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President Obama on the Death of Osama bin Laden

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Posted on May 2, 2011
The White House via YouTube

President Obama reads his statement to photographers after making a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House on Sunday.

As he announced the death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday night, President Barack Obama gave a nod to nationalism, remarking that “today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.” Packaging aside, what apparently happened is that the elusive al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. forces, who “took custody of his body,” according to Obama.  —KA

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By Thrashertm, May 2, 2011 at 9:26 am Link to this comment

No doubt this will soon be a major motion picture. Who
should be cast as Osama?

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By elisalouisa, May 2, 2011 at 8:46 am Link to this comment

Sunday is a good day for such news, more coverage. May Day, when Hitler died and Engel wrote the communist manifesto, quite symbolic.
I tend to agree that Osama died a few years back and was kept alive for propaganda purposes.

The shot in the head touch, right out of Hollywood.

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By drbhelthi, May 2, 2011 at 7:56 am Link to this comment

Insiders know that Osama bin Laden died, Winter 2002, of renal failure.
After two kidney transplants that did not take. One on a US Naval vessel,
one in Israel. The current fairy tale of family Bush/Obama SS
Stormtroopers having invaded the “stronghold” of bin Laden is simply
another CIA fairy tale. A very smelly one, at that. This “BREAKING NEWS” 
bullshit announcement only suggests that the pawn of the NAZI element of
the CIA, “B. H. Obama,” is proceeding into the next phase of the
takeover/destroy the U.S.A. plan. 

We need to remind ourselves daily of the summary statement,“We’ll know our
disinformation program is complete when everything the American public
believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting,
1981)

In response to the “blogger” who asked me how Mrs. Mae Brussel was present
to record the statement, and other valid questions. I can´t update you on
thirty years of information, contained in hundreds of books and articles.
Going online, and asking who is Mae Brussel, will get you started.
However.  Journalism in 1981 was just a bit more open than “journalism” in
2011. 

If you “google” the two words, NAZI Bush, you will acquire information
that tends to clarify that which is a “mystery” for some people, whose
major source of info is FOX TV and NEWSMAX of Florida. FOX appears to be
a counter-posed instrument of the CIA. NEWSMAX publishes useful health
information in order to hook readers on the non-medical propaganda it
publishes for the string-pullers of the Republican Party, in affiliation
with the CIA.

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By samosamo, May 2, 2011 at 7:50 am Link to this comment

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Well, I haven’t seen any pictures and I don’t think anybody will
be able to prove it now.

I got this from Politico news this morning.

“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”
POLITICO Breaking News
————————————————————————-

Osama bin Laden’s body has been buried at sea, a U.S. official
confirmed.

For more information… http://www.politico.com
“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”

So, yes Patrick Henry, it is a canned event with the evidence
conveniently tucked away to avoid scrutiny. Sort of makes sense
to have this ‘happen’ when obama is running winded in this
campaign build up on another ‘surely the man is dead you can
believe in’.

Oh and a second Politico notice this morning:
“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”
POLITICO Breaking News
————————————————————————-

Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised President Barack
Obama and the U.S. military and intelligence communities
Monday on the death of Osama bin Laden, calling it “a victory for
the United States and a tremendous achievement for the military
and intelligence professionals who carried out this important
mission.”

“I also want to congratulate President Obama and the members
of his national security team. . . .We must remain vigiliant,
especially now, and we must continue to support our men and
women in uniform who are fighting on the front lines of this war
every day. Today, the message our forces have sent is clear—if
you attack the United States, we will find you and bring you to
justice.”

For more information… http://www.politico.com
“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“

This and the other sure puts a lot of credence in ‘canned event’ I
would say. Notice the

““we must continue to support our men and women in uniform
who are fighting on the front lines of this war every day.”“

It should read: ‘and now it brings me great pleasure to reassure
everyone that we can continue our great perpetual war against
ghosts.

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By kanuear-kanuc, May 2, 2011 at 6:18 am Link to this comment
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Please please! We are expected to believe this new crap? We are expected to go for this like fried ice cream on a 100 degree day. Shot in the head, identified, treated by Islamic law and then… buried at sea? Please! Why give the respect of Islamic law if he really killed so many. Why not put his body on display for all to see. Smells a little like the trade center rubble that was immeadiately gathered and shipped to Israel without examination. Looks like the powers that be are getting ready to remove more of your constitutional rights in the name of home land security. Pretty soon you won’t be able to leave your home without security permission. Anyone that believes this new line of bullshit deserves what will soon follow. Wait!!! I think there’s a uniformed representative at your door now. I does not matter if you open it or not, REMEMBER NO KNOCK? The rich get richer and the beat goes on. LATER!!!

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By william, May 2, 2011 at 5:03 am Link to this comment
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Good,
Now that Bin Ladin and Saddam Hussein are dead and there never were any WMDs, I guess we can stop killing people around the world and we can bring the troops back home and now I guess we can even cut back on the defense budget so we can spend that money on feeding people here at home…what a relief!

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By ds, May 2, 2011 at 4:12 am Link to this comment
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“What do you mean, you want to see the body, just to make sure?”

You can’t. We…erm…buried it at sea.

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By PatrickHenry, May 2, 2011 at 2:55 am Link to this comment

Smells too much of a ‘canned event’.

The shot to the head was a nice touch.

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By Ed, May 2, 2011 at 2:29 am Link to this comment
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Erm, wasn’t he killed by a guy called Sheik Bin Mohammed in Torra Borra a few years ago (as told by Benazir Bhutto in an interview with David Frost on Al-jazeera just before she was murdered)?

The last non-faked message the world got from that geezer that I remember was when he denied having anything to do with the twin towers.

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