Sunday, October 25, 2015

What Do We Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?

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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House Photo: PETER SOUZA

Jonathan Mahler, New York Times: What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?

The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written.

Mark Bowden was watching a ballgame — the Phillies versus the Mets — on the night of May 1, 2011, when the network cut away to President Obama in the East Room of the White House. “Tonight,” the president said, ‘‘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 leader of Al Qaeda and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.’’

Five minutes or so after the president wrapped up his brief remarks, as thousands of Americans gathered in front of the White House and at ground zero chanting ‘‘U-S-A! U-S-A!’’ Bowden’s cellphone rang. It was Mike Stenson, the president of Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Bowden had worked with Bruckheimer on the film adaptation of his 1999 best seller, ‘‘Black Hawk Down.’’

WNU Editor: Apparently we do not know that much.

2 comments:

James said...

Apparently the Times thinks that something pretty big is about to come out that will make them look bad, so some CYA here.

Anonymous said...

Pakistan recently acknowledged that they knew of Bin Laden's presence in their country. Given this administration's penchant for storytelling I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen at all. I always thought Obama deserved an Oscar rather than a peace prize.