Pamela Geller, Big Government: Killing Yesterday's Man

Please check out my OBL oped piece at Big Government. I think it very telling that Obama insists to us that it is not about Islam (!) and that bin Laden is "not a Muslim leader," but he ensured that bin Laden's body was handled in accord with Islamic tradition; further, we are warned of Islamic violence after bin Laden's death, and worst of all, Osama bin Laden lived like a king in a fortress-like mansion outside Islamabad in an army town. Video here.

Killing Yesterday's Man Pamela Geller, Big Government

Of course it’s great that Osama bin Laden is dead. It’s wonderful. People should be celebrating and dancing in the streets. Are Muslims dancing in the streets the way they were dancing when bin Laden took the Towers down? Crowds of cheering Americans gathered Sunday night outside the White House in Washington and at Ground Zero in New York, chanting “USA, USA.” Not a burka in the crowd. I think that’s very telling. But what is most significant about bin Laden’s death is what it reveals about Barack Obama and Pakistan.

When Obama spoke about the killing of bin Laden Sunday night, he was shameless. Every other word was “I.” I am really surprised that Obama didn’t insist that bin Laden be brought to Manhattan to stand trial. Seriously. Obama can puff himself up and shamelessly strut like peacock, claiming credit for the death of Osama bin Laden, but Gd bless our troops. Hats off to the US military that has been relentless, dogged and brave for ten years in their mission to kill that devout bastard.

In fact, it was intelligence gleaned from interrogating Gitmo detainees, specifically Khalid 
Sheik Muhammad, that led to capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden. These are the very techniques that Obama and Holder have stopped and fought to reverse. Obama railed against these interrogations and wanted to prosecute the CIA interrogators who led to this capture.

Obama’s chest pounding leads to some troubling conclusions. If he takes credit, that causes other problems. Remember: when Muslims were killing innocent people in Afghanistan because fringe pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran in Florida, Obama said that Jones should curtail his freedom of expression, implying that he would be responsible if Muslims killed anyone because he burned a Koran. But if we follow Obama’s line of thinking, if Muslims go jihad now and start killing people because of the death of bin Laden, who will be responsible for those deaths? Barack Hussein Obama.

How does he reconcile such crippled thinking? Preserving freedom of speech and freedom of expression is just as precious and essential in this war on our civilization as avenging those who died for those very things (our very way of life) in the jihadist attack on America on September 11, 2001.

Besides taking credit, Obama said: “We must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims.”

Pure nonsense. Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden was a Muslim leader. Whether the Zuhdi Jassers of the world like it or not, Osama was a Muslim leader. Whether the violent Muslims of the world like it or not (and they do), he was a Muslim leader. Muslims in Indonesia were wearing Osama bin Laden t-shirts when we were over there helping them after the tsunami. He was a beloved figure to millions in the Muslim world because of his devotion and purity to the Islamic jihad.

And if he wasn’t a Muslim leader, why was he buried within twenty-four hours of his death “in keeping with Islamic tradition”? We washed and cleaned this monster? Outrageous. He should have been put behind a wall at the 911 Memorial and Museum, the very thing they are doing with the human remains of our loved ones who were killed there.

Also, the question must be raised: if Osama bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, but was instead a “mass murderer of Muslims,” why was the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan protecting him? And they were: Osama was not living in a cave. He was living in a mansion outside of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, and that’s where the American forces found and killed him. Osama was living in a splendid complex, a fortress that was built specifically for him near Islamabad. If that is so, then clearly the ISI, Pakistan’s spy service, knew where he was all along. He has apparently been there since 2005. He was there with his son and his youngest wife. So there is no way that the Pakistani government didn’t know that he was there.

Why now? Why did Pakistan allow this to happen after years of sheltering bin Laden? What did Barack Obama have to give up to the Pakistanis in order to make this campaign-bolstering deal for Osama bin Laden? Amid all the celebrations, there is something worrisome about the death of Osama bin Laden – and that is what we don’t know about it.

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Comments

[Linda Rivera]

Obama and his administration are anxious to inform every Muslim terrorist on earth that if they are killed by American forces, America will NOT wrap their bodies in pig skin. They will be buried with great care taken to honor Islam. America wants to assure every Muslim killer they will be rewarded with their expected 72 virgins in Islamic heaven.

Are the lines getting longer to sign up for murdering hated infidels?

[Eric Roth]

Ms. Geller, once again you have written a thorough, cogent piece illustrating the true historical perspective of these latest events. The "jihad rages on" is an alarmingly true statement. Perhaps the most alarming information here is Bin-Laden's islamic burial and Obama's double talk about him not being a muslim leader. One hopes that more representatives like Allen West will emerge to guide the American people away from such insidious and traitorous "leaders".

[Zilla]

I'm on my way. Love ya, Pamela, thank you for being a voice for all of us against this insanity.

[John P]

Since BHO attaches his own stamp on the burial of OBL, one has to declare what BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ordered in prayer for the Murderer of thousands of Americans.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is responsible and culpable for: ordering prayer for "allah" the arab-tribal-god-entity' to forgive OSAMA BIN LADEN, so that he enjoy a second life in "muslim paradise" with his "72 virgins" and "28 boys, as smooth as cultured pearls." This is the prayer message that BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA tied American national purpose to: "...Oh allah! Whosoever of us you keep alive, let him live as a follower of islam, and whomsoever you cause to die, let him die as a believer (munimen)."

Note: Neither Jews, Christians, Buddhists nor Hindus pray for absolution of murderers, after death. Roman Catholic "absulom" remission, may be granted to the living, on Confession of Sin and performance of Penance. And none permit recognition of Murderers as bona fide members in good standing. At best OSAMA BIN LADEN would be treated as an apostate.

In effect, tens of thousands of dollars in costs borne by the American people, were paid on the orders of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA to express the wish that OSAMA BIN LADEN - the Murderer of thousands of Americans - be sent to muslim-heaven, with BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA's blessings. Further, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ordered the recognition of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, as a muslim in good standing, and sought final cleansing of his soul prior to "jugdment." In effect, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA sought to purchase OSAMA BIN LADEN's ticket to heaven, with American money.

Whoever prayed over the wretched corpse of OSAMA BIN LADEN on the orders of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, supplicated himself before the arab-god-fiction, in prostrate submission so that said fiction deliver his "martyr" (shahid) eternal bliss. What message will terrorists get from this supreme indulgence to the enemy, and debasement of American values?

This is what filthy pigs like OSAMA BIN LADEN think they deserve, and what BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA seeks to deliver at American taxpayer expense.

http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/heaven.html

"Mohammed's promise of an Islamic Paradise that glittered with the fulfillment of all sorts of wordly desires and sense enjoyment was nothing but a sinister ploy to recruit those who had no hope or expectation of ever getting these things in their present lives. Knowing that they are assured of such a Paradise simply because they follow Islam, Muslims can go around committing murder, rape plunder and loot. It is the picture of this paradise that has motivated Muslims over the centuries to cut down people of other religions, to desecrate their places of worship and mistreat them in the name of Allah. Even after death, the spritually deprived Prophet of Islam could not see beyond wine, women and food, leave alone exploring spiritual heights of the soul."

http://www.isna.net/Services/pages/A-Guide-for-the-Muslim-Funeral.aspx

[Michael Hunter]

Muslims celebrated the death of UBL in Dearborn yesterday, look it up.

[Jew Lover]

Why now? Indeed Ms. Geller.

I find the timing of the attacks particularly interesting. It's possible that it's pure coincidence. It's also possible that's there's something else going on. Flashback - Clinton launching missiles from subs during a tumultuous period in his presidency.
You broke a HUGE story the other day, Obamagate. Let's hope US killed OBL as soon as possible and didn't delay to deflect attention.

Now, how's this for fear:
Adolph Hitler, Jr. - President of the United States of America
Osama Bin Laden, Jr. - President of the United States of America
http://crazyislam.typepad.com/home/osama-and-obama/

Keep at 'em Ms. Geller - you've already achieved worldwide recognition for your work doing the job MSM is neglecting or incapable of doing.

[Livingengine]

Bin Laden admits to planning 9/11 attacks.
Your fate is is your hands alone

[Petrakore]

You absolutely hit the nail on the head John P.

Repeat what you wrote here and repeat this often. This is the message. This is the TRUTH.

Barack Hussein Obama (the muslim) just royally punked the American people (those brave Navy SEALs the most).

Then turned around and proudly bowed to the muslim world.

[rd]

pamela, would you please clarify what happened? bin laden was killed in pakistan. so why bury him at sea? his family refused his body in saudi arabia? is this some kind of weird 'respecting' of islamic customs?

[Shawna]

Yeah, I thought I was the only one who heard him saying "Usama Bin Laden wasn't a muslim leader". I was like WHAAAAAAAT??????? Is this guy trying to rewrite history? And now we learn that he was given what equates to an honorable sea burial byt the direction of this administration. I am living for the day when this man is no longer President. It can't come soon enough. Any President in office would've ordered the same killing of UBL, yet Zero gets to take all the credit. It was the FOUNDATIONAL INTELLIGENCE GATHERING over many years (including enhanced interrogations implemented by Bush) that produced the evidence, not Zero's direct influence. If he had his way, Gitmo would've been closed (hell, never opened) and ALL the prisoners there tried in criminal court. As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't deserve ANY credit. He just happened to be at the right place at the right time - probably the story of his life. And even in the newly released pic of the Situation Room on Drudge as things were happening, he looks like a by-stander, a child in a room with adults. I'm tellin' ya, I can hardly stand to look at the guy anymore, with his smug face. 9-11 WE WILL NEVER FORGET! As for Obama... not so much.

[acr]

Ms. Geller,
Just read that His Royal Wonness will be traveling to Ground Zero on Thursday to congratulate himself on his great accomplishment. Oh how I wish I could be there to agitate a little on W's behalf. I do hope some of the saner elements in the city will show up with at least a placard thanking Pres. Bush. Wishful thinking. I'm sure the crowd will strictly controlled and open only to Obama worshipers.

[Stephen Rohaty]

I haven't read "the whole thing" yet, but, for a start, I CAN "reconcile such crippled thinking" for you. The koran, which contains the word of allah, who knows all and cannot make a mistake, contains SEVERAL opposite passages. Get them from the scholars. But mohammadans do believe contradictory things SIMULTANEOUSLY. The sun rises in the East, the sun rises in the West. OK, allah said so, so it MUST be true. Don't question, just BELIEVE. One who can do that was RAISED a mohammadan, no matter where he was born.

[Stephen Rohaty]

Clear thinking; you are right.

[Stephen Rohaty]

Just like the last time, when he bowed to a filthy desert arab. I shall be standing at a polling place 2012 with a LARGE photo held HIGH.

[Stephen Rohaty]

WHERE?

[Stephen Rohaty]

That means you need MANY more bodyguards.

[Petrakore]

Now the WH is saying that that John Brennan, Asst to the Prez for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism was incorrect when he told reporters that bin Laden used his wife (or some woman) as a human shield.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-wife-killed-raid-white-house-190759683.html

But, but, but...isn't that John Brennan watching events unfold at the compound with the rest of the gang in the WH?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5680724572/in/photostream

How could John Brennan have watched something completely different from the others in the room? This is CRAZY!!!

[John P]

In the euphoria after the de-pollution of the world from OBL lice, we must not forget that BHO had 9 months to record comings and goings from the al-Qaeda compound. The CIA would have placed audio and video record devises all over the area, and clearly identified those Pakistani officials who aided and abetted terror. Further, independent contractors must have seen the arabs, because released videos reveal open windows in OBL quarters.

BHO has shown a pathological need to practise concealment over disclosure. He must be pressured to release intel.

Stephen R: the arab-recitation (quran) from the sick mind of islam's demon-possessed-pedophile founder, includes a reference to Alexander the Great having reached the place where the Sun sets into a swamp. There isn't much science in that arab' textual vomit. Then there is the hadith that has a 150 foot tall "allah" tossing "stars" at demons ("jinn"). Islam is: lies propped by liars.

[johnl]

Why would someone that is not part of a religion try to prove this same religion as unassailable, as if speaking with first-hand knowledge? It only makes sense if Obama is a Muslim. Agree with all, that the respect showed to this terrorist is disgusting, especially since the soldiers who might have been killed were the ones forced to clean this human garbage; again Obama felt that the sensitivities of the Muslims were more important than the American ones.

Now for reality check: There are so many inconsistencies in the assassination, that any person relying on facts instead of a government spokesperson would worry.
1)the worst offense is that they threw away the evidence. Imagine if a DA told a judge we have proof, but we just dumped it in the trash----case dismissed.
2)DNA testing is complicated and takes time, it is not 100% reliable, and any contamination renders it useless--perhaps a battlefield is not the cleanest place. Also, why would they take DNA testing on an assassination? Would soldiers who are breaking international airspace to capture a terrorist perhaps wait for a saliva test in the compound just to make sure he is the right one? Obviously not, they would whisk the living person away, imprison him (just for being a terrorist even if it wasn't Osama)and at their leisure do a DNA. If they kill him, it would still not be the place to do DNA, but would save the body for multiple reasons.
3)What about the 15 other terrorists in the compound--the US left them there! The list goes on, and I'll stop here, but not before stating that unfortunately, the US military is not the brightest in the world and the helicopter crash again proves their "fumble-fingers". A job like this can only be done by a very-well trained, honestly patriotic and zealous army.

I hope I'm wrong, and the navy did assassinate Osama, but without further proof, I'm not taking the presidents word. As Pamela has pointed out, reality is chucked out the window when it deals with an important issue as the birth certificate, and doubters are called names resembling a cult-following. Funny how the birth believers are religious themselves since they believe without any proof (now that would be an insult to the very same socialist).

[Bryce]

Congratulations to the brave troops, the intelligence professionals, and the President of the United States and his Administration on this stunning accomplishment in the war against global terror. While the emotions that this event trigger are complex, it is good to know that we are all united as a nation - Republican and Democrat, black and white, Christian and Muslim and Jewish, we all stand with this Administration in ordering this operation. There were significant risks, and we don't know what the future will hold. But this was a good day to be an American.

[Jew Lover]

Thank you Sir. No bodyguards for me required, I fully expect to get killed for exposing Islam.

[Petrakore]

I agree the quick turnaround on the DNA results is a bit implausible. There are so many aspect of how this story has been disseminated to the public that just doesn't add up.

But with the Obama administration, what else is new? The truth has gotten so convoluted at this point that it is difficult to gauge where up is. Is it absolute incompetence or something else far more sinister?

That IT guy in Pakistan who Twittered about the assault as it was happening was an unanticipated surprise for the WH. It blew their timeline of when they really wanted to announce the news of bin Laden's demise. Initially telling us this assault had happened a week ago. Only for us all to discover it really happened only yesterday!

I'm no scientist, but how on G-d's green earth can they submit DNA to a lab and have the results come back in less than a day???!!! Why on earth would the body of this evil man be desposed of so very quickly? Even if a doctor performed an autopsy on OBL on board the aircraft carrier, I feel certain, that under Bush's command, OBL's body would have been brought back to the states for a more in-depth forensic study.

I think even the Obot trolls are pondering all of this because they all dropped off when the storyline started getting fishier and fishier.

[Bohemond1096]

It's lawyerese. Bin Laden was not an imam or a mullah. He was not a muslim _religious_ leader. The government is trying to minimize his importance in the muslim world by refusing to acknowledge Al Queda as a legitimate islamic entity.
The United States cannot declare war on a religion, only bona fide governments.
Besides, we do not have to declare war on islam - islam declared war on the non -islamic world 1,400 years ago. Their name for us "daral harb", means "world of war".

[Petrakore]

Here's a thought:

Since not much seems to make sense about the story coming out of the WH about this assault, could it be plausible that the body buried at sea wasn't even Osama Bin Laden? Who says what was under the wrappings was even a real body? Why would the CIA and the Navy who worked so hard for so many years and put so many American lives at risk, allow their prized catch to be dumped into the sea on the same day he was killed? I am not suggesting bin Laden is still alive. I believe our guys got the bastard. But maybe it is they who have tricked Obama! And there will be little trophy bits and pieces of OBL distributed amongst themselves as souvenirs after all the super secret forensics work has been done.

This is a scenario I like a whole lot.

But man this stuff is making me crazy.

[alan]

If US special forces really did kill Bin Laden yesterday, it may be that Obama did not give the order at all. Maybe it was initiated by some courageous American commander on the scene against Obama's intentions. Remember the case where US sharp shooters killed Somali pirates holding a US captain in a small boat. Obama was holding off the kill shot and the American agents finally acted on their own.

If that's what happened this time, Bin Laden's death would have come as a big surprise to Obama and his people. That might explain why they had to delay Obama's "address to the Nation" for a while until they could come up with a plausible story!

However, with the body missing, impossible DNA results being reported, and no clear photos of the dead Osama I am skeptical. If this is a fake, then Obama takes political credit for the "kill", and Osama disappears into a "Pakistani witness protection program", and American forces stop hunting. A win-win for all the bad guys!

[Safti]

The witch is dead...the witch is dead. Or is he?
No body. No pic of dead Osama? Hmmmm...

[Bohemond1096]

While I like the image of bin Laden being fish food, a reporter on tv last night made a good point that a large part of the islamic world will not believe OBL is dead if they do not see a photo of his body with a Navy SEAL standing over it. I hope one will be released soon.

[Yechiel]

President Obama came out Sunday and he declared Usama Bin Laden was killed last week. Then they say to respect Usama's Muslim customs, they buried him within a "14 hour" period. Well, if he was killed Friday, then buried Monday morning, that is a little longer than "14 hours"

It's not that I don't believe Usama Bin Laden is dead, so much as I just want questions answered to why things were said and done the way they were:

Why did they want to bury him according to his "traditions" since he funded terrorism world wide for at least 23 years? That to me is disrespecting the dead who were murdered on that Tuesday in the September and all others who died trying to find Usama and bring him down!!

Plus, hadn't we been told for the last ten years Usama Bin Laden wasn't really a "Muslim" anyway?

But then when he dies, he is all of a sudden a Muslim who needs to be shown "respect" in accordance to his Islamic traditions or Muslim customs?

It's almost like the manner in which all of this was conducted was to start a conspiracy about his death so that they could say later "See, he is really dead. We told you so" which to me is just distracting many from the BIGGER picture... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Muslim Brotherhood and the issue of the made up Palestinian people who side with Hamas who love Usama Bin Laden who want Israel and America wiped off the Earth!!

I'm glad Usama Bin Laden is dead! I'm glad under George Bush we kept the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base opened
and I'm glad Barck Hussein Obama II, who I don't agree with either of those two Presidents on a number of issues still to this day, but I'm glad they decided to keep it opened. I believe that Obama did this because of the election, but either way, I'm glad Usama Bin Laden is dead, and I CAN HARDLY wait to see the pictures!!

I suppose that in and of itself is my "conspiracy" lol, or at least my conclusion of the day.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BIN_LADEN_DNA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-02-17-17-06

[Kafir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZyshP002U
This woman, must be your kid sister, Pamela!

Women soldiers!
She says to Lindsay Graham...
"You can take your jackass dhimmitude and shove it right up your ass!"

GO!

[Stephen Rohaty]

"Consider yourself dead the first time you pick up a weapon". Or the first time you criticize a mohammadan. If you CAN achieve that state of mind, you will have a stress free life.

[Madeleine]

When Saddam Hussein was captured he was taken alive.
We had that bastard hung for his crimes and there were
live cell phones pictures of his hanging.
Saddam Hussein was a soulless thug too, don't get me
wrong, but can his body captured alive and brought
to justice be considered more of a priority over
Osama Bin Ladens? We went to great lengths to put
Saddam Hussein on trial, the lunatic, and for Osama
we are asked to believe that after capturing him, we put
a bullet in his head and then send him to a watery grave
within 24 hours, according to Islamic law, with a few praying
Imams to recite a some satanic verses, as Osama met up
with his 72 elderly, wrinkled, toothless virgins in the sky.

[Eric]

Given this hunt was beyond the reach of Obama to stop without political suicide, he did the best he could to appease the Saudi's by dithering on the mission until certain that his actions, or the lack of, would be revealed to the public despite orders to the contrary. The body washing was a poke in the eye of every warrior who fights the army of this "religion of peace" which produces for each generation of followers a ready made desire to kill.

[Kafir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riSJcZC89Hc&feature=related
Here, she burns key pages of the koran and reads the verses which expose it as sanctioning rape, violence, slavery, homosexuality, pedophilia, etc.

[Matt Cabent]

No matter what happens, there will always be conspiracy nut jobs. I don't necessary agree with the U.S. dumping the body into the sea but they had their reasons. But just because they did that doesn't mean Osama is still alive.

Matt Cabent
Zeiss rifle scopes

[Madeleine]

BTW, I keep hearing that Osama was living in some mansion in a
neighborhood in Pakistan. The photos taken from his capture
do not depict a mansion either! I mean look at this video, as
there are many others floating around the web. This dive of his
is disgusting to say the least.
http://www.breitbart.tv/eyewitness-account-of-bin-laden-raid/

[Jew Lover]

Yes Sir. I've had MANY encounters with death and I consider each day a gift, i.e., I'm on borrowed time and should have been killed/died a long time ago.
Many have said I'm the happiest person they've ever met.
BTW, CrazyIslam has drop down menus for death threats/hate mail - how's that for stress-free life Sir?

Yo O, Who's Yo Daddy?
Can KGB spies be POTUS (President of the United States) by American law?
http://crazyislam.typepad.com/home/osama-and-obama/

[Madeleine]

I was just wondering why, why, why in the world is the
capture of Saddam Hussein, alive and well, to answer for
his crimes a priority over Osama Bin Ladens? Why did
we go so far as to "shoot him in his head and dispose of
his body out at sea, showing regard for the Islamic customs.
This makes no sense, and is terribly inconsistant.
Something isn't Kosher here and that is born out of natural
curiousity and until there is absolute proof, I for one, don't
believe any of it!

[silent_rage]

You got to give credit where credit is due. And, how this went down is the boldest move Obama has ever done.
Obama should get credit. He wasn't shameless in using personal pronouns when what he actually said in his
speech was true. It was a great speech. One time where I feel like watching it more than once. I really like
how The President did this without the permission of Pakistan. Way to Go! Obama! Assuring us that we are not
at war with Islam seems out of place. That's the only problem that I have.

[sean]

again, haters gonna hate. seems the man cant wipe his crack without it being some kind of double talk, or problem for republicans. he did what you wanted him to do, bin-laden is dead. the only thing your mad at is that bush didnt have the strength to get it done.

[Roz]

Agreed -- he looks like a child in a room with adults, BUT he looks like a child who has been forced to watch something he doesn't want to see!

[NYC/GZ visit?]

OT but how are the 9/11 families - who have been betrayed by Obama's approval of the GZ mosque and his absence on previous 9/11 anniversaries - going to handle our Opportunist-in-Chief's visit this week?

[Denae Carter2001]

So glad Ms. G tells it like it is. If only our government was this smart. It is amazing how stupid they all are.

[Denae Carter2001]

I remember hearing Obama give his "victory speech" (actually he had nothing to do with this victory except he probably gave an order when he was presented with intelligence that he had NOTHING to do with. Our miltiary is totally, 100% to be praised for this victory) my mouth fell open when I heard Obama say that OBL was not a muslim leader and he mass murdered muslims. What the HELL? What rock has this idiot been hiding under? He was THE muslim leader of the WORLD at this moment in history. They worship him like they worship ALLAH. Is our government stupid? Are they blind? What in the WORLD is going ON?

[sheildwall]

It's called 'abrogation'. The contridictory things in the Quran are explained by this method. Usually the later text's override the earlier ones. There is an article in the middle-east forum that exlpains it quite well and shows specific examples.
"meforum.org/1754/peace-or-jihad-abrogation-in-islam"

[Judi]

With all the discrepancy about his birth certificate, his unpopularity, etc. this couldn't have come at a better time for BHO. It seems just a little too convenient for him to divert people's attention away and paint himself as some kind of hero!. Any president would have done the same presented with all the intelligence they had on OSB. It certainly doesn't change my opinion of him. As for his speech, he was reading from a teleprompter, so what's the big deal!!

[sheildwall]

Osama was the product of his upbringing in Saudi Arabia (southern portion towards Yemen). What Osama said was no different from the Quranic teachings in SA.

What was different about Osama (as told to me by the Saudi friends I had while living there '91' - '96') is that he took the teachings and put them into action. The military training he got from the US in Afghanistan while helping to get the Soviets out of there helped him a lot in his leadership skills and such.

Osama's objective was quite consistent with what the Saudi's (Islam in general) want (world-wide Islam), it's just that he had a more direct methodology.

[Bohemond1096]

President Bush minimized bin Laden's importance in the muslim world before he left office. Under Bush al queda's funding was largely cut off, frozen or neutralized. His supply and communication lines were cut. His organization was unable to follow up their 9-11 sucker punch with anything equal or greater. OBL went from being the poster boy for jihad to yesterday's news. That is why President Bush stoped wasting resources having a special team just to hunt him and expanded it to multiple units dedicated to destroying the al queda organization. That is why he said he didn't worry about bin Laden. Bin Laden's victories became smaller and less important while America's victories over muslim terrorism grew.
It took 10 years to hunt him down and bring him to justice based on the programs and initiatives President Bush set in motion. 0bama was handed the fishing pole after the fmreal fishermen had hooked the fish and taken the fight out of him. All Zero had to do was reel him in and pose for the photo. Pamela's assessment of his speech is correct- everything was "I" and "me, me, me". Nothing from the narcissist in chief about "We ", "our troops", or America's men and women in uniform". It almost sounded like 0bama pulled the trigger himself.

[MichaelE]

No plots. No conspiracy. Not even being a jerk.
Never-NEVER underestimate the power of PC!

[AGX]

Thousands of muslim babies were named Osama after 9/11 in honor of their parents' muslim leader. Even today muslims are still naming their babies Osama. There's a lot of little Osama's running around in and around the world.

[Stephen Rohaty]

Thank you. I have read similar articles, but the picky details don't stick with me.

[Stephen Rohaty]

Not crazy. Brennan just spoke first, BEFORE being briefed by a spin doctor. Always a bad move for a politician.

[Jim Baxter]

Obama's self-chosen disability.....

Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication
by man from his natural role as earth's Choicemaker,
inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of
singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based
system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness
of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the
selective creative process, they are self-relegated to
a passive and circular regression.

Tampering with man's selective nature endangers his
survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete
by denying the tools of variety, individuality,
perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.
Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts
are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature's
indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
criteria by which it perceives and measures values.

Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
sight, including human institutions characterized by
averages, mediocrity, and regression.

Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric
predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent
criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive
superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting
winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,
appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere
device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-
tion.

The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such
instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The
appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the
point of contention standards are perceived as alien, re-
strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our
physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-
eignty of the mind and of the spirit.

It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal
and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and
fill the vast void of human ignorance with an intelli-
gent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the
prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard
by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.

Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deserved-
ly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free
the individual to measure values and choose in a more
excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the
words of the prophet Amos, "...said the Lord, Behold,
I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel."
Y'shua Mashiyach Jesus said, "If I be lifted up I will
draw all men unto myself."

As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality
and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and
collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-
acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect
justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their
own choosing.

"No one is smarter than their criteria."

Jim Baxter
semper fidelis
- from "2010 AD: The Season of Generation-Choicemaker"
http://www.choicemaker.net/

[Jeff]

SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS ABOUT BUSH AND BIN LADEN

The oil and drug connections were the subject of FTW's story, The Bush-Cheney drug Empire in October, 2000. That story is online athttp://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/bush-cheney-drugs.html. Both Bush and Cheney are oil men.

George Bush, Sr. was Vice President and, by virtue of executive Order 12333, in charge of all U.S. intelligence and narcotics operations from 1981 through 1989. As President from 1989 through 1993, he continued and expanded his control in these areas. Thus, it was Bush (the elder) who directly nourished and nurtured bin Laden's evolution.
Dramatic Confirmation From Indian Government
The web site of the Indian Embassy in Washington contains dramatic confirmation for these positions. On September 4, 2000, B. Raman, Director of India's Institute for Topical Studies wrote an open letter to the U.S. Congress entitled Pakistan's Noriega's. That eight-page article exposed the depth of Pakistani government involvement in the drug trade. It may be viewed at:
www.indianembassy.org/int_media/
saag_september_04_2000.html.
The letter said, in part:
"For more than a decade, the people of India have been living in a state of half-war and half-peace due to the depredations of a large number of terrorists, outrageously called jehadists, who have been trained, armed and funded and infiltrated into the State of Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of India by Pakistan in order to make the people of India and its security forces bleed in the name of religion.
"More people belonging to different religions -- Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and others -- have been killed in India by these mercenary-terrorists sponsored by the State of Pakistan than by any other terrorist groups anywhere else in the worldÉ" My words: The world knew about it -- U.S. hid it.
"Many other States have suffered and have been suffering due to the depredations of terrorists, made in and exported from Pakistan and the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan -- [these include] Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Central Asian Republics, the Chechnya and Dagestan areas of Russia, the Xinjiang province of China, Bangladesh, the Arakan area of Burma and the southern Philippines..."
"After his [1993] removal, [as official head of Pakistani intelligence, trusted advisor to Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf] Lt. Gen. Nasir traveled to Somalia, Chechnya, Dagestan, the Central Asian Republics, ÉChina, and the Southern Philippines as a preacherÉ and helped Islamic organizations, including the group which killed U.S. troopsÉ in Somalia."
"ÉIt was he, who, during his tenure as the DG [Director General] of the ISIÉ has entered into an agreement with the LTTE of Sri Lanka [which secured] LTTE's assistance in smuggling Afghanistan produced heroin in its ships to West Europe, the USA and CanadaÉ"
"ÉAnother reason for the ISI's helping the LTTE, despite its anti-Muslim policies, was to use it for smuggling heroin to West Europe, the U.S. and Canada. During Zia-ul-Haq's regime in the 1980s, heroin had become a major source of extra revenue not only for the State of Pakistan, especially the ISI and Pakistan's nuclear and missile establishment, but also to many senior officers of the Pakistan Army, including [Musharraf et al]É"

"The way Mr. Sharif before October 1999 and Gen. Musharraf since then have been using the heroin money to prevent the Pakistani economy from collapsing has not received due attention in the U.S. ..."
"If one goes purely by economic indicators, Pakistan's must be in as bad a shape as that of Russia, or even worse, since Russia has been in receipt of Western and IMF assistanceÉ"

"Where does the money come from? From the smuggling of heroin to West Europe, the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. Government might have stopped economic assistanceÉ from the taxpayers' money. But why should the Noriegas of Pakistan be worried when they get billions of dollars from the heroin sale in the U.S.?É "
Vice President Dick Cheney's recent comment that the CIA needs to get in bed with "unsavory characters" is a joke. That's a bed that the CIA has never left. And it's a marriage vow that President Bush has just reaffirmed for all the world to see.

[Shawna]

Good point! His body language says everything. You would think he would be standing up with shoulders straight.

[Kufar Dawg]

Um, what defines a "mansion" in Pakistan, might not meet the definition in Bel Air or Beverly Hills. Most people in Pakistan are dirt poor, so relative to them it is a mansion.

[Kufar Dawg]

Osama was shooting back, and I'll bet it was a fully automatic weapon in 7.62mm caliber as well.

[Westie]

Thanks Jeff, let me know when you publish the novel about the Bush/Cheney oil Heroin cabal....it'll be an Amazon top seller for sure.

[firster555]

This was a campaign contribution from pakistan to obama. The pakis know if obama is not reelected the chances are high a new administration will cut off their funding. How can they help their pal obama, make him look good, they can hand him the biggest trump card in the deck, bin laden, who they knew was there the whole time. Only mistake, they played it to soon, still a year and a half to go and you just know the impostor in the WH is going to screw up a lot along the way. As for getting bin laden, GREAT, Thank you US Military, Navy Seals and CIA.

[daniel lokey]

What a missed opportunity. A stuffed Osama slot machine in vegas! You pull the lever and he dances. Hundred dollar coins and we could be paying off the national debt.
I am honstly delighted the historical narative is a american bullet in his head.

[Shmooviyet]

Obama was self-congratulatory in his usual nauseating way. His truly clinical egomania was on full display once again. Our ridiculous SofS comes out and calls on Islamic countries to "join us in democracy", as if their view of democracy is anything close to ours ( well, it could be closer to hers.) I saw video of a man at Ground Zero stating,"Now there can be peace!" WHO believes this? Thank you, Ms. Geller, for addressing the many VERY troubling issues involved here. Something is stinking rotten to the core in the White House and in Pakistan...

[Kafir]

Well great, now that the left loves America, they can help remove the usurper.
http://www.usnaturalborncitizen.us

[American]

Ms. Geller, have you seen the Manning report today...He prophasied about this and it has to do with Israel.
The Manning Report.
http://atlahmedianetwork.org/?p=14812

[John T]

Hopefully with the captured information in OBL's house, information will be found about WHO was supporting OBL in Pakistan. If that's what happens, I wonder how far up the chain of government employes in Pakistan it goes and how many military leaders it will involve? It may be a real mess.