Quite the opposite
Watch out for further invasions of privacy in the name of keeping you safe - "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", right?

Interesting that we haven't heard from OBL for seven years, and now he's "killed" just as the election year looms.

Fishier than your mum's knickers, I'd say.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 May 2011, 10:45, 4 replies)

You're right.
Aside from warning France of a high price to be paid for its policies in January this year, multiple recordings threatening the murder of Americans and several other nations last year, and many more the year before that, we haven't heard from him AT ALL.

Still, am holding out judgement until evidence is released. I'm not expecting a death certificate or anything, but something independent would be nice.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Mon 2 May 2011, 12:29, closed)

Goos luck with the confirmation from independant sources.
They've already dumped the body they allege is him in the sea. You know, so that they can prove beyond all reasonable doubt to the world at large that it was him, with extensive independent DNA testing, fingerprinting and the like.
I'm not one of those who thinks he's been dead for years or anything but the USians did themselves no favours with this one and with their track record of deceit I don't think anyone can say that OBL is dead.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 2 May 2011, 16:36, closed)

I would have thought that the squad that shot him can say without hesitation that he is dead.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 2 May 2011, 18:58, closed)

I didn't realise they sent in his dentist, his brother and a fingerprint expert.
Was good that they sent in a few French experts too and some Danes.
Or, perhaps, they just sent in people who are paid to kill for the US and say what they're told?
Heck, this isn't any kind of tinfoil hat or the like but just basic scepticism -- if Manchester United told you they'd beaten Newcastle but the only people there were the teams and Newcastle weren't available for comment, would you believe them?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 2 May 2011, 21:23, closed)

So why did they wait ten years before deciding to lie about finding and killing him?

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 2 May 2011, 21:41, closed)

No idea, and it is odd.
But they seem to have gone to great lengths to make sure that nobody can prove they killed him -- which is even odder.
They didn't have to hand the body over to Al Jazeera so they could, rightly or wrongly, start questioning whether it really was him -- but to not even give it to a more neutral ally for complete analysis just makes them either liars or incompetent. Either way I'm not sure why anyone would take their word for it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 2 May 2011, 22:33, closed)

I'm not one for conspiracy theories and the tin-foil-hat brigade....
But I guess the most I could believe is that he died of natural causes at some point and intelligence has only just been able to confirm it for certain - but as that seems a bit anti-climatic they've had to stage a raid and quickly "dispose" of the body to maintain an air of "AMERICA... FUCK YEAH!!!!" about it and somehow justify the thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Not saying I do believe that, but if there were a conspiracy, I doubt it would be any more sinister than that.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Mon 2 May 2011, 23:54, closed)

There was a piece in Saturdays paper all about the hunt for OBL in the Torra Bora mountains, after 9/11. By coincidence he's found and killed 2 days later.

I tgought it was May Bank Holiday not Osama Weekend.
(jono_h, Mon 2 May 2011, 13:50, closed)

Yeah, because nobody had mentioned him for YEARS before that.

( Zuowan, Mon 2 May 2011, 16:49, closed)

Even spookier I watched Four Lions last night and there was a scene in it where the protagonists accidentally blew up Osama. Spooooooky stuff!
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Tue 3 May 2011, 0:44, closed)

Oh wow, not even half a day before the tin foil hat brigade come out.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 2 May 2011, 14:33, closed)

FFS.

( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 2 May 2011, 15:34, closed)