Osama Bin Laden

As you've no doubt heard, Osama Bin Laden is dead. I think its way to early on for me to give an educated opinion about anything that's happened since, however there is one thing i have to say. Right now, I'm pretty scared. With Bin Laden's death, al Qaeda has to respond in some way to prove itself as a legitimate organization. And it has to be something big. If they don't respond with violence or do with more small scale attacks, they're essentially finished. Which would be great. But I don't think it's going to turn out this way.

The death of bin laden is hugely symbolic. If al Qaeda is still functioning they have to respond in a big way. This logic, coupled with some recent things i've read has me pretty scared. You can google these to double check my sources. 1: in his Gitmo testimony, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the mastermind of 9/11, stated that in the event of Bin Laden's death, a "nuclear hell storm" would be unleashed on America. 2: In recently published documents on Wikileaks from Guantanamo Bay, Abu Farahal Libi stated that he believed al Qaeda to have a nuclear bomb or some facility or something hidden somewhere in Europe, and that it would be used in the event of Bin Laden's death. I really hope that these are empty threats, but if al Qaeda did have a major attack in the works, now is the time for them to use it. I'm thinking these next few years are going to be pretty tense.

Going along with this idea, I'm fairly certain that Bin Laden would have made advanced preparations in the event of his capture or death. Whatever people may say about him, he's not stupid. He would know that as America's most wanted man his time was limited. Over his ten years since 9/11 I'm sure he has a contingency plan in place which could include a large scale attack. At any rate I hope I'm wrong about all of this.