Buying This?

[Kathianne]

I do not doubt that bin Laden is fish food. I figure that he probably did try to 'give up,' but that wasn't to be and I don't have a problem with that.

What I'm not buying though is what the administration is now floating and that is that he was still an effective threat to the US or the West beyond his symbolic value.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden_al_qaida

Source: Bin Laden directing al-Qaida figures
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KIMBERLY DOZIER, Associated Press Lolita C. Baldor And Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press Fri May 6, 11:23 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden's compound has reinforced the belief that he played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.

And the data further demonstrates to the U.S. that top al-Qaida commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan, not just in the rugged border areas, and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis, a senior defense official said.

U.S. counterterrorism officials have debated how big a role bin Laden and core al-Qaida leaders were playing in the attacks launched by affiliated terror groups, particularly al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, and al-Shabab in Somalia.

Information gathered in the compound, officials said, strengthened beliefs that bin Laden was a lot more involved in directing al-Qaida personnel and operations than sometimes thought over the last decade. And it suggests bin Laden was "giving strategic direction" to al-Qaida affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, the defense official said...

I don't think this is going to float any better than the Seals 'thought' he was reaching for a gun.

[SpidermanTUba]

I do not doubt that bin Laden is fish food. I figure that he probably did try to 'give up,' but that wasn't to be and I don't have a problem with that.

What I'm not buying though is what the administration is now floating and that is that he was still an effective threat to the US or the West beyond his symbolic value.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden_al_qaida



I don't think this is going to float any better than the Seals 'thought' he was reaching for a gun.

I doubt any SEAL would give him time to think about reaching for his gun. Why take the risk he might decide to reach for it? That's absurd. Is he surrendering at this point in time? No, so shoot him in the face.


I fail to see what the big deal is. A military target is a military target until they attempt to surrender - if they don't or can't because they get killed too quick too fucking bad for them. To argue Usama did not have time to surrender is to ignore the fact he had nearly 10 years to surrender.