I was skeptical of the first few reports. Not skeptical that they found and killed him, I suspect that's the inadvertent result of accidentally promoting someone of competence to a position of power within the government, no, I was skeptical of the purported circumstances of his murder, the using his wife as a human shield and other unsavory details promoted in the media.
The burial at sea I understood, leave no place for followers to congregate, a long way from the sea Abbotabad but worth the flight I'm sure, the rest seemed odd....
Like why kill him? Wouldn't you want him alive? They didn't want him alive, it was an execution. He's already been convicted in absentia by a vengeful and misled American public. And as luck would have it the day after the killing the details begin to change, he didn't have a human shield, he was unarmed, and one would think at this point - that - like it or not they have an obligation to take him alive, offer him a fair trial.
But it was an execution and because we take it for granted he was the enemy we are too happy to waive his rights. We're supposed to be better than that but we'll just let it slide this once.
Dangerous ground this, but the Americans have beat the path with Guantanamo Bay and other precedents in Iraq.
Then there's the timing. Who's up for election and sliding in the polls? Funny they should find him now, almost like a publicity stunt...
Now they've attacked and killed a symptom of the problem, not evil incarnate (as is too often quoted in an inane media), the evil, however, survives all about corporate America, in the US foreign policy that allows them to kill anyone without trial, especially a foreign national, a policy that allows them to kill countless women and children in pursuit of vague and commercial ends, they've killed Osama Bin Laden, that's sure, but I'm really thinking, I'm seriously convinced that they've got the wrong guy.