Originally posted by inimalist
Man unknowingly Tweets Osama Raid:
Unknowingly.... 😉 Could have been PR.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Good call, Robtard. Better quality than the images in the links I put up.Looks blatant to me.
apparently it was originally broadcast on the Pakistani news, which is pretty bad for this type of things. No idea where the image originated, but looks like it was independent of military reports of his demise.
sloppy journalism, thats for sure. Maybe it isn't fair to say they need to know if every photo is edited, but they probably shouldn't just grab media from other sources without confirmation...
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
More from the Guardian.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake
That's pretty definitive. I'll admit, I was fooled.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
By being able to send your own photographer to take a pic,
like at a press conference with the evidence on display or something would have been handy. But nope... they dumped the body...
that has PR nightmare written all over it, and the skeptics will still be skeptic
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
The Dissuadatron!!!!
lol
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
NBC and the entire western media.... all the UK sources for sure....Hmmmmmmmm.
ya, print and broadcast media are largely idiots and lazy, this isn't news at all
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Why would we honor their traditions?And the reason they tossed his corpse overboard was because (according to the Pentagon) they didn't want to give him a shrine by burying him. A place where his followers could mourn or gather.
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True. It's not like you honour anyone elses traditions, but demand everyone honours yours.
The sad thing is, a lot of people have that very view, so no wonder there's rampant anti-Americanism everywhere.
Why would anyone give a shit that 3000 Americans died? American soldiers kill that many in a week around the world.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
True. It's not like you honour anyone elses traditions, but demand everyone honours yours.The sad thing is, a lot of people have that very view, so no wonder there's rampant anti-Americanism everywhere.
Why would anyone give a shit that 3000 Americans died? American soldiers kill that many in a week around the world.
No, not really. When Al Qaida beheads Americans and then post it on the internet, it seems more befitting of their typical behavior. I woudn't expect them to give an American POW a proper burial with a grave-marker. That's the whole point: in a war, competing sides have historically never been all that respectful of the enemy dead. That's why Xerxes crucified Leonidas' body uspide down. And frankly, a burial at sea for bin Laden was too respectful. They should have planted that SOB's head on a wooden stake.
By the way, it wasn't "3,000 Americans". It was less than 3,000 and citizens from over 90 different countries were killed. Including yours.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
NBC and the entire western media.... all the UK sources for sure....Hmmmmmmmm.
As you noted, not the first time a fake photo was sold and distributed as truth. That in of itself doesn't mean the story is fake.
Granted, the news agencies should have been more concerned in verifying its authenticity than being the first to show a picture. Morons, indeed.
Ugh.. those Americans outside the White House, and people in general that are quite literally jumping in joy (are just feel joy and satisfaction) all around the world because some Arab was murdered by some soldiers is really disturbing. It says a lot about people, and humans.
I was never one to take sides, be it conspiracy theories or the war effort on terror, or whatever. Because I don't think any of it really helps the human race in any way.
But looking at this, I have a lot of questions, that I am not even sure if I will ever get a satisfying answer to.
Why was Usama buried at the sea? I mean is the a good explanation for that? Like really?
Why was he even killed? I mean ever since the war on terror started, leaders in power, have said, they are the bad guys. we are the good guys, fighting the good fight. Well it goes without saying that if that was the case, the they should show it, and not just talk the talk, but walk the walk aswell. 2 wrongs don't make for a right.
Why was he not brought infront of the International Court of Justice in Hauge?
Because if they have keeping in eye out for him, they could do that, they need'int just send one navy seal team, they could surround that place 100% if they wanted to. Id like to believe that Super power nr.1 in the world can surround a villa.
And again, why now? just right now? just in the middle of the war in Libya, especially after that bombing on Gaddafi, which killed some of his sons, and what not. I mean what it looks like is that the whole Usama thing is just made to re-ensure people that the war America is raging dose eventually yield "results"
I don't know, I'm just amazed and disgusted by this whole war project the west has going for atm.
Originally posted by Bluesteel
Ugh.. those Americans outside the White House, and people in general that are quite literally jumping in joy (are just feel joy and satisfaction) all around the world because some Arab was murdered by some soldiers is really disturbing. It says a lot about people, and humans.
Are you serious? Calling him "some Arab" would be like calling Hitler "some German". As if he was an unimportant nobody.
bin Laden earned his spot in infamy several times over, and in a good riddance this past weekend, he has been flushed from existence.
Originally posted by Bluesteel
Why was Usama buried at the sea? I mean is the a good explanation for that? Like really?
the site of his body would become a beacon for people who want to do harm to American interests... also, why would the American tax payer be asked to foot the bill for the funeral of Bin Laden?
what else did you want? every single religious tradition on the planet, and most sensible adults, would be offended by his corpse displayed on TV or at a press conference, and any public display of the body is asking for a riot/attack.
What would you have had them do? A national funeral service and a well maintained tombstone? Have Obama spread his ashes somewhere?
Originally posted by Bluesteel
Why was he even killed? I mean ever since the war on terror started, leaders in power, have said, they are the bad guys. we are the good guys, fighting the good fight. Well it goes without saying that if that was the case, the they should show it, and not just talk the talk, but walk the walk aswell. 2 wrongs don't make for a right.
he defended himself. I'm sure if the Americans could have taken him alive, they would have, it would have been a even larger victory. The imagine of a broken and defeated Bin Laden in a prison cell is the best meme that America could ever produce to combat Al Qaeda
Originally posted by Bluesteel
Why was he not brought infront of the International Court of Justice in Hauge?
He is dead
Originally posted by Bluesteel
Because if they have keeping in eye out for him, they could do that, they need'int just send one navy seal team, they could surround that place 100% if they wanted to. Id like to believe that Super power nr.1 in the world can surround a villa.
you mean exactly like what they did?
Originally posted by Bluesteel
And again, why now? just right now? just in the middle of the war in Libya, especially after that bombing on Gaddafi, which killed some of his sons, and what not. I mean what it looks like is that the whole Usama thing is just made to re-ensure people that the war America is raging dose eventually yield "results"
in your opinion, they should have waited until they were done in Libya to move in on Bin Laden?