Quote: DaButt @ May 3 2011, 1:19 PM BSTSeveral witnesses (women and children) were left behind unharmed.
But not to the actual shooting...
No biggy most government wet ops don't want witnesses describing someone puting a few rounds in some one trying to surrender.
Yours wouldn't be the first or last government to find a corpse easier than a prisoner to deal with.
Good point, though.
Quote: DaButt @ May 3 2011, 1:20 PM BSTThat MLK quote is a fake.
So was MLK no one's ever produced a birth certificate for him.
Apparently, Abbottabad is the Pakistani equivalent of Aldershot.
Bloody weird place to hide nu?
Especially when you bare in mind what an utter failure the invasion of the Swat valley was in 2004 and other Pakistani military adventures into it's impenetrable hinterland.
Bin Laden's death has also led to warnings on malicious search results and files being detected. F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said that the first sample of malware about the death of Osama bin Laden was a file called Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.zip that was spreading via email that contains an executable file that contains a banking Trojan belonging to the Banload family.
Hypponen said: "It will install itself on the system (as msapps\msinfo\42636.exe) and starts to monitor your online banking sessions (via a browser helper object), trying to redirect your payments to wrong accounts. We detect this one as Trojan-Downloader:W32/Banload.BKHJ.
"As a general advice: it's unlikely you'll find pictures or videos of bin Laden's death online, but searching for one will certainly take you to sites with malware."
Websense Security Labs noted that the news on bin Laden superseded malicious searches for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding. In an interesting tactic, the blog of Pakistan-based Twitter user Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual) was compromised as he 'live tweeted' during the attack.
Patrik Runald, senior manager of security research at Websense Security Labs, said: "Make no mistake, hackers are going to go after websites such as Athar's along with search engine results to prey on visitors looking for more information.
"Athar links to his blog and I'm sure a lot of users who saw his tweets went there. Unfortunately for them, the site was compromised and was serving a poorly detected malware through the Blackhole Exploit Kit.
"The malware that the drive-by download attempts to install is a fake system tool named 'WindowsRecovery' that claims to have found problems on the victim's computer. To convince the user that something really is wrong with the system, the malware hides all files and folders in the hard drives and on the desktop, but of course the scammers offer the user a quick solution to this problem with a purchase of the premium version of 'WindowsRecovery'," said Websense.
Quote: sootyj @ May 3 2011, 1:22 PM BSTNo biggy most government wet ops don't want witnesses describing someone puting a few rounds in some one trying to surrender
You'd have to be an idiot to believe that he didn't sleep with a firearm at his side; he had one in most of his videos. The guy is no stranger to gunfights (USSR in the 80s) and was the leader of a group which celebrates martyrdom as the greatest thing since sliced (pita) bread.
It's hard to imagine any scenario where he would surrender. The firefight last half an hour and he had plenty of time to give himself up if he'd wanted. He died as he wanted to die: fighting the infidels.
Exactly. There was zero chance of him surrendering or being taken alive. Non at all.
He must have believed aftet the invasion of Afghanistan that he would only have days/weeks to live. But who would have thought he'd stil be alive 10 years later? OBL least of all.
Quote: DaButt @ May 3 2011, 1:42 PM BSTYou'd have to be an idiot to believe that he didn't sleep with a firearm at his side; he had one in most of his videos. The guy is no stranger to gunfights (USSR in the 80s) and was the leader of a group which celebrates martyrdom as the greatest thing since sliced (pita) bread.
It's hard to imagine any scenario where he would surrender. The firefight last half an hour and he had plenty of time to give himself up if he'd wanted. He died as he wanted to die: fighting the infidels.
I bet the scriptwriters of Hollywood are writing the script of the Film already.
Definitely.
Quote: TopBanana @ May 3 2011, 1:45 PM BSTExactly. There was zero chance of him surrendering or being taken alive. Non at all.
He must have believed aftet the invasion of Afghanistan that he would only have days/weeks to live. But who would have thought he'd stil be alive 10 years later? OBL least of all.
The Americans should have got him ages ago, in the mountains of Tora Bora. But they fluffed it.
Quote: billwill @ May 3 2011, 1:47 PM BSTI bet the scriptwriters of Hollywood are writing the script of the Film already.
Oscar winners, no less:
Quote: sootyj @ May 2 2011, 8:21 PM BSTAre you bating me? Beware I am the master of bating.
But not a master of spelling... That one is spelled baiting as in bait for fish?
Quote: DaButt @ May 3 2011, 1:42 PM BSTYou'd have to be an idiot to believe that he didn't sleep with a firearm at his side; he had one in most of his videos. The guy is no stranger to gunfights (USSR in the 80s) and was the leader of a group which celebrates martyrdom as the greatest thing since sliced (pita) bread.
It's hard to imagine any scenario where he would surrender. The firefight last half an hour and he had plenty of time to give himself up if he'd wanted. He died as he wanted to die: fighting the infidels.
To be more clear, I'm glad they shot him. A live OBL would have been a nuisance beyond compare.
As for firefights in the 80s, the Taliban have nicked most of the credit for the far braver and more war like Mujahadeen. The Taliban did little more than smoke opium and misquote the Khoran. Till the Mujhadeen beat the Soviets and then the Pakistani's beat the Mujahadeen and handed them pretty much the whole country,
OBL had plenty of chances to die a martyrs death, I suspect he chose to die in his bed.
besides the gun he's shown with in videos. It's an AKS 74 with a AK 74 SAW magazine, if it was loaded it's magazine would have fallen out.
Quote: sootyj @ May 3 2011, 2:01 PM BSTTo be more clear, I'm glad they shot him. A live OBL would have been a nuisance beyond compare.
As for firefights in the 80s, the Taliban have nicked most of the credit for the far braver and more war like Mujahadeen. The Taliban did little more than smoke opium and misquote the Khoran. Till the Mujhadeen beat the Soviets and then the Pakistani's beat the Mujahadeen and handed them pretty much the whole country,
OBL had plenty of chances to die a martyrs death, I suspect he chose to die in his bed.
besides the gun he's shown with in videos. It's an AKS 74 with a AK 74 SAW magazine, if it was loaded it's magazine would have fallen out.
It probably took him by surprise. All those years of Bush incompetence had lulled him into a false sense of security.