Osama Bin Laden: Dead

[vinteuil]

Back in 2001, I advised the powers that be that on a simple arithmetical scale A=1, B=2......Z=26, O+S+A+M+A equals 49 and B+I+N+L+A+D+E+N equals 61.

If you add 49 to 61 you get 110. Separate those figures and you get a 1, a 1 and a 0. Then add to those the last digits of 49 and 61 - that's a 9 and a 1.

So you've got a 1, a 1, a 0, a 9 and a 1. Turn them around and that is 9/11/01. (US style).

Shortly afterwards, I had my door broken down in mysterious circumstances and I was asked out of the blue to join the Masons. Of course, I declined. Never try to be of any help here. It only ever goes against you.

lateral - I think if you wanted to get your numerology right you should have used the Arabic letters of his names rather than the approximate western transliteration of them, and you should have worked to a date in the Islamic (AH) calendar rather than the Christian (AD) calendar...

Just a thought, as Euda says...

[Mark Sealey]

Presumably - should Obama (directly responsible as commander in chief since his inauguration for the deaths of almost 2,000 children, women and men in drone attacks in Pakistan) ever be killed in an act of extrajudicial state terrorism (as was bin Laden) - you'll feel those who whoop and cheer have the same right to do so?

I think they can be allowed a little celebration

[Norfolk Born]

Apparently Sarah Palin is recording a new version of 'The Star Spangled Banner' in celebration. I'm sure it will prove to be an extraordinary rendition.

[Donnie Essen]

They buried him quick cuz he's a muslim and it's respectful. We don't get no vid, though, unlike what we had of ol' swinging Saddam, which is a shame, but he weren't so bad as that guy though, a wealthy idealist rather than a purely murderous asshat, so I don't know if I would get the same level of sweet satisfaction in watching it. Probably not.

I don't know about the whole faking thing. Why would Obama fake it and not Bush? What stopped them from faking it all those years ago?

It would have been a whole lot better had lots of people in those countries not been killed n' all, but for the sake of the man's direct victims and their families, it's been a good weekend.

[Lateralthinking1]

And here they are in 1972, the rabid anti-westerners who (a) had far money than I will ever have and (b) had close links with our lords and masters in ways that most would find it hard even to imagine.

[Flosshilde]

They buried him quick cuz he's a muslim and it's respectful.

I haven't noticed a great deal of respect towards Muslims on the part of the USA security forces up to now.

[Lateralthinking1]

Prince Charles -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1359311/Prince-plays-host-to-bin-Ladens-brother.html

[MrGongGong]

Nice to see how our allies are acting in accordance with international law and justice

and congratulations to the good old USA for showing the world that assassination is a perfectly legitimate and moral way to conduct foreign policy

isn't there an international court somewhere that's supposed to deal with these things ????

and we can all no sleep peacefully in our beds again then (well at least mr P will )

(NO ONE is suggesting that he was anything but a dangerous and criminal man BUT that's what we have the LAW for )

[Donnie Essen]

I haven't noticed a great deal of respect towards Muslims on the part of the USA security forces up to now.

They might wanna look respectful in this instance, for political reasons, to cause less of a wind-up about a figure that many look up to. Ain't suggestin' nothin' else.

[Lateralthinking1]

Please see my comments in number 72.

[vinteuil]

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I see lateral has removed his reference to James Hewitt in #70.

... or did he?

Or was it FF who deleted it, acting for her paymaster, the Duke of Edinburgh??

[Lateralthinking1]

I got my facts a bit mixed up. I removed it.

James Hewitt went to Millfield and is approximately the same age as Osama Bin Laden (was) but Osama didn't go to Millfield.

Salem Bin Laden, died 1988, was approximately the same age as Charles but while Salem did go to Millfield, Charles didn't.

Without question, there have been some similar paths and bear in mind that these are just the ones we have been told about, and the same is true as we know of the Bush family.

I am not saying that Charles's speeches about Islam over two decades are a bad thing. Far from it - anything to bridge the gaps. But you can't help thinking that there's always been something iffy about the presentation.

It seems to me that OBL was psychotic rather than religious - interestingly at least two of his relatives died in plane crashes. I don't think that is a coincidence psychologically.

And the money connections were the main factor here - this was a squabble, and at times agreement, among the elites about a family member "gone bad" with devastating consequences for many ordinary people.

[MrGongGong]

It does seem that the collective Witchell royal wedding lobotomy seems to have spread a bit
did I REALLY just hear Obama saying that the "world is a safer place " and "justice has been done" ?

In the past in parts of the USA "justice" was done by lynching
what's changed ?

[Lateralthinking1]

I will be interested to see if and how the wearing of the burka changes now. This has for many liberal-minded folk been something of a conundrum. On the one hand, you have the argument about the freedom of religious expression. On the other, there is the issue of the rights of women and whether in many cases it is freedom at all. France have taken the heavy-handed approach. I was surprised, frankly, that there wasn't more opposition to the legislation.

However - and here is where being of a certain age can be helpful - I have been saying for a long time that there were many muslims here decades ago and you never saw a burka. The wearing of it, while associated closely with the religion, has been more about fashion and political statement in the western world. Maybe now this will be a chance for people to choose to assimilate with the religion being able to be a religion without the need for defensive stances.

[Bryn]

Just in case -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...den-photo-fake

"The Daily Mail was one of the newspaper websites to publish the fake picture of Osama bin Laden's body."

Nothing new there then. The Daily Mail had always specialised in promoting fake documents and photographs, from the Zinoviev letter onwards.