Pakistanis Stunned and Angered at News of Osama’s Death
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 2, 2011, 5:11 AM
People buy newspapers reporting the killing of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, at local newspaper printing press in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, May 2, 2011. (VOA)
Pakistanis are stunned by the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. Many are angered at the US operation inside the Pakistani border.
VOA reported:
While much of the reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden has been celebratory, the feeling is very different in the country where U.S. forces found and killed the terrorist leader.
In Pakistan, the mood is not jubilant. Rather, there is a sense of stunned silence.
In a carefully worded release from the foreign minister, the Pakistani government acknowledged that a U.S. team conducted the operation inside Pakistani territory. It did not say what role Pakistan took in that operation.
On Pakistani media, the bin Laden killing is occupying all the time, mostly with reaction from pundits and former government members.
From some quarters, there is anger at the United States conducting a mission inside Pakistan.
Pakistan army soldiers rest near the house where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of people, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP /Anjum Naveed)
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 31 Comments
vagabond trader commented:
“Unexpected” riots to commence shortly.
Danielle Hollars commented:
I say let them be angry. It’s obvious they could’ve cared less about what happened to us on 9/11/01, by hiding Bin Laden for so long. Screw the Pakistani government, and any other group or organization that thinks we will back down from a fight. Thank you to our Special Forces, and God Bless America!
arnonerik commented:
There is no mention in the media about OUR anger at the Pakistan Government that had harbored and protected this terrorist mastermind for years while taking our financial aid.
Also no mention of our anger with those Pakistan people (the majority) who rejoice whern Americans die, and who support Islamic terrorism against the infidel (that’s us folks).
wheezer commented:
I coud care less how upset the Pakistanis think. My best to the Navy seal team for taking care of business. Chalk one up for the good guys…
wheezer commented:
I coud care less how upset the Pakistanis are. My best to the Navy seal team for taking care of business. Chalk one up for the good guys…
Mueller commented:
OK.
His 15 minutes are up.
Lets get the rest of them.
daryl commented:
But where is the body?
Will obama have a taxidermist mount it and keep it as his trophy?
Arch commented:
Glad Osama is now fish food. We should think for a moment. Our forces in Afghanistan depend for resupply on a 1,500 mile land route through what middle eastern country? Pakistan.
Ginger commented:
Do not take your eye off the ball… Pay attention to what the kenyan fraud is doing behind closed doors.
Did I hear it right that the kenyan fraud and his buddies knew where OBL was way back in July/August? If true why did it take so long to take the killer down?
donh commented:
People in NYC and Chicago…Don’t take any taxi cabs that have a Pakistani driver.
TiminPhx commented:
As we said in the Marines, “F Em and Feed Em Fisheads.”
John commented:
Enjoy your moment of stunned silence, now wait for us to cut off your aid.
RedBeard commented:
Pakistanis stunned and angered? OH, NO!!!! Whatever shall we do to fix this horrible situation? Hey, I know; everybody gather ’round for a chorus of Kumbaya.
And then let’s go kill the rest of al-Qaeda, including all the others that Pakistan has been harboring.
Betsy Ross commented:
What is stunning to me is that Osama was killed a week ago. Did King Barry REALLY have to wait until Donald Trump’s show The Apprentice was on the air to make the announcement that he was going to make an announcement? King Barry totally did that on purpose. I mean, really? Why at that hour? They knew for a week. It wasn’t like it had just happened. Why not make the announcement at a normal, decent hour instead of, just by happenstance, it was during The Donald’s show. King Barry is, truly, a troubled and petty man.
backhoe commented:
Let ‘em Seethe all they want to- I want our money back.
Ben commented:
We have been saying this all along. Bin Laden was a guest of the Pakistani government. He was a prized asset. As long as he lived, the Pakis knew that they could wring billions of dollars from us. Their ISI was behind 9/11 in the first place!
They got a taste of American largesse during the Soviet era when billions of taxpayer money was poured into ISI coffers, ostensibly to fight the soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
With the withdrawal of and collapse of the Soviet Union, this flood of money ceased much to the dismay of the Paki establishment who had gotten used to the lifestyle of the rich and famous!
9/11 was their solution to turn the tap back on.
Ever since they have been laughing all the way to the bank.
Cut the aid off and leave the miserable bastards to their own devises. China will fill the vacuum left by us. The only difference will be that they will be tough taskmasters and will whip the Pakis into shape!
Andreas K. commented:
Many are also angered that the “Great Satan” killed Osama, but no media outlet would ever dare to post this.
Nothing will change. Another maniac will take over. A new organisation will be born. The jihadis won’t stop their war on civilsation because Osama is dead.
Osama was just a sympton of the cancer called islam.
Andreas K. commented:
BTW, I’m pretty sure the Pakis knew about Osama being there. Mohammedans stick together against the “Great Satan” and the “evil joooooos” ™
Look how frantic they are.
american patriot commented:
OBL dead, MSM, Muslim world saddened,
Heartless Tea Partiers Hand Out Candy Times Square,
Dark Clouds Loom in Mid East,
akw commented:
F uck Pakistan. They knew where he was, and they protected him. I hope they never get another dime from us.
Conservative Ken commented:
We only have 1 real friend in the middle east, only 1. It aint Pakistan
jonnot commented:
According to an item posted at Drudge, Pakistani Intelligence was also involved in the raid and, at this moment, it is unclear whether it was US or Pakistani bullets that actually killed bin-Laden. Naturally, our barry-in-chief is out there hogging all of the credit: “…I was responsible for organizing this operation”. What a piece of crap he is. Being the cynic that I am, I was just wondering if this whole “op” was put in place to give Panetta some credibility before taking over the Defense Department–he certainly didn’t have a stellar record at the CIA. This gives him some gravitas as he goes to the D of D.
rabblerouser commented:
Dear Pakistanis, we have an old saying here in the U.S., “what goes around comes around”. Now bend over cause its here.
Capn Angus commented:
@ Ben 17
–”Bin Laden was a guest of the Pakistani government. He was a prized asset. As long as he lived, the Pakis knew that they could wring billions of dollars from us.”–
Yup he was a Cash Cow for the Pakistani’s & now we learn that Abbottabad is where the Elite live in retirement. The Paaahkistani’s has a lot of splainin to do.
They are not our allies. They are responsible for the creation of the Taliban & are duplicitous in 9/11 as bin-laden…
We should now demand they repay several billion dollars in aid.
As compensation for harboring OBL.
Arch commented:
Red Beard,
Don’t be so down on the Kumbaya people. Back in 1960s, I was a big fan of Joan Baez (the Kumbaya lady herself). Saw her live in Newport RI in 1960. She was sitting under a tree singing beside the Viking Hotel where I worked. The next year, I was a freshman at Oklahoma walking down Asp street. The stereo/record shop had her black and white album in the window. Without ever hearing it, I bought it.
In 1968, I was in USAF Nav School. We and our neighbors had two year olds and we all became friends. Fred and I both went to F4s and kept in touch via Christmas cards. They went to Seymour Johnson AFB NC and we were sent to Homestead AFB FL. In 1971, I finally got the USAF to send me to Vietnam. In the spring of 1972, the war heated up and Seymour deployed into Thailand. I was shot down in April but got rescued. Fred went down way up north and was carried as missing in action.
Joan Baez was a true pacifist, not an anti-American like Jane Fonda or Ramsey Clarke. Her father was a PhD nuclear physicist from Brazil who declined to work on the bomb. She followed in that path.
When Baez was touring POW camps in Hanoi, she and her aides memorized about a hundred names of guys who were not listed. They were afraid that if they wrote the names down and were discovered, the NVA guards might take it out on the guys. This was a big deal, because if you were not listed, they could just kill you and no one would know.
When Baez came home, she went directly to the Pentagon and debriefed them. Shortly afterward, Fred’s name came out on the POW list. Later, Baez was in Cambodia and was shocked at what Pol Pot was doing. She came home and told Fonda et al and was promptly thrown under to bus.
Fred went to pilot training and now flies for NorthWest.
Betsy Ross commented:
#27 Arch:
Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you to you and Fred for serving our country.
God Bless you both.
martha commented:
The Palestinains danced and celebrated in the streets on 9/11, so if the Muzzies are pissed now, oh well!
waicool commented:
does this make Obama a war criminal?
RedBeard commented:
Ditto to what Betsy Ross just posted.
John commented:
Baez also spoke out against the genocide in Cambodia and the actions of Vietnam following the fall of Saigon in 1975, where others like Fonda couldn’t give a damn about the aftermath until Sydney Schanberg’s stories became grounds for the movie “The Killing Fields”, by which time 2 million-plus people were dead.
Dumping bin Laden’s body was an either/or situation. Keep it around and the Saudis or some other Islamic government demands the U.S. turn the body over for a “proper” Muslim funeral, and that site becomes the high holy shrine of world Islamic terrorism. Dump it at sea and the inevitable “it’s a hoax/bin Laden’s still alive” stories are bound to start sprouting up. But I’d rather deal with those than the other option year after year. May Day’s already anti-American enough.
Panamajoe7444 commented:
Thank you PRESIDENT OBAMA for getting the job done!!
chuck in st paul commented:
The Puke-istanis should go pack sand. They’ve been playing us all along. Now it’s time to kick them to the curb and then attack Waziristan full out. All this tap dancing has got to stop. We did the same crap in Korea and Vietnam – don’t cross the border to chase down the bad guys killing our guys. You might piss off the neighbors. Well screw the neighbors and the goat they rode in on.
As for the one week delay… perhaps the raid yielded some really good intel and we needed time to parse it and use it. But then, is there anyone on the other side who wouldn’t know we took down OBL five minutes after the shooting stopped? Very, very odd.
Capn Angus commented:
To dispel the hoax narrative, the Seals will take teeth & not just hair strands. Anyone can grab a few strands of hair, Having DNA from teeth is proof positive that we gotcha.
To Paraphrase FEDEX
The Navy Seal when it absolutely positively has to get put down on sight…
chuck in st paul commented:
@32 John, we should have brought the body back to America, publicly defiled it, and posted the video on You Tube. Then it should have been reduced with acid in a tub of pig fat and flushed down the D.C. toilet system.
The exploding heads in towelhead land would have been a delight to see.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
It took so long to initiate this mission to kill him because it too a long time for the reconstructive surgery on his body-double to heal and to get the impersonator in place inside a home in Pakistan and get the real Bin Laden out of Pakistan and into Iran. Besides, it takes time to do all this and the Pakistani gov’t was involved because the body-double wasn’t a muslim. Then, Obama betrayed the impersonator and sent in SEALS to take him out so that Obama could take credit for having killed Bin Laden without pissing off the entire Muslim world. Muslims who are out publicly condemning this act simply don’t know that the real Bin Laden is still alive. The fact that the entire population of Pakistan is not in one big riot, killing every foreigner they get their hands on, and burning down everything in sight, proves the point. Everybody knows that if the real Bin Laden HAD BEEN KILLED, the US Embassy in Pakistan would be under siege and on fire.
MathGuy commented:
Right, Mahdi.
Now put your tin foil helmet back on; the Kashisti are approaching.
Sometimes we get it right. Deal with it.
Assama’s dealing with it right now; what a lovely little surprise he got.
couldashoulda commented:
there is anger at the United States conducting a mission inside Pakistan.
The Paks could have conducted it themselves…
JohnAGJ commented:
F-U to all of them. I don’t give a crap how pissed off they are – they’re damn lucky we don’t nuke the whole country in retaliation for their giving aid and comfort to our enemy.
Joanne commented:
Don’t buy ‘Made in Pakistan’ – screw the lot of them.
Prem commented:
Al-qaeda chief Osama chapter is over. Its time for Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Who is also roaming freely in Pakistan. Like Americans, each and every Indians want 26/11 master mind Saeed to be killed.
mojo commented:
“Yeah, I thought that might be your attitude. Rico! Vinnie! Help the judge find his check-book, will ya?”
– Caddyshack
shibumi commented:
Pakistan has never been our ally. They are just playing us to keep the $$$ flowing.
RE: this “incursion” into their nation, there will be huffing and puffing… and nothing will come of it. Except of course, the cash from the great satan will continue.
truthhurts commented:
there are thousands of us soldiers and military personals arround the world , almost in every country .. doing what ? picnic ? …… biggest terrorirst is the us .. WANT TO DOMINATE the whole world ,.. keep day dreaming …
silent_rage commented:
> Don’t buy ‘Made in Pakistan’ – screw the lot of them.
What about all of those nice rugs sold at Target?
mg4us commented:
Perhaps we should burn the Pakistan flag. . . for harboring a fugitive.
They should have blown bin Laden up. . then he would have truly been a “piece-full man”.
And if they pissed on his body, would that be classified as “water torture” even if he was dead???
Congrats to our brave Navy Seals that executed this operation with precision and determination and all those brave men and women who had a part in this operation.
And let’s give President Obama credit for following the plan that President George Bush and his team laid out and initiated. It is good that Obama followed Bush’s lead.
Would have been nice to hear a REAL American-loving President say,
“Let this be a lesson to those who hurt and terrorize Americans, you can run & you can hide, but in time, we will get you and you will loose!!”
Not, we will bury you according to islamic custom. . . BTW, isn’t he supposed to be be-headed under Sharia law for killing innocent people? Not shot in the head?
Now hopefully the “buried at sea” is a smoke screen and that the CIA has Osama LOCKED UP AND SPILLING ALL HE KNOWS. . .By whatever means necessary to get him to talk!!
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Gee, sometimes I think the Pakistanis aren’t our allies!
/Sarc.
Remember Mumbai!
Mike Roberts commented:
Bin hiding, Bin found, Bin dusted. Next lady for a shave?
Mike Roberts commented:
Hamas Leader Condemns Killing of Osama bin Laden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQegkevxLFA&feature=youtu.be
tommy mc donnell commented:
could our government take back all that money they have being giving to our ally(sic)and return it to the american people. our ally has been letting osama live inside their borders in luxury for years. the american citizen needs that money a hell of a lot more than the corrupt paskistani government officials.
Mike Hunt commented:
Bin Laden is food for sea worms and crabs. WIthin a week he’ll be excrement floating on the sea floor. The most useful thing he ever did.