Then how come they found RPGs ak-47s and other auto n semi automatic weapons in the same room he was in...yes I believe our men were skilled enough to bring him alive but if they did they would have risked all dying we've spent 10 years lookin for him he's dead I'm happy uncle SAMs happy so just be happy or boys in camo did a job well done.... And executed the orders giving by the president...so if u wanna go on about assasination thank Obama for that!!!

I don't doubt they found weapons in the house. I doubt if Osama had any in his hands, he was watching television.

They say they "exchanged fire" but who knows? I have my doubts about that. If they went in there and shot everyone in their sleep do you think they are going to admit that? Of course not.

We may never know really what happened or who died that night.

No, I can't "be happy" about it.

We are supposed to be "the good guys."

Good guys don't do home invasions and assassinations of entire households.

That's just wrong.

I never said in his hands they were in the same room!!!

If u have such a huge problem with what went down take it up with our dumbass president who is also running this country deeper into debt!!!

I'm sure he had very little to say about it.

Presidents are pretty much just puppets installed by the money brokers.

Wow, you really know how the World works!

1. Osama REALLY did it. All the evidence points to him and he was
proud to take responsibility. There are payments, training, videos,
open vows to terrorize the US and of course the rejoicing. No point
in ignoring all of the overwhelming evidence and making claims that
someone else was responsible. Might as well claim that North Dakota
is really Rhode Island in disguise.



2. The Seals deserve any and all admiration and support we can give
as they risk their lives and make unbelievable sacrifices for this
great country in support of your liberty and right to make these
outlandish and unsupportable comments.

3. It is not assassination to destroy your enemy in warfare. It is
self-preservation. In the case of operation Geronimo these Seals
through their sacrifices and the determination of our leaders and
military everywhere saved countless lives!

In the US and abroad many would certainly have been killed in new
(but now thwarted) Al-Qaida terrorist attacks.

So rant on but as you can see no one is buying the conspiracy BS.
Your viewpoint will continue to be correctly derided for it's lack
of evidence, mean-spirited attitude towards our heroes, and ignorance
of the very real terrorist threat which people in the US and all
over the world face on a daily basis due to Al-Qaida and other
arms of radical Islam.

The original post is bound to be viewed here as an incredibly
insensitive post at best. This weird and unjustifiable assertion
that Bin Laden was not responsible will be viewed as an
intellectually deficient argument. Many may find it a weak attempt
to garner attention through being intentionally offensive.

Or answer D) All of the above!

they went into a foreign country (illegally), and killed a man... i agree with jb, that seems like an assignation to me...the seals just did there job, they had no choice... it's the lying president and his band of lefties that were the problem...

I ordered 2!

Slowhand:
Assassination is what it is. Assassination. It is not "war fare."

Osama Bid Laden could not have been convicted for 9-11 and that has been admitted. They did not want him alive. It was purely a political assassination. Call it what it is.

I am astonished that by speaking out against a policy of assassination for this country I get criticized. I am not talking about a "conspiracy" I am talking about an event. An historical event. You are the one who is preaching praises for it and ranting.

Osam bin Laden was blamed for 9-11, and accused so many times people believe it. I guess "Innocent innocent until proven guilty" does not apply when propaganda is applied. People believe the propaganda. I don't know if he is "responsible" or not, even indirectly but an accusation does not give anyone the right to assassinate him in the dead of the night and then brag about it all over the media.

It's become a circus.

I will not join the cheering crowd at this disgraceful public execution.

It is wrong. I'm surprised people don't know that.

It's just wrong.

I'm just tired of this country being a baby sitter to the world.

hmmm I just did an online search ...

commemorative coins
hats
t-shirt
pins
patches
posters
necklaces made out of bullets


Wow ... people will just buy anything won't they? Consumerism and opportunism at its finest...

This has nothing to do with politics, the mission, the Seals or Bin Laden ...


A vendor will sell some coins that commemorate the Navy Seals, the Army, the Firefighters etc.

But you add a tag line like 'commemorating the heros of the World Trade Centre' or 'Geronimo' -- you couple that with advertising that that is designed to remind you of the event and stir up your emotions and suggest that if you are patriotic, you need one of these ...

...you play on the emotions of people and pull at the heart strings of their deep seated patriotism ... now you can sell millions...

This isn't 'really' about anything but manipulation through marketing ...

The real irony here is that the vendor you purchase from isn't necessarily an American or an American Company ... and where are the products made ...

When something works ... copycats abound...

.....Assassination for political ends / advantage is as old as politics itself.

Chanakya (c. 350-283 BC) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. From wiki.. History of Assassination.


.....In 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333, which codified a policy first laid down in 1976 by the Ford administration. It stated, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."[12]

Yet attempts against Fidel Castro continued after this.

.....

Whoever does the copy for the advertising department needs to get facts right. The name of the operation was Operation Neptune Spear. 'Geronimo' was name of target.
The operation broke no laws at home or internationally. With a token "We knew nothing" from Pakistan. Precision targeting of high ranking enemy during a armed conflict is not assassination, it is military action.

There is no "armed conflict" going on. We are not at war with Pakistan. The so called "war on terror" is a big farce. It is not an "armed conflict."

There is an armed conflict going on with Militant Islam and
Al-Qaida...

Today's News Ansar al-Islam
http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-tears-government-hq-oslo-2-dead-162809135.html

and...from the historical record:

Timeline of al-Qaeda attacks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following is a list of attacks which have been allegedly carried out by Al-Qaeda.
Contents
[hide]

1 Early 1990s
1.1 February 1993 World Trade Center
1.2 1994 Bojinka, Philippine Airlines Flight 434
2 1998 U.S.-embassy bombings
3 2000 USS Cole bombing
4 September 11, 2001, attacks
5 October 2002 Bali bombings
6 November 2003 Istanbul attacks
7 February 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing
8 March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings
9 May 2004 Khobar massacre
10 July 7, 2005 London transport bombings
11 July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks
12 November 9, 2005 Amman hotel bombing
13 April 2007 Algiers bombings
14 February 2008 Kandahar bombing
15 June 2, 2008 Danish-embassy bombing
16 June 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
17 December 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253
18 Dec 30, 2009 Khost Suicide Bomber
19 October 2010 cargo plane bomb plot
20 Iraq attacks
20.1 August 2003 Imam Ali Mosque bombing
20.2 February 2004 Irbil bombings
20.3 March 2004 Iraq Ashura bombings
20.4 April 2004 Basra bombings
20.5 July 2005 Musayyib bombing
20.6 September 2005 Baghdad bombings
20.7 November 2005 Khanaqin bombings
20.8 April 2006 Buratha Mosque bombing
20.9 November 2006 Sadr City, Iraq bombings
20.10 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing
20.11 March 2007 Tal Afar bombings
20.12 April 2007 Baghdad Iraq bombings
20.13 August 14, 2007 Yazidi community Iraq bombing
20.14 August 2009 Baghdad bombings
20.15 October 2009 Baghdad bombings
20.16 April 2010 Baghdad bombings
20.17 May 2010 Iraq attacks
20.18 November 2010
20.19 January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks
21 Notes
22 References
23 External links

[edit] Early 1990s

On December 29, 1992,[1] the first attack by Al Qaeda was carried out in Aden, Yemen.[2][3][4] That evening, a bomb went off at the Gold Mohur hotel, where U.S. troops had been staying while en-route to Somalia, though the troops had already left when the bomb exploded. The bombers targeted a second hotel, the Aden Movenpick, where they believed American troops might also be staying. That bomb detonated prematurely in the hotel car park, around the same time as the other bomb explosion, killing two Australian tourists.[1][3] Bin Laden later claimed responsibility for the 1992 Yemen attack.[2]
[edit] February 1993 World Trade Center

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when Ramzi Yousef parked a rented van full of explosives in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. The explosion claimed six victims, and over one thousand people were wounded. Ramzi Yousef, the nephew of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, had trained in Afghanistan, although Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did not join Al Qaeda until 1998. Yousef worked in cooperation with the blind sheikh Abdul Rahman who was living across the Hudson, in Jersey City, at the time of the attack. The FBI later turned up evidence that Osama bin Laden provided financial support to the blind sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman.[5]
[edit] 1994 Bojinka, Philippine Airlines Flight 434

Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (prior to joining with Al Qaeda) planned Operation Bojinka, a plot to destroy airplanes in mid-Pacific flight using explosives.[6] They tested their attacks in November 1994 on the Philippine Airlines Flight 434, which also involved Abu Sayyaf (a Southeast Asia affiliate of Al Qaeda).[7] An apartment fire in Manila, Philippines exposed the plan before it could be carried out. Yousef was arrested, but Mohammed evaded capture until 2003.[8]
[edit] 1998 U.S.-embassy bombings

In August 1998, Al-Qaeda operatives carried out the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 5,000 others.[9]
[edit] 2000 USS Cole bombing
USS Cole after it was bombed

In December 1999 and into 2000, al-Qaeda planned attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations; however, Jordanian authorities thwarted the planned attacks and put 28 suspects on trial. Part of this plot included the planned bombing of LAX, but this plot was foiled when bomber Ahmed Ressam was caught at the US-Canadian border with explosives in the trunk of his car. Al-Qaeda also planned to attack the USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship.

Despite the setback with the USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing.

German police foiled a plot to bomb the Christmas market near the Strasbourg Cathedral in Strasbourg, France in December 2000.

Rizal Day Bombings in the Philippines (2000)

[edit] September 11, 2001, attacks
Main article: September 11 attacks

The most destructive act ascribed to al-Qaeda was the series of attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. These attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon in a series of suicide hijacking of airplanes. Osama bin Laden did take credit for the attacks days before the 2004 Presidential Election.[citation needed]
[edit] October 2002 Bali bombings
Main article: 2002 Bali bombings

The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people, (including 88 Australians, and 38 Indonesian citizens).[10] A further 240 people were injured.
[edit] November 2003 Istanbul attacks
Main article: 2003 Istanbul bombings

The 2003 Istanbul bombings were four truck bomb attacks carried out on November 15, 2003 and November 20, 2003, in Istanbul, Turkey, leaving 57 people dead, and 700 wounded. Several men have been convicted for their involvement.
[edit] February 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing

The 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing on February 27, 2004, was an Islamic terrorist attack that resulted in the sinking of the ferry SuperFerry 14 and the deaths of 116 people in the Philippines.
[edit] March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings
Main article: 2004 Madrid train bombings

It is thought that al-Qaeda was responsible for the bombing of the Madrid commuter train system, 911 days after the 9/11 attacks. However, the group did not claim any responsibility of this attack.
[edit] May 2004 Khobar massacre

Al-Qaeda is believed to have been responsible for the 2004 Khobar massacre, carried out on May 29, 2004.[11]
[edit] July 7, 2005 London transport bombings

Four members of Al-Qaeda, three of British Pakistani descent and one of British Jamaican descent attacked Londons public transport on July 7, 2005. Three bombs were detonated on the London Underground and one on a double decker bus. The attacks took place between 8.50 am and 9.47 am. 56 people died during the attacks (including 4 terrorists) and around 700 were injured.
[edit] July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks

The 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks attacks were a series of terror attacks on July 23, 2005, perpetrated by an Islamist organization, targeting the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
[edit] November 9, 2005 Amman hotel bombing

Suicide bombers merged into a wedding crowd in Hayatt Amman Hotel, with two other hotels targeted in the same night leaving 60 people dead and hundreds injured.
[edit] April 2007 Algiers bombings

Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb claimed to have been responsible for the April 11, 2007 Algiers bombings. Two bombs exploded within a short time of each other, one at the prime ministers office and the other at a police station. The blasts killed 33 people. It was the first time a bombing had occurred in the capital in more than a decade.[12]
[edit] February 2008 Kandahar bombing

The 2008 Kandahar bombing of February 17, 2008 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was an attack targeting a crowd of people watching a dog-fighting competition.[13]
[edit] June 2, 2008 Danish-embassy bombing

Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan on June 2, 2008. A car bomb killed six people and injured several.[14] Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda, issued a statement after the bombing, claiming that the attack was a response to the 2005 publication of the Muhammed Cartoons.[15]
[edit] June 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
Main article: 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting

On June 1, 2009, Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad opened fire in a drive-by shooting on a United States military recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, killing one US soldier and wounding another. At the time he stated that the act was "for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military" and law enforcement authorities concluded "there doesn't appear to be a wider conspiracy or, at this point in time, any indication that he's a part of a larger group or a conspiracy". However he later professed that he had conducted a "Jihadi attack" as part of Al Qaeda.[16]
[edit] December 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Main article: Northwest Airlines Flight 253

Shortly after the arrest of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the December 25, 2009 bombing attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, the suspect reportedly told officials he had traveled to Yemen for training by Al-Qaeda, although British counterterrorism officials dismissed the claims.[17] President Barack Obama's top security official Janet Napolitano on December 27 stated "Right now we have no indication it's part of anything larger", warning it would be "inappropriate to speculate" that Al-Qaeda had sent Abdulmutallab on a suicide mission. On December 28, President Obama called it an "attempted terrorist attack" and promised to "to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia...".[18] That same day, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack.[19] The group released photos of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab smiling in a white shirt and white Islamic skullcap with the Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula banner in the background. On January 8, 2010, President Barack Obama took responsibility for security lapses exposed by the attack, declaring in televised remarks "We are at war against Al-Qaeda", noting "our adversaries will seek new ways to evade them, as was shown by the Christmas attack"[20] By February 2010, the suspect told federal investigators that cleric Anwar al-Awlaki gave him orders to carry out the attack. Al-Jazeera reported that Awlaki issued a statement that "Brother mujahed Umar Farouk – may God relieve him – is one of my students, yes... We had kept in contact, but I didn't issue a fatwa to Umar Farouk for this operation,".[21]
[edit] Dec 30, 2009 Khost Suicide Bomber

An Al-Qaeda agent posing as a double agent killed 7 CIA officers in the 2009 Khost CIA bombing on December 4, 2008. The Jordanian man, thought to be an American asset penetrating Al-Qaeda was brought in the wire of the camp and detonated an explosive belt, killing 7 CIA, 1 Jordanian intelligence officer, and seriously wounding six others.[22]
[edit] October 2010 cargo plane bomb plot

On October 29, 2010, two packages, each containing a bomb consisting of 300 to 400 grams (11–14 oz) of plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism, were found on separate cargo planes. The bombs were discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia's security chief. They were bound from Yemen to the United States, and were discovered at en route stop-overs, in England and in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

One week later, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took responsibility for the plot.[23] U.S. and British authorities had believed that AQAP, and specifically Anwar al-Awlaki, were behind the bombing attempts. They also believed the bombs were most likely constructed by AQAP's main explosives expert, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.[24][25]
[edit] Iraq attacks
[edit] August 2003 Imam Ali Mosque bombing

The Imam Ali Mosque bombing was the detonation of two car bombs outside of the Shia Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf on August 29, 2003
[edit] February 2004 Irbil bombings
Main article: 2004 Irbil bombings

The 2004 Irbil bombings was a double suicide attack on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_al-Qaeda_attacks

yanno...

only three likely scenarios

announce their arrival, in which case the al queda would have been prepared to take them out or would have just slipped off into the night again

dont announce the arrival and come 'by surprise', in which case the alqueda would have to either surrender or fight

continue to do nothing but hope that OTHERS cooperate in turning them over,,, and watch more attacks happen with civilians being assassinated,,,

civilians arent equipped for such attacks but soldiers, like OURS and like THEIRS are,, they sign up for the risk

I wasnt there, but I dont believe the al queda were just on a vacation , ill prepared or ill armed for invaders, nor do I believe them incapable of killing at the drop of a dime for their 'cause' or their 'leader'


so, it will be one rare time for me to say, I am glad it was theirs instead of ours,,,,,I do believe theirs would have gone on to take many more lives of civilians intentionally, which is something I dont think ours would,,,,

so if lives were saved(Which I believe they undoubtedly were), I applaud the seals,,,

Although I don't believe in assassinations as a positive form of anything. I would prefer then to the supposed "military actions" we are involved in now.

They should have done this for Hitler, Saddam etc... since we are capable.

It would have saved millions of lives, innocent lives of women and children. It would have saved peoples property and keepsakes.

So although I don't approve of assassinations, they prove more effective then war.

It is not appropriate in this context to distinguish between killing
the head of your opposing military force and the killing of any
other officer or soldier.

It is war. If you can take out the highest ranking officers then it
is the best strategy to do so as early in the conflict as possible
and disrupt planning and tactics of the opposing forces.

So - it is not assassination. This is a misnomer.

Otherwise this is quite correct. More lives could have been saved
by a better military strategy and better execution.

wrong... obama broke several laws here - murder, invading a foreign country, airspace laws... what if a country came into the US and did the same thing without our governments knowledge? and then brag to the world about it? The obama lies have gotten out of hand and brainwashed you people... now you can't even tell when laws are broken...

There is no war or armed conflict except in Iraq, a country that we invaded under false pretenses.

And that has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden or the alleged "terrorist network."

Any conflict that arises from any skirmish between Israel and her neighbors who hate her is labeled "terrorism" for the convenience of using our military to fight battles for Israel.

Let them fight their own battles.

We should not be assassinating people.

Its wrong. It is illegal. It is immoral.

It is tyranny.