Osama bin Laden is dead - no graphic/violent images.

Good news, the best hope is that it can bring some closure to families around the world who have lost loved ones because of this man. Terrorism and Al Qaeda will of course go on sadly, if only it were so simple.
 
dirtydog said:
Watch this, a BBC documentary from 2004. (Part 3 is the most relevant to Bin Laden.) (The first 10-15 minutes are enough to cover what I said about Al Qaeda.)

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The idea that Al Qaeda is just a myth is based on a misunderstanding of the group's function and structure.

AQ existed primarily to train mujahideen in traditional insurgency and warfare techniques, which its founders and supporters had learned in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and civil war. It's estimated 10,000 men passed through the camps and returned to the Balkans, the Caucasus, SE Asia, etc (the terrorist cells were akin to the special forces of the organisation - highly trained but extremely small in number). The trainers/trainees who were in Afghanistan immediately before 9/11 were ordered to disperse themselves and did so (Steve Coll's Ghost Wars has an account of Afghan-war veterans crying when they were told they had to leave Afghanistan).

The Coalition didn't get to fight AQ in Afghanistan because all of its members and the men they had trained had already made themselves scarce. That there was no stand-up fight between George Bush and Bin Laden means nothing - the group existed to provide training and financing to militants from across the world, not to act as target practice for the USAF.
 
They saying on Sky news.

The reason that Pakistan may have been complicit with Osama and Al-Queda being within there country is because they are, and always have been worried about invasion by India.

So they would fall back to Afghanistan to re-group, and this would require deep strategy with Al-queda/Taliban.
 
This sounds exactly like a Centre Spike raid, Personally I can't help wondering, Why now ?
 
Did this really have to happen on the day i'm flying out of the country via heathrow. :p

On topic: Great news! But it won't end terrorism.
 
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