Osama Bin Laden has been killed

[Scooter]

I'm waiting for confirmation from The Weekly World News...

Then you'll have to wait until they find his body frozen in the Arctic and revive him. Or they do an autopsy and discover he's an alien.

[Gob]

From our front page;

"Osama Bin Laden has been killed by Scooter"

Nice one Scoot!!

[Sean]

So we can all sleep soundly now that he's gone...

[The Hen]

I'm refusing to believe it until I read it in The Daily Mail!

You may now believe.

[Lord Jim]

From what Obama just said, it sounds like it was a commando operation of some sort....to either kill or extract Bin Ladin, and make sure that he wound up, alive or dead, in US hands.

If you read between the lines of Obama's statement, he doesn't thank the Pakistanis specifically regarding this operation...

He reiterated long standing US policy; that we would go after him anywhere any time....

He thanks Pakistan for their cooperation in general, but not specifically regarding this operation.

[Scooter]

Yeah, he specifically said that U.S. troops carried it out, no mention of any Pakistanis.

Nor did he say that they asked or got any approval from the Pakistanis to conduct the operation.

Will be interesting to see the Pakistani gov't reaction.

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

Will be interesting to see the Pakistani gov't reaction.

Despite the playing both ends of the street the Pakistani government has engaged in, it's unimaginable to me that they would try to raise any serious protest over this...

Meanwhile, back on Pennsylvania Ave in DC, where it's a little bit after midnight, it looks like New Years Eve...

[dales]

Happy May Day!

[quaddriver]

they are not mispronouncing islamabad. abbottabad(sp?) the place was built for him in what 05?

quoting george carlin: of course you find everything in the last place you look...

[Lord Jim]

If the facts are as Obama has laid them out , this is an extraordinary victory in the struggle against Islamo-fascism, and he deserves all props for it....

[Lord Jim]

Meanwhile, back on Pennsylvania Ave in DC, where it's a little bit after midnight, it looks like New Years Eve..

Or The Redskins winning The Super Bowl...

[Lord Jim]

Hundreds of thousands are also gathering in spontaneous celebration in Lower Manhattan...

[Lord Jim]

It's an extraordinary thing to see...(there have been fireworks going off over here)...

But as Obama pointed out, as viscerally satisfying as this may be, this is hardly the end of the struggle against Islamo-fascism...

[Gob]

Gawd, I caught Obama's speech on the radio, talk about guilding the lily ...

Not that I deny that this is a fantastic day for the US and her allies, but the man is in love with his floral pontificating...

"On my watch"..indeed?

[loCAtek]

Woo Hoo!






...what will we fight bout now?

[Gob]

Update on the Beeb...

Haroon Rashid

BBC News, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Last night there were rumours an operation was going on in an area close to Abbottabad. There were unconfirmed reports of a military helicopter crashing in the area as well.

Witnesses said the whole area was cordoned off and nobody was allowed close although they did hear gunshots and firearms. But nobody had any inkling that this was an operation to get Osama Bin Laden.

For those who keep a close on eye on these matters it wasn't a total shock that he was ultimately hunted down in an urban area.

In the past we have had reports of him being treated in hospitals in Rawalpindi for kidney problems. There was even one report that he was treated in the southern city of Karachi. All of these were officially denied.

And some of the big al-Qaeda and Taliban names in the past have been captured in big Pakistani cities. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Kuwaiti-born senior al-Qaeda leader, was captured in Rawalpindi and Afghan Taliban military commander Mullah Baradar was reportedly captured in Karachi.

[Gob]

The best bit of the news is that there are no reported US casualties...

[Lord Jim]

If the facts are as Obama laid them out....

That we launched a commando raid deep in to Pakistan, and after a "firefight" did not lose a single American soldier, and then brought Bin Ladin's corpse home with us....

It's difficult to see how anyone could criticize that....

[Sean]

Now I know I'm going to get roasted for this but...

The only thing about this that makes me feel a little uncomfortable are the celebrations. They seem eerily similar to celebrations seen in another part of world nearly 10 years ago...