This is why I love this forum. So many very good and diverse viewpoints.
Anyway, I thought I'd add more fuel to the fire. Woke up this morning and saw this headline:
New U.S. Account Says Bin Laden Was Unarmed During Raid - NYTimes.com
As Dlish was saying, Osama may have been unarmed when he was shot. I'm sure as Slims stated, this doesn't make him not a threat, but it makes the whole thing less clear cut.
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I also hope the data recovered from his compound leads to the further weakening of Al Qaeda.