Is Bin Laden getting those virgins he was promised?

How does America one-up a royal wedding? By killing the most wanted man in the world. As news stations across the country and world started breaking the story about Navy SEALS killing Osama Bin Laden it seemed as if all of America reunited once again.

A lot has been said and written about what it means now that Bin Laden is dead and how it all happened. There are those, of course, that don’t believe that he is dead and that Obama announced this purely as a reelection campaign to boost his ratings (that are still sagging).

Questions began to arise where he was found. Turns out, Pakistan is the correct answer. It is pretty amazing that Bin Laden was hiding so close to Pakistan’s “West Point” and they had no idea. It is also pretty amazing that he wasn’t living in a hole somewhere on the border of Pakistan – Afghanistan. Apparently, his complex was some “million dollar” housing project with huge walls around it. Abbottabad, Pakistan might now be one of the most looked up/popular cities in the world right now.

We have now found out that during the raid, the SEALS took computers and virtually everything electronic. Hopefully, as soon as everything is ripped from these devices there will be useful information that our military can use. One of the most ironic parts of this story is that President Obama has now used information from a Gitmo detainee. That seems to be a step back from his campaign promise of shutting down Gitmo as soon as possible. Apparently, Obama now realizes that Gitmo saves lives and that the CIA did a phenomenal job.

One of the biggest questions that arises from this whole mess is: Did Pakistan know Bin Laden was hiding within their borders? I wouldn’t put it past them. The Obama Administration has said the operation to Bin Laden was never told to the Pakistani government in fear that they would leak it to Bin Laden. The tension between the US and Pakistan is quite high right now. I hope those in Congress start questioning our relationship with Pakistan. However, the former Pakistani President claims that they never knew Bin Laden was in Pakistan.

There are still those who don’t believe that Bin Laden is dead. And there are still those who think he was dead long before May 1, 2011. The White House on May 3rd said they would release a picture to put the conspiracy theorists to bed. However, the White House and Obama is now saying they won’t release a picture or the video. Some families of the victims from 9/11 are asking the President to show the pictures so they know it is real – so they can have some type of closure. I couldn’t imagine what the families of the 3,000+ victims are feeling now that Bin Laden is dead.

I wish that Obama would release the pictures. I think it would stop some of the conspiracy theorists and give the world a reason to believe that he is 100% dead. However, I do believe he is dead. I am giving President Obama some credit, but I am giving our service members more credit. I also think that President Bush deserves some credit as well. I’m not one to usually agree with Wolf Blitzer, but on May 1, 2011, he said: “Just like on September 11, 2001 you will never forget where you were or what you were doing when those planes crashed into the World Trade Center; tonight, you will never forget where you were or what you were doing when the most wanted man was killed.”