*I agree with Geoffrey Robinson, the best outcome would have been to bring OBL to court*

I have huge respect for Robinson, but in this case I think that
Obama is correct. The thing is, the whole saga would have dragged
on for years, multiple hostages would have been taken to try to
free bin Laden, costing potentially many more lives.

Forget sending messages, so far the Taliban and militant Islam
take their own religious messages far more seriously then any
Western concepts, for which they have nothing but contempt, that
includes democracy.

Now bin Laden is dead, now we can move on. Taking out Zawahiri will
no doubt be next.

Obama was fortunately smart enough to tell Pakistan nothing, unlike
Clinton, who told Pakistan that missiles were coming, so bin Laden
escaped by minutes, when Clinton bombed one of the training compounds.

'Those revellers in America looked exactly the same as the rejoicing throngs we've seen in the past in Islamabad, stomping on the American flag and burning effigies of American presidents.'

And let's not forget the revellers burning effigies of Daryl hair and Greg Chappell.

http://www.theburntbail.com/2006/the-effigy-brothers/

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Pictures/10/10467.html

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/image/257607.html

Even Captain Dhoni has copped the full treatment before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEEfZh7GBI

Chilling.

Just a further rumination...
My overall feeling here is that all this "release of detail" is just a little too forthcoming - even copious.

It smacks of something that has been "orchestrated".

My antennas are definitely twitching - and that its not a good sign.

Dear Poirot,

Same.

Mine started with the announcement of the confirming DNA test.

The attack was in the middle of the night and the results were up that morning. Saddam's took around 24 hours to complete after he was captured and that too was a priority. Perhaps techniques have improved but I see questions on the speed of the test are being asked. The current consensus is that it would take 12 hours at a good lab if everybody was working on it and having his sister's DNA would have helped.

Perhaps it was just good planning to have that kind of equipment on board ship.

Mmm.

Well there ya go, I've often thought that Poirot and Csteele
commonly display poor judgement :)

The way I understand it Csteele, they confirmed the story well
before the dna test was even completed, because of the overwhelming
evidence. Those papers and computer hard discs will be a mine
of information.

Have a look at the design of the compound

Well, there ya go, yaself, Yabby.

What makes you think your judgment is so crash hot?

(that is a rhetorical question - no need for reply :) )