“I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,” the president began. He reminded the world that nearly 3,000 American lives had been lost on 9/11, and that the United States would be “relentless” ...
The revised account of bin Laden’s final moments was one of many official details that have changed since he was killed Monday in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. The White House misidentified which of bin Laden’s sons was killed — it was Khalid, not Hamza. Officials incorrectly said bin...
Byline: SAM GREENHILL;WILLIAM LOWTHERDaily Mail (London)
And then I had just completed the first edit of this post when the news broke that Obama had killed Osama bin Laden at a compound not far from the Pakistan capital Islamabad, apparently with no foreknowledge on the part of the Pakistanis and with a degree of contempt for Pakistani sovereignt...
very different image of warfare than we’ve seen in traditional media before. Everybody’s got a gun, but they’re in something that looks like a rumpus room. These guys have to be thinking about bin Laden’s death means, too, and I suspect they have a lot clearer idea that it doesn...
The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so vast that we don't even bother to mention them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from carelessness. A smart car could eliminate most of these car ...
The Winkler Belt Knife was first introduced to the popular imagination in SEAL Team 6 member Mark Owen’s account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. If you can afford the price of entry, you can’t get a more thoroughly field-tested, hard-use modern knife than a Winkler fixed ...
I'm gonna get killed. I'll lose my seat." Because what had happened is their voter base had soaked in so much information that was demonizing me, demonizing the Affordable Care Act, that it becomes very difficult, even for folks who want to cooperate, to cooperate. And that's why I...
GEORGE TENET: Killing bin Laden in the time period we operated was never an option. Because the attorney general of the United States made it abundantly clear that he could only be killed in the context of a capture operation. QUESTIONDid you tell the White House, did you tell Janet Reno...
Every French citizen felt as if they had lost a member of their family. I saw many tear-stricken faces that day, and for many days after. Among the 12 people killed at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, five were among France’s most cherished cartoonists…The killers knew how d...