Pat Condell on the Death of Osama bin Laden

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This Guy rocks... TrevorLoudon.com: New Zeal Blog » Pat Condell on the Death of Osama bin Laden

That was very interesting and echos many voices. Recommended viewing.

 

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This Guy rocks... TrevorLoudon.com: New Zeal Blog » Pat Condell on the Death of Osama bin Laden

That's awesome!

I like the part about the pork chop in his mouth with a firemen's ax up his ass...

 

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Liked the part when he said Pakistani Intelligence couldn't find their ass in the dark with both hands.

 

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This Guy rocks...

That's awesome!

I like the part about the pork chop in his mouth with a firemen's ax up his ass...

that was my favorite also

 

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Wonder if he was the one that gave up Osama's courier?...

Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo dies in apparent suicide
Fri, May 20, 2011 - DETENTION:Inayatullah is the eighth prisoner to die at the US naval base in Cuba. The US military said he had admitted to being a member of al-Qaeda

An Afghan prisoner died at the Guantanamo detention center in a recreation yard in an apparent suicide, the US military said on Wednesday. The prisoner, identified as Inayatullah, a 37-year-old accused of being a member of al-Qaeda, was found dead by guards conducting routine checks at the facility. “An investigation is under way to determine the exact circumstances of what happened,” said Navy Commander Tamsen Reese, a spokeswoman at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba.

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The US military’s Southern Command said guards “found the detainee unresponsive and not breathing,” according to a statement. “After extensive lifesaving measures had been exhausted, the detainee was pronounced dead by a physician,” it said. Inayatullah is the eighth prisoner to die at the detention center since the US began sending foreign captives with suspected al-Qaeda or Taliban links to Guantanamo Bay in January 2002. Five others died of apparent suicides and two died of natural causes. Inayatullah was one of the last captives sent to Guantanamo, where the last publicly announced detainee arrival was in March 2008.

The prison camp has held 779 foreign captives since the US invaded Afghanistan to oust al-Qaeda and its Taliban protectors following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It now holds 171 people. In March, US President Barack Obama lifted a two-year freeze on new military trials at Guantanamo Bay and suggested the US Congress was hurting US national security by blocking his attempts to move some trials into US civilian courts. Obama had tried and failed to overcome objections by Republicans and some of his fellow Democrats in Congress to transfer some detainees to US prisons. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service will conduct an investigation after an autopsy by a military pathologist, the military said. Inayatullah’s body will then be prepared for repatriation.

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In the statement, the military said Inayatullah admitted to being a planner for al-Qaeda’s terrorist operations and helped to coordinate documentation, accommodations and vehicles to smuggle al-Qaeda fighters through Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq. Cuba has repeatedly criticized the Guantanamo base, saying it is an illegal enclave on its territory.

Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo dies in apparent suicide - Taipei Times

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With Al Qaeda weakened, US warns about other Pakistani terror groups
May 19, 2011 : While these groups have links with Al Qaeda, the bigger danger to the US is their ability to trigger a major crisis for nuclear-armed Pakistan, including a war with India.

With Osama bin Laden dead, and only small numbers of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some US leaders are talking up the threat of other militant outfits in the region. Such talk appears aimed at convincing critics why significant US forces must remain in the region at a time of war fatigue. “The key is making sure there are no safe havens for those transnational terrorist groups in Afghanistan,” Gen. David Petraeus told a reporter days after Mr. bin Laden’s death. By tallying up groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, and the Haqqani Network, the number of “transnational terrorists” rises from just a few hundred Al Qaeda to thousands of violent extremists to keep an eye on.

These three groups, while they have links with Al Qaeda, have yet to demonstrate much determination and success at striking in the US or Europe. But they could pose a present danger to the US for their ability to trigger a major crisis for nuclear-armed Pakistan, including a war with India. “We have concerns about them attacking India because that’s the most likely way that we are going to get an India-Pakistan crisis,” says C. Christine Fair, a regional expert at Georgetown University in Washington. When it comes to sending operatives to hit targets in the West, “I wouldn’t say we’ve seen a lot of stellar capability from these guys,” she adds. But she does worry about their ability to recruit and train members of the Pakistani diaspora living in the West.

The incidents that have most raised international concerns about groups aside from Al Qaeda are the 2008 Mumbai attacks, efforts to attack a Danish newspaper, and the attempted bombing of Times Square. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistani group historically focused on India, chose targets in the Mumbai massacre that were designed to kill not just Indians but Jews and Westerners. Adding to the international dimension, an American named David Headley traveled to Mumbai to plan the attack for the group.

According to Mr. Headley, the LeT also paid for him to travel to Denmark to plan an attack on a newspaper there. But Pakistan’s spy agency known as the ISI pressured the group to shelve the attack. “That LeT’s leadership contemplated an attack against Denmark is significant, but so too is the fact that it remained susceptible to ISI pressure,” writes LeT expert Stephen Tankel for the New America Foundation.

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Was Amal the CIA mole who guided the Seals to Osama?...

'CIA mole guided' SEALs to Osama bin Laden
May 23, 2011 - THE US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden were carrying a pocket guide to the occupants of his compound that was so detailed it suggests the CIA may have had a mole inside.

The document, left behind in the compound and obtained by The Sunday Times, lists the names and ages of those who were present, including bin Laden's wives, children and grandchildren. It details where they lived in the compound and when some of them arrived. It also suggests bin Laden had fathered twins in the compound. It refers to "two unidentified children" born this year to his youngest wife Amal, 28. Even the clothing worn by the 54-year-old al-Qa'ida leader is described. "Always wears light-coloured shawal (sic) kameez with a dark vest," it says. "Occasionally wears light-coloured prayer cap."

The document raises new questions about how bin Laden was tracked down in what President Barack Obama described as "one of the greatest intelligence successes in American history". After the mission Mr Obama said he had been "only 45 per cent to 55 per cent sure that bin Laden was even in the compound". The document, which is said to have been carried by all the SEALs on the mission, indicates US intelligence was certain of his presence. US officials have said that information on the compound was put together over months from a variety of sources, including a nearby CIA safe-house set up as a listening post, imagery from satellites and unmanned drones, and reports from their own agents.

But there is far more detail than seems possible from these methods - unless US drone technology is far more sophisticated than hitherto realised. Some Pakistani officials say the briefing points to the presence of a mole in the compound. "I think someone from inside may have given information," said Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister and former head of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency. "If the Americans didn't have definitive information, they couldn't have gone straight to the room where bin Laden was."

One side of the document is printed with a familiar photograph of the al-Qa'ida leader as well as a new picture of Amal - only the second known photograph of her - and an age-enhanced image of his son Khalid. From the other side stares the flabby courier Arshad Khan, looking older than the 33 years stated. There is also a description of his brother, another courier. The two elder Saudi wives have accused Amal, who is from Yemen, of betraying bin Laden, either by supplying information or by allowing herself to be tracked to the compound.

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