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  1. 05-02-2011 01:21 PM #136
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeAD View Post
    Some news coming out on who was involved. Everyone deserves so much commendation (bottom to top, top to bottom) for how this was done
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    http://www.whorunsgov.com/beltwiki/d...ill-bin-laden/

    We will probably never know the name of who pulled the trigger, or even everyone who was in the compound, but I have to wonder. Who is he, how old was he on 9/11, where was he then? To him and the rest, I say thank you. I have been taking it in since the announcement last night, I really hope that everyone, everywhere is. Kids should be learning today about what was done last night for their freedom.
    Probably 11 or 12 years old.
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  2. 05-02-2011 01:28 PM #137
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    Quote Originally Posted by Austin View Post
    Seriously. Really hits home for me when you realize the guy who pulled the trigger was probably around my age - barely a teenager when 9/11 happened. He'll never have to buy a drink again in his life.
    He probably will. Because - from the sounds of the elite group he's in - no one will ever know he's in the group or pulled the trigger.
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  3. 05-02-2011 01:33 PM #138
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. FLK View Post
    He probably will. Because - from the sounds of the elite group he's in - no one will ever know he's in the group or pulled the trigger.
    Well then the government better give this man enough drinks to last a lifetime.
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  4. 05-02-2011 01:36 PM #139
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    Irony.

    DUBAI/ABBOTTABAD (Reuters) - In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding that he hoped it wasn't "the start of something nasty.

    A few hours later Athar posted another tweet: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it."

    In the age of Twitter, perhaps it's no surprise that the first signs of the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were noticed by an IT consultant awake late at night.

    Athar, a resident of Abbottabad where bin Laden was holed up in a fortified mansion, first noticed the sound of a helicopter and thought it unusual enough to post via his Twitter account.

    "I was awake, working on my computer when I heard a sound of helicopter. It was rare here. It hovered for about six minutes and then there was a big blast and power gone," Athar, 34, said in an interview with Reuters.

    "I tweeted it because it was something unusual in the city," said Athar, adding that he moved from Lahore to the city a year and a half ago to avoid "bomb blasts and terrorist attacks."
    source - Reuters

    Quote Originally Posted by MikeAD View Post
    We will probably never know the name of who pulled the trigger, or even everyone who was in the compound, but I have to wonder. Who is he, how old was he on 9/11, where was he then? To him and the rest, I say thank you. I have been taking it in since the announcement last night, I really hope that everyone, everywhere is. Kids should be learning today about what was done last night for their freedom.
    He's a huge hero here, but the target he (not to forget his family) would have on his back would be Salman Rushdie x 1,000. For that, he'll remain forever anonymous.
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  5. 05-02-2011 01:42 PM #140
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    The internet nerd-fest going on right now is epic!






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    Yeah, tons of good stuff out there. I'm still personally proud of this FB status I posted while waiting for the PC to start: It's official. PC delay due to Obama doing the Carlton dance.
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    http://www.nypost.com/video?vxSiteId...&vxBitrate=700
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    Something I came up with.




    ETA: deal with it, Pedro.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weams View Post
    http://www.nypost.com/video?vxSiteId...&vxBitrate=700
    Awww, I watched the whole video waiting for some Family Guy Stephen Hawking-style computer generated talk

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  10. 05-02-2011 01:59 PM #145
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    Quote Originally Posted by TonySoprano View Post
    Something I came up with.




    ETA: deal with it, Pedro.

    That joke is like, so 10 hours ago.... :-)
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  11. 05-02-2011 02:23 PM #146
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    http://content.usatoday.com/communit...uslim-burial/1

    Curt Schilling really should stop opening his mouth.
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  12. 05-02-2011 02:35 PM #147
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    Well, he can't really publicly support a foreign army running unauthorized military campaigns on sovereign Pakistani soil, so what else is he gonna say?

    OMG, vanishing post above this
    Last edited by blid; 05-02-2011 at 03:58 PM. Reason: i wasn't talking to myself, i swear
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    Even Jean-Luc Picard, a character written as a consummate diplomat, knew when to throw the shields up and open up the phaser banks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blid View Post
    http://content.usatoday.com/communit...uslim-burial/1

    Curt Schilling really should stop opening his mouth.
    Why should he stop opening his mouth? Just because you disagree with him?

    I don't really care either way and I can understand why they gave him the Muslim burial, but Schilling does have a point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeAD View Post
    http://www.businessinsider.com/obama...en-raid-2011-5

    "President Obama watched live video of the raid on Bin Laden's compound yesterday, a source tells us."
    I was thinking about this last night, that the soldiers were likely to have cameras. Specifically, that if there is skepticsm from the death pics or DNA, there might be undeniable video or pictures of OBL right before he died.
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