“I had heard that they killed the mastermind of the 911 travesty, and fully expected to see a dead Donald Rumsfeld or at least George W Bush, but instead they shot some Arab.”

Threads first giggle. Well I giggled. In a serious way mind.

And he gets a burial at sea incase people visit his grave… that seemed weird or I couldn’t get the logic.

So my kid comes in and goes how they just saw on facebook how we’re all going to die cause someone killed Osama and insists on watching the Obama speech on my TV. Then the kid asks what my forum is saying about it which a few hours ago the answer to was “nuffink”. My only comment to kid about the whole thing was it seemed strange that it took 10 years to track him down living in a bloody great mansion but luckily it didn’t interfere with that damn wedding, or he’d just returned from it.

The family source of political commentary I’m not.

Sonofgloin,

Its so funny that you magine yourself to be resistant to spin, whilst at the same time you regurgitate, almost verbatim, the stock standard pseudo revolutionary mantra's.

Military-industrial-complex?

Right on man, fight the power. Don't let the man get you down, man.

sonofgloin
It is no secret that the 'war on terror' was forged on false claims about WMDs and sales of uranium. It is no secret that those who opposed the war or disclosed information about the false claims early on felt the full force of retaliation.

There are many injustices perpetrated by those of the ilk of Cheney, Rumsfeld etal however I am not going to lament OBL's passing given he killed thousands of his own people, was responsible for terrorist acts and continued the oppression of women.

There can be more than one despot in a war.

I note also Jewely, the burial at sea thing. It is most strange that the only evidence we see of Bin Laden's death is some pictures coming out of Pakistan apparently.

If you were the Mafia you would consider burial at sea as the best method of disposing of a person's remains and destroy the forensic evidence.

As an Australian witness to 9/11 stated on ABC radio on the way home, I too, am a little disturbed if not saddened by the celebrations occurring in the States over Bin Laden's death.

I would have thought that the American public would have also preferred to have seen Bin Laden captured,tried and brought to justice, rather than arbitrarily executed or killed during the course of war. In the interests of full disclosure and the truth.

Perhaps BL's capture was too much of a political hot potato for the U.S., and it was best to end it now ?. Or perhaps he's not dead at all and did some sort of deal ?.

He was known for his business acumen.

Or perhaps the whole thing is a beat up ?.

How would you know ?.

Thinker 2,

The fact is that we don't know - and we will probably never know. Anytime this sort of announcement took place was always going to set off wild hysteria in the U.S. - evidence or no evidence...perhaps we'll see some.

Burial at sea sounds like a good way to dispose of a story that was not accompanied by supporting evidence.

Who knows what goes on...

I do remember back in the late nineties on a very crucial day in the Clinton/Lewinsky saga - I think we were waiting to hear about impeachment proceedings...the world was waiting with baited breath - and next thing was we heard about the horrific embassy bombings in Africa. I remember thinking at the time how "convenient" it was that they should happen at that particular juncture - took the spotlight right off Clinton n'all.

Perhaps we should keep our eyes on the U.S. - they might have something else they wish to achieve while the hoopla is still going strong.

"I would have thought that the American public would have also preferred to have seen Bin Laden captured,tried and brought to justice, rather than arbitrarily executed or killed during the course of war."

The thought of a drawn out trial is a scary one. It seem a high risk that innocent people would be kidnapped and used as pawns to try and secure Bin Laden's release if he's been taken alive. There may be retailations but at least there is no battle for his release.

I doubt a trial would have brough any more disclosure than we will get in other way's.

R0bert