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Case for releasing photos of Osama’s End

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Among the many reasons, Jim Geraghty offers for releasing the photos of Osama bin Laden’s last moments in his round-up of blogger commentary on the topic is this his own:

They should remember him cowering behind his wife as the foe he was never prepared for — armed American soldier — closed in, and how his much-touted warrior skills failed him when faced with a real opponent, not unsuspecting civilians on planes or in subways or in skyscrapers.

FROM THE COMMENTS:  TnnsNe1 offers that the photos won’t show the terrorist cowering behind a woman:

“Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/05/03/brennan-and-the-bin-laden-story-bungle/

Comments

  1. You know, I have heard so much about the “Arab Street” and how you have to feed them honey and rose petals or they will go into hyper-spaz and tear the world apart with their teeth.

    It seems to me that if the Arab Street would all don their suicide vests and come running at the infidel, we could put a big dent in their jihad fairly quickly. One martyr blast of the suicide vest ought to set off a chain reaction of martyrs splaying in all directions and setting off more suicide vest wearing martyrs.

    So, let the Arab Street rise up and charge. I am growing weary of the threats uttered by conventional wisdom on the left. And, speaking of leftist common wisdom, hasn’t Obama just raised al Qaeda recruitment by 10,000 fold?

  2. According to Drudge, the pictures are going to be released. I’m glad Bin Laden is dead & showed himself to be coward he was when he used his wife as a shield from the US soldiers.

  3. The problem I see is having any death-mask pic released become yet-another Radical Islamofascist icon like the pics at Abu Ghraib became. This image became the face of our liberation of Iraq. We should not repeat that mistake with OBL. The same is true of his burial at sea. No matter how we present it, the iconographers and apologists will just portray it as the US Navy throwing his body overboard with the rest of the garbage.

  4. Call me a “deather” but the way Obama stands and lies repeatedly into a tv camera, are you really going tro believe a picture at this point?
    It would have been so easy to keep the body and let “deathers” examine it to eliminate any conspiricy theories going forward. Anyone can photo shop pics of UBL from 10 years ago. You can’t fake the live body. Buried at sea, I mean come on people!! Do you really think UBL would have NOT had any work done to mask his appearance these past 10 years?

  6. If Obama changes the story too many times, he’s going to lose what little political capital he has for the moment. Considering his poll ratings, this is nothing to brag about, although Obama thinks otherwise. Obama is like popped popcorn in the water: He shrivels since he cannot lead.

  9. Been trying to think of a cool catchphrase the SEAL could have used just before he plugged OBL. I am thinking, “Allah-u Ackbar, Asshole” would suffice. What do you got?

  13. Why did they bury him so quickly & at sea no less?

    Supposedly to keep with Muslim custom that one must be buried within 24 hours. I have to think that there was at least one Muslim in the WTC or Pentagon debris that didn’t get that consideration. The burial at sea was that there was not a grave that people could visit and have a physical connection nor build a shrine to the martyr. I get that. However, a secret burial location, I should think, would have sufficed.

  14. 4.Call me a “deather” but the way Obama stands and lies repeatedly into a tv camera, are you really going tro believe a picture at this point?

    It is interesting. Is Chairman Obama really so stupid as to fake this sort of thing? If the truth ever came out, he’d definitely have to step down for screwing with Americans so badly. Plus, he’d have the cloud that not even Bush did something like that hanging over his head for the rest of his life.

    I can see the arguements both ways, but I tend to think that he’s dead and I just don’t think Obama’s that stupid. But I could be wrong.

  15. Just pure speculation, but wouldn’t some of those magnificient SEALs have those high-tech cams attached to their helmets. . .wouldn’t that be a treat to have access to those digital images. Guess will have to wait until the ‘consipiracy folk’ push the envelope again. . .

  18. http://www.infowars.com/inside-sources-bin-ladens-corpse-has-been-on-ice-for-nearly-a-decade/

    Inside Sources: Bin Laden’s Corpse Has Been On Ice For Nearly a Decade

    Paul Joseph Watson
    Infowars.com
    May 2, 2011

    and then more. . .

    A multitude of different inside sources both publicly and privately, including one individual who personally worked with Bin Laden at one time, told us directly that Osama’s dead corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade and that his “death” would only be announced at the most politically expedient time. That time has now come with a years-old fake picture being presented as the only evidence of his alleged killing yesterday, while Bin Laden’s body has been hastily dumped into the sea to prevent anyone from finding out when he actually died.
    Among the prominent promulgators of this nonsense is GOProud backer Andrew Breitbart, whose Big Government site now features multiple death conspiracy posts. Breitbart says he’s not a “friggin’ deather,” he just wants to promote “open debate.” Uh huh. h/t jmg

  23. When Leon Klingoffer was shot by the PLA on a cruise ship and thrown overboard in his wheelchair, a sick joke went around about a new drink called the “Klingoffer” that was two shots and a splash.

    That drink would now be an Osama, would it not?

  25. #18
    I think it was a gift from Bush 43 that BHO could announce whenever he felt his poll ratings could use the boost. all these pols are cut from the same cloth.
    Like the OJ deniers ….”were you there? How do you know OJ killed her.”
    Show me the body.