Burial at sea? That was much too good for him: Leave it to the AP to bring on the downer news in its main story about bin Laden’s death. Look, we know his death isn’t going to have a huge effect on the current operations of al Qaeda. But boy, did it eff up al Qaeda’s morale. Ha! Your so-called invulnerable boss, who swore he would have his own men “martyr” him before being captured or killed by the U.S., was killed by a bullet to his head. Which was way too quick a way to die.
They won’t miss him in Kenya: They remember bin Laden in Kenya. With curses. And in Somalia with threats. Hokay. Next on the list, dudes. On the other hand, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is lying through its teeth again. He says there’s “no connection between Islam in violence.” In the previous breath, he predicted terrorist groups would take revenge for bin Laden’s death. But hey, no connection there. None at all.
Awesome way to make friends in America, dude: Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas—that same Hamas that kept getting those op-eds in major American newspapers touting its moderation and its insistence that deep down, Hamas wanted what Americans wanted—is condemning America for killing bin Laden. Yeah, they’ve totally moderated since they had to deal with taxes and garbage collection in Gaza. Not.
Seriously? Oil is cheaper because bin Laden is dead? Now that’s the second-best news about his death. And stock futures are up. Heh.
Headline roundup: WaPo. The Times. The Cable (timeline). The NY Post. The NY Daily News. Celebrations at Ground Zero and Jersey City. (Don’t forget, hundreds of New Jerseyans were murdered that day as well.) World leader reactions. Behind-the-scenes of the attack. What bin Laden’s death means to al Qaeda.
P.S.: My server is the subject of a DDOS. I have no idea who’s the target, as hundreds of websites share the server. I doubt it’s little old me.