Osama bin Laden dead (Official)

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YESSS !!!

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Wow... this picture is just awesome:

Yeah, picture-of-the-year-worthy.

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Major media fail, especially in Germany ...

Steffen Seibert, press speaker of German Chancellor Merkel:



"Obama, responsible for the death of thousands of innocents, has derided fundamental values of Islam and all Religions."

www.spiegel.de:



"US Military buries Obama at sea."

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Austrian newspapers have released pictures of the killed people in the Osama house today.

I don't post them here, but below is the link.

Warning: The link below contains very graphic pictures !

http://www.news.at/articles/1118/13/296069/bin-laden-neue-vorwuerfe-us-soldaten

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Jonathan,

This is the piece I primarily had in mind in my previous post.

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,760151,00.html

Not surprising that it's Spiegel, actually. Comforting actually that it is from them.

Its polemics aside, I actually think that this SPIEGEL article makes some legitimate points. Nothing particularly "outragous" here.

Doesn't differ much from Helmut Schmidt's remarks on Beckmann this week regarding his "mixed feelings" on Bin Laden's death... and this guy actually has first-hand experience when it comes to ordering the killing of Muslim terrorists, so to speak. The more his argument carried weight, I guess. Footage of Angela Merkel's "anouncement of joy" was also used as the opener on Harald Schmidt yesterday. When something starts to get satirized you know that there's something inherently wrong about it.

I agree however that the kind of reporting on that sensationalist Austrian news site Tender Branson posted earlier here is inappropriate and tasteless. "New allegations against U.S. soldiers" is also an "odd" way to put it since I don't remember hearing any real allegations against the SEAL team so far.

The article by "News" merely quoted 2 Pakistani security officials who went into the house after the raid and talked with the survivors.

Basically we'll never know what really happened in this house, you can either believe the American story that Bin Laden and his bodyguards/family members made moves to grab a gun and therefore threatened the SEALS and therefore they killed him like in a police operation, or you can believe the story of the Pakistani security guys who talked with the survivors from inside the house who said that the Bin Ladens were asleep and had no time to defend themselves when the American Liquidation Commando entered the building within a few seconds and eradicated them without making any moves to capture them, but just kill them out of revenge.

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LOL !?

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German Newscast Confuses 'Star Trek' Terrorists With Navy SEALs



The news just boldly went ... somewhere it probably shouldn't have gone.

A German newscaster must be wishing his colleagues would beam him up after TV channel N24 accidentally displayed the logo for a 24th century terrorist group depicted on the TV show "Star Trek" -- rather than the real world Navy SEAL team that took out Usama bin Laden.

The news team intended to show the logo for SEAL Team Six, the special ops team that ultimately killed the notorious chieftan of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. Instead, it accidentally used a fan-made logo for the Maquis, an anti-Cardassian rebel group that originally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, reported fan site TrekMovie.com.

The newscaster, identified as Mick Locher, even commented on the emblem, pointing out that "they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing."

Locher didn’t seem to notice that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, Klingon sword and the word "Maquis" (a French resistance guerrilla group that inspired the name), the site reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/11/german-tv-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-bin-laden/

BTW: N24 isn't even a joke TV station, but comparable with Bloomberg in Germany.