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Osama Bun Laden is Dead!

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differentnameforthis · 02/05/2011 05:01

Osama is dead

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AnnieOnAMapleLeaf · 02/05/2011 05:02

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differentnameforthis · 02/05/2011 05:03

*Bin!

Grr iPhone!

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differentnameforthis · 02/05/2011 05:05

Thanks Annie

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Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 07:07

It's a start. Al Quaeda is an idea rather than an organisation but losing their symbolic figurehead will be a set-back and other leading members will be looking over their shouldres. Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do, I think, if he was discovered to be living just a few miles from the capital.

Vallhala · 02/05/2011 09:25

Propaganda!

I don't believe a word of it... show me the body.

atswimtwolengths · 02/05/2011 09:31

Seriously, Vallhala?

gingeroots · 02/05/2011 10:37

He's already been buried at sea !
www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-binladen-burial-idUSTRE7411YA20110502

Bunbaker · 02/05/2011 10:40

I'm worried about the repercussions.

Chil1234 · 02/05/2011 10:51

We've been having 'repercussions' of one sort of another for years. Followers of a death-cult don't need a concrete, rational reason to blow themselves up in a Morroccan cafe or a London tube-train so I don't think his death will make the situation any worse. We've been told to be on our guard for a long time already and today is no different. 'Keep calm and carry on' as the phrase has it.

BTW.. Valhalla. There are pictures of the body circulating at the moment. The burial at sea complies with islamic rules about burial within 24 hours and also means his fans don't have a grave to turn into a shrine. I'm sure, if he's not really dead, he'll be popping up on our screens with a current newspaper in his hands to blow a metaphorical raspberry in our direction.

Kurkum · 13/05/2011 18:37

Chil1234, burial at sea does not comply with Shariah rules. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/sea-burial-osama-bin-laden

Nor does it comply with international law: it is the destruction of evidence that could determine whether the [alleged] death was lawful. How could any inquest ever establish the true circumstances of the death without a body?

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