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I want to call this the feelgood story of the day but it’s the opposite. There are feelgood moments --- Bin Laden ends up with a few extra postmortem bullet holes, and don't miss the conversation the SEALs have on their way to the first briefing about the mission --- but ultimately it's the tale of a hero abandoned. No pension(!), no health care(!!), family troubles, little help transitioning to the private sector, and eternal worry about reprisals from jihadis. Everyone wishes they could have been the one to pull the trigger on Osama; see how you feel about that...

A NIECE of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has posed in nothing but high heels and ostrich feathers for photographs published in a US men's magazine. The daughter of bin Laden's half-brother, Yeslam, Wafah Dufour shows off her long legs as she reclines on a bed in a profile in in the latest edition of GQ magazine entitled, "It Isn't Easy Being the Sexy Bin Laden." The US-born aspiring singer told the magazine that she has adopted her mother's maiden name to disassociate herself from her uncle, who orchestrated the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001....