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Subscribe to RSSAs the raid on Osama bin Laden was carried out, the president and his advisors in the Situation Room nervously listened for bin Laden's call name, 'Geronimo.' Once they heard 'Geronimo KIA,' the first confirmation that bin Laden was dead, the mission was still far from over. Brian Williams reports.
Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate Barack Obama so that the "utterly unprepared" Joe Biden would become U.S. president, according to documents seized last year during the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida leader.
In letters from his last hideout -- according to a report called "Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?" that was posted online Thursday by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center -- bin Laden also fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.
Read the Combating Terrorism Center's report (pdf)
Other materials found inside the compound last May have revealed how al-Qaida's then leader regularly ordered his subordinates to plan new attacks, despite an increasingly limited cadre of operatives.
Bin Laden in hiding: Hatching horrific plots despite crippling attacks on al-Qaida
During the raid, Navy SEALs recovered five computers, 10 hard drives and more than 100 storage devices -- DVDs, discs and thumb drives -- that included between 10,000 and 15,000 documents and between 15,000 to 25,000 videos, including a large number of duplicate files.
Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images
U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.
Al-Qaida hoped to convert Irish?
The documents also contained some slightly odd revelations, including the idea that al-Qaida thought Irish Catholics might be ripe for conversion to Islam.
“I noticed the sympathy of the Irish people to the Palestinian issue, and the soft treatment by the Irish Judicial system of Muslims accused of terrorism, and also not participating with its troops in [President George W.] Bush’s Crusade wars,” American al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn wrote in a letter.
“The other matter is the increasing anger in Ireland towards the Catholic Church after exposing a number of sex scandals … The people there are moving towards secularism, after it was the most religious of atheist Europe, and why do not we face them with Islam?” he added.
Al-Qaida also fretted over its brand name. One document discussed how the group’s name was shortened from Qaida al-Jihad to al-Qaida and “this name reduces the feeling of Muslims that we belong to them.” It suggested names that could not be easily shortened “to a word that does not represent us.”
Those included “Muslim Unity Group,” “Restoration of the Caliphate Group,” and “Jihad Organization for the Unification and Rescue of the Nation.”
Al-Qaida also appears to have had a particular dislike for Fox News.
Talking about sending an al-Qaida message to the media, the spokesman Gadahn wrote, “I suggest that we should distribute it to more than one channel, so that there will be healthy competition between the channels in broadcasting the material, so that no other channel takes the lead. It should be sent for example to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and maybe PBS and VOA.”
However Fox News, Gadahn said, should be left out the loop.
“As for Fox News, let her die in her anger,” he wrote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Serial flip flopping liar Mitt and his rich bitch two Cadillac wife can just get back to their damned cult as far as I I am concerned. They will be having snowball fights in Hell before I vote for that outsourcing economic traitor
wow...hate women much...
David I guess since you are obviously a moron, that you don't know that Oblamos jobs czar Jeffery Immelt outsourced an entire aircraft division of GE to China.
I guess you really really hate Warren Buffett.
So Bin Laden can tell the truth - his perceptions were right on - Biden is a moron who unfortunately has risen on his ability to expound "eloquent duplicity" -
Or kill Osama and the 'utterly unpopular, unpolarizing, and unprepared' Egyptian Doctor guy becomes the head of Al Queda. Looks like we beat them to the punch!
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I like the Dr. Strangelove avatar. Great flick. Scary dude..
They must have left out that bit about a camel passing through a needle's eye and how it relates to rich dudes in the Book of Mormon. Obviously Fat Cat Mitt isn't concerned about it.
And on which Book will Mitt take his oath of office? Maybe keep a pet salamander in the Oval Office instead of jelly beans? Swift Boat Baptist Birthers wanna know
Wow man get some help before you hurt somebody, your hatred is consuming you. Will you commit suicide in November when Oblamo gets sent back to Chicago? BTW moron Harry Reid the dumcrat is Mormon, but alas again your an illiterate moron.
C'mon--realistically at this point it is obvious that Mitt doesn't have a chance--I'm not saying he can't gain momentum but the Tom-foolery of the Republican party has left some pretty deep impressions on the voting public...The polls also support this point (unless you watch FOX;somehow their "numbers" are always different from everyone else's).
david--Good point about what book Mitt will swear on--I hadn't thought of that. Will it be blasphemous in the eyes of Mormons to swear on a bible?
If ur middle class, working 2 jobs, wife works, you are regular ppl. You really think a guy like Romney cares about you? You can't see he's a plastic man? You are willing to put the same ppl in bizness GWB had in his gang. Thats insanity. Doing the same thing over and expecting a different result..wake up ppl.
Think Moochelle is thinking aobut you while she is taking a 500K trip to Spain on our dime? Or the 4 Million dollar trip the oblamos took too Hawaii, can't wait to see the bill for the trip to Bali in September, but I guess all middle class people take those vacations right genius?
Hypocryte. You are cherry picking, and picking on the wrong person. Romney has hundreds of millions, the Obamas worked their way up, and are worth about 10 million. Why doesn't Willard release everything he's got? Oh, thats rite, he's got $$ all over the world. LOL!!
Azazel, who is the hypocryte? YOU
Robert--Obama would have to vacation 3x as much over the next 4 years to come close to how much taxpayer money bush spent on his vacations-that is sooooo easy to look up-seriously dude you are beating a dead horse--even when those BS stories are debunked IN PUBLIC you guys still keep running with it. Is it like a Republican mental block? How come facts and evidence and data mean nothing to you? Do you still think that Obama is a Muslim who isn't an American--and that the moon landing is a hoax and the holocaust was made-up?
I just dont get how, with all the heaps and heaps of information right at your fingertips you could still be so un-informed...
JDubbaya
You didn't mention the Flat Earth society that Robert believes in. I think he might be a sitting board member.
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
So Azazel. Do you think Romney was born with a couple of hundred million? Or did he work his way up? Unlike John Kerry or the Kennedys.
How ate you getting paid for posting this garbage? By the word?
I don't know how Bin Laden would know this. I don't see how anyone could be more "unprepared" than what we have now.
I hope POTUS finds a different VPOTUS to run on the ticket. Biden is an embarrassment to the Ticket. Of course one hopes the other side won't do worse. I think the two, regardless of party, that get the top votes in an popular voting method s/b be POTUS and VPOTUS.
Salafists are sworn to kill us all, and in Europe they are getting their way. BHO killed OBL, and saved GM-he's got my vote. Pull the D lever, give him something to work with. GOPPERS are obstructionists. They want to nail the poor, the middle. Not their big money pals. T BOONE PICKENS is a great American. Koch Industries wants us stuck on fossil fuels. He outed them. They back the GOP, Scott Walker, wat kind of America we leaving our kids??
I guess the commie pig Soros is a hero of yours too right. You have already proved your a moron, but again I will point out your stupidity, the DUMCRATS controlled the house and senate from Jan1 2007 until they got kicked out in Novemeber 2010. Get some facts moron. Oh yeah how is that 300K chevy volt working out for ya??? They stopped making them because nobody but stupid libtards want them. Where will a 16 Trillion debt leave generations to come. You drink too much of the komrade kool aid. I know, just hit me, your an OWS.
i think we are a fossil fuel rich country....and we should use it....to get wealthy and have extra cash to spend on research on other cheap energy. not the way it is now....spending billions and wasting the money right now....in the worst economic times in recent history. wasting billions on solar panels is not smart.
....and lets get some of the 35 million spent , by unions in wisconsin, on recalling scott walker....spent on union members lives.....not the union bosses political goons.
how much is the union going to spend against romney ?...25 million ? 100 million ?
Thats wen the goppers whipped out the "Super majority?" now you need 60 votes. Is that right? Yes, Soros is a personal friend of mine. The Ryan "path to poverty" is really wat we need. Btw, I drive a Ford pickup. Its kinda crazy the US Navy uses fuel made of algae while Koch and Co want the status quo. Energy security. Does that mean anything?
Azazels Revenge-
Why do you libs continuously show your ignorance? Maybe because you just can't help it
the 60 vote rule was implemented by the Democrats, revising it downward from their own rule of a 2/3 majority in 1917.
Trickle down economics , what a greed is good SCAM that was. MITT took HIS Bush tax cut and instead of trickling it down here , he used it to build factories overseas and then outsourced your job. And NOW, seeing as how that outsourcing worked out so damned well for us, JUST like Mitt predicted, he figures he deserves to be Pres! Chutzpah at its finest. Yep the double whammy greed is good scams- tax cuts and outsourcing- DID do pretty well-- for economic traitor MITT!
Bobby boy BHO worked his way up, Willard born wit a silver spoon in his pompous ass. You are as blind as him. Another right wingnut.
How sad, people who work hard and succeed and become successful are bad, but losers collecting welfare and food stamps are good like the OWS crowd. Go cash your welfare cehck and use your food stamps to buy some fortys loser leftard.
Yeah, lets stick it the successful business people in this country!!!!! ...oh wait, who would create jobs for all the OWS crowd. Kind of makes your arguement SUCK don't it Azazel.
Wow, if you only knew. How many have come back from the military only to find there are no jobs? The disabled? Everythings cool in ur world, but @!$%# changes, and karma is a BITCH.
You are pretty navie.
To Real life """
Well we do have the historical record to look back on ..What jobs have been created by the private sector in the last dozen years of bush tax cuts ...now we are led to believe by repubs more tax cuts to the wealthy ..corporations are gonna suddenly create more jobs ..where's the stats to back that up..and if we were losing 700,000 jobs a month at the end of bush's term and only 3 million private sector jobs were created in his 8 years ..well you don't need a calculator for that....
Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record
By WSJ Staff
January 9, 2009,
President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting, and is preparing to leave in the middle of a long one. That’s almost 22 months of recession during his 96 months in office.\
His job-creation record won’t look much better. The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton‘s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.
Here’s a look at job creation under each president since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939. The counts are based on total payrolls between the start of the month the president took office (using the final payroll count for the end of the prior December) and his final December in office.
Because the size of the economy and labor force varies, we also calculate in percentage terms how much the total payroll count expanded under each president. The current President Bush, once taking account how long he’s been in office, shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records. –
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/
Amunka...got anything to say besides copy/paste??? What the hell do you want...the govt. to take care of you..which they probably do anyway. I'm not making excuses for Bush but govt. is NOT the answer to our problems. They are the problem. I have 23 working for me and looking for more but with the idiot in charge now, I'm having second thoughts at doing anything. I don't want the govt. doing anything for me that I can't do for myself. You mention Clinton, look at the who controlled the 2 houses of Congress back then and then look at who controlled the houses when everything went to hell. Just keep blaming Bush...its all you got. Also, who voted those tax cuts...both parties.
To Real Life""""
Sorry historical record ...now why was it everything went to hell and who was in charge...and who is it that's really hurting today ...the wealthy ..corporations ...
Anybody remember what bushed promised that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were going to do for the economy ..job creation.. deficits the debt...and for middle class Americans....anyone remember....?
Once again, the Dems were in charge and went along with Bush's tax cuts. Can't blame just 1 party. Both parties have screwed us. Crying its Bush's fault is just an excuse.
To..Real Life"""
Blaming the dems is disingenuous.. you can't blame dems for the failure of conservative ideology...and republican malfeasance ...no matter how hard you try
You're a FOOL...conservative ideology has not failed us. Liberal give aways have. Go take your govt. check and buy yourself some kool-aid to go with that govt. cheese you receive. Pretty obvious you're just another leach on society looking for a hand out.
To..Real..""""
Conservatism is a failed regressive ideology that constantly tries to rewrite history in an effort to reinvent itself...
Sorry to call you a fool...you're an idiot.
Now it all make sense why osama wanted to kill obama. For a minute I thought he had switched sides.
Message to Rep and Dems. Ron Paul 2012. He's pulling in thousands of people everywhere he goes who love liberty and patriotism. Goldman Sachs hates both and one more little tidbit socialism is here. WAKE UP cause the fight for freedom is happening. Choose a side, Obama/Romney or a true Patriot in Ron Paul.
Even bin Laden get's his information wrong about who is "utterly unprepared"....but then again his terrorist network was all but dismantled.
yeah, by the OBAMA Admin. GWB GAVE UP!!
Bush DID give up on finding Bin Laden just 6 months after 9/11.
Oh BS! Bush said he really didn't care where bin Laden was so his circle of commrades would relax. The disinformation wing of the CIA put out the false information that they shut down the unit tasked with tracking him in 2006 and the MSM ate it up at gospel. The CIA had been tracking bin Laden ever since 9/11 and for anyone to thinks that Obama came in and restarted some elite unit after two years of doing nothing to track and hunt him down is an utter fool. The CIA might have cut back on the program but it NEVER went away.
Nice spin, is that based on your opinion or actual facts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o
To Tracy """"
bush dropped the ball on bin laden to start his war in Iraq based in lies...
"Nice spin, is that based on your opinion or actual facts?"
Actual facts but don't let that stop you from putting out a little research effort. Your evidence that Bush put a stop to the CIA looking for and tracking bin Laden is a press conference in which Bush casually say we "are that concerned"?
Now that is too funny!!
Again if you think that the CIA stopped looking for and tracking bin Laden for two years and then started again when Obama took office, you are about a gullible as they come.
Do you have some actual evidence that the CIA stopped looking for and tracking bin Laden from 2006 to January 2009? Do you actually know that one of the major tasks of the CIA is "disinformation"?
The CIA NEVER stopped the hunt...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pagewanted=all
"By 2005, many inside the C.I.A. had reached the conclusion that the Bin Laden hunt had grown cold, and the agency's top clandestine officer ordered an overhaul of the agency's counterterrorism operations. The result was Operation Cannonball, a bureaucratic reshuffling that placed more C.I.A. case officers on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
With more agents in the field, the C.I.A. finally got the courier's family name. With that, they turned to one of their greatest investigative tools — the National Security Agency began intercepting telephone calls and e-mail messages between the man's family and anyone inside Pakistan. From there they got his full name.
Last July, Pakistani agents working for the C.I.A. spotted him driving his vehicle near Peshawar. When, after weeks of surveillance, he drove to the sprawling compound in Abbottabad, American intelligence operatives felt they were onto something big, perhaps even Bin Laden himself. It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains that many had envisioned as his hiding place. Rather, it was a three-story house ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls, topped with barbed wire and protected by two security fences. He was, said Mr. Brennan, the White House official, "hiding in plain sight.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cannonball
If there any other information that you missed let me know.
you believe what you want but you need your meds increased for believing what faked news tells you.
Do you have some actual evidence that the CIA stopped looking for and tracking bin Laden from 2006 to January 2009? Do you actually know that one of the major tasks of the CIA is "disinformation"?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html
"you believe what you want but you need your meds increased for believing what faked news tells you."
I cited the NY Times, the same source you cited and this article you cite about Bush shutting down Alec Station is your evidence that the CIA STOPPED looking? Did you even read you own cited article?....for if you did it even says point blank that the CIA never stopped looking. LOL!!!
I just proved to you with another NY Times article that the CIA launched another operation called Cannonball in 2006 to continue to hunt for bin Laden, but you conveniently put your empty head back in the sand and dismiss these facts?
Are you just intentionally trying to be obtuse? You know it's OK to admit you are dead wrong and if you were any kind of a real man/person you would.
So, one article is believeable and 1 article is not believeable from the same source. One cancels out the other.
Ok you ARE just plain obtuse, and in terms you can understand....STUPID. Both articles state that the hunt for bin Laden was NEVER shut down and when Alec Station was shut down Operation Cannonball took it's place. SAME mission....different name.
Get it?
I have no opinion for or against abortion, It is up to the woman having it done or not done. Only she will have to live with what she did or didn't do. I have no right to infringe on her freedoms.
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So-- Rupert Murdoch owned Fox news and Bin laden would have been on the same page if Obama had been assassinated. They would have started carping about Biden in the very first minute. But Palin and Cain? WAY more qualified than Biden according to slimeball Rupert Murdoch owned Fox news
What a bunch of BS. I hope none of you are buying this propaganda. Bin Laden was a CIA asset. He was not responsible for 9/11, he was not killed by Navy Seals, and the videos are faked. It's time to wake up to the truth. The US government is an out of control killing and lying machine that must be stopped by we the people.
If you are NOT into sarcasm, it's Meds time big time! Start popping the pills and SOON!
David- your med dosages need to be strengthened.
bin laden would have crapped his pants if mccain had been elected.
he would have had a shot at making palin president. and he'd probably still be trying.
oh... so close.
oh well, doesnt matter. obama shot him in the face, and now he's dead.
Obama didnt so @!$%#... a marine shot him in the face
ahh...
the old... "i didnt kill my wife. that dude i payed to kill her did" defense.
Rupert Murdoch owns Fox news and THAT explains everything and why Obama has a 100% record of failure according to their " reporters' . You see, the more he divides us by ALWAYS carping on Obama the more we yell at each other and that equates to more ad revenue.
So how do the reporters there handle working for such a slime ball?? They go home at night, take along hot shower to remove the contact slime, and convince themselves that at least the money is good
George W got nobody. He invaded the WRONG country (Iraq) ONLY because Saddam threatened to kill his dad. He messed up Afghanistan so bad, it's as bad as when we got there. He couldn't find Osama EVEN though Dick Cheney approved of torturing people (we all know it turns him on). At least Obama focused on the RIGHT person to get AND got him. A lot more than the republicans ever did.
You are right. This crowd is just pissed the guy did so well. Idiots.
Sadam Hussein.
Bill and Azazel
Who captured the mastermind of 9/11, and the man who beheaded Daniel Pearl, and has him in Gitmo? Bush
Who killed the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Zarqawi? Bush
Who took out Saddam and his sons who had been killing Americans? Bush
Can you prove to me that Obama killed Bin Laden? Where is the proof?
To Larry"""
What was it that brought al queda to iraq....bush
Romney the plastic man. Wat a joke. Leave it to Beaver is dead and gone. But, they are determined to turn back the clock. We could be that stupid? Hey, how about a little trans vaginal before you terminate ur pregnancy? Thats really f'd up. Damn wat a bad joke that is. Good bye you right wing nuts. Ur GOPPER leaders will have us in another war. Idiots, go ahead vote for that outta touch rich "man" [LOL!]
It no wonder we're in such a fix these days with people like you having the right to vote. You're a loser
That is why the Bin Laden threat was such a joke...anyone that thinks that Biden was less prepared than the Obamination, could not be less informed.
haha..drink the kool-aid americans... you puppets
Wow and Wow again!! Bin Laden was a CIA asset, etc.? David, are you calling for civil war in the U.S.? Seems you want the US government stopped by "we the people." Sounds like civil war to me. I have an alternative idea....how about voting?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah....Hee hee hee hee...Snort....It's like saying, Take out Mickey Mouse so that Goofy can be in charge....What a Maroon...
I drink Coors, and tonite I'll toast the CINC. You get home to ur wives. Ur nice little corner of earth, no idea how fast @!$%# changes. OBAMA 2012, and tax the rich!! OWS is right. Wall St and Dub killed us.
Azazels Revenge,
Not going to happen. If your marxist occupier of the White House is re-elected, we will move out of the country and ensure that you don't get your hands on our money for your totalitarian marxist govt.
So he was keeping up on our political scene.