Osama Bin Laden is dead

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...=googlenews_wsj

http://blogs.forbes.com/markpasetsky/201...des-on-twitter/

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I've been listening to the President on TV, talking about it.

I confess I never thought he'd be found! It's been nearly 10 years -I'd figured he die of natural causes out there, while still in hiding.

I'd have preferred capture and trial. "This is how WE do things."

And our judge would keep control of the courtroom, so that the guy couldn't bluster and posture.

Alive, he can't be a martyr. He could sit on his ass and rot.

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My personal preference is to see him dead. There is no point trying to bring him to justice, he is too dangerous an individual to keep alive long enough for a trial. Its fair to say you would not need one anyway since we all know what he did and he even confessed to the crimes he committed.

So whats the point?

Well done to those brave men and women who brought justice to the thousands killed in that scums name.

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I'm one who would normally opt for a just trial but, when thinking things out, apart from also taking into account all the past, and innocent bloodshed under his own will, I think he would have ended up executed just as in Saddam Hussein's case ... so, Bin Laden will always be a martyr in his followers' eyes, and I so hope, whilst echoing Amethyst's and Ebony's words, that this will not give rise to any further repurcussions! This is surely a blow for the Al Qaeda group, but he certainly wasn't alone, even if he were the mastermind! I'm just capable of continously praying for peace!

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

I'm normally not one who is joyful at the loss of a life, but last night when I heard the news, I almost broke into a chorus of "Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead". Yes, I know he was male, but he's been such an evil shadow hanging over the world for the last decade that it seemed somehow appropriate.

I am concerned that this will set off a whole new round of terrorist activity, in his name, but that is a chance we take in this post-9/11 world. I'd call it a calculated risk, and one worth taking to know that one of the worst mass-murderers of all time is permanently buried at the bottom of the sea.

Good ridance, and may he get what he truly deserves in the afterlife.

One thing I found interesting was that Obama said, "After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

Wait a minute.... After a firefight? So... they had the firefight and THEN killed him? Maybe it was a Freudian slip? I don't know...

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Although I guess now they're saying that Bin Laden was shot through the left eye. That smacks of a close range shot. Perhaps it *was* after. And they he was 'buried at sea'? No official pictures of proof that the guy is dead?

Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one.

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There could be a body, and it could make the rounds as if this were the 19th Century, and conspiracy theorists would still spew their crap.

I saw a headline that said DNA tests confirmed it was bin Laden.

BTW, the burial at sea was apparently in accordance with Islamic law.

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No the burial at sea was done because no country was willing to take (claim) his body.




What was done in accordance to Islamic law, was he was buried within 24 hours.

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