PoliticsPakistan: WarUSA: Osama bin Laden dead in Mayday strike

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Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt condemns death of mass murderer.

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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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Politics: Military USA: Iraq War quite necessary, well justified, not ignoble, not a ruse

Evangelical Outpost. Joe Carter's stimulating and intelligent blog tackles "10 things we've forgotten about the Iraq War" (Mar20,2k7). This is a must read; there are some 80 replies from all over the poiitical spectrum, and more than enuff material to launch your own historiographical expedition into many facets of the origins and conduct of the War. But Joe's account is not in line with the doctrinaire voices of the anti-war Lefties, to be sure.

1. Most people have forgotten--or never knew--all the reasons we went to war. -- H.J.RES.114 is the Congressional resolution that authorized the President to use force to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. Most Americans--probably including the 136 Congressional Representatives and 16 Senators who co-sponsored the resolution--have never bothered to read the text and instead parrot nonsense about "why we really went to war." This law, however, provides the complete list of justifications for why we went to war with Iraq. This law establishes the criteria that the American people--through their elected representatives--agreed were sufficient reasons for using force in Iraq. The list includes:

Continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability (false); actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability (true); supporting and harboring terrorist organizations (true); continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population (true); refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq (true); failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait (true); demonstrated its capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people (true); attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush (true); firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces (true); harbored members of al-Qaeda (true); continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations (true).

Critics of the war who deny or downplay these reasons for going to war are either ignorant or dishonest. They are either unaware of the real reasons provided to the American people by their legislature or do know and are intentionally being deceptive.

The above is verbatim the 1st of Joe's ten reasons why we've forgotten. I urge refWrite readers to click-up and engage with Joe's thinking in regard to the further 9 of his reasons. His blog-entry is a veritable manual for a thawtful beginner's education on why the USA continued the conflict in Iraq, that never stopped after what is now called the Gulf War I. The US in the north and the British in the south flew war planes over Iraq (except for the central section where Baghdad is situationed, and those planes were shot at almost daily by Saddam's defeated army on the ground (it couldn't get its own planes up). Bush, after 9/11, only escalated the armed conflict. The legalities of the Allies war against the genocidal regim of Iraq are impeccable. That factoid by no means resolves every issue, but it is important in any overall evaluation.