INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "WHY WE'RE NO SAFER TODAY" (SNIPPET: "But the death of the world's most wanted terrorist does not end the terrorist threat against the United States and other western nations.") (May 2, 2011, added 4:30 p.m.)
GUARDIAN.co.uk - Snippet: "2.22am ET: The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul Ahad -- who has reported in great detail on Islamist groups operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen -- pours cold water on the notion that Bin Laden's death means it's game over for al-Qaida:" (May 2, 2011)
PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "ON BIN LADEN, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MAKES DIFFERENT STATEMENTS IN ENGLISH AND IN ARABIC In Arabic, they honor bin Laden as a "sheikh" and call for terrorism against American forces in Muslim lands." by Sami al-Abasi (May 2, 2011)
DEFENSE.gov - Transcript - Presenter: Senior Defense Officials and Senior Intelligence Officials: "DOD Background Briefing with Senior Defense Officials from the Pentagon and Senior Intelligence Officials by telephone on U.S. operations Involving Osama Bin Laden" (May 2, 2011)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: Pakistan - "OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED: PHONE CALL BY COURIER LED U.S. TO THEIR TARGET" (SNIPPET: "Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden." SNIPPET: "It took years of work before the CIA identified the courier's real name: Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait.") (May 3, 2011, 7:00 am BST)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "WIKILEAKS: OSAMA BIN LADEN 'PROTECTED' BY PAKISTANI SECURITY Pakistani security forces allegedly helped Osama bin Laden evade American troops for almost 10 years, according to secret US government files." by Tim Ross (May 2, 2011, 5:31 pm BST)
DANIEL PIPES.org - Lion's Den - blog: "Thoughts on the Killing of Osama bin Laden" by Daniel Pipes (SNIPPET: "Bin Laden was just a part of Al-Qaeda which is just a part of the Islamic terrorist effort which is just a part of the Islamist movement, so the announcement of his death tonight by the U.S. government makes little operational difference. The war on terror has not fundamentally changed, much less been won.") (May 1, 2011)
“40 minutes to capture or kill: Timeline, history of Osama bin Laden raid”
(May 3, 2011)
SNIPPET: “At 2 p.m. Sunday EDT, Obama met with his national security team to review final preparations on the assault.
At 3:50 p.m., he learned that Bin Laden had been “tentatively identified.” A little more than three hours later, the president was told, after the operation, that there was a “high probability” that it had been the Al Qaeda leader who had been killed in the operation.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2713892/posts?page=161#161
The photo’s metadata shows that it was taken on 2011-05-01 at 16:05:04 UTC-5 (4:05 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time).
The metadata also records that the photo was altered using PhotoShop at 17:00:44 p.m. on May 2nd, presumably to blur classified materials on the desk.
Per media reports, at 2:00 p.m. Obama “met with his national security team to review final preparations on the assault.” At 3:50 p.m. he learned that Bin Laden had been “tentatively identified.”
If the times are correct, the photo was posed and taken a few minutes after the White House learned that Bin Laden had probably been killed.
Here’s the White House caption: “President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.”
It doesn’t exactly claim the photo was taken during the assault, but it doesn’t discourage that interpretation, either.
161 posted on May 3, 2011 7:59:16 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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