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Bin Laden Reportedly Used His Own Wife as a Human Shield

Paul Constant
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Cowardly scumbag until the end.
Vince on May 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM Report this
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What a terrible person.
samktg on May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM Report this
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That, or our military recklessly killed a civilian woman during the raid and decided it would sell easier to the American public if they phrased it this way.

But, you know, that would require that the US military/government use disinformation to engineer public approval and opinion. Which we know they'd never do.

Tomorrow we'll find out that he had a micro penis and was caught red-handed molesting a goat, just to make sure the good/evil distinction was made clear enough.
TortoiseTurtle on May 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM Report this
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Where is Tampax with his, "Dan, do you support polygamy" comments?...this seems tailor made for him...
Canuck on May 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM Report this
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@3 totally. dude was a good guy. no way that could be true.
Cappelletti on May 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM Report this
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The whole story stinks. First of all, as most people have forgotton, Bin Laden was a CIA asset. Second, he was probably a patsy for the 9/11 false flag operation. Not even the FBI believes there's enough proof that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks, which is why they aren't mentioned on his profile for the FBI's 10 most wanted list. Third, he probably died a long time ago from kidney failure. Of course it doesn't really matter whether he died 10 years ago or last night. The warmongers will create more boogeymen to scare the masses and false flag attacks to pin on patsy boogeymen.
on May 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM Report this
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What Vince said.

Glad they took the shot.
Will in Seattle on May 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM Report this
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True faith is more important than mere mortal life, you guys! She gave her life for the greater glory of God and the prosecution of His jihad!

Ugh.

Also: Simmer down, Troofer. "False flag operation"? You do realize only unmedicated paranoids actually use that phrase, right?
balderdash on May 2, 2011 at 2:09 PM Report this
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The story isn't really clear whether he used her as a shield or if she was willingly acting as a shield. I doubt we could ever know. Whether it's even true doesn't matter. It's in our foreign policy best interest to make him look like a cowardly scumbag. I would tend to believe he is. He was always the leader sending others out to die for him so he didn't have to do it himself.
Root on May 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM Report this
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The rescue of Private Jessica Lynch. The death of Pat Tillman.

Of course those things happened fifty years ago. Our modern military never embellished the truth.
The Wretched Harmony on May 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM Report this
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@10 - All of which happened under a different administration. It matters who the CiC is.
Donolectic on May 2, 2011 at 2:36 PM Report this
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Seems like completely in-character behavior. Bin Laden was a Wahhabist Sunni fanatic. In his world view, women are barely human and exist only to pump out martyrs for the jihad.
Westside forever on May 2, 2011 at 3:24 PM Report this
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@6: I'm sorry, I didn't order the copypasta. Where's my Chicken Marsala?
venomlash on May 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM Report this
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I'm used to only reading such nutty conspiracy comments on right wing sites.
MikeB on May 2, 2011 at 5:10 PM Report this
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Oops. This just in from AP:
Bin Laden's wife, originally thought killed, was only wounded. Another woman was killed in the raid, along with one of bin Laden's sons, in the tense 40 minutes of fighting. She had not been used as a human shield as first thought.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on May 2, 2011 at 5:26 PM Report this
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Bygones.
Will in Seattle on May 2, 2011 at 6:13 PM Report this
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@11

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You people kill me sometimes.

Grow up, OK?
The Wretched Harmony on May 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM Report this
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Could be true. Or not. We'll never know.
Mahtli69 on May 2, 2011 at 7:37 PM Report this
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glad he got the personal treatment and not a bomb
Second Circle of Hello on May 2, 2011 at 7:38 PM Report this
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The White House said it. It must be true.
LJM on May 2, 2011 at 10:53 PM Report this
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Sorry, I meant to say that the Obama White House said it, so it must be true.
LJM on May 3, 2011 at 12:06 AM Report this
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He used one of the goats to protect himself? What does PETA have to say?
on May 3, 2011 at 6:27 AM Report this
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Aaaaaand it turns out that it's not true.
LJM on May 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM Report this
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Apparently the human shield report was a psyop attempt to demoralize any stray bin Laden loyalists. I wish they'd all just stick to the truth, especially in English language communications.

blogs voanews (.com) /breaking-news/2011/05/03/white-house-bin-laden-not-armed-when-killed/

Also a functional Al Queda has been mythical for years in order to justify regional intervention in the Mid-east. From a former CIA agent's blog:

noquarterusa. (net) /blog/2011/05/02/obama-vs-osama-thank-stan-mcchrystal/
"It is worth noting that no significant Al Qaeda directed attacks have occurred since 2005. The 2008 Mumbai attack was planned and carried out by Pakistan’s intelligence service, not by Bin Laden. At it’s height, just prior to the 9-11 attacks in 2001, Al Qaeda had at most 600 adherents and a majority of those were killed and/or captured in the subsequent October/November CIA offensive led by the CIA."

Let’s not forget that the media and the Congress have a Hollywood mentality. We need to know the name and identity of the villain. If we have a good villain we can rally the troops."

Wake up, people!
on May 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM Report this

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