Al-Qaeda data yield details of planned plots/ Helicopters used in raid

Washington Post  "Among the files recovered from captured computers and flash drives were documents detailing a previously unknown plan to attack the U.S. commuter rail network, intelligence officials confirmed. The plan, which described a sabotage attack to occur on this year’s 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was being actively considered as recently as February 2010, Obama administration officials said."

US: Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid Could Fall into Enemy Hands  "It appears to have an unusual tail assembly, possibly hinting at a type of previously-unknown stealth capability.    "US officials are worried the China or enemy states could use the technology in the helicopter to advance their own military capabilities, FOX reported."

Another Shot of the Secret Helicopter Used In Bin Laden Raid

"OK, here’s another view of the tail rotor from the crashed mystery helicopter used in the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. All I’ll say is that it sure doesn’t look like it came off even a modified MH-60 Black Hawk. It looks like a stealthy new aircraft."

  More here.

Al-Qaida confirms Osama bin Laden's death  "The writers of the statement appeared unaware of the announcement by American officials that bin Laden's body had been buried at sea. The statement warned against mishandling or mistreating bin Laden's body and demanded that be handed over to his family, saying "any harm (to the body) will open more doors of evil, and there will be no one to blame but yourselves.""

Will this be the next "truther" quest? Leon Panetta, not Obama, issued order to kill bin Laden?

White House fumbles getting its Osama bin Laden story straight  From DEBKAfile  "Two days after the US President Barack Obama's triumphal announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead, the White House was grappling with a serious credibility problem: Questions and contradictions are mounting about the how and why US elite SEALs killed the most wanted man in the world at his mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2. New information proving the first stories wrong comes not just from a defensive Pakistan government but also from US officials."
Personally, I couldn't care less how OBL got it. Be thankful these leftists weren't press darlings when we killed Yamamoto in WW2.


http://terrellaftermath.com/

 PJ Tatler  "I was told – in these exact terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama) I have since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant, as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.” There appears NOT to have been an outright overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there was no specific position from the president to do so. President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.
"I was correct in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper."

More details here.  " Nothing changed with the president’s opinion – he continued to avoid having one. Every time military and intelligence officials appeared to make progress in forming a position, Jarrett would intervene and the stalling would begin again."

 This report suspect   " Upon closer inspection of the article, it appears a well-informed. A little TOO well informed. Why would an insider talk to some blog instead of Fox or the NYT?
"Also, some of these points (presumably)come from private conversations. Even the highest aides aren't there for personal conversations of the President. Until we get a report from a real news source, it's not true. "
From the article comments.

Victor Davis Hanson: Rules for Killing Rogues "Americans rejoiced at news of the end of this psychopathic mass murderer, and, privately, are probably relieved that he was not captured and extradited to Guantanamo. If bin Laden had been taken alive, we might be revisiting the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s failed efforts to try in a civilian federal court bin Laden’s subordinate, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the master planner behind 9/11.
"But what, exactly, are the moral, legal, or practical rules in going after terrorist leaders or the savage dictators of rogue regimes?"

Lib talker: When are SEALs going to assassinate Bush?

Rick Moran  "In another demonstration of their vaunted liberal civility, talk show host, Mike Malloy, has asked when the SEALs are going to assassinate George W. Bush. Can you imagine the outrage from the liberal media if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity posed a similar question regarding Barack Obama, Bill Clinton or even Jimmy Carter? "

Bin Laden Fallout

Victor Davis Hanson  "At least for now, Middle East dictatorships in extremis are claiming as their one saving grace their antiterrorism and anti-al-Qaeda credentials, and, likewise, those in the streets seeking to destroy these Middle East authoritarians are claiming just about the same. Both groups are probably lying, but their rhetoric at least is predicated on the fact that bin Laden & Co. are now losers in a way they were praised as winners between 2001 and 2003."

Bin Laden Is Dead, But Our Delusions Live On   "The death of Osama bin Laden has some symbolic value, particularly for the United States. A great power exercises influence not just through its military and economic assets, but through its prestige. A power that can be relied upon to punish its enemies, no matter how long it takes, and reward its friends will be respected, and that respect will figure into the calculations of other nations as they pursue their interests. Killing bin Laden may go a little way to repairing our prestige by undoing the recent foreign policy mistakes in the Middle East, where we have abandoned “friends” like Egypt’s Mubarak and appeased enemies like Syria’s Bashar al-Assad."  Bruce S. Thornton

http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2011/05/05/

Obama’s Anti-Energy Policies Are Bankrupting America

The Foundry  "Randall Stilley has witnessed firsthand the Obama administration’s job-killing agenda. As the president and chief executive of Seahawk Drilling, he had to lay off 632 employees before filing for bankruptcy — a direct result of President Barack Obama’s anti-energy policies."

Deepwater Drilling Permitting Rate Still Way Below Average  "As gas prices continue to climb — reaching as high as $5.75 to $6.03 a gallon in some places — the Department of the Interior remains stingy with deepwater drilling permits.
"Since February 2011, the administration has issued an average of just 1.3 deepwater permits per month — a 78 percent monthly reduction from the historical monthly average of 5.8 permits a month...
"The slow pace of permitting will likely eventually result in production declines — and that decrease in supply is unlikely to mitigate high gas prices."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chuckasay

Let's Reflect on the passing of Osama Bin Laden

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Ann Coulter: Next Time, Use FedEx

Human Events "American intelligence operations located Osama by following his trusted couriers, whose names were given up by al-Qaida members during harsh interrogations at CIA black sites under President Bush.
"Yes, the same interrogations endlessly denounced by the entire Democratic Party (save Joe Lieberman), the mainstream media, and an especially indignant Jane Mayer in The New Yorker."
And, I might add, Alan Colmes.
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"It's great that we got bin Laden, but if the last Democratic administration had been doing its job, there would have been no Osama bin Laden and no 9/11 attack to begin with.
"Democratic presidents are always too busy feverishly redistributing wealth at home to devote serious attention to our national interests abroad."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/glennfoden

The Intellectual Dishonesty of Nancy Pelosi

Commentary Magazine  "This devastating then-and-now comparison comes to us courtesy of John Hinderaker of Power Line. It underscores the degree to which partisanship can ravage people’s fair-mindedness and, in the process, make them look like fools and hacks. Such things aren’t uncommon in politics—but what is rare is to see such intellectual dishonesty proven so conclusively."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Massive Intelligence Haul: U.S. Spies Comb Trove of Computer Files Nabbed in bin Laden Raid for Terror Clues.

WSJ   "Putting into action a specially designed Sensitive-Site Exploitation plan, the Navy Seals who conducted the raid carried off five computers, 10 hard drives and more than 100 storage devices, such as DVDs and removable flash drives, U.S. officials said.
"The intelligence find is a jolt to bin Laden's network that could force its terror operatives to move into areas or initiate communications that make them more easily detectable."

OBL not armed  "The legal justifications for shooting bin laden dead come partly from the rules under which the Seals were operating. They were under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency, which operates under fewer restrictions than the military, which has rules governing when troops can use deadly force. Even under the military's rules, the killing was legally justified as long as bin Laden wasn't attempting to surrender.
"Scott Silliman, an expert on national security law at Duke Law School, said there was no question the shooting was legally justified. "
Left-leaning sources will begin demagoguing this in three...two...one...

Neal boortz on THE PHOTO  "Muslims hung charred bodies of Americans from a bridge in Iraq and took pictures. Muslims videotaped the beheading of Americans. Muslims danced in the streets and celebrated around the world when the towers of the World Trade Center fell. So now concern over Muslim sensibilities are delaying a release of pictures of the dead Osama bin Laden?" 


http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/004916.html
Dead Americans at Fallujah

 

Obama dithered again: 7 Minutes Vs. 16 Hours: How The Media Reports Delay

Ace of Spades  "George Bush was relentlessly mocked for waiting seven minutes (actually waiting for his security detail to ready the exit and for his vehicle to be readied) before leaving the school he was visiting. He calmly finished reading My Pet Goat for the kids before going to his now-ready helicopter.
"On the other hand, after Obama was told (most likely for the fifteenth time) that the CIA was really, really, really quite confident that Osama bin Ladin was at that compound in Abbottabad, he decided he needed to sleep on it.
"Sixteen hours later (hours during which Osama might have fled-- bear in mind, his courier's name had just been outed by WikiLeaks), he made up his mind."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/



Break In Hunt for Bin Ladin May Have Been Provided By Not Only Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, But by Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Performed On An Al Qaeda Operative Captured in Iraq

Sorry Lefties… Rumsfeld Says Waterboarding Led US to Osama Bin Laden   "The Obama Administration is lying.  They don’t want to give Bush credit for leading them to Osama’s compound. And, they don’t want to admit they were wrong about waterboarding." From RightNetwork.com, which led us to these following posts:

Ace of Spades  "Once again… Ace of Spades put together the the timeline that started back in 2003 during the Bush years that led to Osama’s death on Sunday."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

CONFIRMED: CIA Chief Panetta Admits Info From Waterboarding Led US to Osama Bin Laden
"Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.
"“Enhanced interrogation techniques” were used to extract information that led to the mission’s success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.
"Panetta, who in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared “waterboarding is torture and it’s wrong,” said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.
"“Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question,” Panetta said. "

Sad. White House Won’t Admit that Waterboarding Led to Osama’s Courier  "White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to answer a reporters question on whether enhanced interrogation techniques gleaned information that led to the attack on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. Carney said it was a number of sources that led them to Osama’s courier. He also said Obama is still against enhanced interrogation techniques despite the fact that they led to Sunday’s successful mission.
"Unreal."

MSM Uses Palin’s Own Children as Political Weapons Against Her

Big Journalism  "This is a common tactic from the Left, but one we usually see played out in the streets with the idea being to so toxify the atmosphere that decent people give up the fight and go home just to get away from the awfulness of it all. The last few months of ugly and relentless pro-union protests in Wisconsin — though a failure for the left — were a textbook example of this. However, when it comes to Governor Palin, what we’re seeing is this tactic practiced by almost every so-called “objective” news outlet in America."