Merged Osama bin Laden dead,

[BenBurch]

That's funny because I seem to remember a certain guy in a flight suit, standing on an aircraft carrier with a big banner...did he get a second term? I forget.

Obama won't have to use it politically. Many others will do this FOR him.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

Pictures of his dead body?. I've been watching CNN, and searching the net, but nothing so far. I may have missed it of course.

A few places got fooled by an old faked photo:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake

 

[Dani]

So, what evidence do we have at this point that he's effectively dead?

Press releases. Pictures. Al Queda vowing revenge.

I haven't seen any pictures to be honest. Have they been released? But as evidence, there's also Obama announcing his death. This is enough evidence at this point.

 

[BibleWelt]

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

Fictitious quote.

See:
http://www.911myths.com/html/ignored.html

 

[AdMan]

I haven't seen any pictures to be honest. Have they been released?

The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News.

“There’s no doubt it’s him,” says a US official who has seen the pictures and also reminds us that OBL was 6’4”.

The argument for releasing them: to ensure that the public knows and can appreciate that he's dead. There is of course skepticism throughout the world that the US government claim that it killed bin Laden is true.

The argument against releasing the pictures: they’re gruesome. He has a massive head wound above his left eye where he took bullet, with brains and blood visible.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp...asing-photographs-of-bin-ladens-corpse-1.html

 

[Emet]

I haven't seen any pictures to be honest. Have they been released? But as evidence, there's also Obama announcing his death. This is enough evidence at this point.

No photos have been released.

The POTUS and his inner circle watched the raid in real time, according to several news sources.

 

[Walter Wayne]

Is that the right one? It looks different from this one in the NYT:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/02/world/02obama_683_cham/02obama_683_cham-custom10.jpg

The ny times picture is from a bit south and east of the google maps link. Nice little compound outside of the town, as opposed in the middle.

 

[Pardalis]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp...asing-photographs-of-bin-ladens-corpse-1.html

I wonder why they are so skittish all of a sudden. They released the pictures of the dead sons of Hussein, and they were pretty gore.

Oh, right that was the Bush administration...

 

[Dani]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp...asing-photographs-of-bin-ladens-corpse-1.html

They'll release them. I'm pretty sure of it. One "yes" decision will make up for hundreds of "no".

No photos have been released.

The POTUS and his inner circle watched the raid in real time, according to several news sources.

So it's not only photographed, but the whole raid was filmed?

 

[IDB87]

Now that OBL is dead - what's next? Who will the next face of Terror be?

 

[Emet]

So it's not only photographed, but the whole raid was filmed?

I heard it on a national TV news station. Here is an article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-watched-live-video-of-bin-laden-raid-2011-5

I would imagine information will come out in drips, with some things eventually being confirmed; perhaps others will be false.

 

[JihadJane]

No photos have been released.

The POTUS and his inner circle watched the raid in real time, according to several news sources.

I'm sure Osama will release a video of his death in due course.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Now that OBL is dead - what's next? Who will the next face of Terror be?

Old Zawahiri. Al Qaeda's Yuri Andropov.

 

[Dani]

I heard it on a national TV news station. Here is an article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-watched-live-video-of-bin-laden-raid-2011-5

I would imagine information will come out in drips, with some things eventually being confirmed; perhaps others will be false.

Thanks. I think it's quite plausible. I also doubt they'll willingly release it.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

I wonder why they are so skittish all of a sudden. They released the pictures of the dead sons of Hussein, and they were pretty gore.

Oh, right that was the Bush administration...

Wasn't it against the Geneva convention or something?

 

[JihadJane]

Why do you call yourself Jihad Jane? At least Calamity Jane was loveable.

To test people's level of credulity/skepticism.

What makes you think I'm not lovable?

 

[Pardalis]

Don't feed the troll.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

I'm sure Osama will release a video of his death in due course.

I'm sure President Barack Hussein Obama, will do nothing ( officially ) of a sort...

 

[Pacal]

...Bin Laden is dead.

To quote Bette Davis with a modification:

My mother always told me to only speak good of the dead.

Bin Laden is dead ... good!

 

[Emet]

Wasn't it against the Geneva convention or something?

The best I could find was this bit on the Wiki page:

The U.S. Administration released graphic pictures of the brothers' bodies. When criticized, the U.S. military's response was to point out that these men were no ordinary combatants and to express hope that confirmation of the deaths would bring closure to the Iraqi people.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein#Death