>>>Now there is a phrase that leaves me undernourished. This story is unfolding. How did that part happen?
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>>They said they respected Islamic tradition - i.e. buried the same day. No grave, no shrine. ( and the ability to have the body in a freezer in Langley someplace with nobody able to prove it, but available for tours for key unbelievers - i.e. heads of critical foreign intelligence agencies.)
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>>Be assured he's dead. Be assured they are sure. Be assured they have pictures, videos etc. There may even be a head in a box someplace. There is certainly DNA proof.
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>>Just because you don't see things on the evening news that doesn't mean they don't exist.
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>>And remember there was probably a "take" of computers etc in that compound that they aren't talking about at all.
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>>Let the "Arab street" spin this however they like. But this is a message the right people understand. Of course the nonsense about our friends in Pakistan is for superficial public consumption. But Pakistan gets the message. ISI gets the message.
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>>This is the way the war should be fought. And this is how it will be won.
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>>My heartfelt thanks to the watchers on the wall.
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>But why do all that ?? Since they knew where he was, why they did not simply arrested him more quietly and alive ?
>I was astounded that they used helicopters to storm compound. Helicopters can be heard from miles ahead, and he could have gotten away very easy. Then the story about helicopter going down on mechanical problems and then being consecutively destroyed for some (magic word 'security') reasons. To top it all, body is buried in the sea less then 24 hours after the fact, without any pictures
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>I agree with Mike; story does sounds very fishy. There will be sure tons of conspiracy theories following these events.
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>I can believe that OBL is dead (some people believe he was dead as early as 2002), but it is hard to believe that real events match story that was told. Last but not least, despite all that, news are essentially good. I doubt lot of energy will be invested to disprove it.

I thought you believed that the US blew up the World Trade Center in some evil plot against the rest of the world?