I believe we did return the favor.

Fahd al-Quso was hit and killed by missiles fired from an unmanned drone. He was the Yeman al-Qaeda leader wanted for the USS Cole bombing.

This $#*! is never going to end is it! I miss the days when the world wasn't at war with one another..oh wait, that's never been the case has it. Sad. Animals can get along with one another (different species) better than we humans even can. I can only hope that one day we will get better as a species and learn to tolerate others whom are different from us, and accept them. Not blow them up.

Thank you CIA. Keep up the good work.....

We already spent $3Trillion trying to get even. Didn't do much good huh?

This is the way we should have spent our money from the outset (stealthy covert vigilance). You cannot kill all the cockroaches in the world, but you can out maneuver most of them.

It's nice to see the Government taking down the actual bad guys, rather than chasing innocent civilians in their own homes. To the people doing the actual leg work in the security field, I say thank you. You're the good ones.

LOL Blow his balls off.

Hassan al-Asiri: Everyone; check out his image on Google.

Delray Mike you forget the right's hero Bush "The Decider" who took credit for everything including Mission Accomplished

Nice guy, planting a bomb on his own brother, wouldn't you say?

They only have 1 "master bomb maker"? What are we waiting for...take him out!

@martib : Along with your nice words about our current President, President Obama......HE did what Clinton and both Bushes were incapable of doing : Killing the mastermind of the entire attack on 9/11, so instead of anyone fighting about "President Obama had nothing to do with this" crap, we all need to rejoice in the fact that due to Bin Laden's killing, a huge number of Al Qaeda terrorists have followed due to the raid on Bin Laden's hide-out. We keep getting them like flies stuck to a fly-swatter. USA should be proud we have a president who was able to get the right intel just to tell the troops where to go, to get Bin Laden. I'll admit some things of President Obama I feel he may need some work on, but you gotta admit he's not doing TOO badly. I know our beloved country has had much worse. Remember the whole Lewinski scandal in the news ? Just saying. President Obama seems to have a better head on his shoulders. (I pray I won't get banned for any impolite commenting, because I mean no disrespect whatsoever. Just a bit opinionated. :) )

Af far as International relations and actually taking the battle to the enemy, Obama continues to smoke the former guy--and never once has he said "mission accomplished, smoke em out." We can do what we need to do, as far as defense, from our own borders and use unmanned drones operated with minimal personnel outside our country. Stop chopping away at the domestic budget and ignoring that massive bloated cow---defense.

Reagan should take this as his victory. If his group of neo-cons hadn't been messing with the Islamic world in the first place we'd have a considerably different international political landscape today. Nothing like getting the natives all worked up to tick off the Soviets.

BTW, Reagan also negotiated with terrorists; even sold Iranians TOW missles. He was patriotic like that...

Fascinating theory, happy. Of course it in no way meets the constitutional definition of treason, but who cares about that, right?

The same liars that said there were biological weapons, chemical weapons and nuclear weapons.

The same liars that made up the Gulf of Tonkin incident that got us into Vietnam.

Why announce it? Because the public is getting sick of endless war.

Did the CIA give them the goods to do it with?

Who makes this underwear...........Fruit of the Boom.

I say its time to put an end to this GAME they want to keep playing!

Wheelman you got it right. These jerks that won't give Obama any credit no matter what are complete ignoramuses. Gimme a break, griping about Obama taking credit for this when he hasn't even said anything about it. There wasn't one comment from the President anywhere in this article and some rightie still pipes up about how we should hate Obama for taking credit.

This President's pursuing the war on terror in a far more efficient manner than his predecessors. Drones and intelligence seem to be working better than a trillion+ dollar war on non-existent WMDs in Iraq.

I say the Prez should take all the credit he wants. Who else gets the credit? Mittens Romney? Bush? All the pathetic haters make our country less for their rabid one-sided view of Obama.

But I thought the State Department declared that the "war on terror is over".

Just the asinine slogan. Fortunately Obama goes after the real thing and doesn't have to rely on empty words.

wheelman_23

President Obama......HE did what Clinton and both Bushes were incapable of doing : Killing the mastermind of the entire attack on 9/11

Hate to mess up your facts but both Bush Sr. and Clinton were out of office before 9/11. Yes Clinton had an opportunity to take out bin Ladin but he hadn't done anything big at that time. Hind site would have been wonderful and over 3000 lives saved but then most things in life could benefit from hind site.

James said:

I say we return the favor!

If you mean put a bomb on a plane headed for Yemen, I'll have to disagree with you on that one. It should never be about 'an eye for an eye'. Putting bomb on a Yemeni airline will most likely not get the mastermind behind the plot, but it will more than likely take out the innocent bystanders, the adults and particularly the children who just want to live and be left alone. Doing to them what they contemplated doing to us would be neither fair nor right and would, in the end, simply give them the impression that they have 'won'; we wold have gotten off our ethical and moral higher ground and gotten down on their level.

Don't let them win.

War isn't pretty. War isn't glorious. War equals a massive taking of human life, which is a tragedy no matter who you are, where you live, and what you believe. There's no reason we as a species can't start to rise above our animal nature to lash out when a wrong is done us. My Dad, a Vietnam and Korean War vet, told me when I was growing up that violence should always be a last resort, and when you do find yourself backed into a corner, use the least possible amount of force necessary to accomplish your objective.

Surgical strikes like the one that took our Fahd al-Quso are a far better use of our resources (in my opinion) our personnel and technology, utilizing the least possible amount of force while accomplishing the objective of removing Asiri as a threat.

Gtouch - Thanks for providing the laugh on this otherwise grim and scary thread. It is important to keep our sense of humor as we face these relentless murderous bastards.

WWMD? What Would Mitt Do? Come on Mitt, you know you'd have done it differently. Your supporters here seem quiet on that point, preferring to dwell on President Obama spiking the ball. Of course, he's done no such thing, but by gum, if you can't lie, there's just no point in being a Republican, is there?

More job insurance for the TSA. Dang.

More Americans have died fighting this War on Terror than have died in acts of terrorism against Americans. Something is wrong with this picture, no?

Was it Al-Queda - or an affiliate?

I do not know if it could not have been done - I do know for a fact that it was not done before him!

James-3938137

"I say we return the favor!"

Really, James ? How ? Bomb Yemen ? They are doing the BEST they can. They HATE Al-Quieda and have done lots to get rid of them.

To the rest of you - this should serve as a reminder as to WHY TSA is so important. The MOMENT we stop looking at underwear, is the moment a bomb will be found in underwear. The MOMENT we stop searching children and old ladies, is the MOMENT they will use them to transport.

STOP the whining.

Obamas way saves a lot more American lives...he got us out of that Bush quagmire of Iraq, and he's focussing on surgical strikes by drones ( 8x per year as many as Bush used) and by US Navy Seal assassination squads. Clearly we never should have gone in to Iraq or to Afghanistan......

Bill,

13 billion of that went to the middle east wars. And it didn't really go anywhere. It's still right here in America, banked by the wealthy into our financial institutions who buy political power to not have to pay taxes on it.

When they talk about all of the money that goes into war, they really mean all of the money that goes into the pockets of the rich elite, who give rich, elite law firms billions to keep it.

All that money, flying back and forth right out of the reach of all of us middle class.

Yes! And THAT'S how terrorism is thwarted: intelligence agencies and law enforcement. NOT the TSA. Congratulations CIA! Keep up the good work.

wheelman_23

@martib : Along with your nice words about our current President, President Obama......HE did what Clinton and both Bushes were incapable of doing : Killing the mastermind of the entire attack on 9/11, so instead of anyone fighting about "President Obama had nothing to do with this" crap, we all need to rejoice in the fact that due to Bin Laden's killing, a huge number of Al Qaeda terrorists have followed due to the raid on Bin Laden's hide-out. We keep getting them like flies stuck to a fly-swatter. USA should be proud we have a president who was able to get the right intel just to tell the troops where to go, to get Bin Laden.

Gee wheelman, you mean the intel obtained by Bush that Oblahblahblah was against? So now he has the right to take the credit for? What a hypocrite! Let’s give the REAL credit to whom it BELONGS to!

BTW, Barry didn’t tell the troops where to go, THEY told him! Get off the koolaid…PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The question is not whether Mitt would have done anything differently -

Bush, Obama, all of them DO and WILL continue the standing orders of kill when you can; Obama has nothing to DO with Military intelligence.

The BIGGER question is who would do better on JOBS and the ECONOMY.

and..Tech Chik ?

It is NOT TSA's job to kill terrorists; that's the CIA's. TSA's job is to keep planes from being blown up - when was the last time a U.S. plane has been blown up ? Do you think it's because our enemies have quit trying ? The TSA deserves some credit too.

Its always better when YOU dont have to go and do it. Its very very easy to sit and make comments about things US citizens sign up for, while most couldn't be bothered. Sure it sounds easy to say..... lets just send a few drones over there all neat and clean. But remember there are young americans in places none of you want to be ever. Recon relies on eyes and boots on the ground. And the commands require american eyes and very few foreign eyes ( the brits are the closest). This could be true......it could be a way to keep us on our toes as citizens. When politics enter into military anything can happen. I long for the times when we had real decisions and real consequences to situations. You start and we finish, no quarter no terms.

The countdown begins: How soon will Romney declare the release of this information was politically timed and politically motivated by the White House.

"Cause no Republican would ever dein to use such good news for political purposes - certainly not to declare that any mission was ever accomplished.

Sorry David but as everyone knows every President in the history of the US would have made the call to take OBL out - though many of us question if Carter would have.

BHO was able to make the call because of all the work the FBI, Special Forces and others have been doing since 9/11 to find out where OBL was. All BHO did was say go get him.

gtouch,

"Who makes this underwear...........Fruit of the Boom."

No, this is clearly "designer" underwear, more in the line of Calvin Klein or Victoria's Secret. I wonder if all this underwear bomber business is having any effect on their sales and, if so, for better or for worse.

So another wanna-be eunuch is going to bomb a plane full of innocents to make a statement? How stupid and murderous are these "people'. Wait, maybe that's the problem, they are shaped like people, look like people, but are actually paranoid murderous mutants trying to return us all to the stone age to live in caves and eat goatburgers like them!

Don in MO

Sorry David but as everyone knows every President in the history of the US would have made the call to take OBL out - though many of us question if Carter would have.

BHO was able to make the call because of all the work the FBI, Special Forces and others have been doing since 9/11 to find out where OBL was. All BHO did was say go get him

"All BHO did was say go get him"

I love how you wrote about 60 words and in the end you contradicted yourself.

Thats right!! Obama gave the go ahead order.

alex cali,

And Carter made a pretty tough decision, too, when he decided to send the military into Iran in an attempt to rescue the hostages. The fact that the attempt was a failure does not change the political courage it took to attempt it in the first place.

Kinda hard to tell who fought the war on terror better, Bush or Obama.

But something is becoming increasingly clear; stories like these sure are leaked/shared/exploited/openly celebrated more under Obama, a heck of a lot more. Personally, I would prefer that the terrorist operations we "thwart" be kept out of the public arena. May be too much to ask from the present administration though.

Mickey, you miss the main point about Carter; they knew his actual character and decided they could ignore his warnings. They also knew Reagan's, and his; they knew they could not ignore. Fast forward to Obama (welcome back Carter).

LOLOLOL did this REALLY happen or is it more BS propaganda being used to get Obamabots ready for the election?

The underwear bomber strikes again! lmao!

Patriot Chic

LOLOLOL did this REALLY happen or is it more BS propaganda being used to get Obamabots ready for the election?

The underwear bomber strikes again! lmao!

Theres not one ounce of patriotism in you... You really think the CIA FBI and the federal government are lying to you just to get people ready for the election?

lmao!!??? you sound like a stupid teenager go back to justin bebber and mtv.

So haters.....Did GWB capture Saddam all by himself? Pitiful bunch of hypocrites you right wingers are.

Tod-2791955

Kinda hard to tell who fought the war on terror better, Bush or Obama.

But something is becoming increasingly clear; stories like these sure are leaked/shared/exploited/openly celebrated more under Obama, a heck of a lot more. Personally, I would prefer that the terrorist operations we "thwart" be kept out of the public arena. May be too much to ask from the present administration though.

Mickey, you miss the main point about Carter; they knew his actual character and decided they could ignore his warnings. They also knew Reagan's, and his; they knew they could not ignore. Fast forward to Obama (welcome back Carter).

what you are saying is that this whole time this administration has been killing terrorists, pirates, and hostage takers the actual people who carried out the missions were acting under their own orders??

Wow!!! you really think letting the American people know what their government is doing is politics and that under this administration this has happened more?

I cant believe you have an opinion like this and yet you actually believe the Bush administration was truthful with us the American people.

The regan era people loved Bush...

Hate, hate, black, hate, hate, Muslim, hate, hate, socialist, hate, hate, worst president ever, hate, hate, communist, hate, hate, blah, blah...

Republicans just have to hate Obama, it's in their dogma. Personally, I'm thankful we have a competent president for a change! Thanks Obama!

Obama/Biden 2012

TheOverlord,

"Republicans just have to hate Obama, it's in their dogma."

Yes, I think that's it in a nutshell. Isn't partisan politics wonderful? It reminds me of the old song by Simon and Garfunkel called The Boxer where they sing "still, a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest".

I'm thankful we have a competent president for a change! Thanks Obama!

theoverlord(?) Compent President???? Where have you been for the last 4 years? Bush was bad, Obama made it worse! It may be too late but we have to make a change now! Romney 2012!

In the meantime look at his record and show me proof where the 'competence' is?

Alex;

"what you are saying is that this whole time this administration has been killing terrorists, pirates, and hostage takers the actual people who carried out the missions were acting under their own orders??"

Um, no. I'm actually saying what I said, duh? It seems to me that this administration likes to blow its own horn a lot. Every story leaked, and the timing of that leak is a blown opportunity to gather info. Osama Bin Laden is a prime example; let the story out after, and only after, you have acted upon the intelligence you gathered. Stop blowing your own horn every time you accomplish something its embarassing, its foolish, lousy intelligenc policy and its dangerous.

Get Real...

Wait wait - scratch that headline. The CIA didn't do it, Obama did!!! Come on folks wake up and use this to his best advantage...

You folks on the right operate with a unique set of rules. According to the right--President Obama owns the flailing economy--by himself and has nothing to do with the execution of foreign affairs policies.

Another measuring stick--the stock market responds to a presidency. It's over 13K.

One war down, another with a defined time table to end actions, Libya is free of a tyrant worse than Sadam. The last guy got cozy with Khadafi, this President ordered the heavy work and we had no troops on the ground.

It wouldn't be enough if President Obama had stabbed Bin Laden to death with a salad fork and drug him out of a burning building. He leads and skips the "smoke em out" and has declared to "mission accomplished."

The shirt that's running against him can take credit for the template of Health Care Reform, but chooses to hide from the 1 thing that he has done right. What a fine, tax dodging, corporate raider he is--with his cash in Swiss Banks.

New rules adopted by Congress and Obama forbid the use of testimony obtained through cruel treatment or torture.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/911-mastermind-back-guantanamo-judge-16284293?page=2#.T6hcauhPsdU

Oh, but it was OK to use that information to locate Bin Laden?

LOL, Overlord.

You, and those LIKE you, are probably the FIRST to say "let our conversations be more gentle, let's tone down the rhetoric" - but ONLY when someone like Kathy Giffords gets shot; but, when it's a REPUBLICAN - different story, right ?

You libs never cease to amaze me - you guys are the MOST tolerant around....until someone disagrees with you.

Anything Muslim/Islam do not allow it into my country, the USA! Keep those sand-diggers riding their camels away from here.

There will never be peace with any of those idiots still alive. Remove them from the gene pool, worldwide.

TheOverlord

Republicans just have to hate Obama, it's in their dogma. Personally, I'm thankful we have a competent president for a change! Thanks Obama!

Obama/Biden 2012

________________________________________________________________________

I hate to bust your bubble but to say ALL Republicans hate Obama is just not true. The first wrong thing Obama did was chose Biden (or was it to give him someone to make him look smarter) but my main problem with Obama is he goes out of his way to keep this country divided instead of pulling us all together as AMERICANS. With all that is going on today we need to pull together to keep our country strong and if you have a problem with that then you are not a true American. No I am not a Republican and NO I do not hate Obama and I will continue to have respect for the Presidential office but until Obama shows respect for ALL AMERICANS and this COUNTRY and he tries to unit us I do have a problem with him.

Tod-2791955

Alex;

"what you are saying is that this whole time this administration has been killing terrorists, pirates, and hostage takers the actual people who carried out the missions were acting under their own orders??"

Um, no. I'm actually saying what I said, duh? It seems to me that this administration likes to blow its own horn a lot. Every story leaked, and the timing of that leak is a blown opportunity to gather info. Osama Bin Laden is a prime example; let the story out after, and only after, you have acted upon the intelligence you gathered. Stop blowing your own horn every time you accomplish something its embarassing, its foolish, lousy intelligenc policy and its dangerous.

Yeah like "Mission Accomplished"???

At least the bin laden death was an actual accomplishment by this administration....

alex cali,

"Yeah like "Mission Accomplished"???

At least the bin laden death was an actual accomplishment by this administration...."

And the latter was a mission that was actually accomplished. Bin Laden is no more. Finished, done, kaput! Unlike that scene with Bush aboard the aircraft carrier lauding the mission as accomplished when it had only just begun.

Don't these Al Qaeda losers have anything more interesting in their pants?

No wonder they have to kidnap women and coerce them into marriage.

Wow the most important part of the article to me was. That the devices are becoming NON metallic. Glad they even caught one. I wonder how fast the information on how to build the new devices spreads. And once it does how many will actually get through.

Fueling hate groups by spreading more hate is just as bad. Not every Muslim is an extremist like not every American is a Christian extremist. Meaning a Crusader for Christ. Until we as humans learn to put aside religious differences there will be Killing in the name of God.

What gets me is All the religions from that area derive from the same GOD. Jews, Muslim, And yes Christians. They only differ in who the Messiah is. The old Testament of each is basically the same.

As for the political aspect No the Republicans wont be able to turn the economy around. And voting for either party and waiting for the Government to change things for us. Well that's not going to happen. See we a nation cant control the Global economy. We are just a cog in it. Want to better our nation. Create a job for yourself instead of waiting for one to be created.

And we should be teaching our students more about economics than Algebra. At least on how to balance a checkbook.

We need to come up with a way to have people walked into an explosion proof booth that would set off any type of explosives a person is wearing using some kind of radio wave or something. I know the would be suicide bomber's rights would be violated but who cares.

Yes, and where are all those muslim Americans decrying yet another attempted act of violence?

Crickets chirping..........

imam rauf...where are you?

Fruit-of-the-boom

To all of the Rep's that keep trying to say the water boarding is what got OBl is just a lie. Now I am not saying that Little Bush shouldn't get some credit for getting OBL. But on the other hand he dismantled the CIA teams charged with finding OBL. That don't seem like he wanted to find OBL. Bush had him cornered in Tora Bora at the start of this mess and let him go. Hell that could have stopped all of this then and there. But the Rep's needed there boggy man. If they had killed OBL the people would have never let Bush go into Iraq, Lies or not about WMD that were not there. The Bush family if friends with the Bin laden family, that's fact. So it would not have done to kill OBL. Cliton had a chance to get OBL and didn't. I will always want to know why he didn't. But when president Obama was elected, as promised he went into Pakastan and got OBL. I know it was the Seal team that did the work. But Obama took an active roll in the planing of the raid. Obama was going to make sure that what happened to Carter happened to him. He ordered 2 extra choppers to make sure we got all of our men out. Good thing he did as we needed one of them when the chopper crashed. Smart thinking. So to all of you nay Sayers, Obama took the chance and I am glad he did and it went well for all of our men. And Obama did call Little Bush and asked if he would come and take his shear of the Credit, But Little Bush didn't want to do that. You Rep's keep saying this bad economy is Obama's fault when you know it was the Rep's that caused this mess. "John McCain, Rep's are spending money like drunken sailors" And the dept that someone said was worse under Obama. Well factor in the cost of the 2 wars the Rep's got us into that was going to be paid for with Iraq oil. Not. I seen the number of $13 Trillion. Opps that seems to be the amount that the Rep's are trying to hang on Obama. Go figure.

Like Ron Paul says,,, Why are we messing with the Taliban and wasting money on their borders??.. If we want to stop a network that looks to bring battles to us then lets go after al-Qaida and I would like to add to Rons statement by saying we start with looking closer at Saudi Arabia.

"MY country", Subliminal?
This country belongs to all of us.
And a lot of us don't agree with your narrow- minded, ignorant views.

alex cali, patriot chic you think the CIA FBI and the government is lying to you just to get people ready for an election?

Yes alex they are and they've been lying about this Bull Dung since 9/11 happened, because they knew it was going to happen.They keep lying just keep people under control and living in Fear and Paranoia,somebody like yourself..You really haven't clue, as to what the hell is really going on!

You saying patriotic chic sounds like a stupid teenager,and she's unpatriotic? She has a clue she sees the Bull Crap going on.I'd say she's very Patriotic!

You on the other hand are CLUELESS ! You're the kind that if the government told you to jump or drop your pants, you'd ask How High and where do I put them! Not only are you Clueless,you're Gulllible also.So Gullible that it's pathetic.

You better redefine the word patriotism,because you sure as hell don't understand it!Unfricken Believable!

No matter what Obama does or doesn't do the 'baggers and GOP will find fault with it. It's just that simple.

Even if job growth was surging, DOW up to 50K, unemployment at a historic low, all terrorists caught, gas prices at 50cents per gallon etc. the right-wingers would be whining like school girls getting their first menstrual cycle.

So sorry to be negative, but it is just a matter of time before one of these goat " farmers " ( better word) pulls off the dirty deed. They will not quit trying and one will slip through eventually... my honest opinion.

The Israeli TSA does it best and doesn't use body scanners. Profiling Baby-Profiling !!!!

You were saying chuck….

WASHINGTON -- When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.

That phone call, recounted Monday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden's personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led U.S. intelligence to a walled compound in northeast Pakistan, where a team of Navy SEALs shot bin Laden to death.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-one-phone-call_n_856674.html

It was years in the making, involving interviews with high-value detainees like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who is known as KSM. In the end, though, it all came down to classic espionage work and a judgment call by President Barack Obama,

WTF????

The story began many years ago when intelligence officers interviewing high-value detainees in U.S. custody, including KSM and Abu Faraj al Libbi, got some critical leads on couriers "who might be facilitating OBL, (Osama bin Laden)," one U.S. official familiar with the operation said. The detainees confirmed some names. But there was one courier's identity some of the detainees "held out" on; they would only give a nickname.

In fact, when they pushed KSM on the name, he "lied to protect his protege," the official said. The guy, KSM said, "doesn't know anything." And that was the tip-off, said this source: "We knew he was lying, because we already knew he was a KSM protege." As a result, the intelligence operatives pushed harder to try and find out who he was.

As it turns out, he would be the key to tracking down bin Laden.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-02/opinion/borger.ksm.bin.laden_1_bin-ksm-detainees?_s=PM:OPINION

Tell the liberal rags THEY LIE!!!

Al-Qaida Operative Captured in Iraq in 2004 Was Key Source for ID’ing Bin Laden Courier
so Barry was questioning him way back then huh? GEEZ, you guys will fall for anything your master tells you!

gloria fabiaschi

alex cali, patriot chic you think the CIA FBI and the government is lying to you just to get people ready for an election?

Yes alex they are and they've been lying about this Bull Dung since 9/11 happened, because they knew it was going to happen.They keep lying just keep people under control and living in Fear and Paranoia,somebody like yourself..You really haven't clue, as to what the hell is really going on!

You saying patriotic chic sounds like a stupid teenager,and she's unpatriotic? She has a clue she sees the Bull Crap going on.I'd say she's very Patriotic!

You on the other hand are CLUELESS ! You're the kind that if the government told you to jump or drop your pants, you'd ask How High and where do I put them! Not only are you Clueless,you're Gulllible also.So Gullible that it's pathetic.

You better redefine the word patriotism,because you sure as hell don't understand it!Unfricken Believable!

Omg!! another 9/11 truthster...

to you alex cali!You bet your sweet ass,there al!

Now Smarten the Hell Up! Gullibility is a very bad habit to break!

Now there's some Good Common Sense there tex! Well stated!

Another "underware panties thing" for these islamic geeks. That's 'cause they are soooSmmmaallll the Women Giggle and laugh saying to these islamic morons: "And whom do you intend on pleasing with that"???? the islamic reply: me? Pays to have a Pathetically small member, that's how they have room to fit a bomb in there.

"More job insurance for the TSA. Dang."

Love 'em or hate 'em, without TSA's disruptive influence we'd have lost many loads by now as these guys perfect the ass bomb.

The myth that Bin Laden was the master-mind of 9-11 lives on.

Between GW Bush and Obama, we now have around 300 new government agencies to counter terrorism - yet the intelligence we had pre 9-11 knew an attack was eminent - remember Condi - what was the title again? Al qeada/Bin Laden determined to strike US.

Look up Sybil Edmonds and get a clue.

Jeff-573598

James-3938137

"I say we return the favor!"

Really, James ? How ? Bomb Yemen ? They are doing the BEST they can. They HATE Al-Quieda and have done lots to get rid of them.

To the rest of you - this should serve as a reminder as to WHY TSA is so important.

TSA had NOTHING to do with this victory. Nothing. Like, at all, not even a little bit. The bomb never even made it near a plane. Please read the article you're commenting on. How many potential terrorist attacks has the TSA actually foiled to date? I'm pretty certain it's zero, because you KNOW they'd be trumpeting it from the rooftops if they did since it seems most of the country questions their methods and/or existence.

For F**k sake....

*slips off man thong*

God knows TSA is gonna make us do that now anyway. Might as well.

All kidding aside, if it did ever come down to removing my underwear in the airport to be scanned, I'd be damned sure to wear a man thong i.e. banana hammock.

This gives "skid marks" a whole new meaning.

Right Wing Idiots rant about the TSA, rant about checking babies and teddy bears and old people.

Do you really think a terrorist would not stoop to blowing up a baby to get a bomb on a plane? If they would use their own brother, they would also use a baby (or kidnap one to use) Wake up! Bombs will not be carried onto planes by men in robes and turbans wearing T shirts that say 'Death to Infidels' on them!

Thanks to the CIA, Obama Administration and all involved this was thwarted.

This President's pursuing the war on terror in a far more efficient manner than his predecessors. Drones and intelligence seem to be working better than a trillion+ dollar war on non-existent WMDs in Iraq.

You got me there. If drones will do the job more effectively and efficiently and will spare our troops, I say DRONE ON!

Ban terrorists!

Bombs don't kill people, terrorists do.

Give me a break!!! CIA could'nt find their butt with a flashlight.

Has it occurred to many of you that we are probably just "chasing our own tail" with these "foiled" plots?

I agree with Tod-2791955. I really find it hard that terrorist plots have only occurred in the last 4 years and only be successfully stopped in those 4 years. I am more likely to believe that terrorist plots have been planned and successfully stopped for three to four decades now, through multiple Administrations. I fully believe that the CIA and FBI have successfully stopped multiple plots over a long period of time, and not just recently.

And if my belief is correct, why have we heard of at least 4 failed attempts (i.e. Christmas day bomber, Underwear bomber, Printer Cartridge Bomber, and this one) in the last 4 years while not ever hearing about any of the other successful ones prior? Are we serious supposed to believe that the only terrorist attempts that exist after September 11, 2001, were these 4 in the last 4 years? That under President Bush, other than the one successful attempt, the terrorist never tried to attack the United States again? That President Bush was more successful than any other President in history at scarring away the terrorist to not attack us? Seriously? We are expected to believe that?!

I also find it a bad idea to really confirm to a nation's enemies that the United States intelligence forces have successfully penetrated their secrecy. Just that information is a major breach of our national security, let alone other possible clues that such announces can grant the "bad guys". Please do not make the mistake that our side is the only group that could get clues in the intelligence business base on small clues. The leaders of the terrorist groups have stayed hidden from the world, not just the United States, for years if not decades. That means they have to be intelligent enough and skillful enough at espionage to be able to do this against some of the most power governments in the world. And here, we have just given them a huge key data point on the Game of Spies and Assassins. For what purpose?

So either we are to believe that President Bush was so great at preventing terrorist attacks on the United States for the last 7 years of his Administrations, or we have to believe that many more attacks have been prevented and we have only been told about these 4 that have occurred in the last 4 years. Which is it? And if it is the later, why was it necessary to give away to the enemy what some could at least believe to be a major intellegence data set to the enemy?

RichardWalking,

According to Adam Goldman of the Associated Press who released this story about the foiled underwear bomb attempt, the Obama administration did not want this story released. Associated Press agreed for a while not to release it because of national security reasons, but after they thought conditions had changed, they went ahead and released it based on the public's right to know. You can see an interview with Adam Goldman in the following video link to the PBS News Hour:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june12/othernews_05-07.html

So it does not appear that Obama had this information "leaked" for political purposes. Remember that reporters often learn things on their own and either report them or don't.

Mickey-1983943, that may be the case with the underwear bomber, and the Christmas Day bomber since both of those events occurred in the public eye. In fact, other than the fact that the devices did not function correctly, those attempts should in a way be considered successful terrorist attacks. They placed a explosive device in an area for which the United States was trying to prevent and actually triggered those devices. The devices just failed to denote.

But the same thing cannot be said about the Printer Cartridge terrorist event or this one. Both of those events had "anonymous sources" telling press about the plan that was discovered. I would also suggest that both the Christmas Day bombing and underwear bomber had more information than what would be normally obtained via the local police or civilian investigations. For example, the name of the al-Qiada bomb maker and his possible location. I highly doubt the New York Police Department or the Detroit Police Department would have that information. But I guess it is possible.

That all being said, a pervious news article stated that this current Administration has gone after more "government leaks" than any previous Administration on record. If that article is true, than it should be believed that any "government leaks" of information right now about the United States intellegence results and assests would be sanctioned at least at some high level in the Justice Department.

Here is a question for you. How is it that an United States Ambassador can post satellite photographs of tank movements of the Syrian army on Facebook and not be in some violation of national security and state secrets laws? Would that not be telling the Syrian government that the United States military knows exactly where a part of their current military is located, giving them time to adjust such deployments? Granted, these questions are going a little tangent of the initial discussion, but it is still in the point that there ARE things that the government should not be telling people via the press and we seem to be seeing may of what I would have considered to fall into that area.

RichardWalking,

"Here is a question for you. How is it that an United States Ambassador can post satellite photographs of tank movements of the Syrian army on Facebook and not be in some violation of national security and state secrets laws? Would that not be telling the Syrian government that the United States military knows exactly where a part of their current military is located, giving them time to adjust such deployments?"

You make some good points in your posts. It's true that our government does leak like a sieve. The way it leaks, it's just a miracle that the "ship" of state hasn't sunk long ago. I worked in the intelligence business for 20 years, so I know how that works. But not all or even most leaks are officially approved for political purposes. There are many reasons why people leak classified information, whether personal, financial, or just because they can't help blabbering about what they know to impress other people, and they do sometimes end up in jail for it, though probably not often enough. As for you question about the U.S. Ambassador who posted satellite movements of the Syrian army, I can't really comment on that because I had not heard of it until I read it in your post. He may or may not have had permission to release those photos. I just don't know. But if the Syrian government does not know that the United States military knows exactly where a part of their current military is located, they are either extremely naive or just plain stupid. Our intelligence capabilities, at least in a general sense, have long been a matter of public knowledge. There was even a length article in Playboy magazine published back in the 1970's about the Signals Intelligence business run by the National Security Agency (NSA), and the NSA came out with an hour-long television documentary themselves in the early 1980's in which they "fessed up" to what they do in shocking detail. I, at least, was shocked by it, since I worked for them and the U.S. had always denied that it engaged in any such activity, and the very existence of NSA as an agency was only known to a handful of people when it was first formed in the late 1940's. It might surprise you to learn that a lot of material about the organization of the National Foreign Intelligence Community (NFIC) and the National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB) is in fact unclassified. Just read any Tom Clancy novel, and you will find frequent references to U.S. intelligence capabilities that people are "not supposed to know", although I have actually found some minor errors in his information. In fact, I read that when he published his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, in 1984 (which, by the way, was originally published by the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland) he was suspected by many of being a spy because of the accuracy of his information. As I said, our government leaks like a sieve. It's hard to keep a secret for very long in a democracy.

Oh C'mon, AQ only did a couple of bombing and some undermining when Clinton was in office. There was nothing there to declare actual war on. Whenever they would do somthing we would fire a few small missiles at their compound. At that time they were nothing more than a pain and I feel pretty sure that they were wondering what we could do about them. Remember that Afganistan is a country and you just can't invade them. We had no laws or rules or international aggreeances with what to do. Not until after 9/11 was anything put in writing or wording as what to be done about a situation like this and a lot of countries backed this proposal up and adopted it to. There must be a presidense. So you "R" people, quit your childish finger pointing and deal with the facts (laws) as what they were and how they developed to this point in time. Be proud of the fact that we set the Standerds for the world.

Mickey-1983943, you make a good point. And I agree that not all leaks would be top down driven. I would also fully believe that the Administration did not send out a Memo telling its agency chiefs to start talking. All I am saying is that I do not recall in the past the CIA or FBI making public any of their success stories. It has always been the case from my experience that the American citizen always seem to see the agencies failures but never its successes. While that is sad in some ways for those dedicated members of the agencies, I have always believed it to be a good thing for our national security. I will admit though my knowledge and opinions are from a layman's view and not a professional in the job.

As for the US Ambassador posting satellite photos on Facebook, the person in quest was Robert Ford. He did it around April 7, 2012. Here is a quick burb from an Ireland based news page on the topic:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/ojeygbojidql/

I just do not recall many announced successes of CIA/FBI stopping planned terrorist attacks on the US during President Bush's, or any previous Administrations, term. I cannot believe that the attacks would only be occuring under President Obama Administration, and never before. And finally, I do not believe any of the previous Administration was majorly more successful at stopping these things than the present one. So I have to asked why we hearing this now and never before?

Thank you for your dicussion on this topic and not taking to the useless diatribe of a slam on Obama or a slam on GOP or a slam on Teaparty or a slam on Islam or a slam on Occupy Wall Street or the dozen other useless blame games.

RichardWalking,

Thanks for the link about the release of satellite imagery concerning the disposition of Syrian forces. I don't know quite what to make of it since satellite imagery is normally classified Top Secret Compartmented Information and requires that one with the proper security clearance be specially "read in" for access to that type of information. However, since I have not heard anything about Ambassador Robert Ford being arrested or "hauled over the coals" because of this, I can only speculate that he was given permission to release these photos, obviously to demonstrate that the Syrians were not sincere in their claim that they were withdrawing their forces. I think you are right, however, in your position that releasing such information can be damaging to our national security, but it has been done many times before for political and diplomatic reasons. Those who work daily with classified information and have a sense of responsibility usually get pretty mad, though, when it is done. Classification of information is always a difficult problem in a democracy. Ideally, you want the public to know as much as possible since they are the real government of the country ("We the people of the United States..." as the preamble to the U.S. Constitution puts it), but we don't live in an ideal world. We live in the real world where we have enemies and where what the public knows, our enemies also know. That's why we have to classify information in the first place and withhold it from the public. Sometimes politicians and diplomats find it necessary or expedient to release such information for their own purposes, though. For better or for worse, the President of the United States is the ultimate classification authority. All information that is classified is classified by his authority, and he has the authority to declassify it when he deems it to be appropriate. You're right, too, about the CIA and FBI not making public their success stories. That's generally true for the intelligence community as a whole; their failures are made widely known, but rarely their successes. It does happen, though, that their successes become occasionally known, such as with the Walker spy scandal in the 1980's. I don't really know how often that has occurred in the past compared to now.

Yo Rightie people ...

All the terrorist killing successes that we try to credit to Obama - you say F that ...all that was started way back by Bush - Obama didn't do a dang thing ...

and then

When we say - The economy was a turd when Obama took over and it was started by Bush

you say - F that - it's all Obama's fault.

WTF is wrong with you F**ing F**ers ? You can't have it F***ing both ways.

If Obama is not responsible for anything good he is not responsible for anything bad either. It was all started by Bush.

The righties aggravate the heck outta me with their inconsistent bull@!$%#.

Its amazing that Martibs post was collapsed by the community. Are people really that sensitive, scared and weak minded? The post was nowhere near as offensive as many others, didn't attack any individuals and had no foul language. Does it bother some people that while he voted for Pres. Bush(it may be true) he is giving Pres. Obama a compliment?

That was weak.....very weak.

If the above is true I can't wait to see what will happen as we get closer to November:)

"Mittens" and his mawdlin band of merry minions will be $h!tten kittens :)

Now see this post was much less nice than Martibs but nowhere near as bad as many I've seen on the Vine. Lets see what happens.......

Wow, another underwear bomber all washed up. I'll bet he crapped himself when he was arrested.

He was specifically told to use the tighty whities. But noooo. He was afraid of infections.

So would you call that a "Stink Bomb"?

I heard this reincarnation of the underwear bomb was actually a penile bomb designed to detonate upon arousal.

At sharply 2 PM he was supposed to let it rip. Unfortunately the previous evening he had two servings of breaded halal chicken which constipated him. He was caught with an embarrassing colic look on his face.

Dingle, the plan was destined to fail because the flight was full of western women showing full face.

No kidding. Can you imagine the conversation with his brother.

"Hey little bro, come here...I want to show you something...We want to implant this bomb inside you"

"Uh..okay"

I think it's more likely that Pinky and The Brain are in charge of the Yemeni group.

"I heard this reincarnation of the underwear bomb was actually a penile bomb designed to detonate upon arousal."

If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours. . . . . .

al-Asiri is training people who answer ads on the inside of matchbook covers: "You too can blow up the big rigs. Just fill this out and return it today."

Ironic, this story comes out right after Obama releases a terroist that our troops capture?

Welcome to lets make a terrorist deal - you rub my back i will rub yours, but i will be able rub other places after "my last election" (wink wink)

Patriot Chic. Do you think that attacking President Obama makes you a Patriot. When Little Bush lied us into a war and said if you were against the war, you were not a Patriot. This President has done more to kill the people that attacked us on 911 and all you can do is complain. You guy had 8 years to get these people, all he got was us into Iraq who had nothing to do with 911. If you and anyone like you that call themselves Patriots. I say a real patriot stands behind the man that was elected fair, unlike Little Bush. He had to have the Courts appoint him.

Chucky pooh, when Bush is on the Ballot, come talk to me.

Until then, i will yawn at all your silly Bush comparision comments.

Americans are sick of the blame anybody but me game.

Patriot of course you are sick of Bush getting blamed.

Reps like you blame Clinton for 9/11 that happened 9 months later and Bush was warned by the Clinton Admin who left him with plans to deal with Obama.

But then you attempt to blame Obama for the economic crash that began during Bush from day one of his administration.

I guess the criteria for when a president is responsible changes depending on whether it makes one look good or bad for you.

Bush is responsible for when the building began to fall...you just want to blame Obama for when the building hit the ground...not when it was already on the way down.

That is the Republican LIE, and we will keep on reminding you over and over. We will not let you walk away from it. You are the type who shoots a gun at someone...then wants to blame the bullet for hitting them.

Patriot, Busch was the worst president we've had in my lifetime of 65 years. But even I don't blame him or Clinton for 9/11. I don't know of anyone who could have imagined this happening. I feel that intel knew they (AQ) were going to try somthing again. But what, when and where?

Franklytrue, I agree with you.

There is ample evidence that Cheney and Tenet knew that 9/11 was going to go down the way it went down. They did know the where and the when. If you stop the "terrorists" at the airport, or arm the cockpit, or mandate that the door always be locked, 9/11 never happens. Preventative measures were never implemented even though the PDB of August 6 2001 specifically named the WTC as a likely target for hijacked aircraft. 9/11 was an inside job, and Cheney helped plan it for twenty years. Wake up, before it is too late.

I agree with Patriot Chic, it's time to move ahead and stop living in the past. Our country is not going to improve until we stop blaming and start trying to solve our problems together.

You're a clown!

PValdes - it is a great accomplishment.

"The Clown" in the White House will be touting this as another great accomplishment.....watch and see

PValdes Bush has been out of office for over 3 years, please try to keep up.

PValdes,

If the bomber would have been successful would you have stated that Obama failed?

Rod, you can't talk to Obama haters. PValdes, Did you vote for McCain and Palin last election? When people complain when a bomb is found? Sheesh.

I thought I had been ignoring PValdes. Does newsvine reset those settings? I'll just do it again.

Newsvine rules should be..if you're not making a comment about the article..don't make a comment at all!

D'ja all notice the timing of this news? Just after the KY Derby favorite went down in defeat. Obviously another ploy by the White House to distract us from the failed policies of Obama trying to pick winners and losers. Union Rags is from Philadelphia, and Philly is where Romney spoke a week or so back.

Just another excuse for Obama to make Romney look bad. Is there no end to the failed shenagians that Obama will do to make lemonade out of lemons. And to top it off, Obama will probably claim it happened under his watch.

Greenhorn. POTUS doesn't have to make Mutt look bad....Muttster does that all by himself. I see that look of desperation (or feel at best) in you rwnjs screed. Sucks to be you........ Bunch of bawlbabies who hate the POTUS so much that you wan't the President to fail on the economy and the war on terrorists. Good gawd...go grab your plastic sheeting, duct tape and go hide until 2016!!

eggberta, I think Green Timer was being sarcastic. If I'm wrong I apologize.

eggberta, I thought my sarcasm was fairly unsubtle (I mean, Obama picking winners and losers at a horse race? what could be more meaningless than that?). Sorry to have gotten you so upset. I was actually baiting the conservatives, but I guess they saw through it. But I must say you've got me with "rwnjs" - I have no idea what that means.

Spot on Mike 277...did they just give away Intel, which cost the Taxpayer $Millions of to obtain, I don't think so. A CIA concoction from A to B. Which means we are missing something they do not want us to comment upon. The story is so feeble, fiction rather than fact, what are we missing.

This is how you fight small terrorist cells, with Intelligence, not combat brigades. They're a law enforcement problem, not a military one.

Welcome to the new Cold War. The developed world against Jihad. I expect it will last as long as the last cold war did so hunker down.

Its a multi-facited problem.

Yes, like who manufactures and sells all these explosives.

al Qaeda is running out of excuses for its hatred of the US and they know it. First, the excuse was oil. Then, it was our western way of living. Now that bin Laden was shown to be a lover of porn, I'm guessing his western ways are no longer an excuse. You know what I think? I think there's a world of guys out there so mentally insane that controlling the world is the only thing that matters to them.

They are fooling themselves if they think killing innocent people will stop the US from protecting its citizens. al Qaeda like the Taliban is a shred of the power it once might have had. The US is technologically on the offense and showing up these mental midgets big time. Now, not even bin Laden is someone they'd have obeyed. They are glad he's done. Leaves room at the top for another savage.

So what they are really after is the same as any common meatheaded control freak: power. What's really laughable to me is that they actually think they'll turn civilization back thousands of years.

Hmm...maybe these guys are the Second Coming of the Neanderthals?

Yeah sure, what they need is a hobby. Send over some paint-by-numbers and some cross-stitch patterns and we'll never have to worry again.

That's the problem: too many people praying and not enough people doing.

Come November, do something about it.

Vote for real change and reform before it's too late.

beenthere:

Do what?

ssshhhh. Don't remind us. I want her to be the pick. It would be so perfect. Terrorists getting killed all over and Condi explaining why the Bush administration payed no attention to the warnings they were given. Now what was that about treason?

Don't forget, your pal clinton was the first 'do-nothing-in-chief'. he had a chance to take care of this problem a loong time ago and just ignored it.

BS! Get educated! The single time he was pinned down the Afghans refused to help capture him and the US didn't have the forces to do so, this was pre-drone days... remember? Bush just came out and said we aren't going to look for him and they didn't. Wouldn't do to shoot the son of people you've been partying with since the 1950's.

Newsflash, if you think the CIA didn't know that Bin Laden was exactly where he was, you're dreamin! CIA serves Bush & Co., Oil Robber Baron and one of the 1%'rs founding father of the CIA. Obama went around the CIA to take out Bin Laden, that's why the DC Christian Brotherhood is so pissed off. I'm sure he was on their 'campaign' agenda and now they can't use him. GOPers politicians define a terrorist as anyone who isn't a GOPer, the model of fascisim. Now they are stuck with a cult member running for president. Time to rethink the whole party.

HYPOCRIT MUCH ugly American? What? Clinton is fair game but not your idiot in chief Bush???

Spot on American-American!!!

Clinton authorized bombings based on intelligence.

An 'aspirin factory' was destroyed and this became a punchline for those perfect Republicans (You know the ones who started an entire war based on lies that they knew were not true or at least were told were not reliable-the ones they got from 'Curveball' a Iraqi taxi driver)

Now under Obama we have taken down innumerable terrorist including Bin Laden and this guy...still they whine

Quadaffi was taken down...they whined

If Bush had done any of this they would be cheering and putting up banners saying "Mission Accomplished' You know...I think there is one of those in a storage room in the WHite House that has only been used once.

I guess someone needs to whisper in the Presidents ear: it is all a CIA dream, I knew something was awry...they normally couldn't catch a cold.

As we now know the CIA did not uncover a new 'underpants bomber' -as usual they lied to the Nation. The English MI5 and MI6 set it up, the CIA have falsely claimed this as their sting. For goodness sake will somebody close this corrupt organisation down, is there anybody out there looking after the American people, and more importantly their money.

Yea, like you're qualified to judge!

That's the view of a conservative!

I am Sheep. Hear me BAAAAAAAA

check this out, this is the guy you are supporting. He is drawing up plans for "re-education" camps in the US.

www.examiner.com/article/leaked-army-document-calls-for-concentration-camps-united-states?CID=examiner_alerts_article

It is particularly disturbing in light of the fact that obama recently acquired the right to indefinitely detain US citizens through the NDAA act. yah, only good can come from this. Who first in line to pick up their brown shirt?

Geezus troll. How many times you going to post this piece of trash? Do you get paid by the letter..word, or paragraph?

coming to save the mother f***in' day, yeah!

Totally. I am very proud of your unmanned craft killing civilians in other countries. Keep on keep on!

Civilian collateral damage is the time honored way of waging war since the beginning of time. The drones target specific high value targets. If civilians get in the way well tough luck. It is no different than any country waging war on any other country.

PS - Good going CIA, we are proud of the things you'r doing for America

TEX : Apples and Oranges.

Twin towers attack was a cowardly terrorist attack in which the goal was to cause maximum indiscriminate civilian casualty.

Drone attacks are military operations on specific high value targets where every care is taken to minimize civilian casualties by using precision ordnance and/or timing the strike carefully.

Some of you Americans really need to get off your unnecessary guilt trip.

Are you really that ill informed? There are no direct flights from Yemen to the U.S., but there are lots of connecting points. Tell me how you monitor all those flights.

There aren't any flights between Yemen and the US.

Well let's ban any flights that have stopped in Yeman - you know eliminate connecting flights Mikey

ALEC is busy writing more NDAA style legislation for their Paid Politicians to pass for them to make them richer. This is utter BS, there are no US bound flights out of Yemen so the CIA is taking credit for saving who???? Europe? We can blame the CIA for starting all wars since their formation in 1944. Eisenhower fully believed they assassinated Patton and Patton said as much before they killed him. When Kennedy said, 'if they are going to kill me, they are going to kill me.' He was talking about the CIA. The current beef with Pakistan can be attributed to a CIA 'mercenary contractor' who shot two innocent people in Pakistan and walked away.

The CIA just handed a drone over to Iran a few months ago. We can be sure that technoligy is being shared with Russia, Pakistan and China. The CIA has cost the USA it's reputation as a democracy. 700,000 people dead so the US Oil Robber Barons can run a frickin pipeline to bypass Iran. That's what we are defending, a tank of gas.

I just say don't allow any ragheads on any flights coming to the US-PERIOD

Y'know what's fun? Just copy and paste all the comments on a story like this. Then do an auto-replace and substitute "Jews" for "Muslims" and "Judaism" for "Islam." Then try to tell the difference between that and Nazi propaganda.

Excellent point, Lev.

I also am extremely grateful to the CIA..underwear bombs..? What is next..The taking out of Bin Ladin..I agree it had to be done..but only half the problem was addressed..would have rather had time to hear his side of the story..I believe he was taken out in the way he was so his side of the story could not be told..to many would have been implicated..he was the scapegoat..now did I shed even one tear on the day he died..of course not..to kill so many innocent people is not forgivable to me..I do remember a couple of years ago on Christmas..they wanted to come to the table to talk peace..I new they would be the first to step up..our administration could not have that..it would have shown what heartless monsters have been put in control of our country..something most American's would not want to admit..means they have not been watching..because they are to involved in there own lives most..to really care about what is happening around the world..I believe a lot are starting to wake up..it is about time..watch them all very closely..people will die to save there dirty little secrets..but if possible they of course would rather someone else die..sad for me..I had to much time on my hands during all this stuff..was able to watch to closely..home taking care of a sick boyfriend ..who later became my husband..anyway..assassination..not a good Idea..the person gets to die a hero..like the those who worshiped this man..I would have rather heard his side of the story let the whole truth come out..and let the history books record for once the true story..not the one that the government wants us to believe..censored just like the News..that we see daily on TV..were they are not allowed to voice what they think or feel..just report as they are told..by the sponsors..enough for now..thanks for allowing me to join your conversation..remember they are very good actors..conditioned to say what they think you want to hear..with a smile..

@Colette, Osama a scape goat? As i perceive it, from the time OBL went home after Afganistan. He was making us the scapegoat for all the woes of that part of the country. He than had one goal and one goal only, to bring down America. If my President can split his religious beliefs from state requirements he has two thumbs up for me. You need to go back before 9/11 and get a better picture. You have just live thru History in the making, from begining to end, and now (this part is over) it will be documented for future generations. Now we get the rest of the henchmen or will you say we will make scapegoats of them to?

She employed the wrong word. Usama bin Laden was and is our willing "patsy" as the head of our own creation; Al Qaida (Al - C.I.A. - da). It means the base, the data base for the mujahadin.He was retired through his and our CIA's own faked assassination of him. He's still living the life with George Tenet in Great Falls, Va.

dirka dirka dirka - Hey Mike, nice camo !

....like who else?