Mohammad Mamdouh and Ahmed Serhani

Terrorism against the U.S. didn't die with Osama bin Laden.

Mohammad Mamdouh, of Moroccan descent, and Ahmed Serhani, of Algerian descent, were arrested for plotting to attack a New York area synagogue.

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Chris Wallace and Tom Donilon

Chris Wallace made a fool out of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on FOX News Sunday.

From Mediaite:

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon a rather interesting question related to the capture and shooting death of terrorist leader Osama din Laden: Why is it legal and “proper” to shoot an unarmed man in the face, while enhanced interrogation methods, such as waterboarding, are deemed improper? You might recall, in fact, that waterboarding was banned by President Barack Obama back in January of 2009.

Donilon initially responded by driving home the danger posed by bin Laden, and the power he yielded within Al Qaeda, prompting Wallace to interrupt him and clarify that he wasn’t looking for justification as to why bin Laden was shot down by U.S. troops but, rather, a reason why doing so is permissible when using often dangerous, but not necessarily lethal, methods of interrogation in order to bring such a dangerous man to justice are not.

Donilon said such methods are not only unnecessary, but are also consistent with America’s values. Wallace didn’t miss a beat, immediately asking whether shooting an armed man in the face is consistent with those same values. Well, Donilion pointed out, we are at war.

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The Leftists can't provide an adequate answer to Wallace's question because there isn't one.

They can't make a distinction that doesn't exist.

No Bin Laden Death Photo

Reuters "spikes the football" for Obama, sort of.

Still no verified image of Osama bin Laden dead.

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.

The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.

The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.

None of the men looked like bin Laden. U.S. President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
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Obama has spoken.

The American people will NOT see a photo of the dead Osama bin Laden.

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WH won't release bin Laden death photo

President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden, he said in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," amid concerns that the gruesome image could prove inflammatory.

Obama's decision was reported on the CBS News Web site Wednesday after the president sat for an interview with the news magazine program.

Releasing graphic images of bin Laden's corpse after his shooting in a U.S. raid on his compound could have dispelled doubts that bin Laden is indeed dead. The worry, though, was that it would feed anti-U.S. sentiment.

More, from CBS News:

In an interview with Steve Kroft for this Sunday's "60 Minutes," President Obama says he won't release post-mortem images of Osama bin Laden taken to prove his death.

...Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Wednesday that the Obama administration should not release the gruesome post-mortem images, saying it could complicate the job for American troops overseas. Rogers told CBS News he has seen a post-mortem photo.

"The risks of release outweigh the benefits," he said. "Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East."

"Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet," he continued. "Osama bin Laden is not a trophy - he is dead and let's now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaida has been eliminated."

What's Obama talking about?

We saw images of our troops being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. We don't have to imagine what it would be like.

What's with these Leftists?

They whined about not having images of the flag-draped coffins of our war dead.

They obsessed over body counts.

They insist on publishing all the gruesome details and images they can when it serves their purposes.

They couldn't get enough of the Abu Ghraib photos. They lusted for more.

The military be damned. The Leftists don't care.

Recently, TIME magazine put an extremely graphic photo of a young Afghan woman disfigured at the hand of her husband on its cover.



To view a larger image of the cover, click here.

Richard Stengel, TIME's Managing Editor, gives justification for publishing the cover photo:

Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws. Aisha posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan, many of whom have flourished in the past few years. Her picture is accompanied by a powerful story by our own Aryn Baker on how Afghan women have embraced the freedoms that have come from the defeat of the Taliban — and how they fear a Taliban revival.

I thought long and hard about whether to put this image on the cover of TIME. First, I wanted to make sure of Aisha's safety and that she understood what it would mean to be on the cover. She knows that she will become a symbol of the price Afghan women have had to pay for the repressive ideology of the Taliban. We also confirmed that she is in a secret location protected by armed guards and sponsored by the NGO Women for Afghan Women. Aisha will head to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery sponsored by the Grossman Burn Foundation, a humanitarian organization in California. We are supporting that effort.

I'm acutely aware that this image will be seen by children, who will undoubtedly find it distressing. We have consulted with a number of child psychologists about its potential impact. Some think children are so used to seeing violence in the media that the image will have little effect, but others believe that children will find it very scary and distressing — that they will see it, as Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston, said, as "a symbol of bad things that can happen to people." I showed it to my two young sons, 9 and 12, who both immediately felt sorry for Aisha and asked why anyone would have done such harm to her. I apologize to readers who find the image too strong, and I invite you to comment on the image's impact.

Without question, the Leftists are willing to use gruesome images.

On the other hand, these same people freak out over the images of an aborted baby. They demand that such photos never be shown. They refuse to allow people to see the reality of abortion, the dismembered, tiny bodies. No, we can't see those either.

It's all political.

I think a photo should be released. Give people the choice whether to view it or not.

I want to see a photo of bin Laden dead.

Give the American people, and history, something to go with these images:





Too gruesome?

Too inflammatory?

This from Obama, the man who undermined George W. Bush and his administration at every turn, showing no concern for how it would impact the American troops on the battlefield. This from Obama and his Democrat comrades, wanting to slash funding for our military.

Give me a break!

Obama's assertion of this notion that conspiracy theorists will just say a photo is doctored anyway is a ridiculous excuse.

Conspiracy nuts will never EVER be satisfied.

Moreover, all the fake images of the dead bin Laden floating around right now can just as easily be used as recruiting tools for terrorists and to inflame the Muslim world.

It's not as if withholding an image will prevent a backlash against the U.S., if there's going to be one.

Obama went on national TV and declared that a U.S. military operation KILLED bin Laden. I think the news of bin Laden's death is enough to inflame.

The argument that nothing good can come from releasing the photo is offset by the fact that nothing will change if it is released.

The slaughter of innocents on 9/11 and all the previous acts of war against the U.S. preceded bin Laden's death. No photo of a dead al Qaeda leader prompted these attacks.

Hopefully, Obama has the facts wrong about the photo, too. Hopefully, the White House will realize it's a mistake to fail to release a death photo of bin Laden.

Maybe this whole thing is just a dance to make it appear that Obama was forced to release a photo, even though he really didn't want to do it.

Someone will leak it and then Obama won't have to bear responsibility for making the decision to show the world.

The allegedly gutsy Obama should show some guts.

Leon Panetta: Waterboarding, Bin Laden

Donald Rumsfeld weighed in on the role waterboarding played in getting to Osama bin Laden.

Video, from FOX News.



This presents a bit of a problem for Obama and the Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media.

They have to reconcile the fact that information gained through interrogation techniques they fought to disallow helped to get bin Laden.

It's very inconvenient for them to admit that reality.

When the truth doesn't fit their agenda, they're forced to ignore it. They don't seem to mind being dishonest.

On Tuesday, NBC's Brian Williams interviewed CIA director Leon Panetta.

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Transcript

BRIAN WILLIAMS: I'd like to ask you about the sourcing on the intel that ultimately led to this successful attack. Can you confirm that it was as a result of waterboarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin Laden?

LEON PANETTA: You know, Brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here. We had a, we had a multiple source, uh, a multiple series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation. Clearly, some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees, but we also had information from other sources as well. So it's, it's a little difficult to say it was due just to one source of information that we got.

WILLIAMS: Turned around the other way, are you denying that waterboarding was in part among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to this successful mission?

PANETTA: No, I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees. But I'm also saying that, you know, the debate about whether, whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always going to be an open question.

WILLIAMS: So, finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation techniques, which has always been kind of a handy euphemism in these post-9/11 years, that includes waterboarding.

PANETTA: That's correct.

It took a while for Panetta to admit it, he obviously tried not to, but he did eventually acknowledge that intelligence gained from detainees who were waterboarded was a factor in the success of the mission to kill bin Laden.

That complicates things for Obama and the Leftists.

What is not an open question is the fact that information obtained via enhanced interrogation techniques played a part in accomplishing the mission.

It is what it is.

Waterboarding worked.

Matthew Boyle, The Daily Caller, writes that the New York Times completely ignores Panetta's admission in a story on the value of harsh interrogation methods.

In a story about the resurrection of the harsh interrogation techniques debate slated to run on The New York Times’ front page Wednesday morning, reporters Scott Shane and Charlie Savage completely ignore CIA director Leon Panetta’s Tuesday evening confirmation that waterboarding played a role in procuring the intelligence that led U.S. forces to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

“As intelligence officials disclosed the trail of evidence that led to the compound in Pakistan where Bin Laden was hiding, a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ like waterboarding,” Shane and Savage write in their story, accusing Republicans of igniting a debate they thought was long over.

Shane and Savage looked the other way, though, when it came to Panetta’s confirmation that waterboarding was part of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on detainees. “We had multiple series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation… clearly some of it came from detainees [and] they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of those detainees,” Panetta told NBC News anchor Brian Williams.

The New York Times duo also suggested that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, inflamed the debate by saying he thought the intelligence came from waterboarding. “The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, told Fox News that the success of the hunt for Bin Laden was due to waterboarding,” Shane and Savage wrote.

It turns out King was right.

We don't need spin.

We need facts.

We need the truth.

Intelligence from interrogation methods denounced by Obama and company were part of the mission's success.

Phillies Fans Cheer Bin Laden's Death (Video)

Geraldo Rivera and Osama Bin Laden's Death

Geraldo Rivera was thrilled to report that Osama bin Laden is dead.

It was as if he couldn't believe it when he learned the news and read it live on the air.

Transcript

GERALDO RIVERA: Stand by. Let's see. Hold on, hold on. I'm getting... what's this? Quick, quick.

(Reading)

'Senior Capitol Hill producer Chad Pergram confirms Osama bin Laden is dead. Senior Captiol Hill producer Chad Pergram confirms Osama bin Laden is dead.'

Can it be, ladies and gentlemen? Could it be?

Chad is one of the best in the business. He really is an extraordinary person. I just, I'm...

Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.

(Reading)

'Bin Laden is dead. Bin Laden is dead. Confirmed. Urgent. Confirmed. Bin Laden is dead. Multiple sources.'

Osama bin Laden is dead. Happy days! Happy days, everybody!

This is the greatest night of my career. The bum is dead, the savage who hurt us so grievously. And I am so blessed, I'm so privileged to be at this desk at this moment.

...I think that his continued existence on this earth, Osama bin Laden's continued existence on this earth has represented a continuing humiliation to the United States of America. He defied President George W. Bush, 43, and President Barack Obama, president 44, for all this time.

I don't care if he died falling into, you know, a mud hole or hitting his head on a car. The fact that he is dead, and we have multiple sources...

...Isn't that wonderful news? Isn't this a brilliant way to start your week?

FOX News is confirming, our senior Capitol Hill producer Chad Pergram, citing multiple sources, that the terror mastermind, the nightmare, America's long nightmare... how wonderful is it that as we approach the tenth anniversary of September 11th...?

And I remember my kids' elementary school, we lost at least a half a dozen dads who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and some of these other companies on Wall Street on 9/11, that's why I came to FOX News, to pursue and watch that monster being removed, being punished.

It is beyond joy that I bring you... I wish I could confirm it with my own eyes and my own reporter's notebook.

I trust Chad Pergram totally, and I want very much to get him on the phone. I want to hear it from his, his voice.

...All right. Chad's on the phone now. Chad Pergram...

CHAD PERGRAM: Hello.

RIVERA: Chad, let's have it. Let's have it. What do you know?

PERGRAM: I am told by multiple sources on Capitol Hill that Osama bin Laden is dead. That's the bottom line here.

Rivera was giddy.

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Bin Laden's Abbottabad Mansion Burning (Video)

This is what justice looks like.

Celebrating Bin Laden's Death, White House (Video)

Geraldo Rivera speaks with people outside the White House celebrating Osama bin Laden's death.



The crowd chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!"

Osama Bin Laden: DEAD

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done."

--George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Obama announced tonight that Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. military operation.

It took ten years, but U.S. Special Forces got him.

The liberal media spin is predictable.

The man behind the suicide hijack attacks of September 11, 2001, and who U.S. officials said late on Sunday was dead, was the nemesis of former President George W. Bush, who pledged to take him "dead or alive" and whose two terms were dominated by a "war on terror" against his al Qaeda network.

Bush failed. Obama succeeded.

Lame.

We know Obama didn't want bin Laden alive.

He wanted him dead. Obama wouldn't know what to do with him if he were taken alive.

Obama's speech announcing the successful mission to kill bin Laden was rather self-serving. HE gave the order and don't forget it.

Watch video of Obama's announcement.



He definitely wants the nation to give him credit. Obama does deserve credit for basically keeping up the pressure on bin Laden by continuing President Bush's policies.

I'm so grateful to the brave men and women fighting the War on Terror, protecting us.

What bothers me is that some Leftist pundits are suggesting bin Laden's death will change American policy, as if the threat from RADICAL Islam is no more.

That's incredibly naive. I would think the threat of retaliation is greater now. I don't feel safer. We can't let our guard down.

Bin Laden's death is a great accomplishment. It's a milestone.

I hope it brings some peace to the loved ones of the victims of 9/11. I hope they feel a sense that justice has been done.

Bin Laden is dead but the war he declared against the U.S. isn't over.

LISTEN

Victim, office worker Melissa Doi talks to an operator. (MP3, 31:19 min., 12.8 MB)

Fire chief requests help as cell phone networks failed. (MP3, 2:58 min., 1.7 MB)

"One of the towers just collapsed." (MP3, 26 sec., 264 K)

EMS dispatchers take calls from workers. (MP3, 2:08 min., 1.2 MB)

WATCH

Plane hits the North Tower

Plane hits the South Tower

NBC Today Show live coverage of 2nd plane hitting the WTC

South Tower collapses

North Tower collapses

God bless America.

Obama Bumps Trump

Tonight's episode of The Celebrity Apprentice was reaching a crescendo.

Who would be fired?

NeNe?

Star?

Hope?

NBC ran a crawl saying Obama would make an important statement at 10:30 ET. The network broke into programming about 10:45 ET.

Still no announcement from Obama, just babbling by Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, David Gregory, and Brian Williams.

There was absolutely no reason to preempt normal programming at that time.

Osama bin Laden is dead.

Great!

Did the DNA tests positively identifying bin Laden come back tonight?

What happened in the boardroom?