Tag Archives: Osama Bin Laden

CNN reports: The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Zawahiri, who just turned 71 years old, had remained a visible international symbol of the group, 11 years after the US killed Osama Bin Laden. At one point, he acted as bin Laden’s personal physician. The US …

CNN’s Peter Bergen writes: President Trump spoke to Chris Wallace of Fox News on Sunday and made a number of false claims about the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Wallace mentioned the commander of that operation, retired Admiral Bill McRaven, who has publicly criticized Trump for his denigration of the media. Trump responded that McRaven is a “Hilary Clinton …

From Indiana’s Tea Party group, who is denying that the billboard is a call to violence against the president. The message, put up earlier this month, was paid for by We the People of Marshall and Fulton counties, a tea party group. The head of the organization, Don Nunemaker of Plymouth, said late last week that the message was meant …

Flanked by former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, today Mitt Romney attempted to speak about the anniversary of Bin Laden’s killing, but was interrupted by an unseen woman who repeatedly screamed, “Mitt Romney, you’re a racist!” It’s not yet known what prompted the heckling.

A new ad from the Obama campaign launched today.

I suppose this was inevitable. HUSTLER VIDEO ANNOUNCES BIN LADEN PARODY (Canoga Park, CA) — May 18, 2011 — During this period of history where we seem to be in a state of perpetual war, nothing adds a little levity to a tense situation better than one of Hustler Video’s artfully crafted and expertly written parodies. With the recent death …

Voiceover by D.C. Douglas.

This should please the Obama haters. In a unique twist on the Osama bin Laden saga, Iran’s intelligence minister says Tehran has “genuine intelligence showing that the terrorist leader died of disease long before the alleged raid” by the United States, the Iranian semiofficial FARS news agency reports. “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time …

(Via JMG reader Brett)

So say the voters of Virginia. (Source)

Jezebel reports: Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn’t- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey. The religious paper never publishes pictures of women, as they could be considered “sexually suggestive.” Apparently the presence of a woman, any woman, being all womanly and …

Hundreds of Islamists rallied outside the U.S. embassy in London today in a mock funeral for Osama Bin Laden. Riot police had to step in and separate the group from counter-protesters from the neo-Nazi English Defence League. Many more photos at the link.

Grayson isn’t willing to give Dubya any credit for the killing of Osama Bin Laden. A classically Grayson evisceration.

This won’t mean anything to American deathers, of course. Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans’ ”happiness will turn to sadness.” The confirmation came in an Internet statement posted on militant websites, signed by “the general leadership” of al-Qaida. The announcement opens the way for the group to name a successor …