Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NPR

U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan.

Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan, according to former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell.

It's believed he was killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. Predator drone sometime this year.

A senior U.S. counterterrorism official tells NPR that without a body to conduct DNA tests on, it's hard to be completely sure. But he characterized U.S. spy agencies as being "80 to 85 percent" certain that Saad bin Laden is dead.

The U.S. counterterrorism official says Saad bin Laden wasn't important enough to target personally — that he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time."


Read more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106903109&ft=1&f=1001

[snappyturtle]

1. No offense but isn't this a flimsy report? Sometime this year?

80-85% certainty....no reference to an eyewitness....??? Wishful thinking?

[missingfink]

9. What about his other son - the dim one?

Osama W. bin Laden

[snappyturtle]

10. Ha ha ha!

:rofl:

[Tab]

2. Well, was he involved?

Otherwise it's more like "revenge" killing - piss off Osama (whom I'm not even sure is still alive), and doesn't he have like 20 kids anyway? Not to make light of one dying.

If he was part of the actionable group, I have no problem with it. Just trying to figure out how to put it in perspective.

[tabasco]

3. As soon as we get his old man

we can go home.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I'll send the mini-muffin condolence basket as soon as I stop sobbing

That leaves what...299 surviving sons? Fuck 'em all. And daddy. Especially daddy.

[ret5hd]

5. What was his crimes(s)?

I don't know, just askin'.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Read the article

"He was active in al-Qaida"

so

FUCK HIM.

[xchrom]

6. you said pretty much how i feel about it. nt

[frog92969]

8. Was that his Liberal son?

The one that opposed everything Osama stood for?

If it was, would that make a difference?

[Taverner]

13. No he lives in the UK I think

I think his girlfriend is a supermodel - although he could do modeling himself

[snappyturtle]

11. Until there's proof, I won't believe it. Ol' Mika mouse reported this

on Morning Joe today. She slid through it really fast hoping, I think, we'll buy it. Maybe the "proof" is that he quit showing up in the chow line.

[sofa king]

12. And when was the last time the spies and the press were wrong?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4579885.stm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475588009&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/15/zarqawi.captured/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/08/iraq/main1692753.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/10/iraq/main1699100.shtml

Every single time, it would appear.