Sergeant Cid Posted:

WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.

President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.

Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground operation, not by a Predator drone. Both said the operation was based on U.S. intelligence, and both said the U.S. is in possession of bin Laden’s body.

Officials long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.

The development comes just months before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization, that killed more than 3,000 people.

The attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.

Al-Qaida organization was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embbumies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.

About damn time.

Sergeant Cid edited this message on 05/01/2011 11:32PM

And feel free to post your conspiracy theories about how he’s been dead all along.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

Now someone go edit the wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

Damn, hell of a lot of edits to that wiki already.

Damn, you beat me to this thread.

OSAMA IS DEAD AND WE ****ING KILLED HIM MOTHER****ING AMERICA **** YEAH

I heard this song dedicated on the radio to Osama Bin Laden shortly after 9/11.

RIP osama bin laden, anti imperialist warrior.

I’ll bet his bum is almost water tight living in the desert with sand in his undies for all those years. Log in to see images!

Melanin-Enhanced Individual Posted:

*crying eagle*

ps lmao at anyone who thinks the death this 71 year old man with no kidneys who hasnt been on dialysis in ten years matters at all

or anyone who thinks that this will do anything other than making him a martyr, and changing leadership to someone fresh

maybe one of his sons! ooooh so exciting

Knew it wouldn’t change ****, I didn’t even think of how he would become a martyr. I can’t wait to constantly say that to all my republican friends who heard about his death through fox news.

The worst part is that this joke no longer works.

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