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Osama Bin Laden Is Dead (pg. 52)
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| srussell0018 |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
It depends on the person obviously, but for most people school is fundamental in shaping a persons beliefs because it gives them the basis on which to establish their own views. |
Obviously :p
Without school to guide them, people are merely parrots for what their parents taught them, right? |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Obviously :p
Without school to guide them, people are merely parrots for what their parents taught them, right? |
Often, yes. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Sometimes I kind of speak in absolutes. |
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| aNYthing |
Well, at least this CT is entertaining:
| quote: | Online Poker Caused Osama Bin Laden’s Destruction?
May 3rd, 2011 Author: A. Mitchell
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Online Poker Caused Osama Bin Laden's Destruction?According to rumours circulating in the poker community, the recent assassination of Osama Bin Laden by American Special Forces may have direct links to ‘Black Friday’ and the clamp-down on the US online poker industry.
For 10 years the US government has been after the al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, 54, who was believed largely responsible for the September 11 attacks in New York.
However, the elusive FBI wanted terrorist managed to remain hidden until 15th April when PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker were investigated and indicted by the FBI.
As the story/conspiracy theory goes, a few years back the CIA captured senior al-Qaeda operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who then disclosed the name of Bin Laden’s closest aide after a ‘session’ with top Romanian interrogator known only as ‘Radu’
In addition, the CIA apparently discovered Bin Laden’s most trusted aide was also a keen online poker player, with both pieces of information then being confirmed after the capture of Khalid’s replacement, Faraj al-Libi.
In August 2010, the CIA then learnt that Bin Laden was living within a mansion compound in Pakistan, although they did not know which one or where it was located.
However, on April 15, 2011 the ‘Big Three’ poker sites had their domain names seized by US authorities and allegedly a deal was struck whereby the CIA received information on all online poker transactions in Pakistan and Afghanistan in exchange for the return of their domains and the unfreezing of bank accounts to facilitate the return of players’ deposits.
Finally, within three days the US military were then quickly able to trace the location of Bin Laden’s poker playing aide culminating in the May 1st Chinook helicopters assault on Bin Laden’s compound and subsequent assassination at the hands of Navy SEAL ‘Team Six.’
Whether the conspiracy theory has any merit to it or not hasn’t stopped the online poker community jumping all over the story. There may also be further online related bad news for the deceased al-Qaeda leader.
As one poster put it: “Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it’s only a bunch of geeks sitting on their computers playing Magic: The Gathering.” |
source: http://www.onlinepoker.net/poker-ne...struction/10627
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| aNYthing |
Oooohhhh shiiittt.... here we go, let's pour some fuel over CTs!
| quote: | Osama bin Laden was not armed when he was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEALs during a daring raid on his compound in Pakistan, the White House said today.
"We were prepared to capture him if that was possible," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. But even though bin Laden was not carrying a weapon, Carney said he had "resisted" and several people in the compound were armed and firing at the American special operators.
"Resistance does not require a firearm," Carney said.
When the SEALs entered the room in which bin Laden was hiding, his wife charged them and was shot in the leg, Carney said. Bin Laden was then shot in the chest and head.
"U.S. personnel on the ground handled themselves with the utmost professionalism," he said. "[Bin Laden] was killed in an operation because of the resistance they met."
The decision to kill, rather than capture, came from commanders on the ground, Carney said.
According to former White House counterterror advisor and ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, it's unlikely the SEALs ever planned to take bin Laden alive.
"I think it was the assumption all along that this was an assassination operation," Clarke said. "It's unpleasant to say that and there may be some lawyers that object and say that you have to contend that he was resisting arrest. But I don't think that at the operational level there was ever any desire to take him alive."
Officials initially said that bin Laden had been among several people in the compound who took up arms and engaged in a firefight with the SEALs.
President Obama's counterterror chief John Brennan also initially said that bin Laden used one of his wives as a human shield and the woman was killed in the gun battle. That has turned out to be incorrect and officials attributed the mistake to the confusion that usually accompanies a fast moving gun battle, or "the fog of war."
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| Light The Fuse |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
You mean like how al Qaeda celebrated the death of thousands of innocent people, not to mention the burned and beaten corpses of American soldiers that they literally dragged through the streets? Shut the up. |
so because your enemy does one thing this makes it okay for you to do it as well?
get out!
Best/most hopeful thing ive seen on the news so far was a New York woman who said - "Im never happy when another person dies - im not going to lie i dont feel bad about it - but im not celebrating his death either - and he was my brothers killer"
But yeah, from my vantage point some of the celebrations look exaclty fundamentalists in the middle east - and i guess they are they are the same except they be fundamentalists in the west.
meh fkn religon. |
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| Light The Fuse |
oh and more proof osama has been dead for years.....look when obama decided to let the world know hes dead :p
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| FuzzQi |
| So who thinks Pakistan was in on it? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
So who thinks Pakistan was in on it? |
I seriously doubt it. You can’t trust those guys with information. They leak like sushi’s mum on a sex machine. |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by aNYthing
Faraj al-Libi. |
Hmmmmm.
Osama: It wasn't me, I have an al-Libi |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
I seriously doubt it. You can’t trust those guys with information. They leak like sushi’s mum on a sex machine. |
It's not impossible but it seems pretty outrageous that he was right under their noses |
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