The following photos are gruesome and explicit in nature, but as other mainstream sources have already begun pulling the photos, we present them as a more-complete document of the government’s bizarre unfolding narrative surrounding the official death of Osama bin Laden.
These photos were taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday. The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures. The SEALs had left with Osama Bin Laden's body at this point.
Some of the photos depict the compound–including the wreckage of a helicopter believed to be one that failed in the raid and was destroyed by U.S. forces as they left. At this point the US Team had gathered up the computers, hard drives, thumb drives and cleared Pakastaini air space.
Bin Lauden's house is located in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, just north of Pakistan’s capital. The Pakistani officials say they were unaware that Osama lived there for the last 6 years.
Over the last 10 years the United States has given Pakistan over 18 Billion Dollars in aid. A tidy sum of money but not enough for the Pakistanis to buckle down and help with the job the U.S. wanted to do.
Without doubt these photos are gruesome & explicit in nature, but please note that there were over 20 chilren living in this compound and not one was wounded or killed. Considering what happened here that says a lot. Osama Bin Laden was the most vile man on the face of the earth and knowing this monster has drawn his last breath is a comfort.
Could this be a night vision photo taken from a chopper approaching (or leaving) the Bin Laden compound? There are more photos to be released at a later time.
Bin Laden's compound, he lived on the top floor.
Not a castle but definately not a cave. Osama lived here for years while the Bush administration ignored him. President Obama made his capture or kill a top priority and Seal Team 6 made his kill a reality.
Osama stayed inside and watched the world on satellite tv and every few months he recorded a audio or video tape and used it to rub America's face in it again. Still the Bush administration ignored him and passed on opportunities to bring him to justice.
By the time Obama became President the Bin Laden trail had gone cold but President Obama doubled down on the effort to locate and deal with Bin Laden. When located Obama had the courage to pull the trigger on the mission and the Seals sealed Bin Laden's fate. President Obama faced the nation and made the announcement that Osama Bin Laden was confirmed dead and the streets filled with happy Americans feeling a special relief denied them for nine years. President Obama had kept his promise and taken Bin Laden off the world stage, for good.
Osama posing for publicity shot.
What did Scott Brown, Kelly Ayotte and Saxby Chambliss see? All Senators, all embarrised.
Photo 1. Osama Bin Laden, Photos 2.,3. Fake Death Shots the Senators saw.
Scott Brown is unlikely to quickly live down yesterday’s humiliating blunder, political experts said, after the Bay State’s junior senator made the TV rounds boasting he’d gotten a peek at the gruesome photo of Osama bin Laden’s corpse — which the president is refusing to release — only to learn he’d been duped.
Brown went on New England Cable News and Fox 25 yesterday, telling them he’d seen a photo of the lifeless bin Laden. “I’ve seen the picture,” Brown declared on Fox 25. “He’s definitely dead.”
Later, after the story was picked up nationally, the Wrentham Republican said it wasn’t so. “The photo that I saw and that a lot of other people saw is not authentic,” he said in a statement. A staffer said the senator had obtained the photo from what he believed to be “a reliable source.”
“You’d hope for a greater maturity and greater thoughtfulness,” Whalen said. “I hope this reliable source isn’t informing him of other matters, such as health care and tax reform.”
Saxby has made decisions on faulty information for years
The senator’s gaffe — along with similar blunders by fellow senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) — garnered national attention just hours after President Obama said he wouldn’t release the bin Laden photos.
Kelly Ayotte
When Senators Brown, Ayotte and Chambliss can't tell fact from fiction maby President Obama ought to release the real deal. How many decisions do Republican Senators make based on faulty information? Based on this, a lot more than we can accept.
“You know we discussed this internally. Keep in mind that we are absolutely certain this was him. We’ve done DNA sampling and testing. And so there is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden,” Obama tells CBS. “It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are
not floating around as an incitement to additional violence.”
He added: “You don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.”
Brown agreed, noting, “We’re dealing with the sensitivities of the Muslim and Arab world, and we still have men and women serving throughout the world.”
But there’s “no way” the photos will stay under lock and key for the long term, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Larry's not always correct with his
predictions but he has nailed this one.
“We live in a skeptical country and world,” Sabato said. “You cannot suppress information for very long. It just doesn’t work, and it probably is not wise.”
Obama at Ground Zero: 'We will never forget'
"When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say," Obama said today during a stop en route to a wreath laying at the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
Located in midtown at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue, the "Pride of Midtown Firehouse" -- one of the busiest in the world -- lost 15 people after the attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
Arriving to the applause of nearby crowd, Obama greeted each member of the company and then stopped to examine a plaque bearing the names of those who gave their lives on 9/11.
"This is a symbolic site of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made on that terrible day," Obama told company members.
"I wanted to come here to thank you," Obama said.
The president then went in to lunch with crew now assigned to engine company 54, ladder 4, battalion 9. The president joked that he also visited the firehouse because "I hear the food was pretty good."
Obama is scheduled to lay a wreath at Ground Zero itself around 1:25 p.m.
Spokesman Jay Carney said Obama wanted to visit the city in the wake of bin Laden's death "in order to recognize the terrible loss that New York suffered on 9/11 and to acknowledge the burden that families of the victims and the loved ones of the victims have been carrying with them since 9/11."
After a short plane ride from Washington, Obama choppered to a landing zone near Wall Street shortly after 11 a.m., with two limos and a pair of firetrucks waiting.
Also on hand to greet Obama: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Will Ferrell is G.W. Bush
Remember when Will Ferrell had a serious thing going as the nation's foremost George W. Bush impersonator? Well, so does Will Ferrell. And he's back at his presidential best to remindFunny Or Die viewers that while Barack Obama may have eliminated Osama Bin Laden this past weekend, Dubya had been fighting his own battle.
In a new sketch for comedy website Funny or Die, Ferrell sends up current President Barack Obama's recent confirmation of the death of the terrorist leader Bin Laden by having the leader's predecessor announce that he's captured a menace of his own. The sketch begins as Ferrell's caricature of Bush addresses viewers from the buffet line at a Sizzler restaurant.
"I've personally overseen a strategic and covert operation that killed the gopher who's been tearin' up my back yard," Ferrell-as-Bush says in an urgent address from a Sizzler Steak House in Texas.
"This gopher has been responsible for terrorizing Laura's fruit trees and diggin' up holes all over the yard, causing me to trip and fall over them no less than 15 times a day."
He quips: "Tonight, as of 1400 hours military time, I can report to America, the world and the folks here at the Sizzler StreakHouse on Canyon Ranch Road, right outside of my gate-guarded community here in Dallas, Texas, where I also frequently eat lunch, that I've personally overseen a strategic and covert operation that killed the gopher [that's] been tearing up my backyard."
He then credits a network of "reliable" sources in the animal community as aiding the capture of the gopher responsible for "terrorising" former First Lady Laura Bush's garden after several years of intelligence gathering.
After detailing the creature's violent death, the address is concluded as a secret service agent informs the president that Bin Laden had been captured.
He replied: "They got Bin Laden? Well, that's two good things!"
Donald Trump University
BLOWHOLE U
Learn the Trump "One Eye" Move at BlowHole U
Its hard to believe that Donald Trump is fake enough, phoney enough, arrogant and trivial enough to run a schooling scam but a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego, Calif., claims that the possible GOP presidential candidate's delivered expensive "infomercials" disguised as educational classes that preyed on vulnerable Americans in "troubled economic times."
Before Donald Trump sold the idea of a possible 2012 presidential bid, the bombastic real estate mogul peddled the American dream at a place called Trump University. He promised consumers the golden opportunity to be "my next apprentice" and learn "insider" secrets of real estate.
If You Can Afford It I'll Educate You
Attorneys for Trump, who this week said he has decided "in my mind" (Trump has got to be the most publicity driven scam artist on the planet) to run for president, have asked that the suit be dismissed, saying it has "no merit."
A ruling is expected in the coming weeks.
With Trump teasing a presidential bid, consumer advocates say the lawsuit could put his business and
"In My Mind" I'm Running For President
George Sorial, assistant general counsel for the Trump Organization, told The Chronicle this week that
the lawsuit's allegations are "completely ridiculous," adding that Trump University stands "100
percent behind any course we offered."
"There wouldn't even be a lawsuit if the Trump name weren't attached to it," he said. Makaeff, in an interview this week with The Chronicle, said she had a slumping Southern California business and a $5,000-a- month mortgage when she signed up for a $1,500 real estate course that promised to provide the "Trump power team" to help her "learn from the master."
Be Like Me, Make Mama Proud
At the end of the seminar, she said she yielded to "high-pressure" pitches to spend $35,000 for the
Trump gold elite course. Makaeff said she completed the course with nothing but a hefty credit card bill. She said it promised "hand-picked" mentors and "comprehensive" real estate education. She charged in the lawsuit that she was instructed in techniques such as putting up "bandit" telephone pole signs advertising cheap homes for sale -- signs that are illegal in Orange County, where she lives.
Who Knows Whats Legal Where You Live? Who Cares?
Trump University, launched in 2005, was not accredited and offered no degrees or college credits. It changed its name in June 2010 to the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative. Trump remains chairman of the New York-based organization.
Sorial said 11,000 students in Canada and the United States have taken paid courses, but he added that
Trump is "not responsible for running (its) day-to-day affairs."
Trump's official blog initially assured readers that he would be directly involved in it: "I'm not just
putting my name on this venture. ... I plan to be an active presence in the curricula."
"This isn't just some schemer on late-night TV; it's The Donald," said Doug Heller, who heads the
nonprofit Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica.
"What is so unique about Trump is how completely interwoven everything he does with his own money-making schemes. You almost don't know if it's a TV show or a marketing gig or a presidential run."
Sorial said Makaeff gave the seminars high marks in her evaluation forms -- and said she was interviewed
in a video in which she praised Trump University mentors for helping her learn the business.
Makaeff's attorney, Amber Eck, said that her client's rosy evaluations reflected the hopes of an optimistic student.
"At (that) point, they still think they're going to get what is promised," she said. "They don't
realize until later -- that never occurs."
Donald Trump skipped the South Carolina Republican debate. Rumor has it he couldn't afford the entry fee and cost of the trip. In his Mind Trump won the Debate.
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