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Old 02-05-2011, 10:07   #62
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Bin Laden..... Killed in Pakistan

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Originally Posted by jaysay View Post
When we are dealing with these people its an all new ball game, people like when bin laden can influence young men to strap explosives to their own body then walk into a crowded place and blow themselves up, along with innocent bystanders with the promise of paradise and exorbitant supply of Virgins, that's a frightening concept, These people are powerful in a way that we can't begin to perceive, so when one is taken out in this way its great to hear

No John, it isn't great to hear, because where he was, thousands will follow.....and that is dangerous.
It would have been better for him to be captured and spend time in some prison somewhere.......alive he was a figurehead...dead,(and having died in such circumstances) he is a martyr.

As you so rightly observe, we cannot begin to understand the mentality of these young men...except to say that their belief is what drives them....they are brainwashed from being toddlers.
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