Good riddance, I could care less whether he was armed or not tbh. The line between kidnapping and killing is a thin one, if your all in to get this guy either option has political backlash. The warrant did say "Dead or Alive", least I think so hehe.
Get him back to the US . hire a lawyer , actually give this Dog a right to fight his case and then hang the mother f****r , no sorry , the common American taxpayer has no money to dish out for this drama.
The right thing was done , just hope the area was shark infested......
"It was quite clearly a violation of international law," former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV. "The operation could also have incalculable consequences in the Arab world in light of all the unrest."
Geoffrey Robertson, a prominent London-based human rights lawyer, said the killing "may well have been a cold-blooded assassination" that risked making bin Laden a martyr.
"It's not justice. It's a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them," the Australian-born Robertson told Australian Broadcasting Corp television.
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-05-04-u...n-was-unarmed/
Not armed... Human rights... In this case of scenario who gives a sh*t? OBL played one kind of game with only one final posible ending - dead by a smoking gun. How complex in could be? It is just as simple as that.
simple you live by the gun , you die by the gun - what a great leader , you live in a million dollar mansion and let your followers live in caves....Originally Posted by SOF
He got what he deserved, be it unarmed or begging for mercy who gives a f*.
The fact that he lived in pimp your crib style house instead of caves and sleeping on rocks like those that are willing to die for him should make the talibs realize he was just a fvcking lie and not one of them at all. Just a filthy rich saudi with a intense hatred for the USA.
I think it would have been a better idea to put him in front of a court of law. I mean no one would say that the Nuremburg trials after WW2 were a bad idea either. And it would have demystified OBL as a martyr figure for other radicals.
If we had zapped him with a Predator drone, or a guided munition from a stealth bomber....it wouldn't have made any difference if he was armed or not. Obama, as much as I dislike his politics, made a great decision by sending the SEALS in to take him out in person. The fact that UBL (according to reports) died near the end of the firefight...gives me a little glee, as at least it was not so quick, and he had time to contemplate his demise, and also to realize that he was being taken out by the US military (rather than the Saudis, or some other group that hated his guts).
A few questions I have wondered about, and suppose there is no rock solid answer..but if anyone cares to comment who has experience (ex-SEALS etc), I wonder and reckon that the SEALS had enough vocabulary in UBL language (Farsi?), to shout for him to put his hands up and surrender? I suspect the SEALS had this capability. Also the caliber of the bullet that would have been the one that cracked his grape...the SEALS carry small compact auto firearms, which I am not familiar with (9mm?)
Also does anyone know if the wife/woman that was shot in the leg, was the Yemeni wife, whom this 54 year old terrorist married, had given to him, when the girl was only 15? Not sure how old she is now, but the story is that she was 15 when her family presented her as a present to UBL, to go along with his other 4 or 5 wives.
Did anyone catch the anaylsis of the medications UBL had on the shelf in the bedroom? Bottle of vaseline, nose spray, etc.
I wonder where these people stand on human rights for Osama after he murdered 3000+ harmless civilians.
I don't think this is a moral issue, but a public relations issue. It simply doesn't 'look good' in the eyes of many. I saw headlines in both a liberal and a conservative newspaper today, that OBL was 'captured alive, then shot in front of his family'. There should not be any controversy in this - killing OBL should be a 100% positive thing, with no 'controversy' whatsoever. He was a dangerous terrorist, that had to be expected to blow himself up to avoid capture, was armed, and had to be shot on sight - period. This is clumsy and completely unnecessary.
Like I said before, its clumsy in the eyes of many non-Americans. But what these non-Americans dont understand is what they think about this incident is utterly, completely, and totally irrelevant.
I obviously don't have any emperical data to back this up, but my gut feeling is most Americans are very satisfied with the job done. What the papers in Europe/Australia/Canada/Asia etc are saying just don't matter one bit.
American problem, American solution.
Who knows and it really doesn't matter. The squadron could have rotated in and taken the place of another unit, or they may have been the closest asset. All I care about is he's dead and our guys got the job done in a damn fine fashion.
It couldn't have been said any clearer Dave.
I agree.
At this point it seems they had the chance to capture him. And if they could I think they should have.
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