That pretty much covers it for me. - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 02/05/2011 08:34:31 AM
The way that whole thing was handled just looked dirty and petty, and it was almost the representation of a failure of the US to adequately protect the legal process to keep it above the level of sectarian rivalries.
This, on the other hand, is just marvelous.
This, on the other hand, is just marvelous.
On both counts. I notice the current Wikipedia article says that in addition to him, one of his sons and two of his couriers, a woman was also killed when one of them tried to use her as a human shield. Of course I regret her death if she was an innocent bystander (as unlikely as that seems in the heart of his hideout) but, maybe I'm a vindictive bastard, but there's something very fitting to me about the prospect of the fearless mujahiddeen and implacable foe of Western decadence dying cowering behind a woman inside a multi-million dollar mansion in a foreign country. I also can't help remembering all the insistence that he wasn't in Pakistan; turns out he was hiding just outside of the capital, like pretty much everyone with a brain always knew. Best of all it seems like Al Qaeda threats to detonate a nuke hidden in Europe if bin Laden were ever captured or killed have been revealed as the empty boasts they were.