U.S. missiles may have gotten bin Laden’s son
Good news, if true, from The Washington Post:
The second-oldest son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was apparently killed in a U.S. missile strike inside Pakistan this year, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Thursday.
Saad bin Laden, 27, an al-Qaeda member who has been linked to terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia, is believed to have been among the victims of a series of strikes by unmanned CIA Predator aircraft in the past few months, the officials said. If confirmed, he would be the closest relative to bin Laden killed by U.S. forces since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
“There are some indications that he may be dead, but it’s not 100 percent certain,” said a Washington-based counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitive nature of CIA operations along the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier. He declined to say precisely when and where the strike occurred.
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A. Teesman
July 23rd, 2009
2:51 pm
This monster, Osama, should know personal loss from his evil activities. I hope he has.
Normal
July 23rd, 2009
2:54 pm
One down, how many more to go?
ty webb
July 23rd, 2009
2:58 pm
Thank god he wasn’t waterboarded. Oh the humanity.
getalife
July 23rd, 2009
2:58 pm
They killed Saddam’s sons first.
Just sayin.
Joey
July 23rd, 2009
2:58 pm
Bono will surely not let President Obama hug him when they next meet.
TnGelding
July 23rd, 2009
3:01 pm
Wake me when they get daddy. I thought it would have been by now.
George American
July 23rd, 2009
3:03 pm
This American triumph is certainly the result of the Bush/Cheney policies that have yet to be thrown out by the Omamatang administration.
Turd Ferguson
July 23rd, 2009
3:06 pm
Obama will probably be offering public apologies to the Bin Laden family.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
July 23rd, 2009
3:10 pm
Trying to kill al Qaeda!
Investigation time.
AmVet
July 23rd, 2009
3:11 pm
Great news.
Yeah, these BotchCo sycophants think it’s all a game.
Because their gutless kids, like themselves, will never serve, much less put their sorry a__es on the line…
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
July 23rd, 2009
3:11 pm
Let’s put Obozo on the dock.
He didn’t read the dude his constitutional rights!
No due process!
eewww!
Kamchak
July 23rd, 2009
3:12 pm
“Obama will probably be offering public apologies to the Bin Laden family.”
He should be offering them a tall glass of turd lemonade.
jt
July 23rd, 2009
3:14 pm
Normal-
Good story.
If you ate one seriously, I salute you.
I would like to see and smell one. Maybe watch a drunk squid eat one.
A balut I remember now. I didn’t know it was duck. That is all dad will talk about Korea. Balut and paper houses.
Normal
July 23rd, 2009
3:24 pm
jt, ever smell one of those pickled eggs you can get in bars? that times ten, with a touch of ripe road kill…seriously.
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
3:24 pm
How many civilian casualties were there to hopefully have gotten his son?
Are we now celebrating killing citizens as long as we feel the ends justify the means?
Brad Steel
July 23rd, 2009
3:28 pm
Whine spews: “He didn’t read the dude his constitutional rights!”
Kamchak offers a crude epithet to his genius: “Obama will probably be offering public apologies to the Bin Laden family.”
The haters offer nothing but the hate. They can stand Obama’s many successes, especially if it involves the military. It castrates the weak defense BS. Sorry haters, wrong again!
jt
July 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
And in closing for the day,
Don’t hate me but…..
It is sick to be happy over the killing of a son.
You republicans and democrats perpetuate this shame.
Jake
July 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
thomas – There aren’t any citizens, just collateral damage. If the gutless citizenry allows the terrorists to hide among them they deserve whatever they get. just sayin’
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
so its a success to kill innocent civilians now?
This was a bad practice when started and contiunes to be one today.
Kamchak
July 23rd, 2009
3:35 pm
Brad
Recheck my post at 3:12 and notice the quotation marks.
Turd Ferguson
July 23rd, 2009
3:36 pm
Obama’s successes = Oxymoron for the year!!
Bin Ladens sons death was before Obama stole the Presidency so dont go jumping there too quickly lil Brad…LOL.
Cant you guys come up with something other than hate, haters, hay-in, etc.? Its just so 80’s. We need new material with which to work.
@@
July 23rd, 2009
3:36 pm
“Shades” of Qadaffi.
Redneck Convert
July 23rd, 2009
3:37 pm
Well, I’m flat-out disappointed to learn about this. Killing one of this guy’s sons. The reason is because if they’d of been a little more patient, they could of got the whole fambly.
Turd Ferguson
July 23rd, 2009
3:37 pm
Kamchak is correct. Pay attention lil Brad…LOL.
Class of '98
July 23rd, 2009
3:39 pm
And pinkos have nothing to say except to call conservatives “haters”.
Well thought-out argument. Who was your poli-sci professor, Diddy?
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
3:40 pm
Jake, So you feel the people who happen to be born and then live there have 2 choices die, or die. The terrorist run the region, they have superior weapons and they run the law. So what is it that you would do if you were unfortunate enough to be born in Pakistan and didn’t have the money or power to leave. Never mind yo already answered that you do not think their life is valid. Hope that noone ever feels that your life is not valid, because of those who rule your habitat.
Turd Ferguson
July 23rd, 2009
3:43 pm
Obama is a fence sitter, glad-hander, molly coddler, doo doo gooder and double-talker.
Rightwing Troll
July 23rd, 2009
3:47 pm
Good shot Obama! It’s about time we actually started to punish some of those actually involved in the attack on our country…
RW-(the original)
July 23rd, 2009
3:51 pm
Dang, Kamchak, you hater you.
getalife
July 23rd, 2009
3:52 pm
Pakistan wants a slice of that drone technology.
They know it works.
AmVet
July 23rd, 2009
3:53 pm
I’m not sure about this Uppity Muslim.
I’d like to know if he is or isn’t an adherent of the Cheney Doctrine -Ready, Fire, Aim!
getalife’s, right. The adults are back in charge and that PO’s the hell outta the lamebrains in the Party of No’s “base”…
Just keep getting your clocks cleaned every other November and we’ll keep on laughing with, er…at, you…
Peadawg
July 23rd, 2009
3:59 pm
Like I said earlier…when are we going to prosecute Obama for murder and an unjust war? There was a story earlier today about a soldier dieing in Afghanistan.
AmVet
July 23rd, 2009
4:02 pm
“…about a soldier dieing..”
Not only juvenile, the poster needs to learn gooder English…
Peadawg
July 23rd, 2009
4:03 pm
Typical dem, not questioning the actual claim. just pointing out petty spelling errors. and you’re perfect, right AmVet? Ya right.
getalife
July 23rd, 2009
4:05 pm
Wow, now the cons are peacemongers.
All those hours playing video games have paid off for the drone pilots.
Nice shot.
RB from Gwinnett
July 23rd, 2009
4:05 pm
“How many civilian casualties were there to hopefully have gotten his son?”
Unless the boy was enlisted in the Pakistani army, HE was a civilian casualty. Al Quaada isn’t an army and has no uniform. They’re all civilians.
And unless we’ve declared war in Pakistan, we’re atacking a country that didn’t attack us too!!
I’m glad the maggot is dead and hope his daddy joins him soon.
getalife
July 23rd, 2009
4:09 pm
RB,
They have Pakistan’s cooperation in the mission.
RW-(the original)
July 23rd, 2009
4:11 pm
Buehrle just pitched a perfect game in Chicago.
Bosch
July 23rd, 2009
4:11 pm
I don’t really know how to respond to news like this. I kind of agree with thomas, it’s kind of sick to celebrate someone’s death, but as a believer in the death penalty, I have to be satisfied with a certain justice.
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
4:13 pm
RB, very valid point that in actuality they are all civilians as none belong to an actual army by standard norms.
In my post I was more talking about those who are not a part of any terrorist network, but instead mere innocents living in the mountains.
I too am glad that another who has made the choice to deny any peace and only seek violence is hopefully dead.
It is just odd to me that many who oppossed such things only months ago, now celebrate the killing of innocents.
Hypocricy knows no party, ideology or bounds I suppose.
Turd Ferguson for President
July 23rd, 2009
4:13 pm
I vote for Turd for President. He is brilliant, insightful, eloquent, even handed and a real prince of a man. A man of the people. He’ll take us back to the good ole days of the 19th century when everything was simple and those black people weren’t so uppity. Turd is the word.
AmVet
July 23rd, 2009
4:16 pm
Buehrle just pitched a perfect game in Chicago.
Wow.
A great pitcher but he pretty much stunk when I had him on my fantasy team a few years ago. (Of course…)
AmVet
July 23rd, 2009
4:20 pm
What’s to question, peadawg?
That it is a specious and juvenile claim?
When YOU call for Mssrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al to spend a little “down time” in an 8 x 12, come back and peddle that nonsense.
You had six years to do and I presume you made nary a f—ing peep.
And BTW not everybody is a dem. Wake up…
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
4:20 pm
Bosch,
I was more speaking of those that have been killed or are to be killed by unmanned drone attacks.
I am also in favor of the death penalty, but would not be in favor of killing 10, or 15 suspects who turned out not to have anything to do with it. Just so I could say I got the one who really did. It is just kinda sick honestly the way some here are celebrating and ignoring the innocents deaths, just to get one evil man.
Guess people’s opinions and morals/convictions (morals are tough to define) change depending on who is in charge
Bud Wiser
July 23rd, 2009
4:22 pm
Is Obowo sending Hillary to represent the US for this sad, sad occasion?
How about a nice fruit basket?
With a nuke inside.
Bud Wiser
July 23rd, 2009
4:22 pm
Yeah AmVet, I had him too, and tossed him.
RW-(the original)
July 23rd, 2009
4:23 pm
The first out in the ninth was over the wall for what looked like a sure home run. Dwayne Wise brought it back and as he fell it came out of his glove, but he caught it with his throwing hand. That was the only time the Rays even sniffed a hit.
Bud Wiser
July 23rd, 2009
4:27 pm
Bosch
July 23rd, 2009
4:11 pm
I don’t really know how to respond to news like this. I kind of agree with thomas, it’s kind of sick to celebrate someone’s death, but as a believer in the death penalty, I have to be satisfied with a certain justice.
If it will make you feel any better, just try and remember all of the videos we saw after 9/11 with the little sand rodents and human swill celebrating and jumping for joy over in that part of the world for Osama’a success.
thomas
July 23rd, 2009
4:30 pm
Bud Wiser, So what does that say for us that there are now those of us who are jumping for joy, over the death of one that took the death of many innocent to accomplish?
How many innocent deaths are considered worth it to kill one bad person?
You do know that not every single person in pakistan or afganistan was jumping for joy right? Just as we do not all celebrate the same things I doubt they do either.
Bosch
July 23rd, 2009
4:31 pm
thomas,
Were there innocent civilian deaths in this case? I didn’t see yes or no in the article.