Better to kill him during the mission when you have an excuse as Bin Laden and other's in his household could've been in possession of guns and explosives risking the lives of US soldiers rather than a cold blooded execution later on.
Little point in putting him on trial and then an execution, any publicity or rumours of torture wouldn't help the Americans.
Obviously the US did want revenge but they also had to hunt him down to prevent any potential involvement of his in further terrorist activities.
.......he was apparently dumped in to the ocean once the u.s government had killed him.
He may have been dead for years in truth.
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Would the u.s government lie ? Of course not !!!!!
So im open minded to whether they 'got him' or not. He should have stood on trial at the very least if they did indeed get him
State sanctioned assignation can be counter productive, but given that he gave the orders for the death of over 3000 people on 11th Sep, I don't really have an issue with his death or subsequent burial at sea.
Under the circumstances, it was probably the lesser evil than going through the dangerous process of finding a court safe enough for a no doubt lengthy trial to take place.
Eh, a quiet life? He was actively directing terrorist operations & making propaganda videos.
Was he? I thought part of the reason for doubting they even killed him when they said they did and not years before was the fact he had not appeared in videos for years. I thought he had only made audio tapes
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Well, they had to draw a line under it, marked the end of al queda being the bogeyman they didnt really pack the same punch. Luckily for the military industrial complex ISIS were ready to step up to the plate to justify spending more money on bombs apparently for many years to come
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Would the u.s government lie ? Of course not !!!!!
So im open minded to whether they 'got him' or not. He should have stood on trial at the very least if they did indeed get him
One of the more plausible theories I've read about why they didn't show photographic evidence is because the Seals went all oorah 'Murica! on his corpse and riddled it with over 100 bullets, showing either excessive force or mistreatment of a dead body, neither of which they would have wanted to reveal to the international community.
I would rather have a dead martyr any day than a live, cowardly terrorist being locked up.
Listen, if america really had found bin laden alive they would have paraded him round the streets before giving him a trial. Imagine the PR success they would have had with that, who wants to watch a royal wedding when you could watch bin ladens trial. That really would have put obama in the history books. Of course they dumped the body in the sea without even taking a picture i think and then swore everyone to secrecy tbh im not convinced because they really threw away the catch of the century
Mixed feelings. Don't get me wrong- he was a nasty piece of work. Like a lot of people in power (of different global sorts), he was quite happy to goad others into sacrificing their lives while he, himself, did everything possible to preserve his own sorry ass and those of his kin. All the same, the pursuit of 'justice' against him and his cronies led to countless innocent deaths on the other side of the USA that we will never get to fully comprehend. Can't be doing with conspiracy theories for the most part but this just makes me sad. Not undermining the horror of 9/11 but OBL's actions didn't exactly do much for his own 'people', either. Consequences are that those least deserving often pay the highest price.
.......he was apparently dumped in to the ocean once the u.s government had killed him.
He may have been dead for years in truth.
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Would the u.s government lie ? Of course not !!!!!
So im open minded to whether they 'got him' or not. He should have stood on trial at the very least if they did indeed get him
.......he was apparently dumped in to the ocean once the u.s government had killed him.
He may have been dead for years in truth.
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Would the u.s government lie ? Of course not !!!!!
So im open minded to whether they 'got him' or not. He should have stood on trial at the very least if they did indeed get him
Yip, and Al Qaeda have kept quiet about it all these years and allowed the US of A their PR victory :rolleyes:
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Little point in putting him on trial and then an execution, any publicity or rumours of torture wouldn't help the Americans.
Obviously the US did want revenge but they also had to hunt him down to prevent any potential involvement of his in further terrorist activities.
He may have been dead for years in truth.
They had to justify the 'war on terror' and the hideous invasions of iraq and all the innocent loss of life that ensued in that invasion by saying they'd got him
Would the u.s government lie ? Of course not !!!!!
So im open minded to whether they 'got him' or not. He should have stood on trial at the very least if they did indeed get him
Under the circumstances, it was probably the lesser evil than going through the dangerous process of finding a court safe enough for a no doubt lengthy trial to take place.
I see you prefer the expensive option.
KILL HIM!
I would rather have a dead martyr any day than a live, cowardly terrorist being locked up.
Was he? I thought part of the reason for doubting they even killed him when they said they did and not years before was the fact he had not appeared in videos for years. I thought he had only made audio tapes
Well, they had to draw a line under it, marked the end of al queda being the bogeyman they didnt really pack the same punch. Luckily for the military industrial complex ISIS were ready to step up to the plate to justify spending more money on bombs apparently for many years to come
One of the more plausible theories I've read about why they didn't show photographic evidence is because the Seals went all oorah 'Murica! on his corpse and riddled it with over 100 bullets, showing either excessive force or mistreatment of a dead body, neither of which they would have wanted to reveal to the international community.
Listen, if america really had found bin laden alive they would have paraded him round the streets before giving him a trial. Imagine the PR success they would have had with that, who wants to watch a royal wedding when you could watch bin ladens trial. That really would have put obama in the history books. Of course they dumped the body in the sea without even taking a picture i think and then swore everyone to secrecy tbh im not convinced because they really threw away the catch of the century
And Al Qaeda were happy to co-operate with this ?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/05/201156125729467729.html
Yip, and Al Qaeda have kept quiet about it all these years and allowed the US of A their PR victory :rolleyes: