GeniuSxBoY said:

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"I read over what I just typed and it still doesn't even come close to justice describing this guy."

What's his dick taste like?

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM. Reason : Peace, we outta here.]

5/3/2011 9:44:21 AM

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"my friends fb status: Quote : "I wish people celebrated Easter with the same enthusiasm because Jesus Christ's death and resurrection means eternal life and the defeat of sin" to which my other friend responded Quote : "yeah, and also god killed way more people than bin laden" "

LOLz

5/3/2011 10:05:20 AM

uh oh...twitter says Obama has decided to release a photo of the allegedly deceased

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 10:34 AM. Reason : not sure i agree this is a good decision]

5/3/2011 10:33:44 AM

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" BAD IDEA, SON"

5/3/2011 10:34:40 AM

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-release-photo-osama-bin-laden-corpse/story?id=13516795

Link to story about releasing the photo

5/3/2011 10:46:45 AM

c'mon t-dub.. I keep coming here because you guys always find the pic first.. gogo

5/3/2011 10:51:40 AM

5/3/2011 10:53:07 AM

has anybody seen any more details about the downed helicopter?

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"One of the Blackhawk helicopters stalled, breaking a rotor on the 18 foot walls of the compound. The SEALS switched to plan B and brought in a Chinook helicopter."

so did they send in 2 helicopters at the same time, and one of them happened to get damaged trying to land but fortunately they had the two and were able to do their business and leave on the 1 helicopter. did they have to leave the damaged helicopter behind? was it damaged due to defensive fire at the compound or did they just damage it trying to land in a small space or something?

5/3/2011 10:56:10 AM

i thought i read somewhere that they intentionally destroyed the one they had to leave behind.

5/3/2011 10:58:02 AM

from what i saw on the news, they landed with two helicopters but one got damaged in the landing, so they all left in the good helicopter and detonated the bad helicopter

5/3/2011 10:58:23 AM

^^^

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" breaking a rotor on the 18 foot walls of the compound."

sounds like it hit the wall with the rotor.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 10:59 AM. Reason : .]

5/3/2011 10:58:46 AM

The seals blew it up to keep it from getting in the wrong hands(Pakistan selling it to china for reverse engineer?)

5/3/2011 10:59:20 AM

Their helicopter was likely outfitted with some pretty sweet gear, too.

5/3/2011 11:13:14 AM

^^Trying to protect the lead free paint trade secret.

5/3/2011 11:16:03 AM

Article on the burial for those who are interested. Interesting and technical read.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.burial.at.sea/index.html?npt=NP1

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"The religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea, with the ceremony starting at 1:10 a.m. and finishing at 2:10 a.m. ET, according to a senior Defense official. "The body was washed and placed in a white sheet. A military official read prepared remarks, which were then translated into Arabic by a native speaker, The body of Osama bin Laden was placed on a flat board, which was then tipped up, and allowed to slide into the sea," the official said."

Makes me respect America the way it was so elaborately carried out.

We all know what extremist Muslims/Arabs do when they get their hands on their enemy, whether living or dead... (behead, drag through the streets, etc).

5/3/2011 11:16:45 AM

http://www.ranker.com/list/top-50-internet-reactions-to-osama-bin-laden_s-death/brian-gilmore

not sure this has been posted so sorry if it was

5/3/2011 11:19:35 AM

Another interesting read:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/03/bin.laden.courier/index.html?npt=NP1

And another:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.abbottabad/index.html?npt=NP1

Cool fact:

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"Like much of the region, Abbottabad has long been a theater of sectarian and religious rivalry. Back in the mid-19th century a British officer named Maj. James Abbott brought peace to an area that saw violent confrontations between its Sikh and Muslim populations. Abbott's contribution was recognized when the town was named after him. He even wrote a poem about the place that would bear his name: "I remember the day when I first came here And smelt the sweet Abbottabad air ...""

So the name literally means "the land/place of Abbott".

5/3/2011 11:25:21 AM

5/3/2011 11:32:46 AM

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"How To Talk To Your Kids About Bin Laden's Death"

headline on one of our local news stations...

5/3/2011 11:37:53 AM

Wreckage of a downed US military helicopter is shielded from view at the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound of Osama bin Laden. [Associated Press]

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 11:48 AM. Reason : Do helicopters have wings???]

5/3/2011 11:47:48 AM

*FACEPALM.JPG*

5/3/2011 11:58:45 AM

it doesn't look very detonated

5/3/2011 12:00:06 PM

im sure this has been posted a thousand times, but its been making me lol since yesterday

5/3/2011 12:00:28 PM

As long as the cockpit and crew compartment was destroyed, it's ok. That would be where the classified components are.

5/3/2011 12:01:35 PM

^^^^^ Seriously?

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 12:02 PM. Reason : a]

5/3/2011 12:01:58 PM

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"from what i saw on the news, they landed with two helicopters but one got damaged in the landing, so they all left in the good helicopter and detonated the bad helicopter"

They had all of their people on two helicopters but flew in with four so they'd have two backups.

5/3/2011 12:03:53 PM

^ source? i mean, i know redundancy is a key concept when arranging a RAID but i hadn't seen that quoted anywhere in the news yet

also, i bet the WH staff about pissed themselves when that first copter crashed. could have ended very badly after that.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2011 12:07:22 PM

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"Whatever, I wanted Bin Laden dead before 9/11. I have it on vinyl."

5/3/2011 12:09:22 PM

^^there are reports they were fearing another blackhawk down moment. I haven't seen anything about 4 helicopters and didn't know anything about the second one not already being there, ie flying it in from afghanistan. They probably knew it was a tight fit for the blackhawk and had a spare one circling the compound. The paki twitter said he heard one circling for awhile, but I think it was only like 4 minutes.

5/3/2011 12:20:21 PM

In this type of situation, as long as they zeroized the cockpit, they were probably fine to leave that helo like that....

5/3/2011 12:31:06 PM

^^^^ Shit. If I find that article again I'll post a link in MLA style.

5/3/2011 12:33:05 PM

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"One of the helicopters stalled, in a vortex created by its own prop wash and the high compound walls,[68] and was forced to make an emergency landing in the compound."

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"The helicopter that had made the emergency landing was damaged[55] and could not fly the team out. It was consequently destroyed to safeguard its classified equipment; after they "moved the women and children to a secure area"[50] U.S. forces "improvise[d] by packing the helicopter with explosives and blowing it up."[21][92] The assault team "called in one of two backup [helicopters]" to ferry them back to their base.[23] The SEAL team helicopters were supported by multiple other aircraft, including fixed-wing fighter jets and drones. According to CNN, "The Air Force also had a full team of combat search-and-rescue helicopters available."[93]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden

There are actual sources there. I'm not checking them all.

5/3/2011 12:35:04 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html

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" C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden By MARK MAZZETTI Published: July 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. "

5/3/2011 12:36:59 PM

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!

5/3/2011 12:39:19 PM

The unit, known as Alec Baldwin

5/3/2011 12:40:43 PM

5/3/2011 1:42:39 PM

^Nice!

5/3/2011 1:44:11 PM

^^ I call partial credit on that one

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 1:45 PM. Reason : Dibs]

5/3/2011 1:44:45 PM

The unit, known as Arec Barrrwin

5/3/2011 1:46:21 PM

5/3/2011 1:48:03 PM

5/3/2011 1:55:14 PM

don't know I forgot about this:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d75_1184159573

(Saddam and Osama TV Funhouse Cartoon from SNL)

5/3/2011 2:13:45 PM

I imagine that Osama probably looked like a cross between these:

5/3/2011 2:34:05 PM

love how obama has a controller in his hands lol

5/3/2011 2:34:36 PM

5/3/2011 2:39:58 PM

http://www.good.is/post/ecosystem-geographers-predict-bin-laden-s-hideout/?utm_content=headline&utm_medium=hp_carousel&utm_source=slide_1

This Class of Geography Students Found Bin Laden's Hideout Long Before the CIA

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" The students, working under UCLA geography professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, used geographical theories and GIS software to home in on the world's most wanted fugitive."

(side note: I thought it was "hone in on", but after some research I see that "home in on" is also correct)

5/3/2011 3:28:23 PM

5/3/2011 4:01:25 PM

5/3/2011 4:05:48 PM

BBC was just saying that they took bin Laden's body and one live prisoner when they left.

5/3/2011 6:24:21 PM

about the picture, I'm not gonna lie... this:

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""This news is only coming from one side, from Obama's office, and American has not shown any evidence or proof to support this claim," said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement. "On the other side, our sources close to Osama bin Laden have not confirmed or denied the news.""

is kinda scary.

5/3/2011 6:37:44 PM