Bin Laden's Death Doesn't End His Fear-Mongering Value
Even in death, bin Laden continues to serve the valuable role of justifying always-increasing curtailments of liberty and expansions of government power.
US Tries to Assassinate US Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki
One policy where Obama has gone further than Bush and Cheney in terms of unfettered executive authority and radical war powers is the attempt to target American citizens for assassination without a whiff of due process.
Revealed: CIA Agents Lived Next Door to Osama bin Laden
In a startling revelation this morning, reporters were told that in the months leading up to the violent raid that ended Osama bin Laden’s life, CIA agents had taken up residence next door, in an attempt to verify the identity of a tall, mysterious man they knew simply as “Pacer.”
SITE: Al Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden’s Death
What is the SITE Intelligence Group and why must all messages from al Qaeda be filtered through them?
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 my office but anybody is […]
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 the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.
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 as a propaganda tool. That’s not who we are.”
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 to have been planned by people for personal reasons,” bin Laden’s statement said.
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 saying bin Laden’s wife died in gunfire, as it tries to sort through what the president’s press secretary called the “fog of combat” and produce an accurate account.
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 from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by US forces.