CIA director tells Brian Williams there wasn’t question that image would “ultimately” be released.
http://thepage.time.com/2011/05/03/panetta-public-likely-to-see-obl-picture/
The last pdf took three years to produce. Hopefully they will be faster this time.
Osama Bin Laden dead: White House backtracks on how bin Laden died
The White House admitted last night that its initial account of the way Osama bin Laden died at the hands of US forces had been riddled with errors.
The original story was that Obama and Bill Clinton’s wife watched the whole thing live in the White House. Now we find out that the story they told was wrong. Originally they told us that there was a 45 minute gun battle. Now we find out Osama was unarmed. Originally they told us that he used his wife for a human shield. Now we find out that isn’t true.
How did Obama and Hillary think they saw a 45 minute gun battle, if there wasn’t actually a gun? I noticed when I first saw the video of his room that there weren’t any bullet holes visible.
Why did they dispose of the “body” so quickly? This White House is messed up beyond comprehension.
The last hurricane to hit the US was Ike in September, 2008. Residents were told by the National Weather Service to leave or face “certain death.” Most didn’t leave and few died.
They got lucky. The animation below is made from running NCAR’s WRF weather model for a three day period, including the landfall. It shows the strength of N-S winds.
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Note that just east of Galveston, there were very strong southerly winds. Just to the west, the winds were very strong from the north. Had the hurricane eye passed 15 miles to the west, there might have been a massive storm surge directly on the island, like the one which killed almost everyone in Galveston in September, 1900.
I have been out most of the day and won’t see the Barcelona/RM match for another hour. Anyone who spoils it for me is in big trouble.
In the immediate hours after Bin Laden’s death, US officials had briefed that he had put up a fight and shot at the Seal 6 team that had stormed the second and third floors of his hideout. Other details suggested he had used one of his wives as a human shield.
The White House confirmed that neither was true. Bin Laden was unarmed, was shot in the head and chest, and his wife had been wounded in the leg while rushing towards the special forces before he was killed.
April 26, 2011
WASHINGTON — In an about-face on the day President Barack Obama announced his re-election bid, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday ordered that confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged co-plotters stand trial before a military commission at Guantanamo rather than in a civilian court.
It was an embarrassing reversal nearly a year and a half after Holder announced with much fanfare that the five men, who’d been held for years in secret CIA custody before being transferred to the Guantanamo military prison in 2006, would face justice in a courtroom in lower Manhattan.
It may be cold this spring, but that isn’t important. Last spring was really warm, so don’t concern yourself with the snow and cold.
Similarly, it may be cold this spring, but tornadoes are only concerned with the trend. They know that we are in a period of global warming, which is why they chose to appear in great numbers this year – despite the cold.
For the past seven months, Obama has known Osama’s location, which is why he has been bombing civilians in their homes in other locations in Pakistan as recently as two weeks ago.
Recognizing the importance of capturing Osama alive, Obama made the brave choice to risk American lives – rather than just bombing Osama’s house. Obama accidentally forgot to equip the American troops with stun grenades, tasers or tear gas, so they had to shoot Osama in the head and then dump his body in the ocean give him a proper Muslim burial. Assassination is of course a more sensible approach than a civilian jury trial – which Obama insisted on for terrorists as recently as two weeks ago.
Bravely watching from the White House, Obama was fearful when the helicopter went down that this was going to turn into another Jimmy Carter Tehran fustercluck. (What would that do to his poll numbers?) Fortunately, the Pakistani military located a few blocks away didn’t intervene during a 45 minute firefight.
After his office heroics, Obama decided to wait until Trump’s show to go on television and take credit.
Had the mission failed, of course it would have been listed as just a few more casualties on a secret mission in the ongoing war on terror. What a hero.
