US: bin Laden death ups terror risk for Americans AP

[choie]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says Osama bin Laden's death has raised the risk of anti-American violence worldwide.

The State Department said in a global travel warning Tuesday that Americans should take precaution and maintain vigilance about terrorist threats, demonstrations and the possibility of violence against U.S. citizens.

It said al-Qaida and other groups are planning terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/us-bin-laden-death-ups-terror-risk-americans-173547030.html

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Ain't this a kick in the head - where are the color coded warnings when they need them?

[slackmaster]

1. This image always comes to mind when I read a piece like that...

[closeupready]

5. That's just a flesh wound.

LOL :rofl:

[FiveGoodMen]

2. The same admin that crowed about killing him says that now we're in more danger?

Did they just not think it through, or are they playing a different game than they're supposed to be?

[Doctor Hurt]

8. don't be ridiculous.

just try, hard, pls?

[bongbong]

3. The MIC

Although not killing OBL would've kept us unsafe, it looks like killing him made us even more unsafe! Damned if you do, damned if you don't! We gotta become slaves & homeless starving rats to be safe in the Brave New World.

The only entity safe from terrorists are the wallets of the MIC executives.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Still, it WOULD be a nice distraction from the economic crisis, now, wouldn't it?

What do you wanna bet............

[Igel]

22. It's a fairly common state of affairs.

Old fashioned, of course, but still common here and there.

It's why genocide used to be the goal of warfare, and in areas with lots of small tribal groups was frequently carried out. You go in, kill all the men, and take the women for your own. Their tribe is gone, they adapt.

Genocide was the solution to the kinds of long-term, intermittent wars that would occur. It was a zero sum game: As long as one tribe thought it could fight to regain something, usually intangible, it would. The 80-year fight would yield more bodies than genocide. If you can't have peace, genocide might be the next-most humanitarian choice. (And it's not like cultural variation, once destroyed, isn't restored in the medium term.)
make both sides feel whole.

Text-based religions are dangerous. People say that what matters isn't the text, but the interpretation of the text. Usually this requires somehow redefining terms or declaring parts to be no longer valid. This is only true when a single group sets the interpretation for all the members.

I've made the argument that naive readings of the texts tend to predict the cast of new-born sectarian groups: Jewish groups tend to fight for their state; Xian groups tend to be pacifist; Muslim groups tend to fight for their religion. Jewish groups' naive readings were few and far between, have occurred on and off over the centuries, but are mostly undermined by the current state if they're dangerous. Xian groups' naive readings started centuries ago and are almost invariably pacificist with martyrdom and "my kingdom is not of this world" undermining violent attitudes; we hear about the few recent violent ones, not the majority, and misunderstand most reconstructionist sects. Older sects often took their lead from having the church be the state, always a bad thing. Islamic groups' naive readings are usually fairly new, and are more often violent since they fight not for so much for a state and not just for a "people" defined by a religion. (And, no, most of the mystical varieties of Islam aren't new, they're just "new to us.")

[Arctic Dave]

4. Damned if you do, damned if don't.

Maybe stop bombing other countries would be a better idea.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. stop talking logically. nt

[Ghost Dog]

13. It's just collateral damage.

No need even to keep a count.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. You cannot kill...

Emmanual Goldstein

[truth2power]

9. So, why did they kill him, then? You would think people could see through this crap.

:argh:

[russspeakeasy]

11. Scare me more....more...more...more...

color code is real red, red, red, red..get under your desk.

[Robb]

12. Here's the whole thing:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_4787.html

[gratuitous]

14. I believe Rahm Emmanuel would properly characterize our foreign policy

Now, whoever would have surmised that a little crime against humanity (or, if you prefer, a war crime) would make the country less secure, and subject us to greater hazard? Everybody called it justice, after all! Those rotten terrorists just don't appreciate American justice in gunning down an unarmed man. Buncha ingrates. We even saved them the trouble of dealing with the body by dumping it at sea.

[tiny elvis]

15. The Palpatine administration says Obi-wan Kenobi's death has raised the risk

of anti-Empire violence galaxy wide.

If you kill me

[truth2power]

16. "If you kill me I will become more powerful than you can imagine."...

Great scene!

[saras]

17. Letting him live increases our risk, killing him increases our risk

It appears that the only thing that might decrease our risk is attacking the people who trained him and put him in power in the first place.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Neah neah-neah neah neah booga booga booga. . .

n/t

[go west young man]

19. So let me get this straight... we're supposed to fear the dead guy

who existed in a small room without so much as a telephone for the last 10 years? ( If he existed at all.)
That is one scary bogey man. Let's send an entire army after him quick, before he completely decomposes.
Maybe we can put a few billion into a machine that can keep his decomposing body animated for photographs.
After all his last image is over 6 years old. Not very effective. I always marveled at how he went back wards
technologically. First he did video when video was new but then reverted to still photographs. Finally followed
by only voice recordings. Not exactly a technical wiz I would say. The CIA should train their bogey men better.

[buckrogers1965]

20. Thanks!

I guess. For making me not less unsafe.

[Mika]

21. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA!

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

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[krabigirl]

23. Lol, be afraid! Always!

[KurtNYC]

24. translation: "Stop thinking about Norway !" n/t

[No Elephants]

25. Did Osama just die again? If not, what accounts for the timing of this announcement?

They couldn't have figured this out before they killed him and dumped him in the ocean {allegedly}?

Well, whatever accounts for the timing, a distraction is useful now.



Norway/RW terrorists (as another poster observed)

The economy

Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

The jobless alleged recovery

The debt ceiling foolishness


The above would make any administration start thinking of possible violence to Americans from Muslim jihadists.