And nobody has called to show him mercy.

Hi all i am back.According to some Arab s commentswhich i have read .Osama had been dead rather than been killed by Americans.They said that Americans are not stupid to kill  without interrogating him and getting information out  of him.They do not believe that his body is thrown into the sea . What do u think

I think he is on the bottom of the ocean feeding the fish.

The SEALS were in the compound for 40 minutes and gathered up everything useful.   There was not much more to be gained from OBL personally.  He was unlikely to say anything and the US administration no longer has the stomach for the enhanced interrogation techniques required.

On the other hand, how do you REALLY know he was buried at sea?  For all you know, he may well be in a secret cell somewhere in Alaska being interrogated by Sarah Palin.  Hmmmm.

If the American  story is true , this is a good news and positive strides towards peace.Killing innocents are an  unacceptable and inhumane act.

Henry _hart  as a Muslim who believes that God is just.He calls for saying the truth against my self, my parents.I will  never accept or agree that no man  on the basis of his belief, sex and race  should   be scared, terrorised , being mocked .We should  treat others with respect .Forgive who wrongs you, give who deprives you, and visit who abandons you. This what i believe in.

Scholars never agree with osama way because one should not go against his rulers, moreover, fighting should be with their consents.

Henry hart

The evidence that muslims do not agree with Qaida s killing of innocent civilians is the revolution that takes place in the Arab world.None of the protestors have raised arms against their rulers.They call for economic , social and political  reforms peacefully.They voice their disapproval of corruption and injustice either by carrying banners or just by saying  to their officials. leave u office or go away.

I tend to agree. If a person wrongs me, I strive to forgive them. However, I would never presume to tell others how they should react. I would never presume, for instance, to tell a spouse or child or family member of a victim of Osama bin Laden and his murderous organization how they should respond to the well-executed military operation that ended in OBL's killing.

I find it curious that the posters I mentioned on this thread have little or no  empathy for bin Laden's victims, both past and future, and yet so much concern for the niceties accorded (or not) to a mass murderer and terrorist. Visceral hatred for the U.S., its citizens and, in particular, its troops battling terrorists around the world (as well as concurrent tolerance for, if not outright support of, terrorism) is concealed behind their hypocritical mewling for "justice" and respect for Muslim burial rituals -- as if bin Laden was worthy of, or ever showed concern for, such things for the thousands he killed.

This type of vile hatred is hardly new, of course. What's somewhat aggravating is the refusal of said posters to acknowledge it. In feigning higher motivations, they show themselves to be deceitful and insult the intelligence of the rest of us, who plainly see their venom for what it is.

You're clearly a kind man, Mike. Persistence is a nice word. My sense of eric is that he is an idiot savant. Unfortunately for him, and us, his genius skill does not seem to be amazing musical talent or the ability to instantaneously perform complex mathematical calculations, but rather his astounding ability to contort himself into moral dilemmas,  amazing feats of mental gymnastics that allow him to support terrorists and disavow democratic freedoms, and the rather mundane and annoying ability to post the same things over and over again. In this last capacity, he calls to mind Dustin Hoffman’s “Rainman” character and his continued cries to be allowed to drive the car slow in the driveway.

Fatalities in Iraq have driven terror statistics since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, effectively distorting global figures.

Er, “distorting” figures? Why don’t Iraqis count? What would you say if someone else says fatalities in public transport in industrialised countries only distort the figures?

This is not fantasy; this is reality.  The battlespace has been defined by the terrorists initiating the attack as you acknowledge yourself by using 9/11 and 7/7 as examples

You are fantasising. All terrorism Bin Laden ever was accused of happened far earlier than these two attacks, which you call “initiating”. And far earlier than the invention of the “wot” by the Bush administration. But much later than US American and European installing of dictatorships in the Arab world.

Would it be helpful if I post some links on asymmetric warfare for you to better understand? 

News from my cat: it happily chased what it considered a fly, and was stung by the bee. That’s asymmetric warfare.

All terrorism Bin Laden ever was accused of happened far earlier than these two attacks,

No.  That is what he was indicted for, not the some total of what he is accused of doing or even what he has admitted doing, which is far more. 

Er, “distorting” figures? Why don’t Iraqis count? What would you say if someone else says fatalities in public transport in industrialised countries only distort the figures?

It's a distortion because a surge of terror fatalities in an individual country cannot be generalized into a global conclusion about a rise in terrorism, especially if the sample country is embroiled in guerilla warfare.

For instance, if there is a 1000% increase in public transport fatalities in the UK because of defective buses, it would be fallacious to generalize to a larger population and infer an increased worldwide problem in public transport, unless they are perhaps all buying the same brand of UK buses.

Statistics never tell the whole story.  You have to be able to critically interpret them (sample size, relevance, representative, etc.) before making generalized conclusions of trends or causality.  It's pretty basic stuff.

News from my dog.  She just returned from Frankfurt where she killed your cat and dropped a turd on your living room floor.  That's asymmetric warfare.

the sample country is embroiled in guerilla warfare

Quite coincidentally you mean, and without connection to your war, I suppose. To remind you, you disputed that it was your wars and the abolition of lawfulness which created and increased terrorism.

Statistics never tell the whole story.  You have to be able to critically interpret them

It’s my turn now to show some restraint in my reply.

No.  That is what he was indicted for, not the some total of what he is accused of doing or even what he has admitted doing, which is far more

What he bragged about would have been a reason for an investigation, but bragging is no evidence. You say he was accused of more crimes than the FBI wanted him for. By whom?

I note that you are incapable of training your dog properly. Lucky that neither my cat nor my living room are in Frankfurt.

Quite coincidentally you mean, and without connection to your war, I suppose. To remind you, you disputed that it was your wars and the abolition of lawfulness which created and increased terrorism.

To remind you, this was about proving an assertion of increased global terrorism and the fact that a localized sample cannot be generalized into a  global conclusion.  All the rest of your reponse is typical chaff.

What he bragged about would have been a reason for an investigation, but bragging is no evidence.

It was not bragging; it was claiming responsibility.  Admission of responsibility is indeed evidence. 

Lucky that neither my cat nor my living room are in Frankfurt.

Neither apparently is your intellect.  My dog is exceptionally well trained since she did exactly as I ordered, including the steaming deposit on your living room floor.  If a terrorist or my dog attacks in your home, then your living room is the battlespace whether you like it or agree with it or not.  You do not control the terrorist or canine tactics, weapons, or motive.  You can deter, detect, defend and destroy or you can be destroyed.  Your choice.

Likewise, since I am gving orders to my dog and have publically accepted responsibility for the attack (AKA, "evidence of responsibility"), I have no choice but to accept that you may choose to bring the fight back to me in a retalitory strike.

My guess is that it's more likely you would start a new self-pitying thread and appeal to the UN.

What he bragged about would have been a reason for an investigation, but bragging is no evidence. You say he was accused of more crimes than the FBI wanted him for. By whom?

Are you really that obtuse? 

The primary responsibility falls upon the hijackers. As the media covered the 9/11 attacks unfolding, many quickly speculated that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks.[20] On the day of the attacks, the National Security Agency intercepted communications that pointed to Osama bin Laden,[21] as did German intelligence agencies.[22] This helped rule out other immediate suspects, such as Croatian nationalists, who had bombed Grand Central Terminal on September 11, 1976.[23]

Authorities in the United States and Britain also obtained electronic intercepts, including telephone conversations and electronic bank transfers, which indicate that Mohammed Atef, a bin Laden deputy, was a key figure in the planning of the 9/11 attacks. Intercepts were also obtained that revealed conversations that took place days before September 11 between bin Laden and an associate in Pakistan. In those conversations, the two referred to "an incident that would take place in America on, or around, September 11" and they discussed potential repercussions. In another conversation with an associate in Afghanistan, bin Laden discussed the "scale and effects of a forthcoming operation." These conversations did not specifically mention the World Trade Center or Pentagon, or other specifics.[24]

The investigators were quickly able to link the 19 men to the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, also by accessing material in their intelligence agency files. The New York Times reported on September 12 that: "Authorities said they had also identified accomplices in several cities who had helped plan and execute Tuesday’s attacks. Officials said they knew who these people were and important biographical details about many of them. They prepared biographies of each identified member of the hijack teams, and began tracing the recent movements of the men." FBI agents in Florida investigating the hijackers quickly "descended on flight schools, neighborhoods and restaurants in pursuit of leads." At one flight school, "students said investigators were there within hours of Tuesday’s attacks."[25] The Washington Post later reported that "In the hours after Tuesday’s bombings, investigators searched their files on [Satam] al-Suqami and [Ahmed] al-Ghamdi, noted the pair’s ties to [Nabil] al-Marabh and launched a hunt for him."[26]

Based on the evidence, authorities in the United States quickly asserted that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization were solely responsible for the attacks, and other suspects were ruled out. The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion.[27] Although he denied the attacks at first, Osama bin Laden has since claimed full responsibility.

OBL was wanted for other crimes, not for 9/11.

"Wanted" can mean more than a criminal court context.  You just refuse to acknowledge that reality because you disagree with it.  Hmmm...new animal...the Momostrich? 

I would have been very curious to hear the truth in his trial.

Me too, but I'm content with the second best option we received.