DNA evidence was obtained. I've heard conspiracy theories already because no one has seen a photo (although they are still deciding whether this is appropriate) and that he wasn't really dead. He'd just show up on tv anyway so why look stupid? Obama wouldn't stake his reputation on it.

Americans weren't aiming at women and children with prior knowledge, just randomly. They are always after military targets or they are breaking the law. Can you imagine if they were found to be malicious? Something so against the very essence of that society and the 'American way'. It's just plain wrong to allow or accept it and every soldier and officer has ethics drummed in to them, in every film, in every story in society since birth. It's inconceivable they would do it on purpose. In contrast, no law controls terrorists, they do what they like.

Thankfully intelligence and technology is far more sophisticated then 30 years back and prevents as much innocent civilians getting caught in the cross fire as possible, it's much better than it was and I really hope that continues or I'll be digging my bomb shelter in the back garden! In the Blitz, germans and londoners were bombed, it's not just a problem for arabs that we need to be reminded of, it still makes him pure evil and hatred,… but also WW2 was an officially announced war by governments; people were prepared. Is that not true of this Lebanon conflict? People had no idea in NYC that day in 2001. It's not the same to me.

Common understanding and learning about each others cultures promotes better links and friendship not hatred, but his actions were not going to achieve what he wanted. Two wrongs don't make a right, particularly when one was murder and the other was really effectively manslaughter and in official war status (I can't imagine it would be anything else) even manslaughter doesn't really apply. There have to be some rules to these things or armies would be terrorists which of course, they are not. I don't know what the answer is but these things cannot be solved in his manner. Elected governments have to. War is and has been a fact of life for centuries, it's not changing any time soon. People have way too much to fight about apparently, endless amounts in fact. We can only keep learning how not to, when not to, diplomacy etc.

The day he confessed publically that he was responsible, was the day he signed his own death sentence and, given the nature of his fighting technique (i.e. bombs, traps, things strapped to everything in sight) and the risk and consequence of letting him go, I just don't see it as quite the same as finding Sadaam, putting him on trial etc. etc. This was a pretty much foregone conclusion and although I hear the Navy seals were prepared to arrest not kill, I'm not going to blame some of the most highly trained men in the world for taking that action if they felt it necessary.

….with reprisals?… they have to prove they can do it without him perhaps. He got caught and no one in even that organisation could be surprised by the result. I'm not at all surprised in this case.

Obama is at constant risk of assasination, like every other president, even from his own people so there is nothing new there either.

Fear of what happens next…. well, that's terrorism for you.

Americans weren't aiming at women and children with prior knowledge, just randomly. They are always after military targets or they are breaking the law. Can you imagine if they were found to be malicious? Something so against the very essence of that society and the 'American way'. It's just plain wrong to allow or accept it and every soldier and officer has ethics drummed in to them, in every film, in every story in society since birth. It's inconceivable they would do it on purpose. In contrast, no law controls terrorists, they do what they like.

Thankfully intelligence and technology is far more sophisticated then 30 years back and prevents as much innocent civilians getting caught in the cross fire as possible, it's much better than it was and I really hope that continues or I'll be digging my bomb shelter in the back garden! In the Blitz, germans and londoners were bombed, it's not just a problem for arabs that we need to be reminded of, it still makes him pure evil and hatred,… but also WW2 was an officially announced war by governments; people were prepared. Is that not true of this Lebanon conflict? People had no idea in NYC that day in 2001. It's not the same to me.

Common understanding and learning about each others cultures promotes better links and friendship not hatred, but his actions were not going to achieve what he wanted. Two wrongs don't make a right, particularly when one was murder and the other was really effectively manslaughter and in official war status (I can't imagine it would be anything else) even manslaughter doesn't really apply. There have to be some rules to these things or armies would be terrorists which of course, they are not. I don't know what the answer is but these things cannot be solved in his manner. Elected governments have to. War is and has been a fact of life for centuries, it's not changing any time soon. People have way too much to fight about apparently, endless amounts in fact. We can only keep learning how not to, when not to, diplomacy etc.

The day he confessed publically that he was responsible, was the day he signed his own death sentence and, given the nature of his fighting technique (i.e. bombs, traps, things strapped to everything in sight) and the risk and consequence of letting him go, I just don't see it as quite the same as finding Sadaam, putting him on trial etc. etc. This was a pretty much foregone conclusion and although I hear the Navy seals were prepared to arrest not kill, I'm not going to blame some of the most highly trained men in the world for taking that action if they felt it necessary.

….with reprisals?… they have to prove they can do it without him perhaps. He got caught and no one in even that organisation could be surprised by the result. I'm not at all surprised in this case.

Obama is at constant risk of assasination, like every other president, even from his own people so there is nothing new there either.

Fear of what happens next…. well, that's terrorism for you.