Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan

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**Frazzled**

Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan by US missile strike
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106903109

**BrookM**

I'm withholding the jolly good show and cigar until it is 100% confirmed.

**Deff Dread red Edition**

Agreed.Damn should have read the whole article or atleast not miss read it,I thought it was the man himself not his son.Damn I am thick today,lol!

**Cheese Elemental**

Now he's just going to be even more pissed at America.

Of course, if intelligence is wrong and he wasn't involved with terrorism (which is, sadly, unlikely), then that's a seriously immoral drone that should be shot for war crimes, the bastard.

**Frazzled**

Use your brain Cheese. If he's in Pakistan, with Osama, then he's a target.

**Cheese Elemental**

But even if he was with Osama, there's no indication that he's an important target, no signs of him being a nob of Al-Quieda (spelling?). Making a big deal out of his name isn't going to do much good. For all we know, he could have been a grunt, a frontline fighter with little value on his head.

**Frazzled**

If he's a grunt frontline fighter then he's still a target. What are you not getting here?

**reds8n**

One of Osama bin Laden's sons was probably killed in a US drone strike on a target in Pakistan's tribal areas earlier this year, according to a US report.

Saad bin Laden, who was in his late 20s, is believed to have been hit by a Hellfire missile fired by a CIA-operated Predator unmanned aircraft.

US intelligence officials cannot confirm Saad's identity without a DNA test but are "80 to 85%" certain he is dead, according to a US counter-terrorism official quoted by National Public Radio.

In Islamabad, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, said it was trying to confirm the report. "We're aware of it, and we're seeking independent confirmation," he said.

Bin Laden, who is believed to be sheltering along the mountainous tribal belt along the Afghan border, is believed to have at least 12 sons. While some returned to Saudi Arabia, at least six – including Saad – stayed at his side to fight.

Saad is thought to have been mostly in exile in Iran since 2001, highlighting the murky relationship between the Shia state and al-Qaida, which is dominated by Sunni extremists.

In 2003 he was accused of orchestrating a series of largely ineffectual bombings in Saudi Arabia against government offices, oil installations and the US consulate in Jeddah.

He and his brother Mohamed were once groomed for future leadership of al-Qaida, according to the The Bin Ladens, a book by the veteran US journalist Steve Coll. Some reports say he moved from Iran to Pakistan in 2008.
The US counter-terrorism official quoted by NPR said Saad was not senior enough in the al-Qaida ranks to be personally targeted, and was probably "in the wrong place at the wrong time".

"We make a big deal out of him because of his last name," he said.

The US has carried out almost 50 drone strikes in the tribal belt, mostly in north and south Waziristan, since the beginning of the year. Casualties are notoriously difficult to estimate but one news agency puts the toll at 470.

The dead include several al-Qaida figures as well the families of those sheltering them.

underlining mine.

From todays Guardian.

**Cheese Elemental**

Frazzled wrote:If he's a grunt frontline fighter then he's still a target. What are you not getting here?

I dunno, lol. I'm going to stay out of this and let the yanks celebrate.

**Kilkrazy**

I think Osama Bin Laden actually died years ago but it was hushed up.

Al Quaeda doesn't need him anyway. He's not like Blofeld out of SPECTRE.

**LuciusAR**

Seeing as he wasn’t senior in Al-Quieda I don’t see how this is any more significant than the death of any other low level terrorist functionary.

Taking a particular pleasure in someone’s death because they are related to someone who wronged you seems a tad sinister to me.

**Frazzled**

LuciusAR wrote:

Taking a particular pleasure in someone’s death because they are related to someone who wronged you seems a tad sinister to me.

Works for me.

**NeedleOfInquiry**

5 to go, then Daddy.

**Shamfrit**

Al Queenly is no longer an organisation, a physical entity, a building, man or woman...

It is now an idea, something that stirs others do continue it's ideals.

It's sad the Americans think killing Osama Bin Laden will end it, because ideas never die.

Something V taught us

**Frazzled**

1. We don't think killing Bin Laden will end it. We think killing Bin Laden is required for justice for the thousands of people he murdered.

2. What is that idea again? Ah yes, lets build a society where we shoot women in the back of the head in soccer stadiums because they wore finger nail polish under their Burkha. Thats not a dream. Thats a nightmare.

**lord_sutekh**

It still works as an idea for the same reason Hitler still gets fans: some people just want a legitimate reason to hate and feel superior toward others, and they'll grab any means to do so. Doesn't mean it's a GOOD one, but that's humanity for you.

**Orkeosaurus**

Ideas die out all the time.

Ask creationists (oh burn!).

**Frazzled**

lord_sutekh wrote:It still works as an idea for the same reason Hitler still gets fans: some people just want a legitimate reason to hate and feel superior toward others, and they'll grab any means to do so. Doesn't mean it's a GOOD one, but that's humanity for you.

In the meantime, keep providing mandatory options to their current respiratory requirements.

**dogma**

Kilkrazy wrote:I think Osama Bin Laden actually died years ago but it was hushed up.

Even if he isn't dead he is almost certainly knocking on the door. There are multiple reports detailing his alleged health problems; including diabetes and its associated cardiovascular/kidney issues.

**garret**

On down one to go.

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Cheese Elemental wrote:But even if he was with Osama, there's no indication that he's an important target, no signs of him being a nob of Al-Quieda (spelling?). Making a big deal out of his name isn't going to do much good. For all we know, he could have been a grunt, a frontline fighter with little value on his head.

So was one of hitlers nephews. He was nothing but a frontline grunt but he was captured by the soviets a tortured and executed. Victem of There names.

**Nailz94**

garret wrote:On down one to go.

Yeahh! I hate Bin Laden. He's a dick.