Whom the Bin Tolls

Steyn Online ^ | 3 May 2021 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

It is ten years - May 2nd 2011 - since Osama bin Laden went to his virgins. Observances of the anniversary are muted - either because the once most famous man on the planet is now entirely forgotten, or because the Afghan withdrawal renders the whole subject too depressing. At any rate, many of the psychoses noted a decade ago have now spread far beyond anything so narrow as America's longest unwon war. Here is what I wrote about Osama's dispatch in my syndicated column that week:

As my old friends at The Spectator in London pointed out on Monday morning, I scooped the entire planet in breaking the news of Osama bin Laden's death: "Osama bin Laden is dead, says Mark Steyn." This was in The Spectator's edition of June 29, 2002, which turned out to be a wee bit premature. I jumped the gun, much like Osama's missus in Abbottabad, but by nine years.

Nor, to be honest, was a teensy-weensy near-decade discrepancy in the date the only problem with my scoop. Much of that Spectator piece was preoccupied with the usual assumptions about Public Enemy No. 1 — caves, dialysis, remote wild Pakistani tribal lands where Western intelligence hasn't a hope of penetrating unless you turn a cousin of the village headman, etc. All these assumptions prevailed until a few days ago, when it emerged that Osama, three wives, and 13 children had been living in town in a purpose-built pad round the corner from the Pakistani military academy for over half a decade. Brunch every Sunday with a couple of generals at his usual corner table at the Abbottabad Hilton? Eggs Benedict, hold the ham?

[Rummyfan]

SOB can't be dead enough to suit me.

[Dilbert San Diego]

As I recall, Biden was the only guy on Obama’s team at the time, who opposed the raid to take out Bin Laden. So he can’t exactly celebrate his own role years ago in that event.

[Seruzawa]

[Delta 21]

Thats part of the problem with the world today. We dont drink from the skulls of our enemies any more.

[TTFlyer]

Islam + Marxism grow stronger. The West shrinks - and dies.

[A strike]

Which one ?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Actually, of the entire “Obola Un-Security Team” in the White House bin Laden was killed, BIDEN was the only major player NOT in the Situation Room!

But Obola did have to get called in from the golf course - after delaying the attack for months for various excuses, but at least Hillary was present to be “properly shocked” . (All of her deaths-by-convenient murders” were done while she was in a different hotel/room/house/parking lot/park/street/jail cell.