Osama Bin Laden Is dead

why did gas prices go up a DIME here overnight after the news of OBL's death????????

at bad as it sounds, i'd wish him back alive to save 10c at the pump. grrrrrrrrrrr!!! $4.17/gal yesterday when i filled up.

don't get it ...stock market goes on an upswing the day after, and yet, so does the price at the pump. LAAAAAAME! :sadface:
 
Because investors are betting their money that Bin Laden's death will cause fuel shortages as a result. If things start to change in the world, that all of a sudden makes these same investors think that demand will drop for fuel, then they might pull their money out of that, which will drive prices down.

There has been much debate over regulating fuel speculation to eliminate/reduce its effect on prices.
 
isn't that the definition of wall street?

on another note - the white house had a press conference just a few min ago saying they will not be releasing any video or pictures of bin laden.
 
it's interesting the poll prior to the press thing showed like 63% or something in favor of releasing photos
 
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Found this online and it made me laugh.
 
the photos leaked on Reuters are extremely graphic and definitely not fake. has anyone else seen them? my friend Mike posted a link on Facebook last night. definitely NOT for the squeamish. i'm one of those types but i had to take a look. i've never seen THAT much blood and destruction before in my life. mostly b/c i don't choose to visit websites like "Faces of Death" and the like.

it was unbelievable how much blood and whatnot can come from those handful of others killed in the operation. no photos of bin Laden of course... but quite gruesome nonetheless of the ones pictured. :(
 
Yeah those pics were pretty graphic. It's kind of weird looking at the pics of the three dead b/c it looks like they were all shot in the back of the head execution style. They said OBL was shot in the face a couple times and these guys were not. I know they were Seals but in this close quarters situation and the speed at which they stormed the room I find it hard to believe they all got clean head shots like that especially from behind. I hope we actually killed OBL but I'm not going to believe it until I see real pics and vids of his death.
 
agreed! ^
although i would certainly hope Obama wouldn't take a risk regarding his credibility with the entire nation... let alone the world. that would be a definite blow to his hopes of re-election.

then again, stranger things have happen. so i will just agree with you and demand proof in some way, shape, or form.
 
Massive Leak Reveals Intricate Details of Bin Laden Raid

Details of what happened on the night we killed Bin Laden have been dripping slowly from the White House, but anonymous government sources have just handed the AP the entire story. Every single detail. Even the SEAL dog's name.

SEAL Team 6 had some serious backup—and a war dog named Cairo:

Five aircraft flew from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with three school-bus-size Chinook helicopters landing in a deserted area roughly two-thirds of the way to bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, two of the officials explained.​
Aboard two Black Hawk helicopters were 23 SEALs, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo. Nineteen SEALs would enter the compound, and three of them would find bin Laden, one official said, providing the exact numbers for the first time.​

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That stealth helicopter? Silent:

The Black Hawks were specially engineered to muffle the tail rotor and engine sound, two officials said. The added weight of the stealth technology meant cargo was calculated to the ounce, with weather factored in. The night of the mission, it was hotter than expected.​

That "hotter than expected" weather? Very bad:

The Black Hawk skittered around uncontrollably in the heat-thinned air, forcing the pilot to land. As he did, the tail and rotor got caught on one of the compound's 12-foot walls. The pilot quickly buried the aircraft's nose in the dirt to keep it from tipping over, and the SEALs clambered out into an outer courtyard.​

Blowing up the downed stealth chopper took longer than killing Bin Laden:

It took approximately 15 minutes to reach bin Laden, one official said. The next 23 or so were spent blowing up the broken chopper, after rounding up nine women and 18 children to get them out of range of the blast.​
And those are just the more tech-heavy details—the story's full of startling political implications, both domestic and foreign. Not only was the mission rushed because the White House feared its own government would leak details to the press, but President Obama himself doesn't know who pulled that final shot—he didn't ask—but instead simply congratulated and thanked the team as a whole.
For the rest of the gut-wrenching account, read the AP's full report.
 
Al Qaeda releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording

By Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) – Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden in which he praised revolutions sweeping through several Arab countries, and called for more Muslim "tyrants" to be toppled.

Islamists have conspicuously been absent in the uprisings in the Middle East that have largely been led by ordinary citizens angered by autocratic rule, corruption and mismanaged economies.

Al Qaeda and other militant groups have waged bloody, but unsuccessful, campaigns to topple these same rulers and by praising the revolts, bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. raid on May 2 in Pakistan, appeared to be trying to make the Islamists relevant again.

Al Qaeda had said bin Laden, who masterminded the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, recorded a message a week before his death. The audio was included in an Internet video more than 12 minutes-long and posted on Islamist websites.

"The sun of the revolution has risen from the Maghreb. The light of the revolution came from Tunisia. It has given the nation tranquility and made the faces of the people happy," the speaker, who sounds like bin Laden, said.

"To the Muslim nation -- we are watching with you this great historic event and share with you the joy and happiness. Congratulations for your victories and may God grant your martyrs mercy, your injured recovery and your prisoners freedom."

Tunisia's president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown by mass protests in January, followed by Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.

Bin Laden praised the Egyptian revolution and urged Arab protesters to maintain their momentum, adding: "I believe that the winds of change will envelope the entire Muslim world."

"This revolution was not for food and clothing. Rather, it was a revolution of glory and pride, a revolution of sacrifice and giving. It has lit the Nile's cities and its villages from its lower reaches to the top," he said.
"To those free rebels in all the countries -- retain the initiative and be careful of dialogue. No meeting mid-way between the people of truth and those of deviation."

Bin Laden made no specific reference to Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, where pro-democracy protesters have had less success than in Egypt and Tunisia, but said Israel, reviled by many ordinary Arabs, was worried by the unrest.

REVOLUTION CALL

Bin Laden called on young Arabs to consult "those of experience and honesty" and to set up a framework that would allow them to "follow up events and works in parallel... to save the people that are struggling to bring down their tyrants."

But he did not mention or advocate democratic rule, which was a key demand of protesters in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain in particular. Al Qaeda figures usually pour scorn on Western-style democracy which they see as contradicting Islamic values.

"Tunisia was the first but swiftly the knights of Egypt have taken a spark from the free people of Tunisia to Tahrir Square," said bin Laden, adding: "It has made the rulers worried."

U.S. commandos killed bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a garrison town near the Pakistani capital. The incident embarrassed Pakistan's military and spy agencies and led to calls by members of the U.S. Congress for a tougher approach toward the country.

Al Jazeera television, citing Pakistani security sources, said on Wednesday that al Qaeda had appointed Egyptian Saif al-Adel as temporary leader following bin Laden's death, but bin Laden's number two Ayman al-Zawahri, another Egyptian, is widely seen as best placed to take over the whole organization.

Audio and video announcements from bin Laden largely dried up in recent years while Zawahri recorded frequent messages. But Zawahri, an Egyptian medical doctor, is seen as lacking the charisma and oratorical skills of Saudi-born bin Laden, who has Yemeni roots.

Al Qaeda has an active wing in Yemen but has not managed to establish itself in Egypt, the most populous Arab nation.
 
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