Osama Bin Laden is Dead

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I now always have an image of suicide bombers etc turning up in Paradise and being handed a bag of raisins... "don't eat them all at once..."

"They have to last you an eternity!

 

[Trekker4747]

You got me wrong friend I wasn't comparing I was just listing the bad things that have happened while I have been young. I am just saying I hope this doesn't happen to my kids(if I have any) or my family in general.

Yes. Bird flu. What a tragedy in how it's killed all of 300 people since 2003 and more generated a media-fueled panic of OMG feeling like shit for a few days!

Yep, such a memorable tragedy on the level of 9/11 or pretty much any other huge disaster that has occurred over the last few decades.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The Pakistani doctor in Abbottobad who had been treating OBL for his kidney problem must have remarkable ethical restraint not to be tempted to blow the whistle on his patient and claim the $25M reward.

 

[Snaploud]

The Pakistani doctor in Abbottobad who had been treating OBL for his kidney problem must have remarkable ethical restraint not to be tempted to blow the whistle on his patient and claim the $25M reward.

...or a reasonably strong survival instinct. I don't know anything about the doctor, but my guess is that he never would have been allowed out of the compound if they didn't trust him 100%.

 

[1001001]

Another "Fair and Balanced" report from our friends at Fox News....

 

[JarodRussell]

I don't know about American keyboards, but on my keyboard the 'S' is not really that close to the 'B'...

 

[Star Wolf]

I don't know about American keyboards, but on my keyboard the 'S' is not really that close to the 'B'...

Its the "ama" it is not a name American ears are used to. If you are old enough neither Obama or Osama immediately registers as a name like John would. It is only since the 1970s or so after Muhammad Ali that names from African or the Middle Eastern roots as opposed to Anglo/Hispanic ones started to be used.

 

[JarodRussell]

Well maybe one should just go with how the name is actually spelled: Usama Bin Laden, and Fox would have less problems.

 

[Squiggy]

Well maybe one should just go with how the name is actually spelled: Usama Bin Laden, and Fox would have less problems.

The funny thing is that Fox News Channel actually uses this spelling.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Another "Fair and Balanced" report from our friends at Fox News....

The most disturbing thing about that is that the guy is showing his "o face."

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIN3EgBIHg[/yt]


There's a lot of speculation here so take it with a grain of salt, but it's possible those computer files and documents retrieved from bin Laden's crib have already started to pay off with captures of other al Qaeda leaders:

May 3, 2011: U.S. and Iraqi forces captured al Qaeda leader Mahmoud al Obiedi, and two of his key aides. This is believed one of the aftereffects of the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound on the 1st. In addition to the death of bin Laden, much data was seized, which was immediately gone over for leads to other prominent al Qaeda personnel.

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20110504.aspx

This article confirms the capture at least, but not the source of the information that led them there.

Also in the province, a joint U.S. and Iraqi force dropped by helicopters in the early hours of the day on houses at the al- Tahwilah area, some 10 km north of Baquba, and captured Mahmoud al- Obiedi, an al-Qaida leader and two of his lieutenants, the source said without giving further details.

http://english.cntv.cn/20110503/108285.shtml

 

[JarodRussell]

Well maybe one should just go with how the name is actually spelled: Usama Bin Laden, and Fox would have less problems.

The funny thing is that Fox News Channel actually uses this spelling.

Well at least not on that picture 1001001 posted.

 

[B.J.]

Well maybe one should just go with how the name is actually spelled: Usama Bin Laden, and Fox would have less problems.

The funny thing is that Fox News Channel actually uses this spelling.

Well at least not on that picture 1001001 posted.

That's a local FOX affiliate somewhere, not Fox News Channel.

 

[Squiggy]

The funny thing is that Fox News Channel actually uses this spelling.

Well at least not on that picture 1001001 posted.

That's a local FOX affiliate somewhere, not Fox News Channel.

In fact, I don't know of anyone besides FNC who uses that spelling. Even the Fox owned and operated affiliates use the Osama spelling.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

re: the 72 virgins... I recall reading somewhere that actual original phrase was miscopied at some point centuries ago, and that the literal "fruits of heaven" or whatever it was *actually* refers to, not virgins, but....

Raisins. (or, given the geography, possibly dates)

It was actually originally intended as a food of the gods, manna, kind of thing, but subsequently got interpreted as women...

I now always have an image of suicide bombers etc turning up in Paradise and being handed a bag of raisins... "don't eat them all at once..."

Hot mannas? It supposed to be hot mammas!!!

 

[Australis]

I think Fox does that deliberately - 'Obama bin Laden' and 'Republican president Barack Obama'. Gettin' all subliminal on us. Arseholes.

 

[Trekker4747]

Fox News (News Corp) uses the acceptable alternative spelling of "Usama" when talking about bin Landen. That screen-cap is from a local affiliate that is paying for the "rights" to sue Fox's name, graphics, resources and air their programing. The person who made that banner worked for the local affiliate, esposed more to the "Osama" spelling and made simple malapropism between Osama and Obama; considering the latter was also going to make a speech during the programming break (actually Fox stations would've been in local news at that point) and the phonetical and spelling similarities between the two names it seems like it'd be an easy mistake to make.

Verbally I've stumbled on the same mistake the last week simply because "Obama" and "Osama" are very similar sounding not due to any confusion whatsoever between the two or any want to put any slight against the president whim I support, voted for and will vote for again.

There's a lot that can be said against Fox News and News Corp; a simple and understandable syntaxial error made by a local affiliate is not one of them.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Fox News (News Corp) uses the acceptable alternative spelling of "Usama" when talking about bin Landen.

Most violent episode of Highway to Heaven... EVER.


[edit] Crap, Michael Landon's name is spelled with an O, not an E.

 

[Amaris]

Fox News (News Corp) uses the acceptable alternative spelling of "Usama" when talking about bin Landen.

Most violent episode of Highway to Heaven... EVER.


[edit] Crap, Michael Landon's name is spelled with an O, not an E.

Doesn't matter. I Lol'ed.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Remember the American that went to Pakistan last summer to try to single-handedly catch OBL? He wants some of the reward money:

Last June an American construction worker was picked up in Pakistan on a one-man mission to capture Osama bin Laden.

Gary Faulkner was armed with a dagger, some biblical literature, a pistol, night-vision goggles and a sword, news reports said.


What's more, the man was even on dialysis, CNN reported at the time. And yet somehow he managed to end up in Chitral, a mountainous district in the northern tip of the country.

Chitral was as logical a place as any to hunt for the most wanted terrorist in the world. News reports in the years since the 9/11 attacks had put bin Laden in fortress-like environs along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Chitral fit the bill. It was connected to the rest of the country by a strip of land so treacherous that it is often closed because of weather conditions.

On Sunday night, the world received news that bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbotabad, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

How far off was Faulkner, whose across-the-world trek still remains shrouded in mystery?

Chitral to Abbottabad is roughly about 300 miles, according to Google Maps technology, indicating about a "7-hour" drive. Yeah right. To put the distance in perspective, according to Google, the two places are about the same distance as Atlanta, Georgia, to the Florida Panhandle.
Of course, much of the Pakistan route is undriveable because of foothills and mountains. The area is also said to be inhabited by fiercely independent tribes.

While Faulkner has talked to CNN in depth much of the details about his trip remain secret. What we do know is that he wants some of the $25 million reward money that was offered for bin Laden's kill or capture.

"I scared the squirrel out of his hole, he popped his head up and he got capped," Faulkner told ABC News this week, referring to bin Laden's death. "[U.S. officials] were handed this opportunity on a platter from myself," he was quoted as saying.

Faulkner also told ABC reports news that assertions that bin Laden had been holed up in his compound in Abbottabad were not true.

"He hadn't been living there for no damn six years," he told ABC. "I absolutely flushed him out."

Should Faulkner get a portion of the reward?

This seems a little ridiculous to me. What do you guys think?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Bin Laden was living in his million dollar "hole" for six years. Dog the Bounty Hunter here didn't scare up jack squat. No money for you!