Yesterday marked the 5th year anniversary of the operation that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden, and while blogger Matt Keohan was clearly jazzed yesterday about the blatant PR stunt…
The killing of the world’s most wanted man not only eliminated him as a symbolic mascot to his followers, but the trove of intelligence gathered during the raid likely directly affected the dismantling of Al-Qaeda’s high-profile figures. U.S. intelligence officials claim to have killed half of al-Qaida’s top 20 leaders in raids and attacks by armed drones in the year following the raid.
…people on Twitter got mighty pissed. Is that even surprising anymore? People on Twitter get mighty pissed over everything. Give the world a place where they can publish anything they want to say for public consumption and nine times outta ten you’ll get a giant sack of being complaining for the sake of complaining:
@CIA Will you be tweeting instructions to kill, not capture?
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) May 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/DeathByPuffin/status/726803807774994432
@CIA What in the actual fuck is wrong with you people?
— Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS) ➡️ chaos.social (@gsuberland) May 1, 2016
@CIA This is unprofessional and not befitting the mission of the agency and it disrespects the serious work done by everyone involved.
— Zippyman818 (@zippyman818) May 1, 2016
@CIA
we're not gonna show you proof that we actually killed him but we're gonna retweet the event like it was happening today. wtf— 200° Vision (@WinstonsLazyEye) May 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/bigreno4/status/726811524753289217
https://twitter.com/VirgilGlass/status/726809090521894916
.@Andrew_Zammit I hope they tweet the legal defence of overriding Pakistan's sovereignty to do it too @CIA
— Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic @miriam12.bsky.social (@miriamcosic) May 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/QuantumSam/status/727111604362301443
https://twitter.com/TRealistRants/status/727091390082125824
@CIA @DeptofDefense CIA = Crisis Initiation Agency.
— John Paul Mabbs (@MabbsPaul) May 2, 2016
@CIA @DeptofDefense Chile 1973? How many people died because of your installation of a fascist dictator in what was a democracy??
— John Paul Mabbs (@MabbsPaul) May 2, 2016
@CIA @DeptofDefense Your assassination manual was a good read. How many priests, lawyers and other opponents have you murdered??
— John Paul Mabbs (@MabbsPaul) May 2, 2016
@CIA @DeptofDefense 16 governments overthrown, millions dead. Well done CIA, you are as bad as those who caused the holocaust. 😡😡
— John Paul Mabbs (@MabbsPaul) May 2, 2016
https://twitter.com/isthewallbuilt/status/726967177610452996
@CIA with respect, this is in bad taste. Yes we killed UBL. We also killed at least 1 innocent – and you want to tweet the play-by-play?
— Gail Helt (@ghelt) May 2, 2016
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[H/T Daily Mail]