When the Marines landed in the last days of 1992, bin Laden sent in his own soldiers, armed with AK-47's and rocket launchers. Soon, using the techniques they had perfected against the Russians, they were shooting down American helicopters. The gruesome pictures of the body of a young army ranger being dragged naked through the streets by cheering crowds flashed around the world. The yearlong American rescue mission for starving Somalians went from humanitarian effort to quagmire in just three weeks. Another superpower humiliated. Another bin Laden victory.

"After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians," bin Laden said. "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/miller.html 

I hope that mother#badword#er got to live just long enough to know that his violent death was imminent and it would come at the hands of Americans. I hope he got a second to see Colt rifles pointed in his face and Old Glory on shoulders of the riflemen. I hope somehow he got to see his remains thrown like a farmer shovels #badword# into the back of a Sikorsky that said United States Army across the tail rotor. I hope he knows that any burial right offered in accordance with his beloved Islam were said by a US Navy chaplain who was simply and likely grudgingly following orders. And finally I hope that two of the saltiest nastiest sea dogs in the entire United States Navy kicked him off the deck of the ship like a rabid dog and then pissed on his remains while the sharks began to snack. Who is the paper tiger now mother#badword#er? How does American 5.56 ball taste?

I doubt those pics will bother me.