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    Osama dead means nothing unfortunately, Al Qaeda does not have a central command or leadership. The problem with media is that it portrays AQ as some organized group when in reality it never was. Killing OBL only strengthens their resolve and their determination.

    It's all a media play/media circus feeding the masses kool-aide to make people feel better.


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    Quote Originally Posted by gilleshk:
    this kind of celebration is based on hatred and it only fans the flame instead of accomplishing anything.
    Also the ongoing lack of separation of religion and politics in the US will also not help.

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    Directed by Clint Eastwood - Starring Chuck Norris.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DE FACTO EXPAT:
    Osama dead means nothing unfortunately, Al Qaeda does not have a central command or leadership. The problem with media is that it portrays AQ as some organized group when in reality it never was. Killing OBL only strengthens their resolve and their determination.

    It's all a media play/media circus feeding the masses kool-aide to make people feel better.
    Obviously people are going to feel better when a mass murderer gets his. It isn't "kool-aide" for the masses, it's retribution. Osama's existence was only symbolic since after 9/11 he was only a nominal leader. You've said it yourself - AQ is a diffuse group that has over the years been weakened into irrelevance - as far as OBL's death increasing AQ's supposed "strength and determination" I can't imagine how you increase a suicide bomber's determination since suicide bombing is the most despairing of political acts (NB: possibly for that reason, the only people AQ's tactics have ever resonated with were the more crazy of the Palestinian militants). Anyway, the point is to prevent the nuts from committing any more 9/11s, and for 10 years nothing of that magnitude has reoccured. At this point the Muslim world knows that there are better ways to improve their societies than through fantasies about achieving a return to a Medieval Caliphate by blowing oneself up and shouting 'death to the unbelievers'.

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    When I was in the sandbox, they always shouted "Allahu Akbar" but more commonly misquoted as "Allah Akbar".


    Quote Originally Posted by Freetrader:
    At this point the Muslim world knows that there are better ways to improve their societies than through fantasies about achieving a return to a Medieval Caliphate by blowing oneself up and shouting 'death to the unbelievers'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neha:
    Pakistan will demand a lot from US for their so called help in killing Osama( considering he was living in their capital)
    I thought the americans indicated that they told nobody about the operation - and especially not the pakistan security services - so how could they say they helped? If anything they hindered by allowing him to live there so long.

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    Today US officials (Brennan) are publicly saying that it is inconceivable that Bin Laden did not have a support network in Pakistan to evade capture all these years. Living in a compound with no phone lines... very odd.

    It is funny how raising legitimate questions gets the whack jobs panties all in a twist. Loz and Freetrader could have replaced Rumsfeld as Defence Secretary as he like these dudes did not let facts get in the way of a good war with Iraq.

    Here is another anti-American attack just like mine. Err, oh wait... this guy is head of US Intelligence. How un-American.

    Inconceivable Osama didn't have support system in Pakistan: US


    Inconceivable Osama didn't have support system in Pakistan: US

    Press Trust of India, Updated: May 03, 2011 00:52 IST

    Washington: The US today said it was "inconceivable" that Osama bin Laden had no support system inside Pakistan. The Obama adminstration is investigating how the Al Qaeda chief was able to hold on in the country for so long.

    While refusing to speculate on what kind of support Osama might have had in Pakistan, counter terrorism chief John Brennan did not rule out the possibility of the terrorist having official backing. "It is inconceivable that bin Laden did not have support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for extended period of time," Brennan told reporters at a news conference at the White House."


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    Am I the only person who has to read these news articles twice, just to make sure I'm not mixing up the Osama with the Obama?

    Has the be a horrible news cycle for speed readers.


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    This is great news - I was overjoyed that the prize cnut got his.

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    Just who here is suggesting that bin Laden was on his own in Pakistan?


    It has long been suggested that bin Laden had been hiding in Pakistan. It is well known that elements in Pakistan's military and intelligence services have been supporting him and his network. India has always accused Pakistan's ISI of supporting terrorist organisations in their campaigns against India (in Kashmir, New Delhi, Mumbai, etc.).

    Yesterday's operation proved it not to be a conspiracy theory.

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