EPTOsama Bin Laden killed - Page 107
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Keep it civil guys. Alright I am sick of warning people: Trolling, flame baiting, and derailing will result in insta bans. The same goes for conspiracy theorists and stupidity generally. Confirmation was as follows - On-site DNA test which came back as 99% positive. - photos of face sent to CIA and confirmed with photo analysis - confirmed by 20 year old wife who live in pakistan. This thread is specifically dedicated to the details surrounding the raid/his death. | ||
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busbarn
Sweden984 Posts
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
(Terrorists that is) | ||
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Serelitz
Netherlands2895 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:39 busbarn wrote: Anyone else suspicious to why they dumped him in the ocean? Tortured body into oblivion hidden for us? You can never know for sure but I think it's also to make sure he doesn't become a martyr. | ||
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Abenson
Canada4122 Posts
it's true http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/01/president-obama-death-osama-bin-laden wait i think i'm kinda late on this | ||
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ShAsTa
Belgium2841 Posts
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BasedSwag
Algeria418 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:39 Serelitz wrote: You can never know for sure but I think it's also to make sure he doesn't become a martyr. My assumption is (although there is no actual proof that he was buried in the ocean): he was transported to a U.S. Navy ship in order to verify his D.N.A. and since Islam says that people should be buried within one day, perhaps they decided to give some respect to that and that would be the easiest way? | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:42 BasedSwag wrote: My assumption is (although there is no actual proof that he was buried in the ocean): he was transported to a U.S. Navy ship in order to verify his D.N.A. and since Islam says that people should be buried within one day, perhaps they decided to give some respect to that and that would be the easiest way? Correct according to the news outlets, also they didn't want to bury him for fear of his gravesite becoming a shrine of sorts, so burial at sea let them respect Muslim traditions and do what needed to be done with DNA. | ||
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dan1mal
Netherlands86 Posts
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:39 busbarn wrote: Anyone else suspicious to why they dumped him in the ocean? Tortured into oblivion body hidden for us? So his body is not found like hundreds that died in WTC. | ||
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The KY
United Kingdom6252 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:40 ShAsTa wrote: I'm against death penalty so it's good they found him but bad they killed him imo. Well I wonder if the order was to kill him or not. I think if they could have captured him alive they would have. Then put him on trial, then killed him. | ||
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carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:42 BasedSwag wrote: My assumption is (although there is no actual proof that he was buried in the ocean): he was transported to a U.S. Navy ship in order to verify his D.N.A. and since Islam says that people should be buried within one day, perhaps they decided to give some respect to that and that would be the easiest way? That is confirmed mate. They burried him according to Islamic tradition and law. Read it on CNN  | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:44 carloselcoco wrote: That is confirmed mate. They burried him according to Islamic tradition and law. Read it on CNN smart move in evry aspect. | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:44 The KY wrote: Well I wonder if the order was to kill him or not. I think if they could have captured him alive they would have. Then put him on trial, then killed him. CNN has been reporting that the mission was a kill mission, capture was not the desired outcome. Although one of the networks reported that he was offered the chance to surrender. CNN though has said like 50 times in the last hour that a government official described it as a kill operation. | ||
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carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
Yep, even if they threw him alive, it is better than actually bringing him to land an burrying his body on land. | ||
zatic
Zurich15313 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:39 Serelitz wrote: You can never know for sure but I think it's also to make sure he doesn't become a martyr. What I am wondering though - why the hurry? Between the reports that he was shot (about 16 hours ago) and that they dumped his body in the ocean (about 6 hours ago) they didn't have a whole lot of time. From the location of the raid it's probably about 300 km to the nearest US base in Afghanistan. From there it's over 2500km to the coast. They were REALLY in a hurry to get rid of that body it seems. | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:47 zatic wrote: What I am wondering though - why the hurry? Between the reports that he was shot (about 16 hours ago) and that they dumped his body in the ocean (about 6 hours ago) they didn't have a whole lot of time. From the location of the raid it's probably about 300 km to the nearest US base in Afghanistan. From there it's over 2500km to the coast. They were REALLY in a hurry to get rid of that body it seems. Islamic tradition requires burial within 24 hours | ||
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Rokusha
United States207 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:48 feanor1 wrote: Islamic tradition requires burial within 24 hours Yep, and I bet Obama wanted to show the Muslim world that we can even treat the most hated terrorist in the world with some shred of dignity in accordance with his religion. | ||
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zatic
Zurich15313 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:48 feanor1 wrote: Islamic tradition requires burial within 24 hours Exactly, so why the hurry? | ||
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New Zealander
New Zealand70 Posts
1957: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is born in March, the only son to wealthy businessman Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife. 1967: His father is killed an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot apparently misjudged a landing. 1974: Bin Laden marries his first wife at the age of 17. By 2002, he is believed to have married four women and fathered about two dozen children. 1979: Bin Laden reportedly earns a degree in civil engineering at King Abdulaziz University. 1980: After leaving college, bin Laden heads to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion. 1984: Bin Laden co-founds Maktab al-Khadamat, a group which funneled money, arms and Muslim fighters from around the Arabic world into the Afghan war. 1988: After splitting from Maktab al-Khadamat, bin Laden founds Al-Qaeda, although the existence of the organisation was a closely kept secret in the first few years. 1990: Turning his attention to the West after Saudi Arabia allowed US troops on its soil, bin Laden is soon banished from that country and was exiled to Sudan. 1992: The first bombing attack associated with bin Laden is reported, with the bombing of the Gold Mihor Hotel in Aden in which two people were killed. 1995: Five Americans and two Indians were killed in the November truck bombing of a US-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh, leading to his first indictment by the United States in 1998. 1996: Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan and established training camps for Mujahideen fighters. 1997: Bin Laden funded the Luxor massacre of November 17, 1997, which killed 62 civilians, although the plan backfired, with the Egyptian public revolted by the attack and turning against Islamist terror. 1998: Bin Laden co-signed a fatwa in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders which declared the killing of North Americans and their allies an "individual duty for every Muslim". 1998: Libya issued the first official Interpol arrest warrant against Bin Laden and three other people for killing two German citizens in Libya four years earlier. 1998: Bin Laden was indicted by a US federal Grand Jury for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. 1999: Bin Laden is added to the FBI's ten most wanted list for the first time. 2001: Although he initially denied any involvement with the September 11 attacks, bin Laden claimed responsibility for them in 2004 and said he had personally directed the 19 hijackers. 2001: After years of refusing to hand over bin Laden, the Taliban finally offered to turn him over to a third-party country for trial in October after the bombing of Afghanistan began. This offer was rejected by George W Bush. 2005: Bin Laden was believed to be based in the Waziristan region of Pakistan by this time. 2001-2009: Despite repeated reports that bin Laden had been killed, he continued to issue statements, videos and audio clips. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed in an US-led attack on a mansion outside the Pakistan capital of Islamabad. | ||
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meegrean
Thailand7699 Posts
On May 02 2011 22:49 Rokusha wrote: Yep, and I bet Obama wanted to show the Muslim world that we can even treat the most hated terrorist in the world with some shred of dignity in accordance with his religion. It was the best possible action if you ask me. | ||
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