Bin Laden dead?

[*PAF]

Reported by a french paper, but not yet confirmed.

 

[*PAF]

The ABC has just reported it as well.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1747203.htm

 

[Troy Wingate]

If he is.

GOOD.

 

[Andre]

I'll believe it when I see a corpse. Usually every 'death' is followed by another incoherent rant at the West within a couple of months.

 

[portentous]

It's still unconfirmed according to ninemsn.com.

 

[shaz63]

You watch.. another video message in a couple of days from Bin Laden stating that the story was false and that it was done by the Americans.

 

[dreamkillers]

It's still unconfirmed according to ninemsn.com.

At least that means it keeps the other idiot off of our TV screens gloating about it.

 

[portentous]

At least that means it keeps the other idiot off of our TV screens gloating about it.

Do you mean the puppet or the puppeteer? One's as bad as the other IMO.

 

[dreamkillers]

Do you mean the puppet or the puppeteer? One's as bad as the other IMO.

One's a lot worse given the power they actually have compared to the one that thinks he actually has any power.

 

[portentous]

One's a lot worse given the power they actually have compared to the one that thinks he actually has any power.

Begs the question-who is the bigger idiot, the fool or the fool who follows him?

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Killling of innocent civilians is appalling. Bin Laden's actions were disgraceful.

Having said that tot up the number of his innocent victims then compare them to the number of innocent victims of US military action and there's no comparison.

Include also the descent into torture the Americans have made under Bush. I'm not even talking about the disgrace of Abu Ghraib but the systematic abuse of the principles of the Geneva Convention under this president with secret prisons, with ferrying captured suspects to countries where torture can be carried out, to the use of water torture byt the Americans themselves and to the holding in prison without trial for year after year.

 

[Sandola]

We'll never really know how powerful and influential Bin Laden really was, as opposed to how much "Bin Laden" is just a bogeyman conjured up by the US govt because they needed a bogeyman. In any case, his death at this point will make absolutely no difference to the international dynamics playing themselves out. And if the US needs another bad guy at some point, one will appear and be splatted all over the media to rally the troops.

 

[MrMeaner]

Unfortunately, I don't think it will matter if he is. If reports are to be believed, Al Queda appears to be a more diffuse body than that. The various cells don't rely on the direction of one man but on a collective religious fundamentalism. It is that which makes it so dangerous.