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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/05/04/199-dead-men-tell-no-tales/

Osama bin Laden Causes Yet Another War? After He Is Dead?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett33.1.html

Unarmed, Shot in Face, 12-Yr-Old Daughter Watches?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/bin-laden-daughter-saw-father-shot.html

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Shot In Cold Blood

Bin Laden 'Was Not Armed and Did Not Use Wife as Human Shield'

By Peter Foster

Osama bin Laden did not use one of his four wives as a human shield in his dying moments, contrary to earlier reports, as White House officials began to 'clarify' early accounts of Monday s commando raids by US special forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28012.htm



Osama bin Laden s Useful Death

Paul Craig Roberts

In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the gunfire erupted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28016.htm



US Responds to Questions about Killing s Legality

By Owen Bowcott

The attack had the appearance of an 'extrajudicial killing without due process of the law'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28020.htm



America Has Turned into a Moral Swamp

By Mike Whitney

The United States has sunk deeper into savagery and abandoned any commitment to conventional norms of behavior.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28014.htm



Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House

President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.

http://bit.ly/kpPQCE



White House: bin Laden photo 'gruesome'

The White House says the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden is 'gruesome' and that 'it could be inflammatory' if released.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/03/2198937/white-house-bin-laden-photo-gruesome.html



Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden s sea burial

Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden s burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110502/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bin_laden_sea_burial



White House publishes Photos on Fickr taken during Osama Bin Laden Mission

Photos show Obama, Biden, Clinton in the White House Situation Room getting updates on the Mission in Pakistan.

http://bit.ly/iJOXLy



Pakistan slams 'unauthorized' U.S. raid on bin Laden

Pakistan criticized the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden as an 'unauthorized unilateral action,' laying bare the strains the raid has put on an already rocky alliance.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-03-pakistan-osama-bin-laden_n.htm



Rumsfeld confirms: Waterboarding did not net intelligence that led to bin Laden

The torture crowd has been hard at work the past 24 hours, doing its best to push the idea that it was the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that led to the courier who eventually led U.S. intelligence to Osama bin Laden.

http://bit.ly/k9Nlzu


From Information Clearing House

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Beyond Retaliation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-6

Reflecting on Bin Laden, Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/03

Vengeance Led Us into War, It Won t Lead Us Out
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-10

Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-3

Bin Laden s Crimes, and Ours
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-0

Dead Empire Walking: On Playing into Al Qaida s Hand
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-11

United for Peace and Justice: The People WILL Take Back the Economy and End US Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/03-13

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Behind the Forces Who Took Down bin Laden

Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: 'The team of US Special Operations Forces who killed Osama bin Laden in a pre-dawn raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, were led by elite Navy SEALS from the Joint Special Operations Command. Operators from SEAL Team Six, also known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or just DevGru, are widely considered to be the most elite warriors in the US national security apparatus. Col. W. Patrick Lang, a retired Special Forces officer with extensive operational experience throughout the Muslim world, described JSOC s forces as 'sort of like Murder, Incorporated.' He told The Nation: 'Their business is killing Al Qaeda personnel. That's their business. They are not in the business of converting anybody to our goals or anything like that.'

http://www.truthout.org/sort-murder-inc-behind-forces-who-took-down-bin-laden/1304430967



Bin Laden Provoked a US 'War on Terror' That Strengthened His Movement

Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic Policy and Research: 'Bin Laden s goal was not, as some think, simply to bring down the US Empire. That is a goal shared by most of the world, who (fortunately for us) would not use terrorist violence to further this outcome. His specific goal was to transform the struggle between the United States and popular aspirations in the Muslim world into a war against Islam, or at least create the impression for many millions of people that this was the case. As we look around the world ten years after the attack, we can see that he had considerable success in this goal. The United States is occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing Pakistan and Libya, and threatening Iran - all Muslim countries. To a huge part of the Muslim world, it looks like the United States is carrying out a modern-day Crusade against them, despite President Obama's assertions to contrary last night.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bin-laden-provoked-us-war-terror-strengthened-his-movement/1304437043



On the Death of Osama bin Laden

Keith Olbermann of the FOK News Channel discusses the death of Osama bin Laden.

http://www.truthout.org/special-comment-death-osama-bin-laden/1304450641



Rep. Barbara Lee Renews Calls for End to Afghan War After Killing of Osama bin Laden

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: 'In September 2001, Rep. Barbara Lee was the only lawmaker in either chamber of Congress to vote against the 2001 resolution authorizing the use of force in Afghanistan. Today she is a leading advocate for the immediate withdrawal of troops and for repealing the authorization that grants a president the authority to use force without a formal declaration of war issued by Congress. 'While the head of al-Qaeda is no longer around, we have to really address the root causes of terrorism and understand that we have to refocus our resources and our strategy in a way that begins to get us out of Afghanistan,' Lee says. We also speak to filmmaker Robert Greenwald about his Rethink Afghanistan campaign and journalist Anand Gopal, reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan.'

http://www.truthout.org/rep-barbara-lee-renews-calls-end-afghan-war-after-killing-osama-bin-laden-video/1304444978

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The killing of Osama bin Laden

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

05/03/11

I must admit, this is one of the most troubling things I have experienced in my lifetime. The patriot in me wants to breathe a sigh of relief that the war is over and we can go back to life before bin Laden. But reality ruins the moment as I realize what has happened, and know life will never be the same again. This military action ordered by the President of the United States not only violated every fundamental belief our nation s founders cherished, it may have destroyed any hope that we will ever learn the truth about 9/11.'

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5876



The most successful terrorist organization in history

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

05/03/11

Al Qaeda is the most successful terrorist organization in history. By destroying the World Trade Centre in New York on 9/11 it provoked the US into launching wars damaging to itself in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Qaeda aimed to destroy the status quo in the Middle East and it succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. Its success has not been all its own doing. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda s number two and chief strategist, wrote at the time of 9/11 that the aim of the group was to lure the US into an over-reaction in which it would 'wage battle against the Muslims'...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick05032011.html



Maine congresswoman asks, 'where s the exit strategy?'

The Nation Blog
by John Nichols

05/03/11

Wasn t the point of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ... to get Osama bin Laden? And if that was the point then, isn t it time (with the news that Osama has been tracked down, not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan) to bring the troops and the war dollars home? These are the questions that Congress should be asking this week. ... Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, gets it...

http://tinyurl.com/3mhxc4w



What will happen now that bin Laden is dead?

Independent Institute
by Art Carden

05/02/11

'The most visible face of terrorism was killed yesterday. If you?re wondering what difference this is going to make for global markets in oil and other assets, the answer is 'not much'...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3040



Bin Laden dead, War on Terror lives on

Liberale et Libertaire
by dL

05/02/11

When the news began to trickle out, the Georgetown bar set looks to have emptied out of the taverns and marched impromptu to the White House with cheers and theatrics one would associate with the Redskins winning the Superbowl. Ah, but this game has no end. Important commentators reminded us that Bin laden had long ago ceased having any operational capacity with al-Qaeda and now was only a symbolic figure...

http://tinyurl.com/3wsp3m9



Osama bin Laden, degeneration and savagery

Libertarian Alliance
by Sean Gabb

05/02/11

I might suggest that the American Government has a less than perfect record in telling the truth. When not killing the wrong people entirely, it frequently lies about what they are supposed to have done. I will say instead, though, that this whole operation stinks. Even if there was no doubt regarding identity and guilt, this is not how civilised governments behave. If millions of Americans really are pleased with their government, that merely shows that they deserve the media and political classes they have...

http://tinyurl.com/3hqcry4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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