I remember 20 years age when the golf war started
I was working with my school newspaper , they were talking about Soviet Union strong hole on Afghanistan and the departure of Soviet's in 1989 ... And that was first time I heard about Bin Laden , Half American never heard of BIn Laden before Spt,10 2001.

Anybody notice that Hamas is not nice people?
http://www.mideastmag.com/35634/video-hamas-declares-osama-bin-laden-a-martyr-and-holy-warrior/

Now, that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, we can finally direct our attention to the even more hideous criminals > those who were responsible for the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center Towers.
The truth is plain to see & hear in the documentary -
911 MYSTERIES - The Demolition
Check it out on the internet -
& then ask yourself, why (?)

Immediately buried at sea? What kind of BS is that?

It's typical of anything the US Government does that we just have to take their word for it, and we will not be allowed proof of it.

The disconnect between the triumphant announcement of an historic event, and the simultaneous absolute lack of proof of it for the world to see, is pyschotic.

We are living in a time where everything is hot air, and there is no concrete proof of anything. Americans become stupider and stupider.

The death of OBL does not free us from the fanatical forces that continue to conspire to destroy not only America but all nations that do not entertain radical extremism. While this is a tremendous victory for President Obama and especially the brave Navy Seals who executed this mission, I feel we must be prudent in our response. This is NOT a time to celebrate but a time to reflect and respectfully honor those who perished on 9/11. I was fortunate not to have lost anyone close to me on 9/11, but as an American, I grieved and nothing has ever been the same. Was this the right thing to do, execute Bin Laden? Absolutely, justice has been served. But it is not a time for raucous celebrations. When all our brave men and women are safely stateside from Afghanistan and Iraq, then we can truly celebrate. Please bring them home Mr. President.

NOTE: John McCain said he would NOT go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden because Pakistan is a sovereign nation. I remember very clearly when Barack Obama said in the primaries that he would go into Pakistan like this.

For a really good time, go back and read the party platforms for the year 2000; Dems named Bin Laden as a definite priority, Republicans did not.

And if we're going to go all political about this, don't you remember who George Bush, Sr. was having breakfast with on 9/11?

Brian Lehrer just said:

"...they dumped the body at sea"

So, which is it?

Burial at sea, because they wanted to follow the 24-hour burial strictures of Islamic practice?
Or, they "..dumped the body at sea"?

Obama was very smart to decide to kill bin Laden and not capture him. Otherwise I'm sure the Republicans would have appointed Casey and Rumsfeld to take turns waterboarding him and he would have been one more reason why Guantanamo will never be closed.

My best friend from growing up and a roommate from college joined the State Dept. in 1978. He was unlucky enough to be stationed in Nairobi, Kenya during that bombing. He was lucky enough to be out of the office that day. His administrative assistant was killed.

I am happy that our President and our military stayed on the case and that UBL is now dead. I am amazed that it took nearly thirteen years to get it done.

What has happened to the American ability to get things done? Has the Internet - or whatever other distraction you care to fill in the blank with -- damaged our fundamental character that much?

Buried at sea?

Smells like BS to me.

THE WAR IS OVER! CAN WE HAVE A DISNEY MOVIE !

The least bloody (for us) and longest war in our nations history (for them) is over..!

everybody happy ending? THE SITH LORD IS DEAD!

Caller says the targeted killing of OBL was not an “extra-judicial execution” because OBL posed an ongoing threat of terrorist attacks. That argument refutes itself. If OBL did pose any ongoing threat it would have been crucial to capture him alive.
The fact that we chose to execute OBL rather than to capture him shows clearly that our priority was not to prevent further terrorism, much less to achieve justice, but rather to silence OBL, to prevent the information that he has from being made public.
Bob Henley conveys the misinfo that OBL was killed during a firefight, but our president clearly stated that OBL was killed not ‘during’ but “after” the firefight.

Don't want to rain on the parade but I am sorry, I don't buy the whole 'we need to bury him in a hurry because he is a muslim and nobody wants his body lying around..' Chances are we could have found a place to bury him in the US, even if that meant a secret location. Flying a body does not take more than 24 hrs from Pakistan and muslim tradition tolerates that kind of delay. Second, outside of the muslim countries that would always oppose the US, the vast majority of muslim countries would have understood that the US would need to follow some level of domestic 'due process' before disposing of OBL's body. (they DO have forensic analysis in Pakistan, too). Third, a DNA sample fails to prove the time of death, the way the death happened and for that matter, the death in itself. Burying a body at sea is also very convenient if one wants to avoid further investigation on all these elements. Fourth, the fact that the Pakistani were not aware is also very doubtful. The operation was conducted with US helicopters in a location that was well within Pakistani territory and Pakistan has excellent radars because of its ongoing military tension with India...

These elements are clearly obvious. So, why?...

This just in! Donald Trump has expressed doubt about President Obama's
claim that Osama Bin Laden was killed. "Until I see a certified Proof of
Death Certificate from the Government of Pakistan, I won't be sure," said The Donald. Rush Limbaugh and several Tea Party sources have expressed doubt that President Obama would approve the killing of a fellow Muslim. "Maybe Dick Cheney gave the order," Limbaugh said.

A Master of Doom and Destruction is dead - may the civilized world rest in peace! I will never forget watching friends, colleagues and so many others perish in the smoking, flaming inferno. What a horrible image – I wish it could be erased from my memory. I still recall the faces of mothers, husbands, brothers & other loved ones posted throughout the city; so tragic. Why do I feel so bad – perhaps this is just a terrible reminder of that sunny and bright but eternally dark morning.

A Chatholic philosopher (who's name escapes at the moment) said that the death of one man deminishs us all. I don't feel deminished at all.

No evidence tying Bin Laden to 9/11.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/140099/20110502/osama-bin-laden-never-charged-for-911-inside-job-likely-wtc7.htm

On the death of OBL. I think of Shakespeare's words.

We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

Macbeth Act III , Scene 2

Yes, indeed I noticed the freudian slip from your news reporter this morning..."O?ama is Dead!" and no one attempted to correct or apologize so I suppose it wasn't a mistake.

Why the reluctance to release photos of Bin Ladin’s body? After all, gruesome photos of Sadam Hussein’s son’s corpses, and Sadam’s corpse were all over the media.
Sadam was doubtless an evil SOB, but he never attacked the US.

I'm still not convinced Osama was behind the 9/11 attacks. Too many laws of physics were shattered on that terrible day. The official story does not add up if you can open your eyes and look at the evidence.

Official story disputes aside, the outward celebration should be kept to a minimum lest we further exacerbate our strained relations with the muslim world.

I almost died in 911. I cannot believe anyone would not be happy over this. If he was captured there would have been a trial and it would have been a circus and soapbox for an evil man.

God bless America, the Seals, The flag.
He died by an American bullet, from an American hand, there is a god.

Thank you for allowing another voice in this media frenzy. We are not showing the world a better way. Why are leaders still afraid to take what we know to be higher ground. It is good Osama is gone, but cheering at a death, while understandable, shows the lowest response of culture... that of vengeance, not to mention short sightedness.
Osama’s act was a great offense and tragety, but a far greater tragety was our overwhelmingly military guided reaction to 9/11. And what we know now were lies by our leaders, we continue to today. Exemplifying for China and the world, we have spent the vast amount of our resources and budget and gone deeply in debt by continuing to build a massive military complex. Our media doesn’t even count the greater tragety, the death of innocents that have followed. Literallly at least 200 times the amount of innocent people have been killed in these specific reactive wars. Why is this not considered equally? Is this what the 3000 and their families wanted?
Special ops, a surgical strike was always the way to deal with such a crime, not huge military buildups and permanent bases. And people talk about not growing government? Pres Obama is wrong to support the notion that our most significant acheivement against terror to date is this strike. It would have been (and still remains) creating a more fair, honest and just world. Imagine if we put the untold spent billions toward education and projects that promote civilization, international cooperation and trust building. Imagine if we learned how to share resources instead of “protecting them” competively. Then the lives of the 3000 here would have not been in vain. Until we admit our failure, this great wrong, we continue down a path that repeats the worst of humanity... and supports the cycle of vengeance.

I have waited to hear this news for so long and now I have mixed feelings instead of pure joy. What I feel is dread of what has to come. We are not dealing with humans here...We have the Pakistani taliban to deal with for instance and being the animals that they are, I only fear the worst to come. May God keep us all safe. I have loved ones captured by the taliban and I fear innocent people paying the price once again.

Remember the Public Enemy song?..."Don't Believe the Hype". I just don't believe it took this many years to find Bin Laden and now, he's supposedly dead and his body so quickly buried at sea with no absolute proof??? I wan't to see pictures, video or something concrete. As much as I can't stand Donald Trump, maybe he can get someone to show us a death certificate or proof of his death.

Applause to the courageous Navy Seals for mission accomplished. A range of emotions zipping inside of me today. Mostly reliving the images and feelings from 9/11, and hoping that the families who lost loved ones, now have some peace.

I almost died on 9/11, and I lost friends and loved ones and saw my life forever changed.

Don't tell me what I can and can't feel today, and what I can and can't do today.

If you don't like it, I don't care. Today is not about your considered sociopolitical commentary.

It is about the memory of all of those people who died almost a decade ago, on that cool, beautiful day.

Today is a great day.

buried at sea? wow, more bs in war on terror...

buried at sea? wow, more bs in war on terror...

The celebrations today are not celebrations of the death of Osama bin Ladan, but celebrations for the lives we lost on 9/11 and the lives of all peace loving people all over the world who can now live with a greater sense of security and peace not known since 9/11. A promise kept to those we lost is now a promise fulfilled!

I await the Republican response to the killing of Ben Ladin. How will they spin this to minimize any credit to Obama?

I can see Ground Zero from where I sit typing. Walking through the streets this morning, the majority of New Yorkers are somber. A very small and very young minority are wrapping themselves in flags and cheering. It is an immature response by very young "adults/kids". One hopes that with age, they will look back with embarrassment at their actions. However, the media should right now be shamefaced for their unbalanced coverage of this small group of misguided youth. Everytime NPR, CNN, NYT, Fox News highlights this small group, you, the media, are making the next attack against us more likely. Shame - again - on you all.

The U.S. has made an ENORMOUS strategic error, if they do not have definitive evidence of the death and the body, which they quickly present.

In the absence of this, we're seeing the birth of yet another conspiracy theory system... and there appears to already be a faked photo circulating.

In today's world the U.S. can't allow a media vacuum on this evidence.

It seems to me that this should be a time for somber reflection - not a time for jubilation - and especially not a time for drinking and celebrating in the streets. As one or two people posted previously, celebrating "as though we won a football game" seems to be the opposite of what we want the world to see. Somber reflection would be the mature, responsible response.

The first news I got was on facebook. I then went to a news site to watch the video clip of the President. I truly didn't feel a joyful response for the news, I felt gratitude for the men and women who have served in the military and all that they and their families have given. I also reflected on all of the stories that I had heard of the terror that this group of people enacted on men, women, and children in their own county and around the world.

While this might be viewed as a milestone it is not or should not be viewed as a victory. Children have been groomed and trained in the ideology and beliefs of these supporters and I would imagine that they are quiet angry now.

Even if he was caught I don't think that he would have provided information that would have benefited anyone. He is a warrior and I doubt that he would have gave up information that would have helped the dismantling of his movement.

This display on your site is inhuman. You are a media outlet for the republicans now? We know that Bin Laden Was a CIA asset on our payroll for years. The Bushs hired him to do their/our dirty work.Now we kill him with out a trial?? The war on terror will not end until we kill ourselves at this rate. America my country of terrorists.

This event is true litmus test for our citizens.

A man with the blood of thousands of innocent lives on his hands, innocents from every religion and most nations, and a mind full of hate, is killed through a decade of hard work by the men and women who defend us.

Some will be relieved, and others proud. Some, whose lives were changed by his acts of war, might even rejoice.

And others will continue in lockstep with the dogmatic drivel they learned in graduate school and elsewhere. Ramblings about why he wasn't captured and tried in court, or how this is a discredit to our nation, or whatever.

These are the citizens on the left, who like their corresponding ones on the right, are making us a worse nation than we could be.

Today, pleas, stuff it. A man who would behead your daughter, who has indeed beheaded our sons and daugthers, has been called to accout.

Allahu Akhbar. God bless America.

I will have to agree with the German architect in this morning report about people gathering at Ground Zero. I wish some people didn't respond as if they won a football game. While I am glad this is a form of closure for the families of 9/11 victims, but I wish people didn't scream & yell. Made me sad that some people used this occasion as a drinking fest.

That's what happens when you want Israel out of the West Bank.

I don't celebrate violence. I hope this event is only succeeded by greater peace. The enthusiasm around this death makes me uncomfortable.

Why was bin Laden executed in the field--by being shot in the head, according to NBC--rather than being captured and brought to trial? This question needs to be answered directly because President Obama made clear in his carefully worded statement that bin Laden was killed “after a firefight”--not ‘during a firefight’--and also that there was such ineffective resistance by bin Laden’s forces that “No Americans were harmed”.

Why, furthermore, has bin Laden’s body been disappeared rather than being brought for medical examination? Was the corpse disappeared to get rid of forensic evidence that bin Laden was executed after he had been captured?

Was bin Laden executed rather than brought to trial in order to conceal the information he could have given about the development and actions of al Qaeda--particularly about its current plans going forward and about what nations, intelligence services, and other groups and individuals were involved in the planning and carrying out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America?

Once again we have failed as human beings.

There were Pakistanis who knew all along where Osama bin Lauden was but they cooperated with President Obama and not former President Bush. I hope that Mr. Trump will not insist on a "Long form" death certificate to accept that bin Lauden has been killed!

This wall to wall coverage of Bin Laden, consisting of 30 to 60 seconds of news and, by now, many hours of speculation and conjecture, makes your service seem no more valuable than any of the networks, including Fox, and, certainly no more endurable. Pacifica's coverage is, at least, more nuanced and "Democracy Now" has been excellent.

so, can they come home now?

Why was he assassinated instead of captured and dealt with through an international tribunal? This makes the US look like we are operating without laws. It's not the first time since 9/1/2001 that we seem to have sunk to the the level of the worst of our enemies. We claim to have special "American values" but we are clearly not special. We seem to be ordinary thugs. And I am very sad to see the celebrations in the street at someone's death. Did we learn that from Al Qaeda?

It saddens me that we live in a world in which we celebrate in the streets the death on any man.

OBL has been succesfully eliminated through a remarkable intelligence operation, as those of us against a war in Afganistan (and in Iraq) have been saying all along for years. We needn't declare war in several corners of the world and galvanize new recruits for Al-Qaida to kill an international criminal; sound and smart intelligence operations would have done the job and did it.

Last night I felf a great hate and weight lifted from me. I left my bed to go to the scene of the crime, ground zero, and I sang patriotic songs with strangers, tears running down my face.

I was in the middle of 911, I remember the sights and sounds to this day and I believe it really affected me.

I remember seeing the first building on fire, I remember seeing the second plane hit the next tower, I remember seeing people falling, some on fire, I remember the sound on bodies hitting concrete, I remember seeing weeks of photos of the lost, a city shut down, I remember the smell of human flesh burning that lasted weeks if not months.

I feel renewed. May god bless America. Never again, Never forgive, Never Forget.

Isn't it suspicious that US decided to go ahead with liquidation of BinLaden (after "months" of intelligence and preparation) just when top news was dominated by the embarassing botched attempt to assassinate Col. Qaddafi that killed his son and three grandchildren? Was main purpose to push that off front pages?

I went to bed happy, but now I am worried. I can't possibly imagine that the administration would be so stupid as to take possession of the body and then bury it at sea without it having undergo some outside scrutiny by the public. Hell, they even put Bonnie and Clyde on display! Please tell me That they were smarter than that. Please!?!?!??

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I am proud of the mission accomplished.
I am not proud of the throngs of people cheering and celebrating. It reminds me all too much of the pictures of ecstatic Gazans celebrating at the success of a terrorist bombing in Israel. The US should be more sober in its realization that this is the head of the hydra and there are many arms to al Quida still working towards its demise.

Good job! Congratulations New York!!!