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tommyrot - May 02, 2011 5:48:32 am PDT #6447 of 30001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So it looks like Pakistan did not in fact give him up, but rather obstructed U.S. efforts to get him. The U.S. did not even tell Pakistani officials about the raid beforehand.

Not surprising. Bin Laden was living in a fortified mansion in the middle of a bunch of Pakistani security.

eta: Not surprising x-post....

Amy - May 02, 2011 5:48:46 am PDT #6448 of 30001

Because books.

Tom, my ex-Navy dad says never to calling a Navy man "soldier." Actually, what he said was, "Sure, if he wants to get hit."

tommyrot - May 02, 2011 5:50:56 am PDT #6449 of 30001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Artist's depiction of what the raid looked like: [link]

Jessica - May 02, 2011 5:51:13 am PDT #6450 of 30001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The internet feels so quiet this morning after last night.

le nubian - May 02, 2011 5:54:16 am PDT #6451 of 30001

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Pakistan claims no knowledge of OBL's whereabouts.

tommyrot - May 02, 2011 5:54:28 am PDT #6452 of 30001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The internet feels so quiet this morning after last night.

I know. Plus I'm waiting impatiently for wacky Republican reactions.

Barb - May 02, 2011 5:57:04 am PDT #6453 of 30001

“Not dead yet!”

I know. Plus I'm waiting impatiently for wacky Republican reactions.

My favorite so far has been on FB where someone is claiming that not all GOP are conspiracy theorists but that Obama is running the country into the ground and hates the military.

buzzah?

erikaj - May 02, 2011 5:59:42 am PDT #6454 of 30001

"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

What? Somebody *snorted* the WMD.

Theodosia - May 02, 2011 6:00:49 am PDT #6455 of 30001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

According to ABC News, a Pakistani military training academy was about a thousand feet away from the compound....

amyth - May 02, 2011 6:02:38 am PDT #6456 of 30001

And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Pakistan claims no knowledge of OBL's whereabouts.

Oh, Pakistan!

I know. Plus I'm waiting impatiently for wacky Republican reactions.

The comments on the online version of one of our local news stations are so foaming-at-the-mouth insane that I can't even. I knew it would be like that, and yet I went and looked anyway. I guess I had to make sure it would be as bad as I thought. Sometimes I never want to leave my town. It's scary out there.

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