{"id":4734,"date":"2011-05-02T01:50:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2011-05-02T04:03:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T11:03:33","slug":"obama-got-osama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/obama-got-osama\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Got Osama!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December, 2001 GW Bush promised<\/a> to get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.\u00a0 If he had done so then, the US could have declared victory and come home, but Bush, in typical Republican fashion, proved too incompetent for the task.\u00a0 He was too busy trying to conquer Afghanistan to run a gas pipeline through that country and grab Iraq\u2019s oil.\u00a0 He proved too incompetent for those tasks too although he had seven years.\u00a0 Now Barack Obama, after less than three years, has succeeded.\u00a0 How ironic it is that Republicans have claimed that Democrats want that terrorists to win and called him Obama bin Laden.\u00a0 He may be too gracious to rub their noses in it, but I\u2019m not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"2OBLdead\"Nearly 10 years after he launched the deadliest domestic attack in U.S. history, al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has been killed by American forces. Late Sunday evening, President Barack Obama addressed the American people from the White House while Vice President Joseph Biden called congressional leaders to inform them of the news. \u201cJustice has been done,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

Bin Laden\u2019s death marks a long-awaited victory for the U.S. and its allies: for the families of nearly 3,000 victims killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on Sept.11, 2001, and for the military and intelligence forces that have been hunting him since. Massive crowds gathered outside the White House on Sunday night, singing the national anthem in a celebration that quickly spread nationwide.<\/p>\n

In his statement to the country, Obama said the operation showed that \u201cAmerica can do whatever we set our minds to. It is the story of our history.\u201d Former President George W. Bush called the raid a \u201cmomentous achievement [that] marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama said the U.S. received a tip about Bin Laden\u2019s whereabouts last August and pursued it over the intervening months. A senior administration official told reporters early Monday morning that intelligence officials had learned from detainees that Bin Laden used a particularly trusted courier, who was a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks. Four years ago the officials were able to identify the courier\u2019s real name, but not his location.<\/p>\n

Last August, the U.S. got a lead on the courier\u2019s location\u2013a high-walled, $1 million compound in an affluent neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. Eight times larger than other houses in the area, the roughly five-year old compound had two security gates, no telephone or internet connections and its residents burned their garbage rather than putting it out for collection, as others in the neighborhood did, the senior administration official said. \u201cThe physical security measures of the compound are extraordinary,\u201d the official said, and U.S. officials concluded that it had been built for the purpose of hiding Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Obama ordered a small team of American forces to attempt to capture Bin Laden. In the process of executing that operation, Obama said, the team engaged in a firefight. There were no American casualties, but one U.S. helicopter was lost. Three men were killed along with Bin Laden, including one of his sons and a courier. One woman was killed as a man in the compound attempted to use her as a shield, the senior official said Monday morning. Bin Laden resisted the assault team and was killed. The raid lasted approximately 40 minutes\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is the video of the President\u2019s announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And here is video from Rachel Maddow covering the celebration outside the Whitehouse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

She raised a good point.\u00a0 In all probability, Al Qaeda will be seeking revenge so we can expect an attack.\u00a0 GW ChickenHawk and the Republicans would whip up such a frenzy of fear that they would render themselves incapable.\u00a0 Instead, let us be vigilant without being fearful.\u00a0 There is no need to be.\u00a0 After all, Democrats are much more capable of dealing with national security issues than Republicans as this demonstrates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now if only Obama would use this triumph as an occasion to declare victory and bring out troops home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember, Al Dubya is a far greater threat to America than Al Qaeda ever was.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December, 2001 GW Bush promised to get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.\u00a0 If he had done so then, the US could have declared victory and come home, but Bush, in typical Republican fashion, proved too incompetent for the task.\u00a0 He was too busy trying to conquer Afghanistan to run a gas pipeline through […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}