Monday, May 2, 2011

I Hope They Have Evidence Bin Laden Is Dead

The news that Osama Bin Laden was taken out yesterday is good new- not great news, but good news.
However, I already see a problem. They already buried Bin Laden out at sea. Why?
From Reuters: source familiar with the operation said bin Laden was shot in the head. A senior U.S. official in Washington said the al Qaeda leader was killed in a firefight after he resisted the assault force.
Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said bin Laden was buried at sea. A third official said this was done to prevent a gravesite on land becoming a shrine for followers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-obama-statement-idUSTRE74107920110502
I can see his followers claim he is still alive and they will say "produce the body".
Skeptics in the U.S., especially those who don't trust President Obama will be asking for evidence.
Hell, people still think Obama is a Muslim and born outside the U.S., so why would they believe Obama just on his word.
Face it, Obama's poll numbers were fading, he just got slapped down with an air raid in Libya when it killed the son of the dictator and several of his children. The economy is going bad, inflation is getting worse. What better time to make up a story about Bin Laden's death?
So, I hope the White House produces some evidence besides President Obama saying it is true. The body would have nice but a video or at least pictures would almost be as nice.

update: Apparently I am not the only one who has some questions- Reuters does as well: Few hours later there it was circulating on the internet: Osama Bin Laden’s bloodied face in a video transmitted by a TV station in Pakistan. Under tremendous pressure we could get the picture and fed it into our picture editing system in preparation for transmission around the globe.
But was it really Osama? It was rumoured that the source was US military but the editors on the Global Picture Desk found inconsistencies that immediately made us suspicious. There was odd pixilation and blurring and his face was darker in some areas than others. The biggest problem was that the picture looked familiar somehow. Quickly looking through dozens of our archive pictures we found that the bottom half of Osama Bin Laden’s face was identical to a picture of him speaking at a news conference in 1998. After flipping the picture 180 degrees and overlaying it with the picture of the dead Osama Bin Laden we had a perfect match. It was a fake.

http://blogs.reuters.com/russell-boyce/2011/05/02/bin-laden-is-dead-prove-it/

Update# 2 They don't even Bin Laden's DNA: The United States is conducting DNA testing on slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and used facial recognition techniques to help identify him, a U.S. official said on Monday.
Bin Laden was identified by the assault force that killed him in a firefight in Pakistan in which he resisted and was shot in the head, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Results of the DNA tests should be available in the next few days, the official told Reuters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110502/ts_nm/us_binladen_dna_1
And Bin Laden doesn't use body doubles?
I really, really hope the White House is right on this because if they are not, it is going to cause a whole lot of problems.

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