PoliticsPakistan: WarUSA: Osama bin Laden dead in Mayday strike

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NYT blog (May2,2k11)
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Update: 
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt condemns death of mass murderer.

Below:  
The Caucus: The Politics and Govt Blog of the New York Times

May 2, 2011, 5:37 AM

Timeline: The Intelligence Work Behind Bin Laden’s Death

by NEW YORK TIMES

A timeline of the events and intelligence work that led to President Obama’s dramatic late-night announcement on Sunday of the capture and killing ofOsama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda leader responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks:

Four Years Ago: American intelligence for the first time uncovers the name of Bin Laden’s trusted courier but cannot locate him.

Two Years Ago: American intelligence identifies areas in Pakistan where the courier and his brother have operated but cannot pinpoint exactly where they live.

August 2010: American intelligence locates the brothers’ residence, a compound about 35 miles north of Islamabad in the city of Abbottabad. The compound is so large, secluded and secured that analysts conclude it must shelter a higher-value target than a courier.

September 2010: The Central Intelligence Agency begins to work with President Obama on assessments that lead them to believe that Bin Laden may be located at the compound.

Mid-February 2011: United States government authorities determine that there was a sound intelligence basis to pursue this direction aggressively and develop courses of action.

March 14: Mr. Obama begins a series of National Security Council meetings to develop options for capturing or killing Bin Laden.

March 29: Mr. Obama convenes the council’s second meeting on the operation.

April 12: Mr. Obama convenes the third meeting.

April 19: Mr. Obama convenes the fourth meeting.

April 28: Mr. Obama convenes the fifth meeting.

April 29: Mr. Obama authorizes the operation before flying to Alabama to inspect tornado damage.

May 1:

2 p.m.: Mr. Obama meets with his national security team to review preparations.
3:50 p.m.: Mr. Obama told that Bin Laden had been tentatively identified.
7:01 p.m.: Mr. Obama told that it was a “high probability” that Bin Laden had been killed.
11:35 p.m.: In a televised address, Mr. Obama announces Bin Laden’s death.

SOURCE:
Administration officials briefing reporters on condition of anonymity under White House ground rules.




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PoliticsNorthernIreland: Assassination: 'Heinous sin' when co-religionists wipe out a father in front of his kids, his tot and a 5-year old

refWrite's YouTubeServices channel yUT2ube (found Apr 3,2k11)

UPDATE:  

Ronan Kerr murder: 

NI leaders to meet police chief

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Dissident republicans

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• Timeline of dissident activity
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Northern Ireland's political leaders will meet Chief Constable Matt Baggott this morning to discuss the murder of Catholic police officer Ronan Kerr.

Prots murder Caths ...







... and vice versa ... Caths murder Prots




... but politically-motivated Caths also assassinate fellow Caths, as in the topmost vid posted here today.
I'd guess that rather occasionally Prots terminate fellow Prots as well.

Can anyone conceive of a greater crime than to murder a man in front of his family as he was coming from worshipping God?  -- Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich

I was alerted afresh to these ironies thru the series of videos (presently numbering 144) by Orange Democrats in Northern Ireland, when I came upon a reformational-blogger friend's reference to the topmost vid about an event that happened quite recently.  The vid is accompanied by a  moving textual blog-entry and appears on Novice Philosopher under the title "A Heinous Sin," a phrase deployed on the occasion of this murder by a leading Roman Catholic prelate.

CivilityUSA: Left is 'wrong': Arizona massacre not to be blamed on political hot-talk

Opinion

Arizona shooting pundits are wrong: 

Heated political speech isn’t 

the problem – it’s the solution

In the wake of the Arizona shooting, 

some lawmakers want to curb political speech. 

But raucous debate is a hallmark of a healthy democracy. 

Indeed, it's a safety valve that helps prevent violence, 

because it allows people to voice their strongly held views 

in hopes of persuading others.

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by Blair Lindsay / January 13, 2011

please, do yourself a favour -- click up and read the above article by 

Blair Lindsay in the Christian Science Monitor 

[Boston, Massachusetts] 

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PoliticsUSA: psycho-history in current events: Fox news made loughner assassinate in Tucson, theory says

The Daily Beast [Jan13,2k11]

The Tuscon shooter’s worldview was shaped by the popular conspiracy-theory documentary Zeitgeist, friends say. Michelle Goldberg on the force behind the movie—and why his viewing habits matter.

The Cult Web Film that Inspired Loughner

by Michelle Goldberg 

We now know a little bit more about the matrix of ideas that helped inspire Jared Loughner’s murderous rampage on Saturday. According to a friend of his interviewed on Good Morning America on Wednesday, the conspiracy documentary Zeitgeist“poured gasoline on his fire” and had “a profound impact on Jared Loughner's mindset and how he views the world that he lives in.” He was also, according to his friend’s father, influenced by the documentary Loose Change, a classic of the 9/11 Truth movement. This does not mean that either of these movies is responsible for making Loughner do what he did, but it does show how his madness was shaped by a broader climate of paranoia, and offers a clue as to why he targeted Gabrielle Giffords.

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PoliticsUSA: Left's assassination spin undone: Jared Loughner not political, not politically motivated, but with some lousy loose political ideas

Zach Osler, an old friend of Loughner’s, said Loughner was merely an angry person who “was shooting at the world” rather than carrying out a politically motivated attack.

“He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right,” Osler said.

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