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Bin Laden’s Widows Charged in Pakistan

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Posted on Mar 8, 2012
AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

What will become of Osama bin Laden’s wives? The three widows, all of whom were with the former al-Qaida leader when American troops stormed his Pakistan compound and killed him last spring, have been charged with illegally entering that country and may be obliged to stay there for longer than they may have expected.  —KA

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Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the women, reported to be two Saudis and a Yemeni, had been charged but did not say when the hearing took place.

The wives and about 10 children were taken into custody last May when US commandos raided their safe house.

The three women had been living in the compound in Abbottabad that Navy Seals attacked, killing Bin Laden.

Mr Malik said the women had entered the country illegally, and there were also “several incidents involving deception and forgery”.

He told reporters in Islamabad that “only the adults had been charged”, and the children were free to return to their native countries if their mothers agreed.

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By heterochromatic, April 2, 2012 at 7:33 pm Link to this comment

Naw, PH, they’re not being called terrorists. they’re illegal immigrants!


in a very embarrassed Pakistan and the Pakistanis are hoping like hell that they are
spirited away and kept quiet.

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By PatrickHenry, April 2, 2012 at 4:52 pm Link to this comment

Guilt by association.

Terrorist bitches.

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By heterochromatic, April 2, 2012 at 6:27 am Link to this comment

turns out that the WILL be gone in a couple of months….........maybe 45 days


———” ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Monday convicted Osama bin Laden’s
three widows and two of his grown-up daughters of illegal residency, sentencing
them to 45 days detention and ordering their deportation.”——-

http://tinyurl.com/7u9mwdp

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By robwrinkle, March 12, 2012 at 11:44 am Link to this comment
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I did not say Bin Laden was alive.  I just find the raid on the compound story
difficult to believe.  It reminds me of the Todd Beamer Let’s Roll story, the Pat
Tillman lies, the Jessica Lynch lies, the 911 lies.

I would like to see proof.  I no longer take the government’s or mainstream
media’s word for it.

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By PatrickHenry, March 12, 2012 at 2:35 am Link to this comment

Speaking of lies.

“….he was only renting and the real owner was the ISI!!!!!”

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/bin-laden-compound-in-pakistan-was-once-an-isi-safe-house-1.802539

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By heterochromatic, March 11, 2012 at 7:49 pm Link to this comment

great point, wrinkles…. the media have no excuse for saying that it was bin
Laden’s compound that was stormed….he was only renting and the real owner was
the ISI!!!!!

thanks for helping to catch this lie and to correct it.

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By robwrinkle, March 11, 2012 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
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The MSM floats these otherwise trivial stories only to reinforce the lie. 

“were with the former al-Qaida leader when American troops stormed his Pakistan
compound and killed him last spring.” 

Repeat the lie over and over and over….that is the tactic being employed when you see these otherwise trivial stories.

The raid on the compound story is bullshit. 

Thanks to TruthDig for playing along.

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By vector56, March 10, 2012 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

“bin Laden IS NOT DEAD!!!!!”

“he’s drumming for Fleetwood Mac and currently rehearsing for a summer tour.”

Among Christians there is a saying; “the greatest thing the Devil ever did was convince people he/she/it does not exist!”

Being an Atheist, I consider the above statement supernatural bull shit of the highest order, but the tactical idea might be useful.

Recap:

Osama was shot in the head by a super secrete team of assassin (Seal Team 6); and because we feared this man so much even in death, dumped his body in the deep dark ocean where no one could ever find it?

1.) bin Laden did work with the CIA in the past; Afghanistan.

2.)Our government has lied to us before.

3.)We all watched the 2 towers (plus building 11) collapse in their own foot print.

“Nothing to see here people, move it along!”

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By Maani, March 9, 2012 at 10:43 pm Link to this comment

hetero:

LOL.  Actually, he is on an island with Elvis, Jimi, Janis et al.  LOL.

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By heterochromatic, March 9, 2012 at 7:01 pm Link to this comment

Maani——bin Laden IS NOT DEAD!!!!!

he’s drumming for Fleetwood Mac and currently rehearsing for a summer tour.

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By Maani, March 9, 2012 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment

FRTothus:

Thank you for your post.  For the record, OBL had visited the U.S. hospital in Dubai three times between 9/11 and 9/12.  If he was not assassinated (as claimed by, among others, Benazir Bhutto), he most likely died of renal failure, no later than early 2003.

Peace.

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By heterochromatic, March 9, 2012 at 2:49 pm Link to this comment

gerard——people are free to think that bin Laden was a hero….. quite a few
people to.

it’s neither wise nor good, but they can and do.

the history of the world is full of such madness.

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By moonraven, March 9, 2012 at 11:19 am Link to this comment

Haveyourownprivateidaho:

YOU are a terrorist.  Stop farting in the cafeteria line and blaming it on somebody else.

YOU STINK of fascist hypocrisy.

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By moonraven, March 9, 2012 at 11:16 am Link to this comment

Vector:

I do not need Hettie and his hijinks here for contrast.

I know my own moral fiber very well.  And my soul and I are on buddy buddy terms.

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By Jim Yell, March 9, 2012 at 7:25 am Link to this comment
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Given the dependent status of women in Pakistan and much of Islam I can not see how holding them hostage for the crimes of their husbands can in any way be a rational approach to justice.

Some of the comments in this section are cause for dispair among those of us who are civilized and not block heads.

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By Haveyourwebsite, March 9, 2012 at 6:41 am Link to this comment

We have to arrest each and everyone in Osama’s family.
And prevent them from growing terrorism

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By PatrickHenry, March 9, 2012 at 4:27 am Link to this comment

vector56,

No proofing necessary, it made good sense to me.

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By vector56, March 8, 2012 at 7:43 pm Link to this comment

“vec—- try slipping some of that thalidomide than mamma vec musta been
gobbling in the year prior to your hatching. “

heterochromatic;

I was arrested in Cleavland for what you have tried to do above;

two counts of “attempted humor!”

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By vector56, March 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment

Re-post with corrections. I need to proof this crap before I spit it out!

moonraven; as a Liberal, I understand your reaction to heterochromatic. As vile and repulsive as he may be he seems to represent about 45% to 50% of the American population. We intellectually honest, compassionate “freaks” that call ourselves Liberals are a minority.

When Blacks were lynched in the South, guys like heterochromatic showed up with a picnic lunch; when smallpox blankets were given to the Natives, herteo’s type declared, “kill them all and let God sort them out!” When the Jews were “put down” by the millions a German incarnation of heterochromatic stood by admiring the “efficiency” of a well oiled killing machine (support the Troops). When 3.5 million Vietnamese were forced to “give up the ghost”, odds are old hetrochromatic because “we left a few women and children alive, hasn’t felt good about himself since” (Carlin).

Now something “old” gets repackaged as the “war on Terror” and Muslim men are “in season”. Terrorist is the new Ni*ger! So, hetrochromatic go ahead indulge your darkest desires; after all, like Blacks, Jews and those little “Gooks” they are not like us!

You see, guys like hetrochromatic are a staple of the human condition. We need him here for contrast.

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By gerard, March 8, 2012 at 7:33 pm Link to this comment

hetero:  A little love and education goes a long way to prevent the fanaticism involved in growing into a future of suicide bombing.  But on the other hand, there are counter-influences like having your father,
who was admired and believed to be a patriot by many of your fellowo-countrymen,murdered by “foreigners”, his body kidnapped and dumped into the ocean uncere-moniously somewhere unknown—well, now, that just might lead you to become a terrorist—especially if you had the least bit of encouragement. Oh well,
tra-la all the way to the back door.  The means can be made to justify the end—in a pinch? ...

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By vector56, March 8, 2012 at 6:23 pm Link to this comment

“Hettie:  What do we have to slip YOU to get you to disappear from this forum?”

moonraven; as a Liberal, I understand your reaction to heterochromatic. As vile and repulsive as he may be he seems to represent about 45% to 50% of the American population. We intellectually honest, compassionate “freaks” that call ourselves Liberals are a minority.

When Blacks were lynched in the South, guys like heterochromatic showed up with a picnic lunch; when small pot blankets were given to the Natives, herteo’s type declared, “kill them all and let God sort them out!” When the Jews were “put down” by the millions a German incarnation of heterochromatic stood by admiring the “efficiency” of a well oiled killing machine (support the Troops). When 3.5 million Vietnamese were forced to “give up the ghost”, odds are old hetrochromatic because “we left a few women and children alive, hasn’t felt good about himself since” (Carlin).

Now something “old” gets repackaged as the “war on Terror” and Muslim men are “in reason”. Terrorist is the new Ni*ger! So, hetrochromatic go ahead indulge your darkest desires; after all, like Blacks, Jews and those little “Gooks” they are not like us!

You see, guys like hetrochromatic are a staple of the human condition. We need him here for contrast.

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By heterochromatic, March 8, 2012 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment

FRTothus———- now you’re alleging that you didn’t say he was immortal?

when did you make that alleged claim???

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By FRTothus, March 8, 2012 at 3:19 pm Link to this comment

@ heterochromatic

Where did I say he was immortal?

It is not a question of bin Laden’s mortality.

Here’s the part of the sentence I guess you skipped: “...was killed by the American assassins.”

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By moonraven, March 8, 2012 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment

Hettie:  What do we have to slip YOU to get you to disappear from this forum?

I am really sick and tired of your tendacious trolling and patriotic pimping.  Not to mention your rabid racism and your overwhelming obtusity.

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By heterochromatic, March 8, 2012 at 2:58 pm Link to this comment

gerard—- hopefully those 10 children won’t become underage suicide bombers
now that their dog of a dad is dead.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/08/31/afghanistan-taliban-should-stop-using-
children-suicide-bombers


and the Mommy in your little fable won’t have to explain why people teach
children to blow themselves to flinders.

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By gerard, March 8, 2012 at 1:58 pm Link to this comment

Well now—from a humanitarian standpoint ...
  Mom, what does “humanitarian” mean?
  I’m not sure, sonny. Sometimes it means one
    thing and sometimes it means something else.
Anyhow—whatever it means, if we have anything to do with this situation ...
  What situation, Mom?
  Well, I heard we killed BinLaden, and now ...
  How did we kill him, Mom?
  Go on outdoors and play. Don’t bother me now, I’m
    trying to think ...
So -“About 10 children” it says here.  If their moms
  have been arrested as illegals, I wonder how old
  they are and what will happen to them? ...
  ... oh, well.  After all it’s not my business ...
  is it?
But—.........we killed their father, didn’t we?
Yes, but—... he was a terrorist!
    Mom, what’s a terrorist?

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By heterochromatic, March 8, 2012 at 1:36 pm Link to this comment

FRTothus——” To presume that bin Laden was killed by the American assassins
assumes facts not in evidence.”—-

yeah, like, it’s so not in evidence that bin Laden COULD be killed, like he’s not
immortal and all.

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By FRTothus, March 8, 2012 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment

I guess the word “alleged” has become obsolete.  Administration officials tell lies, the media repeat the lies, and the “educated” accept the lies. 

To presume that bin Laden was killed by the American assassins assumes facts not in evidence.  What is known is that he suffered with medical issues related to his kidneys, was admitted to a US hospital, as seen by an American doctor, and was visited by the CIA, all while he was among the “most wanted”.  What a joke!  As a CIA asset, he was the perfect nightmare story to allow the war-mongers in Washington to spend any amount of money on arms in their endless wars-for-profit, invade defenseless countries at will, and the media, as usual, was as uncritical and and unquestioning and as naive as ever, dutifully passing along any and every lie as if it were the truth, from the Maine to Pearl Harbor to JFK, RFK, MLK, the Gulf of Tonkin to Oklahoma City to 9/11, swallowing every myth and fable coming down the pike, no matter how absurd or outlandish.  Perhaps the reason people aren’t reading newspapers anymore is because they have learned that the news has nothing to do with the truth, but is (and always has been) just filler between the ads.

“Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.”
(William Blum)

“To keep information from the public is the function of the corporate media.”
(Gore Vidal)

“The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.”
(Noam Chomsky)

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By heterochromatic, March 8, 2012 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment

nothing is actually going to happen to the women…..this is just part of the Pakistani
facade of showing that there was simply “no idea that this was going on under our
very noses”...the women are charged with sneaking into the country because the
Pakistani govt has to stick to the story that bin Laden snuck in.

somebody will slip the Pakistanis a big bunch of bank notes and the women will be
gone in a couple of months.

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