Fings ain't what they used to be, Steve. Standards are slipping.

Body of Bin Laden buried at sea, says US government official, quoted by Associated Press




so, no evidence then, just a claim to have killed a guy that most of the intelligence community has belived to be dead for quite some time?

There's clearly going to be a number of revenge attacks now.

 - My time has come!

Yes, I thought that was a bit odd. Considering the symbolic importance of his death you'd have thought they'd want a good few independant folk to have a look before dumping him in the sea. Does seem to be just one person claiming it at the moment.

So the leaking of peoples account details via Sonys PSN had a benefit afterall....

hahah, hahahaha, hah...ha "bin gotten"  hahaha.

:'-D

Just 42 miles? That's how far it is from here to Brighton.

I don't feel very seasidey here... :/

Did Obama just secure his 2012 re-election?

Not if The Donald has anything to say about it...

Work that tea towel!

I was in that crowd! I chanted so much I lost my voice!

I know, I know. Just looks like no distance at all on Googlemaps.

Pretty much what I thought and what I'm hoping.

US government conspiracy nuts are going to have a field day with this one.

The timing is just good enough to have a positive influence on the elections for Obama I reckon, any closer and it would be too convenient, but it happening now means people will only remember the finer point when it comes time to vote - namely Obama's (Administration) got OBL.

I don't think we know enough about Al Qaeda to say "xyz" will happen, although we can make some very good guesses (and have). I think it's good to be rid of him, one less terrorist nut in the world etc.

I agree on the positive influence for Obama, but he's a brilliant President IMHO and anything that makes him look good in the middle of all the idiot racist muppet attacks is a good thing I say.

I agree with you on him being a brilliant President. I'm not sure many American's agree with us though.

The Healthcare reform bills and the lifting of the ban on embryonic stemcell research should also, in my opinion of course, way in his favour too, but the pro-life religious types will obviously disagree and use it all against him come the election.

Anyone hear the American lady on the radio news this morning?

 

They were doing vox pops of a select few revellers after the news of Osama's death and she said that she's glad that 'people are finally safe' now that he's gone. (fail)

 

As Steve said, the extremists exist in terrorist cells and won't be that much affected by missing what is essentially a figurehead.

 

After seeing the video footage of Bin Laden the BBC trawled out this morning, I was a little suprised at how softly spoken he was. I was expecting something more like Hitler at Nuremberg.

The only thing I can hope, is that it shows we won't give up finding you if you do shit like that. But other than that I don't suspect it will do much good.