorrow? someone say no

You don't have to go to work.

can you imagine learning this news from The Rock's twitter

like if that's how everyone found out

i love how the rock thinks he's hiding the news from us or something

you don't have to go to work, but only if you are osama bin laden

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go jays

oh fuck did a canadian kill him

that kinda takes away from it

was 50/50 as to whether he was referring to a successful opening weekend for Fast/Furious 5 at first

it's weird how handsome osama bin laden was

Wait, Andrea Martin says this is not the end of terrorism. Well hell.

lol this guy on cnn is already telling us about the new guy

"he uses social media"

andrea mitchell says this is a "game changer"

that seems pretty optimistic

way to piss in the punchbowl, Andrea Mitchell

xxxxxxp

you don't say xp

now i've got the michael jackson song "breaking news" in my head

THANKS OBAMA

HuffPo teaching me that Google Chrome can indeed display 800-point Arial bold

time to tune in to fox and see why this is obama's fault

Same day pope was beatified!

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it's weird how handsome osama bin laden was

― horseshoe, Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

ws of shame hall of fame

HuffPo teaching me that Google Chrome can indeed display 800-point Arial bold

― del griffith, Monday, 2 May 2011 13:26 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bloody hell that's almost comical

can you imagine learning this news from The Rock's twitter

like if that's how everyone found out

actual lol

does this mean all those bin Ladens who flew out of the US on 9/12 can come back?

finally we can spend money on healthcare, education, and space travel again.

(lol)

^_^

it's weird how handsome osama bin laden was

― horseshoe, Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

ws of shame hall of fame

― some dude, Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:28 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha i mean i guess it's not weird at all. on some level i'm five years old and expect people's deeds to affect their looks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/al-qaeda-surrenders-renounces-terror-antichrist-appears-countdown-to-apocalypse-begins-phillies-mets-tied-in-10th.html

carn obama kick this baby off, i've got work to do

Wait so the popes just been made a saint but no one will GAF cos we killed bin laden?

I dont know how to feel just now.

who gaf about a dead pope, honestly

i guess the critical re-evaluation of bin laden starts now

would write for z s' newspaper

oh wait i see what you mean, am in full support of your point now xxp

Wiggywoo still posts here?!

He'll go from 2 stars to 5 stars in the next Rolling Stone Terrorist Guide

jp2 has been beatified not sainted, get it rite

and now the bickering has started on FB, with friends chastizing others for 'cheering a death' and calling everyone that does it a hypocrite.

"people are literally running to the white house gates."

hey can everyone post about what their facebook friends are saying? that would be very interesting & informative

i feel like i have egg on my beard b/c i was one of those people that was convinced that he died like 9 years ago or whatever.

"one man was holding up a t-shirt that said, Thank You President Bush."

so it goes.

maybe Obama can recycle some of his Trump jokes from last night.

jp2 has been beatified not sainted, get it rite

yes, you Luther-lovin' heathens

Are you being sarky Jord or serious?

p sure the former, Trayce

HE ALMOST FORGOT THE FLIGHT

i honestly had a weird moment just now where i was like "i'm not that far from the white house, i could go down there... but is there anyone in the world whose death would prompt me to cheer and jump up and down like that? that's some dark shit"

this speech is boring as fuck

j0rdan S, thread police

i just wanna hear about rad special forces shit.

night vision goggles and laser sights and shit.

I thot beatification and sainthood were the same thing, but Im a stinkin' protestant.

x-post - lol me too

j0rdan S, thread police

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:37 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark

it's a tough job, but someone has to do it

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i'm seriously trying to imagine a shootout at a mansion and can only visualize Lil Wayne videos

MJ GONE / OUR NIGGA DEAD

― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 May 2011 03:52 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i was going to post this

wait did morbs just announce himself as catholic? what a moment that would be

It took many months to run this thread to ground

where is max, should we need police

I think Morbs is a Catholic!

hell yes, Wiggywoo still posts here. Was I missed?!? *coyly grins and bats eyelashes* Didn't know I was even known much. Mostly, I just lurk when time permits, but when I can score a first post like this I swooped on in. Mainly cuz you will all keep me up to date and I can turn the coverage off and get some work done while periodically clicking onto the ILX updates to get the latest.

i'm seriously trying to imagine a shootout at a mansion and can only visualize Lil Wayne videos

― some dude, Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:39 PM (1 minute ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2wD5TaMf2k

ok he is finally crediting pakistani help

yes real solider killed him not a drone thats how we roll *shades*

where is max, should we need police

"I'm getting too old for this shit"

so can we see the fucking body or what

it would be pretty dope to be that soldier

xpost ahahahaha

LAD

this speech is boring as fuck

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:37 PM (4 minutes ago)

yeah right? just say we bodied this bad motherfucker

how hard would your dick be if you were some deltaforce dude who got to cap bin laden

"it was just like rainbow six or some shit!!!"

I thought Obama would do a wacky ventriloquist bit with the body.

Like Jeff Dunham?

I wonder what they do with the body in a situation like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0

osama bin TRUE LADen

Weekend at Bernies

it would be pretty dope to be that soldier

We will all probably live long enough to hear some creepy tatted guy at a bar tell us he was on the Special Forces team.

it would've added extra insult to injury if someone had told him prior to death that he would be held off the top of trending topics by a promoted gatorade hashtag

aw, jeez, did he have to go all pledge of allegiance on us?

whenever i did this mission in rainbow six i had to reload a bunch until i did it without any of the hostages dying

"america can do whatever we set our mind to"

we really can spend 10 years tracking down a 6 foot 6 arab who needed kidney dialysis!

So many guys are going to try to claim they were that guy in order to get laid.

i was worried that obama had forgotten the last few lines of the pledge of allegiance for a minute there

lol Fox News 5 in NY has USAMA BIN LADEN in big bold on the bottom of the screen

You'd think Chuck Todd had never said "significant" before. Sound it out, dude.

well now we know why he released his birth certificate three days ago

osama bin got laiden

I think they said they were burying the body at sea.

"america can do whatever we set our mind to"

you know, apart from affordable health care

i guess they're hoping some of their viewers will be like, "Usama? Must be Osama's brother. No biggie."

USA MA - think we now know where all the true terrorists are

bad luck usama

The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.

cashin in

it would've added extra insult to injury if someone had told him prior to death that he would be held off the top of trending topics by a promoted gatorade hashtag

I love you

i honestly had a weird moment just now where i was like "i'm not that far from the white house, i could go down there... but is there anyone in the world whose death would prompt me to cheer and jump up and down like that? that's some dark shit"

i had a moment thinking i should go investigate (i did go to the white house on election night 2008 but obvs that was the time to jump up and down and cheer!). but i didn't see the news until just before obama went on the air and it's late

Trying to imagine obama on the phone with bush

lmao sarge

A lot of douchebags outside the whitehouse tonight.

omg guy celebrating outside the white house in hulkamania t shirt i <3 you

^^real American

A lot of douchebags outside the whitehouse tonight.

hello, gw university

Just stepped into the main event room at this Anime convention I'm at in time to hear the host announce the news. Moderate cheers followed by a half dozen dudes singing "na na na na hey hey hey goodbye".

Then they announced the winners of the ROCK BAND competition and the cheers were like 10 times louder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY

DON'T RULE IT OUT:

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cant even remember the last time i mentally acknowledged that osama bin laden existed

When does this drop for PS3

god, i hate terrorists

yeah, i don't think so. first they better fix their broken online service xp

ZING

friend of a friend on twitter:

Osama Bin Laden is the definition of gangsta! The nigga is ruthless! Had mad niggas bodied, announced it on tv, & said find me smh
37 minutes ago via ÜberSocial

thread delivers, you guys are making up for the idiocy on facebook

http://www.isosamabinladendead.com/

My god, I'd turned my laptop off and rolled a number until a friend sent me a text a few minutes ago. Fuck bin Laden.

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Thank God he is dead, if this is true.

However, it is the height of obscenity that Obama, the number one person trying to destroy the United States and its military from within, may profit politically from the death of the the number one person trying to destroy the United States from the outside, Bin Laden.

Obama's face when Seth Meyers joked about "where is Bin Laden" last night -> http://www.twitpic.com/4s777w

yeah, i don't think so. first they better fix their broken online service xp

― Mordy, Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Campaign, duh.

Osama Bin Laden is the definition of gangsta! The nigga is ruthless! Had mad niggas bodied, announced it on tv, & said find me smh
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― estkella (k3vin k.), Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is actually true

i know!

Campaign is 10 years long btw.

190 posts and markers still hasn't dropped a blink youtube. feel like the meme world has changed forever.

rip markers ;_;

He's still trying to figure out what channel CNN is on.

uhhh Geraldo said at one point that "Obama has been killed"

slip of the year??

something tells me that it might JUST slip under the radar

abbottabad

lol

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsa0vvlq1qzu2tdo1_400.gif

^ awesome

lol

That would have been a much better speech.

I know this is as stupid as shit for soooooooooooo many reasons but I'm all smiley and proud

And xpost - I think it is because .gifs like that will pop up. Meme machine <3 you.

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/reddfoxx724/obama.gif

Good weekend for Obama.

And to think I was going to read the ask brodie thread and catch up on 3 weeks on gun sounds youtubes. Osama ruining everything.

can't wait to see how the teabaggers respond to obama cutting their lunch

limbaugh's already having a stab

http://twitpic.com/4s777w

at first i was soured by the ilx cynicism but then I saw the people cheering on tv and that was much much x99999999999999999999 worse

190 posts and markers still hasn't dropped a blink youtube. feel like the meme world has changed forever.

― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rip markers ;_;

― br8080 (dayo), Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

believe me, i actually thought, "if someone's going to post 'I Miss You' in this thread, it's not going to be me

He's still trying to figure out what channel CNN is on.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:58 PM (Yesterday)

<3

why is that worse...

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, tells National Review Online that the United States “must stay on offense” following the death of Osama bin Laden.

“Get ready,” he says in a phone interview. “This is not over.”

“Americans need to understand that while this is a significant day, this is by no means the end of the war,” Graham says. “We can expect al-Qaeda to seek revenge and we need to be very vigilant and maintain our diligence.”

Graham heard the news from Vice President Biden. “We were excited that we got the bastard,” he says. “It was a very emotional phone call.”

“I told the Vice President that the president and his team deserve congratulations for a job well done. We have had our differences about the administration being indecisive, but the persistence they have shown in going after al-Qaeda along the Afghan-Pakistan border, and pursuing bin Laden, is something that we should all appreciate and acknowledge.”

“This makes me more resolved that patience matters,” Graham says. “At times, you begin to doubt if this day would ever come about, whether it had just slipped into history. Now [the victims and their families] have justice. It brings a lot of satisfaction. It is also a reminder that if America stays persistent, there is no enemy that we cannot defeat. The message is: if you choose to harm Americans, and try to destroy our way of life, there is no place you can hide, and no period of time that can keep you safe.”

i will remember that daniel, esq told me on ilx -- where the elite gets its news

― mookieproof, Monday, May 2, 2011

lol. today i am very proud of myself.

holy shit at obamakickinthedoorwavinthefourfour.gif

This is kinda weird, this was about 3 hours ago...

http://tribune.com.pk/story/160917/army-chopper-crashes-in-abbotabad/

it doesn't seem right to have anyone else post i miss you at innapropriate times tho!

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=pma+kakul+road,+abbottabad,+pakistan&fb=1&gl=us&hq=pma&hnear=Kakul+Rd,+Abbott%C4%81bad,+Pakistan&cid=0,0,15695123202791399447&ll=34.180743,73.250141&spn=0.009479,0.01929&t=h&z=16

yo daniel, esq where you been

ok i'm taking bets on the first mixtape cover to reference this.

yo that is a big ass pool

"CNN reported that he was writing the address himself."

hey dayo. i've been on ilx sabbatical, i guess.

of where Osama lived?

xpost

that map makes pakistan look nice imo

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^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

lololol

xp

omg

Twitter is ablaze, of course.

bunnyultramod
Late night talk show monologue writers are reading Twitter now and cursing it for burning through every possible punch line.
23 minutes ago
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my Friars Club comedian friend:

I'M HOPING OSAMA BIN LADEN CAN CLOSE FOR ME--I HEARD HE RECENTLY KILLED. TALK ABOUT A CROWD PLEASER!

ok i'm taking bets on the first mixtape cover to reference this

Lil B, about six hours from now, Chaotic Neutral Green Flame: Osama Is Dead

#longformdeathcertificate

http://i.imgur.com/KDssc.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA

haha xp

http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/OBAMASWAG.gif

SklarBrothers

Osama Bin Laden is dead. But, like Tupac, I'm guessing he's got a few more tapes to release.
43 minutes ago

THE SKLAR BROTHERS!! IT'S A FREE FOR ALL

lol

the us politics thread is 600+ new posts - is it still just lol trump or worth actually reading outside america?

TheThomason

Obama: "Anybody else wanna see my birth certificate?" Drops mic, walks away.
42 minutes ago
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the us politics thread is 600+ new posts - is it still just lol trump or worth actually reading outside america?

― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, May 2, 2011 12:17 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest

hahahahahahahahaha

tbqh not even worth reading inside america

it's also clemenza arguing with the rest of us

it's a lot of very insightful political musings from a guy who's always got a fresh + surprising take i.e. me

Ed in Cary - May 01, 2011 23:58

@mypalfish

I share your views. I feel much, much more threatened by the internal threat -- BHO -- than I did by OBL.

There is no taking the politics out of this. Our POS POTUS just made a speech celebrating his close personal involvement in this matter.

Yes. I too would rather OBL still be alive than to watch a representative of the political party that has tried to destroy the military the CIA and and high technology weapons claim the credit and posture themselves as champions of national security.

May 1st was also when Hitler was confirmed dead apparently. COINCIDENCE?!!?

Yes.

But yet the guy on the news just made a point of drawing that parallel.

where are the flags coming from?

BIN LADEN WAS A SECRET FAGGOT

bin laden only had one ball

where are the flags coming from?

― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, May 2, 2011 12:21 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

http://www.mysafetysign.com/img/lg/S/Break-Glass-Emergency-Sign-S-1620.gif

more:

REUTERSFLASH ReutersBreakingNews. U.S. official says believes Osama bin Laden's adult son, two other adults killed during raid on his compound

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CxA17NvLu_Q/Tb4wkKDbnfI/AAAAAAAAGD8/DPj0VgxyfCg/s1600/binladen.jpg

'dead'

Imagine how awesome Bin Laden's dried and powdered body would be as an aphrodisiac

tea party robot looks shocked

this contrasts so sharply with another daring helicopter-based operation in the middle-east, conducted under a democratic administration, that i remember.

Some asshole outside the white house has brought a beach ball to bounce around.

That is all

we got bin laden less than one year after they canceled 24 -- NOT A COINCIDENCE IMO

Imagine how awesome Bin Laden's dried and powdered body would be as an aphrodisiac

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/4/L/united_viagra.jpg

x-post

hhahahahahahaha

countdown to girls taking off their tops?

I love that this historic thread will forever be remembered as being started by ILX user Wiggywoo

Girls go wild or the terrorists win.

Hmm not as big as election night but a lot of people at the WH for sure. Could not resist urge to investigate

I'll believe it when I see the official death certificate.

There were also 2 ladies doing a cheerleading routine on the shoulders of somebody. No lie.

If no one else saw this on CNN plz let me know so I can go ahead and head down to the hospital because I have obv had a stroke.

I love the jort wearing fellow in the tree

Okay that crashed helicopter was a US warship:

To summarize: 40 minute JSOC raid; two helos, one drone; 4 KIA, inc OBL; DevGru (Seal Team Six) did shooting; only cas was US helocopter

markb
Reports stating Osama was taken down with a nailclipper. TSA: "Told you."

can't help thinking the tories will disingenuously cheer osama's death so that when any terrorist atack all happens anywhere they can all scream "OBAMA FAILED" in unison

I saw the shit out of those cheerleaders.

"tea party robot looks shocked"

― You Get Hoynes (bnw)

I just thought that was their natural expression.

more details here:
http://twitter.com/#!/marcambinder

jort wearing fellow in the tree

this is a beautiful description

I would imagine that google map I linked to upthread contains the mansion/compound where osama was killed.

Going to use that address for the Arcade Fire video.

ambinder = killing it

ClayTravisBGID Clay Travis
George Washington's cheerleading squad performing in crowd outside White House. Seriously.

http://jimrlong.us/GodBlessAmerica/God_Bless_America.jpg

This is pretty unreal, English language msg board of people in the neighborhood liveblogging the crash:
http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/non-wheels-discussions/164223-whats-going

more pre-OBL dead news reports here:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=abbottabad+helicopter

omigod:

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"Enough! I DO NOT want to view this through the prism of whether or not it helps Obama get elected. Leave that sort of talk to crass, obtuse, craven lefty pundits. This moment belongs to America."

And this attitude is why more often than not, Republicans lose. If Bush had killed Bin Laden (which he should have in 8 friggin years!), do you think the liberals would be falling all over themselves to praise him like so many here are doing with Obama? This is the nightmare scenario for the GOP. Not only will Obama cruise to victory next year, his coattails will now be in full effect again, hurting our chances in House and Senate races across the country. There is no excuse for President Bush to not have gotten this done in his two terms in office. Obama putting Osama out to pasture in two years makes the whole Bush team look like weak amateurs. You cannot....CANNOT...take politics out of this. And as a said before, Obama is at an unbelievably strong 50% even with gas prices, food prices, lack of jobs, etc. The public is looking for any reason to side with the guy and this is a mighty good reason.

BBC have not mentioned the helicopter since I turned it on an hour ago.

Lol though at talking head saying that "Obama knows this is not 'Mission Accomplished'"

alfred who is this 1 crazy republican you keep quoting?

does it really matter?

one of the terrorists

just wondering what glenn beck has been upto lately

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=bin+laden+compound+abbottabad&ie=UTF8&hq=bin+laden+compound+abbottabad&hnear=&radius=15000&t=h&z=16

Brian Williams saying the helicopter crashed from a low height, people survived, and then the helicopter was destroyed purposely.

Sounds...sketchy?

that marilyn monroe USA flag on CNN is pretty cool

http://i.imgur.com/Yjn8u.png

bread assessor.

clearly there's a potential abbott screenname in that

xpost

that fucking guy

abort humanity

xpost to google map
I always knew he was just down the road from the MSW Segregation Composting Site, past the Coaster Stand and the Abbottabad Hockey Stadium, right by the Women & Children Hospital. If you pass Our Own English School or Bright-Future Academy you've gone too far east.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2j3qm49.jpg

stoked for the first photo-j shoot of that compound

openbook so far kinda lame but this girl has an unfortunate name

http://i51.tinypic.com/21noysy.jpg

me_irl
Beloved character actor Osama bin Laden, star of TV's "Fox News", dies age 54

worst reactions: 1) rightwingers handwringing that this will benefit obama, this is worse than 9/11, etc 2) leftwingers handwringing that americans not only approve of bin laden's death but actually seem to take joy in it, nothing has changed, etc. 3) internet humor

best reactions: 1) topless babes in the public square 2) rightwingers handwringing that this will benefit obama, this is worse than 9/11, etc 3) darryl worley (presumably)

lol @ "bredissesor"

breed assessor

so what are they going to call the inevitable osama-isn't-dead conspiracy theorists?

stupid

"2) leftwingers handwringing that americans not only approve of bin laden's death but actually seem to take joy in it, nothing has changed, etc. 3) internet humor"

not sure how you reconcile disapproval of both of these things.

Sure I love that I learnt about this from Wiggywoo but if only we all first found out about it from this guy-

http://i51.tinypic.com/2cg0a6q.jpg

the disco raga guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTgDYjwg2TI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQN95XogBQ&feature=fvwrel

"Sure I love that I learnt about this from Wiggywoo but if only we all first found out about it from this guy"
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy)

heh heh heh, thanks for the luv, but it truly would have been far more fun to have learned the news from that guy!

http://twitpic.com/4s88i0

ParisHilton
Just landed back in LA, so happy to hear the news of Osama bin Laden's death. He was the face of terrorism and such ... http://tmi.me/9CZnB

"terrorism and such"

full tweet, btw: Just landed back in LA, so happy to hear the news of Osama bin Laden's death. He was the face of terrorism and such an evil man. The world is a much better place with him not in it.

he killed people and whatnot.

Just landed back in LA, so happy to hear the news of Osama bin Laden's death. He was the face of terrorism and such an evil man. The world is a much better place with him not in it. Also, I never got to fuck him :(

lol

he was the face of terrorism and gerber

hey jordo I know we've had our problems in the past but you're bringing the quality in this thread and I appreciate it.

you know matt, over the past like six months or so i've been thinking "when did i beef w/ matt armstrong & why?" cuz i pretty much agree w/ you lots of the time

IT HAD TO HAPPEN

http://i.min.us/in27yg.gif

matt & jordan "peace in our time"

feel like there's something I'm supposed to say on these kinds of threads

all joking aside:

i'm recoiling pretty heavy at this narrative that is popping up (just propagated by david gregory on msnbc) of all these college kids in DC celebrating because this is the end of my generation's "childhood nightmare". i think it would be obvious that college kids are rioting in front of the white house because of lol college/no parental supervision/let's get crazy, but i shouldn't have give news anchors that much credit.

wonderella
If any Republican gays want to come out, this is a pretty good news cycle for it.

he killed people and whatnot.

This made me actually choke on my water laughing.

fleet foxes got best new music

wait wait i thought jews did 911?

wonderella
If any Republican gays want to come out, this is a pretty good news cycle for it.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 May 2011 06:12 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

If any Republican gays want to come out, say they've killed before, they've poisoned the country's water and made your favourite baseballer take steroids, this is a pretty good news cycle for it.

I guess I'm feeling like they just killed John Hinkley or something. Like, "Oh. So that's still a thing? Okay. Anyway..."

Like, I mean I get it but I dont have much of a visceral reaction left in me 10, 11 years after the fact.

I can't opine until I've heard Ja Rule's take on the matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qdvM6bgFUQ&feature=player_embedded

AMERICAAAAAAAAA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

lol at the people in the crowd goin "WHAT WHA WHAT?"

all these college kids in DC celebrating because this is the end of my generation's "childhood nightmare".

with this behind us maybe we can all hear the Strokes' comeback album, or watch the latest Fast and Furious movie w/ Vin Diesel, without 2001 hanging on our necks.

OK, so this is the end of the 2000s and the start of the 2010s tonight.

i've been watching msnbc tonight, can someone enlighten me/give me a first hand account of jon king supposedly being drunk on air

Geez its not like this is V day or something. Ugh.

Was thT the CNN guy? His iPhone started ringing and vibrating while he was on screen! He also kept referring to Osama as the "mastermind" after forgetting who Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is, apparently.

someone wanna don a sailor's outfit and neck a passing gal in Times Square?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tufOjtHWx_Y

I am completely divided atm between telling ilx

A) how despite my general cynicism etc I have to be honest abr my feelings here ie this is an emotional moment

B) going politico and enjoying the idea of pawlenty pissing himself and trying to gracefully resign from the pres run

C) loving the fact that in all the wave o news I am still able to watch "major Payne" on tbs

Sorry that video of that video is crap.

i cant lie that cena video made me freakin pumped

I guess I'm feeling like they just killed John Hinkley or something. Like, "Oh. So that's still a thing? Okay. Anyway..."

Like, I mean I get it but I dont have much of a visceral reaction left in me 10, 11 years after the fact.

News like this depresses me because it makes me realize that there's a blur between "major news stories of the era" and internet memes that everyone's sick of within a few hours.

He's clearly sloshed, though, yeah.

i cant lie that cena video made me freakin pumped

It was working for me up until he said the "DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN" shit, like what I want to be known for is hunting down and killing people (even guilty people).

Can't derive any joy from Bin Laden's death. All my joy is coming from the hoopla surrounding it.

OH NO THIS GIRL GETTING INTERVIEWED ON MSNBC NOOOOOOOOO SOMEONE SAVE HERRRRRRRRRRR

talking head on bbc just called america and pakistan "frenemies"

Surprisingly apt.

ten years is a pretty long time

yet only fairly recently has there actually been any sign of progress at ground zero

i do not necessarily support the idea that the towers should be replaced by . . . whatever, but i do think it's indicative of our situation that it takes a decade to even do anything

just chill man, it's cool, we don't have to get everything done overnight

#slowyourroll

This is clearly why the new royal couple postponed their honeymoon, right? The US probably didn't lay it out for them, but probably urged them not to travel abroad.

BTW, since people aren't used to using their names in the same sentence literally all the time, if you mix up Obama and Osama over the next two weeks you get a pass (the first few times).

This is clearly why the new royal couple postponed their honeymoon, right?

They're planning on releasing a Royal Honeymoon Sex Tape to steal the headlines back.

http://browse.deviantart.com/literature/poetry/?qh§ion&q=Osama+bin+laden

anyone else wanna spam firstper✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.c✧✧ w/ gay porn

lol -- firstperson @ msnbc . com

They're planning on releasing a Royal Honeymoon Sex Tape to steal the headlines back.

Would watch.

Dude, ew.

Breaking: Taliban claim responsibility in death of Osama Bin Laden

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFvlhhvctM lmao

I guess I feel sort of numbed to the "symbols" of 9/11 because they were overused to the point of mania...like Bin Laden has been the boogeyman for so long, so fucking long, pre-towers even that this, him being killed, feels like it is happening in a vaccuum. It becomes Obama's political gain bc we are too far from 9/11 for it to belong to those people who died, or the workers and civillians who are sick and trying to get compensation...it feels like it's all upside down.

I didnt mean to sound glib upthread. Still trying to say it right.

this dude's crew killed a friend of mine in afghanistan, so good riddance (to quote shakey.) not exactly "happy" but satisfied i guess.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/02/world/02binladen4_683/02binladen4_683-custom11.jpg

Everyone take care this week, in case there are any "in case of death, break glass" orders out there.

http://planetwebdesign.com/americacries1agc.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHdI59QUe2s
http://planetwebdesign.com/americacries1agc.jpg

pelosi! xp

I try in almost all cases to be anti-death and anti-war but really, if anyone in the world deserved a bullet in the head

death T/S Falwell vs. Obama

OOPS

Yeah, I have no qualms celebrating when evil people die.

god how did he get elected

brian williams and msnbc correspondent like, can't believe the news was kept quiet, 'amazing that nobody texted anybody OMG OBL!'

man on the street interviews are the best right now

I wonder how many people knew, and what it was like carrying that info around for months.

I try in almost all cases to be anti-death and anti-war but really, if anyone in the world deserved a bullet in the head

YES this is my position exactly.

haha ilx liveblogging of msnbc getting to hawaii faster than msnbc apparently

this whole thing threw me out of whack, cuz I'm borderline socialist, anti-death penalty, and pacifist as you are a hoy hoy, and I also was very WHO GIVES A SHIT when Saddam was captured (though I opposed that war anyway)...but I do feel satisfied at this.

like I mean, there's a very long list of people that I'd either be happy or ambivalent about if they were killed, and he was most definitely on it.

NRO has osama corpse pictures up already, which seems about right.

Decapitation has already repurposed them for their next album cover

"it has been almost ten years since the twin towers came down and now bin laden...is down." thanks, wolf.

Wolf Blitzer arguably the worst person in "news". Even worse than a drunk Jon King.

BBC Talking Head #124 says he has a picture of Dead Osama on his phone, think he is just BRAGGIN' 2011 about owning a smartphone.

i'm sorry you lost your friend, omar little.

http://i.imgur.com/ljTpT.jpg

feel like there's something I'm supposed to say on these kinds of threads

― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, May 2, 2011 1:09 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

msnbc is really a garbage network, but more pronounced on the weekends with their "docs".

NRO has osama corpse pictures up already, which seems about right.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, May 2, 2011 1:53 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

link?

ApocalypseHow Rob Kutner
FOXNEWS REPORTS: Obama Administration Kills Homeless Religious Man with Kidney Disease

thanks estela

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266155/alleged-picture-dead-bin-laden-daniel-foster

alright yeah

pakistani tv showing a building, supposedly the one he was hiding in, in flames.

http://i.imgur.com/RfKHS.jpg

yep, that's the internet in one screengrab.

I'm sad there aren't better histories of Delta and DEVGRU/SEAL Team Six out there. There's Inside Delta Force and one about the hunt for Bin Laden in Tora Bora, pieces in Black Hawk Down, but for the most part there's very little legit literature on them. (Not surprising, of course.)

no lolcats, no credibility

did you guys catch the 6 or 7 person "crowd" outside Bush's house in Dallas? Wonder how long they hung around.

Supposedly this is a screenshot from just after Seth Meyer's joke about Osama's location last night:

http://i.imgur.com/xTvv8.jpg

that looks exactly like his reaction to most of the jokes

UPDATE II: It now seems all but certain that this photo is a fake.

Looked sketchy.

ya it did

nah he totally laughs like that

it is kinda funny to me that for 10 years everyone has been making cave jokes & dude was out living in a massive mansion

so.. now what? we out of afghanistan?

loool geraldo reporting live outside the white house surrounded by college students

i wandered around the WH myself a while earlier. crowded like election night. dudes climbing the lampposts outside the gates (which are like 20 ft+ tall?) to hang american flags

it is kinda funny to me that for 10 years everyone has been making cave jokes & dude was out living in a massive mansion

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 2, 2011 2:18 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jeff Dunham furiously updating his act

Possible to be relieved he's dead without chanting USA like your team won the big game!

would have loved if Obama could have announced this during his WHCD speech and sent everyone in the room scrambling to report

Possible to be relieved he's dead without chanting USA like your team won the big game!

That's unamerican, tbh.

j/k

Possible to be relieved he's dead without chanting USA like your team won the big game!

― You Get Hoynes (bnw), Monday, May 2, 2011 2:21 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

We finally won the big game after nine years of overtime

Obama's pretty much had the perfect weekend.

I can't remember who said it on twitter now (it was a couple hours ago), but someone was talking about how the GOPers would eventually complain about the Obama administration not observing Islamic tradition re: Osama's remains.

Flip to FOX just now...it's what they're talking about! Apparently the body will be buried by 4pm local time tomorrow.

Twitter, so grain of salt:
"Compound Osama found in had been BUILT FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY at cost of over $1 million. No tv, phone, or internet. He lived there for 5yrs"

Good news to wake up to.

it is kinda funny to me that for 10 years everyone has been making cave jokes & dude was out living in a massive mansion

So he's the opposite of some famous Hollywood actors.

FOX (so take that as you will) saying Seals offered safe surrender—Bin Laden turned it down—used someone as a human shield before finally being shot.

(That sounds like State Dept propaganda imo)

http://img600.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110502at231.png/
http://img705.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110502at236.png/

lilyroseallen
I know that Osama Bin Laden is dead, but if we could all stop for a minute to consider todays REAL news I'd very much appreciate it.

lilyroseallen
It is my birthday, I am 26.

<3 Lily Allen u guys

osama's last word was "wiggywoo?"

Well, the Fox machine is already working. Caller said POTUS claimed in his speech that this "effectively ends the war on terror". Um, didn't he go out of his way to NOT say that?

one of the worst characteristics in the media is being let out again tonight in how many times ppl on TV are expressing shock & amazement that this plan never leaked out -- "how come we didn't find out!? isn't this crazy everyone!? how could we not know!?"

How US Tracked Couriers to Elaborate bin Laden Compound

http://thedailywh.at/2011/05/01/how-about-that-of-the-day-11/

Why are people already parroting "this took place a week ago" - ive seen a few ppl say that now, wheres that come from?

So what does this 'World wide travel alert' mean that has been issued? Is it just a precautionary measure, or?

probably because of the fake(?) picture of the corpse? allegedly the father of a marine obtained the picture a week ago from his son. xpost

cnn.com is saying that he's already been "buried at sea"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

^^^no one can make a pilgrimage

xpost

yep

wow luke russert is seriously just the worst

idg that cartoon drawing of bin laden that everybodys been posting, what's that about

i keep singing wiggywoo to the tune of the Pazant Bros song sampled in Main Source's "Lookin At The Front Door"

WIGGY WOOO WOOO WOOOOOOO

idg that cartoon drawing of bin laden that everybodys been posting, what's that about

― br8080 (dayo), Monday, May 2, 2011 3:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

iirc it was something drawn by a crazy right wing cartoonist & has been a modest ilx meme throughout the years

also it's a hilarious image

cnn is talking about tweets

ny post headline is ROT IN HELL!

oh lol I should read that right wing cartoon thread xp to js

dayo THUMBS UP

still my favorite thing posted on this thread:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjuogbd0b1qz9bwro1_500.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr9BPGXjrT0

Thumbs Up Bin Laden might be our most lasting contribution to society.

clarification that the ROT IN HELL! headline is actually the daily news

Just woke up. Did I miss something?

In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, one western diplomat described the news as a "game changer" – not just for al-Qaida, but also for US foreign policy in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a region embroiled in turmoil and violence since 2001.

"I'm overjoyed," said the diplomat. "But what this exactly means is really not clear."

455 new answers - bin laden more popular than brodie shock!

osama bro laden

Who knows what sorts of disinformation will continue to spread and how many people will eat it whole

― but I want a bongo drum (CaptainLorax), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

rip big man

i know j0rdan thread-policed fbook posts but:

J***** D*****
Bin Laden BEEN DEAD! They needed something to pull Obama out the slumps of extremely low approval, sinking economy, the coming inflation (get ready people!), and the unpopular warS we are engaged in and get him ready for re-election.
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J***** D***** Just watch how they play this one. How did they order and kill today and have a DNA match all in a couple hours? DNA tests take 5-10 days, 72hrs if expedited. Look it up! Show me the photos, an indie 3rd party DNA test and indie forensic exam proving time, place and cause of death.
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J***** P***** and they "buried him at sea" before anyone can actually see him?!?
about an hour ago · Like

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjxpdptWB1qzna4vo1_500.jpg

i am sort of bummed that we weren't invited to rend, bathe in and eventually consume his body in some kind of orgiastic public ritual. obama admin always always kind of missing the point.

http://i.imgur.com/ClGmA.png

i knew that liking David Faustino on fb would pay off one day

http://i.imgur.com/bsAmv.jpg

I thought they'd cut his head off and drag his body around Manhattan behind a horse and cart?

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/heres-the-guy-who-unwittingly-live-tweeted-the-raid-on-bin-laden/

seems like a good guy tbh, he isn't flogging his own t-shirt or anything

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/02/3205548.htm

Clayton McCleskey, a journalist with The Dallas Morning News, was outside the White House shortly before Mr Obama began his announcement and says the crowd grew quickly but organically, fuelled by social media.

"There are a couple of universities that are pretty close to the White House and so it appeared that initially it was mostly students," he told ABC News Online.

"It was a very young crowd. There were a few maybe 30- or 40-somethings but a lot of 20-year-olds.

"Everybody had their phones out. Everybody was on Facebook. Everybody was texting. I heard a lot of people on their phones saying 'hey, come meet me'."

McCleskey says his immediate reaction upon seeing the crowd - which he estimated at 2,000 - was "oh gosh, this is horrible. This is just like a drunken soccer party".

"There were people who had taken out bottles of vodka and were drinking in the streets and were running around with American flags," he said.

think this was mentioned already but
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjveovdg01qz7by3o1_500.jpg

no phone, no internet, no tv. fun times at abbottabad high.

so... about this hidden nuke

osama been laid down to rest

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/heres-the-guy-who-unwittingly-live-tweeted-the-raid-on-bin-laden/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/online-persona-management_n_837153.html

These false online personas, also known as "sock puppets,"

455 new answers - bin laden more popular than brodie shock!

suppose the pentagon is behind this too

http://twitter.com/#!/search/Megatron

I bet he regrets signing up for that PSN account now

lol

This is such a lie.

it begins.

Who knows what sorts of disinformation will continue to spread and how many people will eat it whole
― but I want a bongo drum (CaptainLorax), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

www.isosamareallydeadyet.com

Are they going to stuff him and mount him like a grizzly and set him up in the White House foyer?

Nah he's already been eaten by zionist sharks.

Giggling WNYC correspondent reported that revelers in Times Square were telling her "the war is over."

Unlimited idiocy.

Well, the war on Bin Laden is pretty much over.

What's with the buried at sea thing, btw? Is that a euphemism for ignominiously dumping the body in the ocean?

And who gets the reward?

Good morning! What happened last night?

Bin Laden blowin' up.

Interesting:

After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult, the official said. So the U.S. decided to bury him at sea.

^^^no one can make a pilgrimage

― gr8080, Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ Same thing happened to Eichmann.

They 'offered' the body to Saudi Arabia, but that country refused iirc

Who knows what sorts of disinformation will continue to spread and how many people will eat it whole
― but I want a bongo drum (CaptanLorax), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― br8080 (dayo)

the disinformation I was referring to has nothing to do with whether or not he is dead

While that has a morbid logic, I gotta say this whole situation is decidedly weird.

Uh the burial thing not lorax and his technicolour nutcasecoat.

suck it Trayce

lol xp

i have an uneasy feeling that the "Osama's not dead" furor is gonna be like the birther controversy x1000

no -- birther stuff was sort of unprecedented

"deathers"

^^

can we get a "if there's a rock and roll heaven" .jpg w/john bonham on drums, hendrix on guitar, entwistle on bass, jim morrison on tambourine & vox and bin laden with a kaos pad at a table between the drumkit & the amp stacks? thx

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/bin-laden-dead-why-didnt-we-get-him.html

"washington's blog" is such a great name for a blog

And just like in Transformers, it turns out bin Laden was a fucking robot.

bin Laden was always my least favourite Muppet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zC4l8mKNk

http://www.xomba.com/true_story_how_osama_bin_laden_became_arsenal_soccer_fan

huh, up and down day for the lad was yesterday.

Entwhistle on bass is crazy

should be McCartney obv

you can't have people who are still alive in a rock and roll heaven .jpg, man, come on, show some respect

think Ismael is engaging in some sly wishful thinking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

o yeah duh, I used to have Abbey Road, I knew he was wearing no shoes on the cover...

http://i.imgur.com/KDssc.jpg

US news agencies saying that Osama is dead.

osama goes out in a mansion shootout, scarface style. is now smashing tons of virgin klunge
ultimatevillianLAD

is anybody else shocked that it turned out he was alive in the first place? thought the consensus was that he'd probably died of kidney failure years ago anyway.

Was that the consensus? Really? Tbh, the way they found him alive and well, not in a cave but in a house with facilities etc doesn't seem that surprising.

how old was he?

He was legal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HdUZsWpHQ&feature=player_embedded

I randomly googled 'Osama Bin Laden' before I went to bed last night, just to see if they were any closer to finding him. I wake up this morning and he's dead. Biggest WTF moment ever.

plate of shrimp

seemed like most of the educated guesses were in that direction. living in a remote mountainous area on dialysis, doubts over the authenticity of later tapes, etc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/opinion/the-death-of-bin-ladenism.html

xposts

Well, that was 2002, but point take. I don't know, personally I'm not at all surprised that he had relatively quite good conditions and medical aid probably. The man had made some friends for life, surely.

that fox news guy's moustache is the real story

I think it's great that they got him, but it's gonna be hard to forget Geraldo's breaking news report on this in which he started laughing hysterically, could not form a single coherant sentence, and referred to Osama as "Obama" a couple times; I've never seen a guy get a bigger newsboner

I bored some friends at length on bin Laden's likely death one evening back in 2004, next morning I wake up and he'd issued the tape condemning Bush & Kerry

Ugh. Roy Edroso on the rightbloggers.

i had my doubts abt his health after the videos stopped coming, i mean he can organise 9/11 but not get anyone to pop down to the karachi branch of dixons for a new camcorder?

Matos tipped me off to this, from Jason King:

The craziest moment of a crazy night comes from Nicki Minaj. RT @harryallen: RT @NlCKIMllNAJ: Obama found Bin Laden! Now what would be challenging is Finding a @LilKim song on the radio. #MissionImpossible

she's right you know

daaaaamn nicki

xp yeah this is pretty much gonna bring out the worst of the internet, I've already started purging fb friends over this, people are already posting shit like "guess what america? the world is going to be the same tomorrow as it was today" and "well we spent billions of dollars, but we got the guy with the funny name. congrats america"

I keep seeing people snickering about Fox News' spelling of "Usama". They've been spelling it that way for years, though. I don't know why.

probably to keep their fat-fingered interns from typing "Obama" by mistake

tbh I remember it spelled "Usama" when I first heard the name in the Clinton years.

Usama (D)

lol

USA is a MONSTA

the preference for "usama" over "osama" seems to be a pretty consistently right-wing thing--i remember seeing it a lot in reference to the meme that ollie north had warned clinton about bin laden (& therefore 9/11 is clinton's fault)

so this is proof that if you build a house with massive security walls, gates, and no phone/internet access anywhere in the world, it will eventually raise suspicion.

Usama (D)

*dying*

you'd have to think it has something to do with our current president's last name

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/obl050211/s_b13_RTR2LVRD.jpg

No, they were spelling it that way on 9/11/01

any reaction from Reagan yet?

wikipedia sez "Most American government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin" [...] The spelling with "o" and "e" [in bin Laden] comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time."

xxp i don't remember that, I thought until recently it always had an "O"

LOL at the idea it was spelled that way to avoid confusion. "Oh, Usama? I thought you said Osama! My bad. We let Usama go."

ummmm the media has a history of doing things like that

"one man was holding up a t-shirt that said, Thank You President Bush."

Misread this as Osama:
"One man was holed up in a t-shir that said, Thank You President Bush."

also proof that no one, given the resources, wants to spend 10 years living in caves

ya, even hardcore terrorists love suburban sprawl

ESPECIALLY hardcore terrorists amirite?

There was fringey but perceptible speculation on "Was That Hitler's Body?" well into the '70s, so this is more than made to order for plenty o' that.

They hate us for our suburbs.

These frigging people.

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Would make sense if they'd hate you for

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xp

tbh the he was 'living in a dope secret mansion' aspect made me happier about this than I'd otherwise be...if we just threw a grenade in his cave or whatever it would be more 'eh whatever'

Let's see, here are all former Pres. Bush's notable interactions vis a vis Osama bin Laden:

1. Failed to react to intelligence advisory regarding his wish to attack the US.
2. Failed to capture him in Afghanistan when it was remotely possible to do so.

THANKS, DUBYA!

yeah that whole thing is kind of sickening

Obama even credited Bush, and secondly why does it really matter which president ultimately "took him out"

it matters if the black Democrat did it

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

If Bush had taken out Osama, than Obama never would have caught him. So Bush gets the bizarro-world assist.

If Bush had taken out Osama, it would have been sometime in the 80s and it would have been to a steakhouse

haha

"do u liek baseball"

At least from now on the absurd right wing "Obama is soft on terror" meme can now be met with this news.

and it wouldn't have been quite so teal and orange xp

lol, terror is like the one thing Obama is unambiguously firm on

Well.

The President’s Speech
May 2, 2011 9:16 A.M.
By Mark Steyn

I know, I know, if you can’t blog anything real nice it’s better not to blog at all, that’s my advice. Nevertheless:

Personally, I would have liked bin Laden’s death to have been announced by whatever lowest-level official was manning the night desk at the Department of Nondescript Bureaucrats, preferably reading it off the back of an envelope. But, if you’re going to put the head of state on TV to announce it himself, it would have been better to have been all brisk and businesslike – “At 0800 hours American military assets entered an address at 27b Jihadist Gardens, etc” – and finish off with a bit of Churchillian sober uplift about it not being the end or the beginning of the end but maybe the end of the beginning.

Instead, as Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic, writes:

Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism. The first part of the announcement, evoking 9/11, was vulgarly overwritten as per Obama’s view of himself as some kind of gifted orator. The adjective bloated compote was unworthy of the subject, banal and self-indulgent.

I was, I confess, a little stunned by the first part of the President’s speech. It was, as Mr Hunter says, overwritten. It managed to be both overwrought and generic – all that telepromptered overload about cloudless Tuesday mornings was not only tackily over-prettified but came over as unfelt and hand-me-down, like a course exercise in some third-rate creative-writing school’s Soaring Oratory class. Or, at any rate, as if they’d loaded up a first draft of September’s tenth anniversary speech into the machine. The official announcement was delayed for all this? If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to rally round the flag, and rally round the President, but rally round this speech? No thanks.

I almost called the local Cuban right wing station to correct a geriatric who said this happened "in spite of" Obama's "elimination" of the military. I was going to remind her about Afghanistan and drone rockets but I think she died while talking to the talk show host, so I shut up.

TELEPROMPTURD

heres the powerline blog steyn quotes:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/028948.php

with the very, uh, telling last line:

That said, God bless the commandos! Man, I would have like to have been on that entry team!

How does Obama know the area Osama was hiding in so well? Makes you think.

I would have like to have been on that entry team!

is that gay slash fic?

it is now

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

Previous #11 not yet added to the list.

i keep replying "Bin Laden IS dead" to this thread title, Linguo style

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth saying US strike force shot into empty house, buried marionette at sea

Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism.

Sure he prefers the modesty of the former White House occupant.

http://schizoamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bush_hero_flight_suit.jpg

my wife went to bed before the news broke last night. i seriously had a debate with myself about whether to do something in the morning like go "so you know who died last night? Obama! [wait a few seconds for her to react, ask questions] ohhhh no wait sorry I mean Osama, Osama Bin Laden is the one that died."

couldn't go through with it, though.

Clearly you value your life.

Countdown to the cries of "THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF NOT FOR WATERBOARDING" begin now.

I suggest we replace waterboarding with boogieboarding

ha Yeah, they're already crediting the intelligence they got from Gitmo prisoners

these fuckin guys with their "the speech was overwritten" constant ad-hom shit

graceless, racist, juvenile sons of bitches

h8 them h8 them h8 them all day

Graceless and juvenile, definitely. But how is it racist?

Oh the sons of bitches you mean, n/m

Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic

Thankfully Hunter's prose re movies is not in the Washington Post much these days. Hunter's had his own share of embarrassing incidents that suggest his writing should not be given much credence.

Also, there's no evidence confirming that waterboarding of detainees is what got some of the intelligence

One courier in particular had our constant attention," the official said. He declined to give that courier's name but said he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a "trusted assistant" of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a former senior al Qaeda officer who was captured in 2005.

"Detainees also identified this man as one of the few couriers trusted by bin Laden," the official said. The U.S. intelligence community uncovered the identity of this courier four years ago, and two years ago, the U.S. discovered the area of Pakistan this courier and his brother were working in.

In August 2010, the intelligence agencies found the exact compound where this courier was living, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The neighborhood is affluent and many retired Pakistani military officials live there.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/01/the_timeline_of_the_mission_to_kill_osama_bin_laden

two interesting things:

1) it seems like they waited good and long before deciding to attack this compound

2) it doesn't seem they were 100% sure they'd find OBL there

or even 90% sure

Great for Pakistan that OBL was basically caught in their iteration of West Point.

2) it doesn't seem they were 100% sure they'd find OBL there

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yeah this is kinda troubling isnt it? not surprising tho. they sent a big ol helicopter to a mansion with no real intent of seizing their target alive. this couldve turned out way worse!

wasn't waterboarding off limits by 2005?

What will Pakistan's explanation be for how a compound right near their West Point somehow went under the radar?

it really is "you are black; I will find fault with everything you do." I know that if you're black this is like an obvious daily reality but I'm naive and have this deep need to believe that people aren't as awful as they are, so when it's as obvious as it is in a time like the commander in chief of your country just got the guy you spent the last ten years making a big deal about getting & all you can do is "'he's reading from a teleprompter!' 'he's making it all about himself!' 'He didn't credit the white guy who failed for eight consecutive years, where's the credit for the white guy?'" fuckin...h8 h8 h8

i thought his speech was, you know, presidential. i've read that people like that sort of thing from their president.

aerosmith once again otm...its the same old story, same old song and dance...

at least one conservative Facebook friend of mine posted "the jubilation is kind of sickening; we shouldn't really be rejoicing in someone's death regardless of how they've harmed us" and, in the ensuing conversation with her fellow conservatives, managed to get to "I'm not even convinced they got him, anyway; I'd feel a lot better if they'd shown us the body"

so it's bad form to say "yay he's dead" but a-ok to parade his body around in front of citizens? do you not see why that might not make much sense?

I don't think it's necessarily 'racist' I just think we're at the point w/ these people literally anything any democrat will do is gonna be 'wrong' - it'd be the same if this happened under any other democratic pres. at this point they'd find something wrong with him renaming monday 'reagan day'.

hahaha @ whoever wrote a "review" of the compound's location of google maps: "should have upgraded to orbital command"

there has got to be a way to criticize obama's speechmaking w/o being called a racist. maybe i'm missing the context.

xp xp i think this situation is bringing out a lot of confused/contradictory reactions because it seems so outside the ordinary--his crimes, the sheer length of the pursuit, etc. i'd give everyone a few days' reprieve from jumping on their statements about it.

I don't think it's necessarily 'racist' I just think we're at the point w/ these people literally anything any democrat will do is gonna be 'wrong' - it'd be the same if this happened under any other democratic pres. at this point they'd find something wrong with him renaming monday 'reagan day'

True. I still think the vitriol pales beside what Clinton endured in the nineties.

exactly

this makes sense:

The initial circumstantial evidence suggests the opposite is more likely—that bin Laden was effectively being housed under Pakistani state control. Pakistan will deny this, it seems safe to predict, and perhaps no convincing evidence will ever surface to prove the case. If I were a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice, however, I would be tempted to call a grand jury. Who owned the land on which the house was constructed? How was the land acquired, and from whom? Who designed the house, which seems to have been purpose-built to secure bin Laden? Who was the general contractor? Who installed the security systems? Who worked there? Are there witnesses who will now testify as to who visited the house, how often, and for what purpose? These questions are not relevant only to the full realization of justice for the victims of September 11th. They are also relevant to the victims of terrorist attacks conducted or inspired by bin Laden while he lived in the house, and these include many Pakistanis as well as Afghans, Indians, Jordanians, and Britons. They are rightly subjects of American criminal law.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/notes-on-the-death-of-osama-bin-laden.html#ixzz1LCxz48VC

I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.

George Bush quote that the Republican world has to rationalize

There are some calling out libs for their reaction to Saddams capture but the two aren't even remotely comparable

2) it doesn't seem they were 100% sure they'd find OBL there

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yeah this is kinda troubling isnt it? not surprising tho. they sent a big ol helicopter to a mansion with no real intent of seizing their target alive. this couldve turned out way worse!

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well i mean...he'd evaded them for 9 years so even if they had an idea he might be there i can see why they weren't totally sure. i'm guessing they at least knew there was some al qaeda guys in there if not the big cheese and that they weren't just storming in on some innocent bystanders.

Partisan people are partisan. People spouted as much shit about GWB and Clinton. I'm sure lots of people are racist too but I don't think it's fair to stick that label on any conservative who criticises Obama, no matter how stupidly.

It's racist. These are the kind of people who delude themselves through virtual micromanagement that they're superior to any black person and I would invite every single one of them to bend over and kiss Barack Obama's butt. But I was kind of inviting them to do that before this news.

I still think the vitriol pales beside what Clinton endured in the nineties.

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i was in HS at the time, but, really?

also wrong to excuse racism as just partisanship, there are cases the other way too

both this and Saddam's capture seem to buy into the Darth Vader/single-evil-lord paradigm. The beat goes on.

also plz kick Pakistan to the curb.

anyway, dare i say it, but steyn sorta otm! that speech was a little odd. obama's in the middle of a poetic retread of sept. 11 imagery and there's a weird gleam in his eye like he just wants to jump around and kick the podium over.

No, Clinton abuse was mostly partisan with maybe a touch of classism thrown in.