UN rights chief wants ‘full facts’ on bin Laden killing
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday called for “a full disclosure of the accurate facts” to determine the legality of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “I’m still for a full disclosure of the accurate facts,” Pillay told reporters in Oslo. “I think it’s not just...
Photos from the Bin Laden Compound
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEATH AND INJURY BELOW
Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.
The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered...
Obama Won't Reveal Bin Laden Photos
President Barack Obama said that he will not release post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden to dispel conspiracy theories. "It is very important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of someone who was shot in the head are not floating around as incitement to additional violence or...
Mother of 9/11 Victim Responds to the Killing of Bin Laden
Donna Marsh O’Connor lost her pregnant daughter Vanessa Lang Langer on 9/11. She responds to the killing of Osama bin Laden and the nation's reaction....
September 2001: Bin Laden Says He Wasn't Behind Attacks
In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, "The US government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. "I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems...
White House Struggles to Get Story Right on Raid
WASHINGTON – Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for Obama, but how exactly the raid went down is another story — and another, and another. Over two days, the White House has offered contradictory versions of events, including misidentifying which of bin Laden's sons was killed and wrongly...
NFL Star Sparks 9/11 Controversy
Rashard Mendenhall has created a stir with comments made on his official Twitter page regarding Osama bin Laden's death. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back on Monday tweeted: "What kind of person celebrates death? It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard...
Media Regurgitates False Claims in Bin Laden Killing
Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising: it's the White House which is in exclusive possession of the facts, but what's also not surprising is that many of the claims that were disseminated yesterday...
White House Modifies Osama bin Laden Account
The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior US officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with US forces. Officials also retreated...
POLITICO: Bin Laden Raid Yields "Motherlode of Intelligence"
The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.” The special operations forces grabbed personal computers, thumb drives and electronic equipment during the lightning raid...
Bin Laden's Sea Burial Fuels Conspiracy Theories
The US faces a quandary in proving the Al Qaeda's leader death without inflaming his supporters, and may release photos of his body. Skeptics include the mother of a September 11...
Clinton Vows to Continue 9/11 Wars
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is not the end of the war on terrorism and warned the network's members that the United States would be relentless in its pursuit of them. "Even as we mark this milestone, we...
Eyewitness to bin Laden Raid: "To Be Honest, It's Not True"
A neighbor of the alleged bin Laden compound doubts the US government's...
Kristen Breitweiser: Today Is Not a Day of Celebration for Me
When my husband was killed on the morning of 9/11, television stations around the world ran split-screen video. They showed the buildings still burning juxtaposed against young Arabs celebrating in the streets. That disturbing vision left me incredulous; it was forever emblazoned on my psyche. Ten years later, now fully...
Killing Bin Laden: What Are The Consequences?
The killing of Osama bin Laden is one of those events which, especially in the immediate aftermath, is not susceptible to reasoned discussion. It’s already a Litmus Test event: all Decent People — by definition — express unadulterated ecstacy at his death, and all Good Americans chant “USA! USA!” in...
Official: Bin Laden Buried at Sea
WASHINGTON (AP) — A US official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. After bin Laden was killed in a raid by US forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to...
Obama: Osama bin Laden is Dead
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the number one most-wanted fugitive for nearly a decade, was killed in Pakistan Sunday, the White House announced. President Barack Obama made a live statement shortly after 11:30 p.m. from the East Room of the White House. "Tonight, I can report to the American people...
David Weigel Reviews "Among The Truthers"
[C]onspiracy theorists […] investigate as much in sorrow as in anger. They are always just one confession away from the truth. This kind of logic is much more understandable, if no more sensible, after reading Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground, a smart and serious new...
Why the Planes Were Not Intercepted on 9/11
Despite being given plenty of notice about the four planes hijacked on 9/11, FAA management did not request military assistance to ensure the planes were intercepted before they crashed. The 9/11 Commission attributes this to a string of gross failures in communication between the FAA and the military on 9/11....
Al Qaeda Bomber Worked For UK Intelligence
An al Qaeda "assassin" accused of bombing Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan was working for British intelligence at the same time, according to leaked files. The claim about Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili is made in secret reports on detainees at the US military's Guantanamo Bay...