fbi.gov via Reuters
A screen grab from FBI's Most Wanted website taken May 2, 2011 shows the status of Osama bin Laden as deceased. The al-Qaida leader was killed in a U.S. helicopter raid on a mansion near the Pakistani capital Islamabad early on Monday, officials said, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials said bin Laden was found in a million-dollar compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, 35 miles north of Islamabad. After 40 minutes of fighting, bin Laden was among several people in the mansion killed.
Interesting that the FBI does not mention specifically the 9-11 attacks.
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.
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Ding dong the warlocks dead, the warlocks dead, the warlocks dead. Ding dong the wicked warlocks dead !
Fantastic news! The best weekend ever! Justice finally prevails!
Let's hope now Secretary Clinton and Senator Kerry will really, really re-evaluate carrying bundles and bundles of our tax payer dollars to the terrorist State of Pakistan and its secret (rather not so secret) terrorist agency ISI that has been hiding and training all the terrorists wanted by the world.
When was the FBI and CIA were at the same footage. The two have different mission and their intelligence differs. As a domestic operator for FBI not to mention 1993 and 9/11 remains interesting. May be there is some thing we missed. Most important of all is that he is dead. If we indeed managed to kill him good for us.
LIVE BY THE SWORD, DIE BY THE SWORD.
I am from a third world country, God our saviour,in his name how would you feel when one causes the death of your loved ones,regardless of colour, creed , race or relegion,i do mention this with tears withheld , i have lost no one in 911 or other killings but how can someone take the lives of the innocent, what,s your feelings as one take the life of YOUR LOVED ONE, a chapter has ended, Well done President Obama,God for us all.
Go retrieve his body Obama. Buried at Sea = Red flag
When you've successfully baffeled the people, excuse me the uneducated and uninformed sheep, with BS and lies....anything goes. Remember, Barrack was born Barry and later changed his name (no legal action to be found) but his birth certificate says Barrack. Time for a review of the past 3 years (if they can read).
live by the sword, die by the sword.
There should have been real photo's at hand at the time this was brought to the public's attention to keep down skeptics instead of giving someone time to photoshop a picture, the real photo's need to be shown no matter how graphic they are, but the thing is if they had the real photo's and shown them there would not be all these comments from all of us.
I think it would have been better to bring him in alive to face justice if it was possible. Now we just made a mytar out of him. I do hope that his 40 virgins are ugly and fat....lol
Glenn- NO WAY , so he could sit in a cell fot the next 10 years and die of natual cause's . We got that MF'er he's dead , no more cost or pain to the people of the U.S.A.
what does it take to kill the worlds most infamous terrorist?...a very good president,two choppers and a few pissed off navy seals!!!!
you can run,but you sure cant hide forever.............................we will get you!!
justice for the familes of sept 11
Ah, success.
Kudos to our Navy Seals.
Just when bin Laden was congratulating himself on another day eluding the coalition, our precise team of pin-point accuracy shows up to hand him a different ending for his day.
Next: The Egyptian that is (was) his right hand man.
Don't forget the one eyed Mullah Omar. He is changing his adult diaper right about now. A new feather in the cap of the Seals, they are the best!
Thank You to all of our BRAVE troops, that have all worked so hard to find and kill this terrorist.
Thank you to our GREAT President. This man has achieved so much in the short two years he has held office. Not all good, as we see it. However, he continues to try to make our problems better. No other man or woman in my eyes could be doing a better job.
Your great Pres. only signed the paper , it was more likily Hillary pushing him to attack , she the one who forced him to use more drone's ,If you check with the Pentagone genaral's she has her @!$%# together , more so then that clown we call a Pres. Seal Team 6 Oh Ya BABY!!!
When I see proof that he is dead, then I will believe it. Obama is not God, I will not believe just on blind faith alone. Obama has lied many times to us, so I can't help but wonder if this is just another lie. Sorry, just can't believe a thing that comes out of his mouth. But regardless, I hope that it is true.
A GREAT president? I want some of the drugs that you are taking !!!
With what's going on in the middle east, what did Obama trade for him? Sure gas will go down to $3.00 and everyone is a hero. What did he give away? More American lives to keep the saudi's in power!
thanks goes out 2 our brave troops no one else gets credit its r family whos out there fighting 4 r rights noT mr.president! god bless r troops job well done!!!!!
He has accomplished what he has accomplished because he was sent into the world for this purpose. If it could have been done by man it would have been done 10 years ago. Obama was destined to take Usama Bin Laden down not on our time but on GOD's appointed time. I dont need proof to know that my faith is in GOD not man. Touch not my anointed!!! I fear no man only the LORD!!!
So true Heidi.
What an amazing political step...1st the Birth certificate, now Osama dead, and buried at sea..wake up people, I don't believe any of it....no talk of any other enemy casualties...why bury @ sea, was he a Mariner or a Terrorist? And the fools cheering in front of the W-House, Don't be so nieve...there are things going on behind closed doors, and this is one more small step towards executing the plan, whatever the plan maybe. I know one thing it's probably not good. Don't be complacent, be inquisitive, just because someone tells you something doesn't mean that it is true. With this great news, followed by some rediculous burial at sea, things just don't make sense...and when things don't add up, there is a good reason why.
Wow... You have to be a contortionist to navigate all the twists, turns and double back flips your paragraph does there. But after all that, you need to make a quick run to the store to replenish you supply of tin foil for that hat of yours.
Let's see... the Koran says Muslims are to be interred with 24 hours, and strategically, it was decided that burial at see would prevent any al Qaeda followers from having a location to erect a shrine to him as a martyr. That's PSY-OPS - a psychological warfare tactic... but maybe a bit out of your league.
The word is not nieve, it's n-a-i-v-e...
There were a total of five people killed - bin Laden, his 19-year-old son, two terrorists, and a woman who was used as a human shield by one of the combatants (she was collateral damage). Two other women were injured). So that takes care of the "other enemy casualty" argument...
The problem with the statement "just because someone tells you something doesn't mean it's true" is that it is a product of cynicism and ensures that the person stating it will never believe anything told them, even when presented with irrefutable proof of the truth of something. Facts that are inconvenient to your emotionally held beliefs (in your case, specifically the borderline-racist belief that this president is somehow evil because he isn't "like you") are going to be ignored.
Face it. You just can't stand the fact the man succeeded at something, and you are trying to deconstruct it so it fits your world view. Won't work. Osama bin Laden isn't coming back. You lose. But you go right ahead and keep on spouting off and struggling at remaking reality. It will be fun watching you wiggle and squirm. I'll even send you some more tin foil, if you'd like...
Wow! PerfectImp...who are you Obama's mother...before you criticise my spelling...check your own, its burial by sea (not see)...my 4 year old knows how to spell that. Also I dont give a rat's a** what the koran says about the time frame someone is to be buried, if your affiliated with murders, then why should anyone honor your beliefs or religion. Drag his dead carcaus home to the US and burn it at ground zero as a statement to all terrorist.
As far as Obama, I voted for him. And I've never been more dissappointed in a leader. I know the job is unimaginably hard, and there are many things/facts about the world, that regular people have no clue. But the descisions that are being made are hurting the country not helping.
Anyways, you can keep the tin foil....maybe you can make some new blinders, because you obviously can't see (not sea)...or you can just shove it up your a**....xoxoxo love ya!
Thank God for George Bush and Gitmo. Thank God for our Navy Seals and Special Forces. And though I'm not a fan of our president. Job well done on ensuring Osama was killed and verified.
Wow Ms. Spirit
"I want to see the long-form death certificate."
--Donald Trump
it is good to hear that he is dead. but know we have to face what his people are going t do to us. now but we should have alive and brun him alive so he could feel how it feel to us new york on 9/11/ thats what they should have do to him.
It is very true that it is very odd that they already dropped the body at sea. In no real time does our Country do that. They always hold the body for a time for many reasons. I am marking this one down as BS. Like I said before, prove it.
Videos and photos of Hussein's execution were available straight away. Just release the photo, already, so people can see the truth.
I wonder if Obama realizes how sick of his secrets we have become. So sick of it. We are not a weak people, we can handle seeing a dead murderer. It is our right to see him dead, stop holding secrets from us.