#Osama Bashes Joe Biden

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Bin Laden reportedly didn't think the vice president was worth targeting. But Michael Tomasky points out that killing Obama and Biden would have put Nancy Pelosi in charge-and helped inflame anti-American sentiment.

Well, ho ho ha ha. Such is sometimes life for any vice president. Even Dick Cheney had to endure a few such moments, surely. But I think OBL's assessment actually betrays his (perhaps unsurprising) lack of knowledge of constitutional governance. Consider.

Pro Publica does not indicate when the above musing took place. But if it happened while bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, the odds are good that he jotted these notes down while Nancy Pelosi was the speaker of the House of Representatives, and thus third in line for the presidency. Bin Laden, given what we know of his religious views, was probably not a big believer in women's lib. Now, if I hated America and were a misogynistic religious extremist and wanted Muslims across the world to come around to my way of seeing things, I think I'd want the United States to have a female president. Women do not enjoy status equal to men in the Muslim world, to put it mildly, so I would have thought that a Great Satan led by a member of the veiled sex-and a brassy one at that-would be that much more opprobrious in the eyes of Muslims. It thus would have been a lot easier to inflame Arab world opinion against an America led by Nancy Pelosi than against one led by Barack Hussein Obama, or even by Joe Biden.more

#Bush Reacts Publicly to #Osama Bin Laden Death for First Time

By DEVIN DWYER (@devindwyer)

May 13, 2011

Former President George W. Bush made his first candid public comments on the killing of Osama bin Laden during an appearance Wednesday at a conference of hedge fund managers in Las Vegas.
"I was eating souffle at Rise Restaurant with Laura and two buddies," Bush said when asked what he was doing when he received the call from President Obama, according to an ABC News contributor who attended the event.

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Ventura doesn't buy The Bin Laden Hoax

Former Navy SEAL and Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura has questioned Barack Obama's official narrative regarding the raid on Osama Bin Laden, telling the Alex Jones Show of his suspicions that Osama died years ago, and expressing disbelief that the man seen flicking between TV channels in the video released by the White House Saturday was actually Bin Laden.
"I've been lied to so much I question everything the government tells me," Ventura said, adding that the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman cover-ups made him suspect the official version of last Sunday's events.
"I don't know what to believe, that's the disturbing thing about being a United States citizen," said Ventura, noting how the media has for the most part simply regurgitated everything the White House claimed about the raid.

Audrey Tomason: Situation Room Mystery Woman

By Daniel Stone, The Daily Beast/Newsweek

The photo has been seen on front pages around the world: President Obama in the White House Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid with the most recognizable faces in American government and counterterrorism.

Except one.

Who's the woman peeking her head from the back? A White House caption for the photo identifies her as Audrey Tomason with title "Director for Counterterrorism." But in a room full of oft-cited and quoted people, there's fleetingly little published information about who she is or what she does for the administration.

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The presence of Tomason is notable for a few reasons. Next to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she's the only other woman pictured in the testosterone-filled room. And she appears to be the only person under 40. But what matters most is that she is standing just a few feet from the president, who is otherwise surrounded by his closest advisors, as they watch one of the country's highest-stakes operations in decades as it occurs in real time.

When the Daily Beast asked the White House press office about Tomason, an official said she worked with the National Security Council, a White House agency closely involved with the intelligence that led to bin Laden. The official intimated that the White House generally doesn't discuss personnel at any of the government's covert or intelligence agencies. Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the NSC, confirmed she worked with the agency. When asked why she had never been identified or mentioned before, Vietor responded "Well, we've never killed bin Laden before."

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There are trace details floating around the internet about Tomason; trying to figure out who she is has become a sort of web parlor game She is said to have gone to Tufts University and earned her masters at Harvard's Kennedy School. (Harvard and Tufts did not immediately respond to inquiries but we'll update the story as soon as we hear back.) One corner of the Internet suggests she is 34, but the number couldn't be confirmed. She also didn't appear to be active on any major social networks. When the Beast tried to reach her Tuesday afternoon, no one answered the phone.

The image shows a white-knuckle moment: a resolute and stone-faced President Obama and a level of organization and discipline among his team. But could it have outed a sensitive national security employee? "You can make a reasonable deduction that she's a member of the intelligence community," says Michael Barrett, a national security expert and principal at strategy firm Diligent Innovations. "Is that a story [the White House] wants to put out there in public? The fact that we can see her face could potentially jeopardize her career."

Daniel Stone is Newsweek's White House correspondent. He also covers national energy and environmental policy.

Russia received early notification of bin Laden's death

Moscow - The US informed Russia of the death of Osama bin Laden before releasing the news to the general public, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The report came as the Russian leadership sought to draw parallels between the US' long search to track down the al-Qaeda leader and the Kremlin's ongoing campaign to suppress an Islamic insurgency in Russia's Caucasus Mountain region.
'The success of the US special forces, like the results of Russian special forces in the North Caucasus, in part against emissaries of al-Qaeda, have a universal significance,' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Since the beginning of this year Russian forces in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan have killed 136 insurgents - four of them al- Qaeda operatives - in a series of raids and security sweeps, the Interfax new agency said, citing a government report.
Russia's success in fighting this insurgency and the killing of bin Laden are 'a clear signal of terrorism's lack of a future and the inevitable responsibility that evil-doers will face for their actions,' the Foreign Ministry said.

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Londonistan erupts with tributes, funerals for bin Laden

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What was regained by patriotic Britons a week ago was overrun by bin Ladenites today.

A protest by hundreds of Osama Bin Laden supporters sparked fury outside the US Embassy in London today as they staged a mock ‘funeral service’ for the terror leader.
Police stepped in to separate the protesters and members of the English Defence League amid threats of violence from both sides.
Radicals carrying placards proclaiming ‘Islam will dominate the world’ branded US leaders ‘murderers’ and warned vengeance attacks were ‘guaranteed’.

These people are threatening attacks to avenge the death of bin Laden, in a city that al-Qaeda has attacked before. They are inciting violence and using fighting words to do it. Why not arrest every last one of them and deport them? Apparently there’s a villa in Pakistan that just opened up.
Seriously, take a look at these two pictures from the Telegraph‘s story. They tell the story of the war in two frames.

Islam will dominate the world, and it will use our technology and its future generations to get there. Who in their right mind should be worried whether a picture of their dead leader will incite them or not? They’re already incited by the fact that we exist.
They’re also a new reason I want the OBL death picture released. I want these people to see it. I want the man carrying that sign to see it, and I want the father who is teaching his little boy to be a terrorist to see it.
Islam will dominate the world? Not with a big hole in its head it won’t.

US releases video of bin Laden from compound

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Stealth choppers played key role in bin Laden raid, but .....

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Moore: Bin Laden Suffered An "Execution;" Should Have Put Him On Trial

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Al Qaeda reconoce la muerte de Bin Laden - Mundo

Al Qaeda reconoce la muerte de Bin Laden

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La red terrorista Al Qaeda ha confirmado a través de web islamistas la muerte de su líder, Osama bin Laden, en una operación de fuerzas especiales estadounidenses el lunes pasado en Abbottabad, al norte de Islamabad, según ha informado este viernes el Grupo de Inteligencia SITE.

Según SITE, que realiza un seguimiento de este tipo de webs, "Al Qaeda emitió un comunicado en foros yihadistas el 6 de mayo de 2011, confirmando la muerte de su líder, Osama bin Laden".

En dicho comunicado, según SITE, el grupo terrorista promete seguir cometiendo atentados y advierte de que la muerte de su fundador será una "maldición" que "perseguirá a los americanos y sus agentes".

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Bin Laden #Conspiracies Rely on Complex Scenarios

It's very rare that a person or organization must prove that they killed someone. It happens with hit men and assassins, who prove to their clients that the job has been done to collect their fee.

But usually people who are accused of killing deny it. The Obama administration is in the curious position of trying to prove to the public that they did in fact kill Osama bin Laden in a raid on Sunday.

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¿Sabia #Pakistan de #Osama bin Laden?

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La presidenta del Comité de Inteligencia del Senado Dianne Feinstein, quiere que los pakistaníes expliquen por qué ellos nunca encontraron a Osama Bin Laden.

How do you ID a dead Osama?

By Christie Wilcox 

 

Osama bin Laden is dead. At least, that's what we've been told, and I tend to believe such things.

But how do they know it's him? Well, they have the visual evidence and the body, for one. But to be certain it's not a look-alike, the U.S. government has taken a step above and beyond to make sure they've got who they think they have: DNA analysis.

Now, I'm not entirely sure what DNA analysis has been done, but I can say this for certain—whatever method they used could be completed in a matter of hours given a lab ready to go and focused solely on this. Using commonplace PCR methods—which, for the record, is what I use in my lab every day—Bin Laden could easily be ID'd faster than you'd think. Heck, I can get DNA from a fish and turn it into sequences or genotypes in 24 hours, so I think the US government can work faster than me when time is of the essence. Allow me to explain how they could do it so quickly.

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Appointment in #Abbottabad

By Steve Mirsky

Osama bin Laden's compound was apparently "off the grid" for secrecy. But the hole in the grid attracted the attention it sought to dispel.
The story is called Appointment in Samarra. A Baghdad merchant sends a servant to buy provisions. While at the market, the servant bumps into Death, who makes a threatening gesture. The servant races back to the merchant, borrows a horse and flees to the city of Samarra for safety.

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How Biometrics Helped to Identify the Master Terrorist

By Christine Gorman

A tool kit used to identify Osama bin Laden in his hideout was probably a lot like the handheld devices used by U.S. soldier.


When the U.S. military attacked Iraq in March 2003, it brought to bear the most advanced technology then available for identifying potential terrorists by their physical features. The equipment measured all sorts of physical features—from fingerprints to images of the iris—but it was not particularly easy to use. The apparatus weighed a hefty 50 pounds and consisted of a hardened laptop hooked up to a camera, an iris scanner and a fingerprint device.

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The #Osama Bin Laden File

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