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to have a bad feeling?

34 replies

cricketballs · 02/05/2011 06:49

I'm sat watching the news about Bin Laden and have a terrible feeling that the revenge attacks are being planned right now? The scenes from the states of people cheering is sending a shiver down my spine..

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travellingwilbury · 02/05/2011 06:52

Me too , I wouldn't rely on this being the end . There will always be someone willing to step into his place .

Buddhastic · 02/05/2011 06:54

Me too...but was there really a choice He has been making them look like tossers by evading them for so long.

Restrainedrabbit · 02/05/2011 06:54

I agree, feel for the people on tour in Afghanistan right now.

scaryteacher · 02/05/2011 06:59

I hope they are 1000% sure it's him.

LostMyIdentityAlongTheWay · 02/05/2011 07:05

you're probably right, but that doens't mean that non-capture was an option (not saying you were suggesting that, natch...). It's a no win situation. Having seen the picture, I'm pretty sure it is him.

Reckon this makes Obama a shoo-in in the elections next year....

(Scaryteacher - hope you don't teach maths. Yuck@1000%!!!! LOL)

LtEveDallas · 02/05/2011 07:08

According to the news he was killed last week but they waited to get the DNA results before announcing it, so definately him.

I also have a bad feeling, and with a few good friends in Afghan at the moment I am also more scared for them than before Sad

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cricketballs · 02/05/2011 07:10

I understand his capture was needed, but I personally feel that the cheering thousands are only going to make matters worse; is it just going to make his followers even more determined to avenge his death?

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magicmummy1 · 02/05/2011 07:17

I wonder if they needed to announce this news at all. Might have been better to keep it quiet.

CareyFakes · 02/05/2011 08:06

I feel sick watching celebrations, these people celebrating where the ones crying and wailing when their 'people' died in attacks, and were disgusted by the celebrations of those living in other countries when 9/11 happened.

Hypocritical, celebration in death is vile and archaic. We are a civilised society? No

saffy85 · 02/05/2011 08:12

YANBU dunno why anyone is celebrating. We're no more safe now than we were before. I doubt the rest ofthe terrorist world are quaking with fear. They'll want vengance, big time. That's how they operate. God help everyone out in Afghanistan. Infact, god help the Western world full stop.

Also the cheering crowds at the White House made me feel sick. Just like the cheering crowds in the middle east when the twin towers were attacked.

HockSpotter · 02/05/2011 08:17

YANBU

It was thing i thought Sad

amberleaf · 02/05/2011 08:17

Agree with Careyfakes.

His death/murder? is going to inspire a lot more angry young muslims.

herbietea · 02/05/2011 08:21

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goodbyemrschips · 02/05/2011 08:23

I think it was not announced earlier because of the royal wedding.

Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 08:30

I understand that the successful 9/11 attacks inspired more to follow Bin Laden than anything before or since. There has been a steady record of terrorist attacks for years and places like Afghanistan and Pakistan could not be much more deadly than they already are. Bin Laden may have been more of an idea or an ispiration rather than actually organising atrocities, but I think his cowardly followers will now be looking over their shoulders and feeling a little less sure of their ground - especially those in Pakistan. Any urge to rush out a retaliation may play into our hands and flush operatives out of their hiding places. This may yet prove to be the point at which the tide turned in the West's favour.

whyme2 · 02/05/2011 08:31

it seems quite laughable that the death of this man was not announced because of a wedding in England.

Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 08:32

"I think it was not announced earlier because of the royal wedding." The operation is said to have taken place on Sunday.

Groovee · 02/05/2011 08:32

I feel that this will be when the shit really does hit the fan :-S

MrsFruitcake · 02/05/2011 08:33

Those images of people cheering in the USA made me a bit uncomfortable.

Librashavinganotherbiscuit · 02/05/2011 08:35

"This may yet prove to be the point at which the tide turned in the West's favour."

The tide will never turn in the "west's" favour, these people are extremists/terrorists they play by no rules and there will always be more to step into their dead shoes.

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 02/05/2011 08:36

OBL was no longer the (operating) head of Al Queda- he was only a figure head. Strategically nothing has changed for them & it has just added fuel to the fire. Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is deluded. Yes, to Americans (in particular) Obama looks good, but to be honest I think they would have been better to left OBL to sit in his cave & rot, to focus on the current leadership of all of the terrorist parties. Yes, he was a bastard that deserved to die for all he has orchestrated, but I fear the cost of the Amercian glory is going to be huge :(

LTEve - thinking of everyone out there x

Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 08:36

I don't begrudge a few students outside the White House a short celebration at this news. It's not a typical US reaction and quite understandable in the circumstances. Far more palatable than the sickos that jumped up and down on burning stars and stripes to celebrate the murder of thousands on 9/11.

whyme2 · 02/05/2011 08:37

I think cheering anyone's death is not the mark of a civilized society. There have been so many deaths on both sides, to me it is only sad.

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 02/05/2011 08:40

Burried at sea - already? I feel it's highly unlikely that he was only killed on Sunday if that's the case and somebody very high up had better be bloody sure it was him - there aren't going to be any second chances to prove it's him now.

Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 08:42

"there will always be more to step into their dead shoes."... of course there are. There have been for years and that's why all are at pains to point out that this isn't the end of the campaign. But it is a significant moment psychologically for the West and the US in particular. On 9/11 America was on its knees, attacked on its own soil and humiliated in front of its enemies. It heralded a terrible retribution across the Middle East that incorporated Afghanistan and Iraq, largely because Bush felt he had carte blanche to do so. Now that this has happened I think a line has been drawn under that particular chapter.

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