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Not everyone believes bin Laden really is dead
Yahoo ^ | 5/2/11 | Robert Burns and Calvin Woodward - Associated Press

Posted on 05/02/2011 6:27:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Knowing there would be disbelievers, the U.S. says it used convincing means to confirm Osama bin Laden's identity during and after the firefight that killed him. But the mystique that surrounded the terrorist chieftain in life is persisting in death.

Was it really him? How do we know? Where are the pictures?

Already, those questions are spreading in Pakistan and surely beyond. In the absence of photos and with his body given up to the sea, many people don't believe bin Laden — the Great Emir to some, the fabled escape artist of the Tora Bora mountains to foe and friend alike — is really dead.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: believes; binladen; conspiracy; dead; deathers; everyone; wot
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To: The Duke

Unless said leader knew his adversary was already dead before he ‘killed’ him.


81 posted on 05/02/2011 8:16:44 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: Raebie
Unless said leader knew his adversary was already dead before he ‘killed’ him.

Now *that* is the stuff of best-sellers! :)

82 posted on 05/02/2011 8:23:56 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: NormsRevenge
Here's the thing about the whole mulsim burial at sea idea. If the intent was to ensure that those sympathetic to Osama would not be offended by our handling of the body, listen, they HATE AMERICA and they LOVE OSAMA. Shooting him in the head they might overlook but if he wasn't buried within 24 hours of death .... oooh, now they're mad!

So the upside is that a bunch of Al Quaeda sympathizers wouldnt be mad at us (well, they would because we just shot Osama in the head so they wouldnt be AS mad at us) and the downside is we have left them with a conspiracy theory that we secretly have him and are torturing him or something. Well, we can shut that down by releasing the photos that prove he's dead! Oh wait, no, we won't do that either. But he can't be made a martyr this way! Oh wait, we did admit to shooting him in the head so technically they could still create a martyr cult around him.

This isn't helpful, why do it this way?

83 posted on 05/02/2011 8:44:36 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie
This isn't helpful, why do it this way?

Because this was the deal 0bama cut with his mooslim brothers to hand them Isreal perhaps?

84 posted on 05/02/2011 8:56:48 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The death of America is coming through the guise of Enviornmentalism and Safety.)
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To: icwhatudo

DNA testing done on body.

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My DNA sequencing took 6 weeks at a minimum. OBL must have had special treatment or it’s all a fabrication.


85 posted on 05/02/2011 8:59:21 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Revolting cat!

The allegedly Taiwanese Youtube video that came out fewer than 24 hours after the announcement.

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I wondered about that little coincidence, too. Very good point.


86 posted on 05/02/2011 9:19:45 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: crz

My personal favorite would have been UBL’s corpse hanging from a helicopter as it flew around the region, like Omar Suarez in Scarface.


87 posted on 05/02/2011 9:24:29 PM PDT by gusty
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To: cookcounty
"Where's the evidence? No body no pics, some bogus DNA manipulated behind closed doors! That's all! Great victory for Islam and Osama!"

As a vet who retired at Hurlburt Field, Fl,( Google-it), I believe you'd have to be a very special kind of stupid to suggest that US Special Operations forces would be complicit in a global fraud of this magnitude. Accept and celebrate the truth, our special forces are just that damn good!

88 posted on 05/02/2011 9:48:32 PM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: Rokurota

He’s ninethousand percent dead, but that arrogant nitwit Obama wants to deny three hundred million americans the pleasure of seeing his dead carcass. By doing so, he’s reinforced his justified reputation as a narcississtic control freak and initiated another stupid conspiracy theory.


89 posted on 05/02/2011 9:55:46 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I believe OBL is dead. I trust. But I want to verify. Present evidence.

We’re-taxpayers/ We payed for it. Show us.

As of this moment, we’re still guilty in the eyes of the TSA until their scanning, groping, and probing proves our innocence.

I see that they didn’t dare do such a thing to OBL’s body. Made sure that criminal’s body was washed, wrapped in a clean sheet, and buried in the Arabian sea per Islamic custom.

They gave that thug more dignity in death (Big, heroic fire-fight. Respectfully disposed body.) than our government gives us in life.

Don’t believe me? What happened at Waco?


90 posted on 05/02/2011 11:09:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

“...paid for it...”


91 posted on 05/02/2011 11:56:42 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: bobzeetwin

I already have “Bin Laden’s Finger! on display in my little museum of the weird. bizarre and just plain unusual. Before that it was Poncho Villa, trigger finger and before that...Clyde Barrow’s trigger finger. That little finger get around, eh?


92 posted on 05/03/2011 1:52:47 AM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: icwhatudo

What happened to the 22 people at the compound? Where are those survivors now?


93 posted on 05/03/2011 9:54:14 PM PDT by Pinetop
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