[Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Re: Osama Bin Laden is dead!!

Let's give credit for this event to those to whom credit is due. It appears the Obama administration has kept the promise made, of having a much better Intelligence capability. We only need to recall the many top level agents who quit the CIA, citing "political" use, interference, and incompetent leadership during the Bush 43 years. Walt

--- In Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com, "Earl" <delta795@...> wrote:
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> Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
> attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by
> the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday
>
> A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden's
> remains, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White
> House.
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> A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden's
> death after a global manhunt that lasted nearly a decade.
>
> "Justice has been done," the president said.
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> The development comes just months before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11
> attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden's
> al-Qaida organization, that killed more than 3,000 people.
>
> The attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in
> Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America's entire intelligence apparatus was
> overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.
>
> Al-Qaida organization was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S.
> embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole
> that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some
> successful and some foiled.
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