Bin Laden is dead, official - Page 16

tater · 05-02-11, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

In our country maybe. In other countries, it can be expensive. As an example, i spent some time in central america. You can always tell the folks who have money from the folks that don't. The folks that didn't have money, made their houses (more like huts) out of wooden materials. The folks that did have money, made their houses out of cinderblock. You may not think a 12 by 10 foot cinderblock house to be expensive, but for that area... it was.

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is

).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

TLAM Strike · 05-02-11, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tater

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Visible, that's the point. OBL probably spent a million a year on bribes to the local ISI branch to STFU when the boys from Langley came around.

Jimbuna · 05-03-11, 04:29 AM

16 foot high, barbed-wired outer perimeter wall, 7ft high-walled balcony, 24/7 armed guards, all so he could go outside and not be seen. How pi$$ed off must Osama have been, when Google Earth began?

Blood_splat · 05-03-11, 05:58 AM

The birthers want Bin Ladens death certificate.

Gerald · 05-03-11, 06:02 AM

Ask Obama about it,

Alex · 05-03-11, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

I wonder about one thing. What credible authority that has no declared self-interest in the issue, has confirmed the identity of the dead body that was sunk at sea? Was it really Bin Laden who got killed in the raid? On the picture, nobody of us here would be able to identify, to recognise him - I did not. To me, that dead face is just the face of any dead man.

especially as this muhammad servant has been declared the worst enemy of the united states for so long, here's me wondering who on Earth thinks he got the sufficient authority to throw this pile of flesh overboard instead of bringing it into some fridge back to New York on ground zero, or just to take a lot of pics of that dead guy with mr Obama playing the poseur in front of the white house showing his 32 teeth smile next to Usama or something.

In other words. Whereas politics in the united states of America always take every opportunity to make it all look like everyone lives in an Hollywood movie, this time someone (that no one knows or will ever hear of once again) thinks it's better to throw the corpse of the united states's #1 enemy overboard, instead of bringing it back to the US and then to decide there what to do with Usama's body. Just as if setting it on fire wasn't possible on your soil, lol !

It doesn't look like a movie enough, me thinks. United states's propaganda can't take any advantage of the situation actually - or does showing your president pacing up and down a corridor for 10 meters and saying a few words is sufficient for the united states's people to go shouting "USA - USA - USA - USA - USA - USA - USA - USA - USA" in the streets for one whole night ?

It just looked so caricatural overall that it made me think about independence day (the movie).

Torplexed · 05-03-11, 07:24 AM

You'll never win with the conspiracy theory crowd. If you have the body it's a fake, a body double. I can't see it publicly so automatically all pictures are Photoshop. Either that you're a latter day Imperial Rome for parading the body around like a war prize, and offending all Islam for delaying a proper burial. If you bury it, it's a cover-up, of course.

There's a point where pleasing the tinfoil hat brigade is not a priority. I'm glad they handled the way they did.

Alex · 05-03-11, 07:31 AM

Do you mean Photoshop is responsible for the throwing of Usama overboard ?

LOL.

I agree with you in some way : it happened that we got to hear about body doubles and all that. But going back to your country with NO PROOF of what you've done, is that better than bringing the supposed body of Usama back home ?

Now YOU're getting caricatural, Torplexed (with all due respect of course).

August · 05-03-11, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tater

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is

).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Sounds like Osama should have hired you as his general contractor Tater! Maybe you could start a business. "Cheap Lairs for Frugal Fugitives (CLFF).

Armistead · 05-03-11, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by tater

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is

).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Well, is in an expensive hood for many past government and military officials. I'm sure many other items were worked into the cost of the house, playstation, large screen TV's, services by ho's, probably a few cars,...you know how they have to play with the money.

tater · 05-03-11, 08:29 AM

I'm just surprised real estate is so expensive someplace I consider to be a sh*thole.

Regardless, the house was neither a mansion, nor "luxurious."

Maybe land is really expensive 800 yards from their military academy.

Armistead · 05-03-11, 09:01 AM

I finally just looked at it.. Damn, must be New York land prices there. I could build that here in America for less than a mil.

Biggles · 05-03-11, 09:13 AM

So a real estate ripped Osama off, serves him right!

August · 05-03-11, 09:24 AM

Who came up with the 1 million figure? Is it based at all on actual cost or is it more like a "million dollar haircut"?

TLAM Strike · 05-03-11, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by August

Who came up with the 1 million figure?

05-03-11, 04:29 AM	#228
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,615 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	16 foot high, barbed-wired outer perimeter wall, 7ft high-walled balcony, 24/7 armed guards, all so he could go outside and not be seen. How pi$$ed off must Osama have been, when Google Earth began? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Ask Obama about it, __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

05-03-11, 07:24 AM	#232
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	You'll never win with the conspiracy theory crowd. If you have the body it's a fake, a body double. I can't see it publicly so automatically all pictures are Photoshop. Either that you're a latter day Imperial Rome for parading the body around like a war prize, and offending all Islam for delaying a proper burial. If you bury it, it's a cover-up, of course. There's a point where pleasing the tinfoil hat brigade is not a priority. I'm glad they handled the way they did. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

05-03-11, 07:31 AM	#233
Alex Dominant Wolf Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,143 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Do you mean Photoshop is responsible for the throwing of Usama overboard ? LOL. I agree with you in some way : it happened that we got to hear about body doubles and all that. But going back to your country with NO PROOF of what you've done, is that better than bringing the supposed body of Usama back home ? Now YOU're getting caricatural, Torplexed (with all due respect of course). __________________

05-03-11, 08:29 AM	#236
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	I'm just surprised real estate is so expensive someplace I consider to be a shthole. Regardless, the house was neither a mansion, nor "luxurious." Maybe land is really expensive 800 yards from their military academy. __________________ "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine Last edited by tater; 05-03-11 at 08:41 AM.*

05-03-11, 05:58 AM	#229
Blood_splat Samurai Navy Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Beneath the waves Posts: 568 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	The birthers want Bin Ladens death certificate.

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Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	I finally just looked at it.. Damn, must be New York land prices there. I could build that here in America for less than a mil.

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Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	So a real estate ripped Osama off, serves him right! __________________

05-03-11, 09:24 AM	#239
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Who came up with the 1 million figure? Is it based at all on actual cost or is it more like a "million dollar haircut"? __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.