Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan by US forces!
Oh what glorious news to wake up to this morning! After years–too many–of searching for Osama bin Laden he has finally been brought to justice. bin Laden was located in an affluent Pakistani neighborhood and special forces were sent in to kill him. Apparently the special forces were helecoptered into his fortified compound, a firefight ensued, bin Laden and a few other men as well as a woman that he was using as a human shield were killed, and all of our heroes made it out alive; the action lasted less than one hour. Perfect!
Here is what Barack Obama had to say about the news:
The president called the killing of bin Laden the “most significant achievement to date” in the effort to defeat al Qaeda.
“Justice has been done,” Obama said.
Bin Laden was located at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which was monitored and when the time was determined to be right, the president said, he authorized a “targeted operation.”
“A small team of Americans carried out the operation,” Obama said. “After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.”
I met repeatedly with my National Security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located Bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan,” the president said.
“Finally, last week I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice
After learning of bin Laden’s fate, Barack Obama personally called President Bush to give him the news. Here is the former president’s statement:
Bush called the operation a “momentous achievement” that “marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.”
“I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude,” the former president said in a statement. “The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.”
There are still unanswered questions is my mind: Why did it take so long? And, how long was he living in an affluent neighborhood in Pakistan, and did the Pakistani government know he was there? But those are questions for another day for today should be a day of celebration and I hope that this news can bring a little bit of closure to those who lost loved ones on September 11th.
Once again our brave men and women in the field performed brilliantly and I want to take a few moments to say thank you once again, we all owe you a debt of gratitude. I hope that in the coming days we are able to learn more details about the actual military operation. We may probably never know the names or see the faces of those who carried out this attack for security reasons but I hope they know how much the American people love and admire what you do for us.
America's Watchtower 
We proved once again that we’re better – Boortz is announcing that OBL was killed only after he was given the opportunity to surrender – a consideration not given the thousands of people of all nationalities he’s responsible for having murdered.
Congratulations to the President, the American intelligence community, and of course the courageous Navy Seals. As Boortz said, echoing a comment that was grequently on Twitter last night, the last thing OBL saw on this earth was the muzzle flash from a rifle fired by a US Navy Seal.
I also understand he was buried at sea – brilliant move. OBL becomes exemplary of ecological responsibility and the fanatics are deprived of a shrine.
One last thing – it will be wonderful to get more details on OBL using a woman as a human shield – prove once and for all to his fanatical followers that he was no more than a common coward.
A glorious day – take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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I agree that we showed we were better than they, but I don’t see the need to do so as I think that most people would agree we are better than these scumbags in the first place. I also agree that dumping his body in the ocean was a good moe because it creates the lack of a tangible place where supporters can go to rally around him. This truly is a glorious day and I have been walking on air all day.
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The coward died like a coward using a women as a shield.
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In the end the “great warrior” was a coward who tried to hide behind a woman and I have to think that this would hurt his image in the extremist world, but I think that we all know it won’t because the extremists do not hold women in a very high regard at all.
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Call me suspicious, call me HIGHLY skeptical, call me anything you like, but I do NOT trust Barack Hussein Obama and his EVIL administration, not in ANY way, and if the above is true, if Bin Laden’s body has been buried at sea, I am even MORE skeptical and in disbelief at this whole thing.
Think about it for a minute, Barack Hussein Obama’s poll numbers are in the tank, he is rapidly going down in history as the WORST President EVER, and all of a sudden there’s a supposedly REAL birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama, and then, Osama bin Laden dead? All in one week?
Really? What’s next? Magic Fairy Dust, Unicorn farts and the Lucky Charms Leprechaun are going to fix the economy?
Americans were joyous last night. There was an impromptu gathering around the gates of the White House, people singing *God Bless America*, chanting USA, USA, USA. There were more impromptu gatherings at Ground Zero and in Times Square.
The joy is easily understandable, I was happy to hear the news too, and then reality hit me like a sack of cement.
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Pulling off a hoax like this would require the cooperation of too many people – that’s one way I’m convinced it’s true.
Remember the ridiculous claims that the 1969 moon landing was faked? Someone then estimated that the cooperation of something on the order of 85,000 people would have been necessary to pull it off, in and out of government. How do you keep that many people quiet for so long?
If the posts on this site are to be believed, the members of our military, while they’ll loyally follow orders from the Commander-in-Chief, don’t necessarily support him in all his policies. I find it hard to believe that members of the SEALS would cooperate with a President they dislike to promote a lie to the American people they’re pledged to defend, which will go a long way toward generating the support he needs for re-election.
bin Laden is Tango Uniform, Delta Romeo Delta.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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For once I completely agree with you, Yank. I am not into most conspiracy theories because too many people would be required to keep the secret, and I’m a strong believer in Occam’s Razor, that the simplest explanation is usually the truth.
Yup… the “fake moon landing” theory was inspired by the movie “Capricorn One”, in which a fake landing on Mars was concocted by a political entity, which would have required virtually all of NASA to be in on it. In the movie they almost pulled it off, of course, but the hero astronauts managed to reveal it all. In real life, it would never have gotten off the ground, so to speak. It could only happen in the minds of Hollyweird film writers.
Until someone proves otherwise, I’m going with the idea that our heroic Navy Seals did, indeed, nail bin Laden yesterday.
I’m not happy with the burial at sea, but it’s been said that it is a requirement for bodies to be buried within 24 hours of death in Islam. So I’m accepting that.
It’s a great day. 🙂
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I actually thought it was strange that the body was so quickly disposed of, but I do not doubt it was done to try to appease the radical Islamists. The timing however I do not doubt was done for poltical reasons.
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I’m with TexasFred. And now that the body is gone, all we have is the word of the Obama regime that this actually occurred.
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I am as leery asanyone about the Obama regime, but I just don’t think they could pull off a hoax like this without someone leaking the truth.
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By the way, I remember years ago, candidate Obama said he’d chase Osama into Pakistan if necessary, even without first securing the cooperation or even approval of Pakistani officials. Talk radio’s Mr. Infallible, Sean Hannity, went ballistic, hollering about sovereignty and screaming that Pakistan’s government, is pretty unstable, and that such action on the part of the Americans might spark a revolution with the ultimate overthrow of Pakistan’s government by terrorists who’d be overjoyed to get their hands on a nuclear weapon.
Now that President Obama did just what he promised as a candidate, what is Mr Hannity’s position?
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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re: “Now that President Obama did just what he promised as a candidate, what is Mr Hannity’s position?”
Don’t know… didn’t hear the show this afternoon, but I would think he did what Rush did. Rush gave huge congratulations to the Seals and intelligence operatives who are actually responsible for this victory, and pointed out that Obama was merely continuing Bush’s policies.
Word has come out that a large part of the intellegence actually came from Gitmo. Remember when Candidate Obama declared that he was going to shut Gitmo down? 😉
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The intelligence from Gitmo was the name of the courier who was then hunted for 4 years.
The candidate did promise to close Gitmo. He also promised to track down bin Laden. I’m willing to give him a pass on the first, considering his accomplishment of the second. I also wonder how many here are aware of just how high a percentage of the sorry slobs who passed through Gitmo were ultimately found by our military not to have engaged in any activities against the USA. And I wonder if we’ll ever find out just how many were converted to the AQ perspective by being thrust into close quarters with those madmen.
I also disagree that any President who accomplishes something begun in a previous administration can be viewed in simply a caretaker role. If that were the case, President Obama would never have bothered to press the hunt for Osama because President Bush, in 2006, effectively abandoned the search when he disbanded the CIA unit assembled for that purpose.
I remember President Bush at some point actually saying he didn’t really care where OBL was.
I also know that it was the tried and true techniques of espionage and detective work that tracked OBL down, not gee whiz technology or the torture so impatiently pushed by the previous administration.
This is as much the President’s victory as it is the intelligence community’s and the military’s. We lionize the troops because they earned it, but to ignore the commander-in-chief, or the intelligence gatherers, simply for ideological reasons, is small-minded and childish.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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It is also being learned that the so-called “black sites” helped to bring down bin Laden. I do find it interesting that two of the issues that Obama campaigned against led to Osama’s downfall.
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GY, I do admit that this was the president’s victory and he deserves to take the credit for it, but I don’t think that we should discount the fact that some of President Bush policies helped to make this day possible.
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No, I won’t discount President Bush’s contribution, but I won’t agree with those who are claiming that Obama acted in a caretaker role respective of anything Bush may have set in motion. I read someone’s blog yesterday (okay, way early this morning) to the effect that since GWB never rescinded his orders, they still stood – a pretty lame effort to avoid giving appropriate credit to the current Commander-in-Chief, if you ask me.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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TGY, I wasn’t implying that you were one of those trying to discount Bush’s contribution to this day, and I am not trying to take anything away from Obama. He got the intel and did what he had to do and I am thankful that he did.
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Personally I do not have a problem whatsoever with Obama ignoring the will of a sovereign nation. Getting bin Laden is priority number one and once we knew where he was we had to take him out even if that nation did not authorize the attack.
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I had this mental image that Hannity was insisting that even if US troops were in hot pursuit, when OBL ran over the border we’d have to come screeching to a halt and watch in frustration as he got away. Hannity was just using any excuse he could find to attack the candidate.
I seem to recall that not too long after Hannity was wailing about it, our forces DID go into Pakistan without permission from that nation. Of course, President Bush was still Commander-in-Chief then, and I know that neither Hannity nor anyone else uttered a peep about it.
You’re right, of course – when it comes to a target as important as OBL, national borders are a nuisance, not an impediment.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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This is one reason why I stopped listening to people like Rush and Hannity; in their rush to discredit the Democrats they sometimes to do more harm than good. That, and the fact that I didn’t want to be accused of simply repeating what I heard on their shows.
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Sorry, the domestic doubters strike me as indistinguishable from the birthers – no matter what kind of evidence they see, they’ll never believe – and we can be sure that within the next few days, more and more evidence will come out. If they’d kept the body, these post-birther doubters would be insisting on independent autopsies, and when they confirmed the initial reports that it’s OBL, they’d be calling for third and more opinions. Doubting this President and this administration defines their purpose in life now.
Fortunately for our great country, the domestic doubters are going to find themselves in an ever dwindling minority, and learning firsthand that they’re the people candidate Obama once referred to as those who feel so separated from the evolution of American life that they cling bitterly to their guns and Bibles, longer for a time that’s long since past (if it ever really existed). I wonder how many of them understand that he made those remarks not in mockery – which is so often the tactic of choice of the right wing when confronted with a truth it cannot deal with — but in an attempt to help others understand the source of the bitterness; that is, what drives them to cling so bitterly . . .
I pray for their redemption, and that God may bless us all!
TGY
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re: “…but in an attempt to help others understand the source of the bitterness; that is, what drives them to cling so bitterly . . .”
OK. Lovefest over. What on earth makes anyone think that anyone “clinging to their guns and Bibles” are bitter in ANY way?
I don’t accept that premise at all.
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Neither do I, and neither die the candidate.
Obama never said that everyone clinging to their guns and Bibles was bitter, he said that some of those who feel America’s evolving in a direction different from what they want feel frustrated and left out, and are left clinging bitterly to their guns and Bibles. That’s a small population to begin with, and certainly doesn’t include everyone who owns both a firearm and God’s word.
Living in Georgia, you can imagine I must know lots of people who own both guns and Bibles. I wouldn’t characterize most of them as “bitterly clinging” to them, though.
Nice to see you here again.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Uh, Yank…
It’s WAY too easy to pull up transcripts on the Internet.
This is what he said:
Obama: “So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to their guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or … uh, anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
So he DID make the claim that all those yokels out there were “bitter”.
That is the premise I absolutely do not accept. He said it, and I reject it.
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“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
He was talking about those people in small-town America whose economies had dried up and were ignored by the government, and grew understandably bitter, clinging to their guns and religion, OR their xenophobia OR whatever “as a way to express their frustrations.”
He was explaining why they’re bitter, and pointing out that he and his team had to do a better job for them than past administrations had done.
He never said that everyone with a gun and a Bible was bitter or frustrated.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Let us not forget the “truthers” either GY. At one point didn’t over 50% of the American people believe that the federal government actually had a hand in the September 11th attacks? Some people–on both sides of the aisle–will believe what they want to believe and the facts be damned.
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Yes, truthers, birthers and now OBL doubters – all cut from the same cloth. I was stunned when I first learned about the “truthers.” That’s the sort of thing that even Stalin or Mao would have thought long and hard before doing. I always say Darth Cheney is one of the most corrupt people ever to hold a position of authority in our government, but I never thought for a second that he could be anywhere near capable of such an infamous act. And President Bush doesn’t even rate consideration – I may disagree with a lot of what he did, but I never doubted his heart or his love of America.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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And after I trashed Mr. Cheney, look at this:
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney declared: “The administration clearly deserves credit for the success of the operation.” Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York said: “I admire the courage of the president.” And Donald J. Trump declared, “I want to personally congratulate President Obama.”” (NYT, 5/2/11 – http://nyti.ms/iqB2Uk)
Boy, is my face red! Cheney showed more class today than I did!
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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That happens sometimes in the blogoshere when you are debating current events, believe me I know firsthand!
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re: “…he said that some of those who feel America’s evolving in a direction different from what they want feel frustrated and left out, and are left clinging bitterly to their guns and Bibles. That’s a small population to begin with, and certainly doesn’t include everyone who owns both a firearm and God’s word.”
Then you would be horrified to discover just how HUGE that population actually is. You got a taste of it last November. This “small population” caused outright REVERSAL of some 600 Dem to Rep seats in the US House, state Houses, and governorships. 600 seats is a massive turnover.
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You’re right – over the years my recollection got muddied. I reproduced the entire paragraph (though not the entire speech, just enough to give the context of the phrase) above.
The tea party certainly had an impact in 2010. Out of curiousity, when you mention the turnover of 600 seats in various offices, how many total sets were up for election, do you know?
At any rate, one of the things the tea party studiously avoided was a social agenda – they concentrated on economic issues, and were very influential. However, the GOP is now trying to impose a social agenda on the national level, and while the Dems made drunken sailors look like models of fiscal responsibility, when it comes to economic issues, the GOP is doing a marvelous job of looking like they’re trying to push the middle class and seniors under the bus. (And then this bald-faced lie about Ryan’s proposal for Medicare being identical to what members of Congress have is simply outrageous, and yet so many automatically believe them!)
It’s shaping up to be a very interesting election next year!
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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I don’t know how many seats were actually up for re-election, but the 600 number doesn’t count seats that didn’t change hands. The 600 total is unprecedented.
Most election years, most local seats at least stay in the same party, if not the actual incumbant.
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FTR, in November 2010, in addition to the 471 Congressional seats up for re-election, there were 6,125 seats up for election to 88 of the 99 state legislative bodies. Just over 500 incumbent Democratic lawmakers at the state level were turned out of office.
This ignores the governors because they’re relatively small in number, and of course the counties and other local bodies nationwide.
TGC and may God bless us all!
TGY
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