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President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
In revealing additional details about planning for the mission, senior officials also said that two teams of specialists were on standby: One to bury Bin Laden if he was killed, and a second composed of lawyers, interrogators and translators (…)

Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised
Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a number of European military units apparently ignored their cries for help, the Guardian has learned. Two of the nine survivors claim this included a Nato ship.
A boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli for (…)

Human rights body demands inquiry into failure of European military units to save 61 migrants on boat fleeing Libya
Europe’s paramount human rights body, the Council of Europe, has called for an inquiry into the deaths of 61 migrants in the Mediterranean, claiming an apparent failure of military units to rescue them marked a "dark day" for the continent.
Mevlüt Çavusoglu, president of the council’s parliamentary assembly, demanded an "immediate and comprehensive inquiry" into the fate of (…)

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was America’s most valuable terrorist asset over the last 30 years by (a) assisting the US-backed defeat of the Russians in Afghanistan (and thence the dismemberment of the Soviet Empire) and (b) by killing hundreds of Westerners in terrorist atrocities, thus providing the anti-terrorism justification for the post-Cold War explosion of US state terrorism in the Muslim world (bombings, invasions, occupations and 11 million Muslim dead since 1990 in (…)

by Robert Booth, Saeed Shah in Abbottabad and Jason Burke in Delhi
Osama bin Laden’s daughter cradled the head of her wounded mother in the room where the al-Qaida leader had just been killed.
"I am Saudi," she told Pakistani security officials shortly after US special forces had flown away with the terrorist’s bloodied body. "Osama bin Laden is my father."
The 12-year-old had herself been injured by a piece of flying debris in her foot or ankle during the night-time raid on Bin (…)

by David Glenn Cox
I’ve been watching a magic trick, just another of many that I’ve witnessed over the years. Funny thing about magic tricks is that even though you don’t know for sure how the trick is done, you do know that what you’ve just witnessed isn’t the truth. The only thing that you can ever count on to be the truth in the United States is that you are never told the truth.
I’ve seen a President killed with a sniper rifle with a bent site and misaligned scope. I’ve had it (…)

It is difficult to express just how warped US markets have become, though, from the movements of the past two trading days, a case can be made that the markets are being guided by forces that are distinctively not based on free market ideology nor statistics that can be trusted within any degree of accuracy.
Taking a look first on the massive downdraft in commodities - mostly silver and crude oil - from Thursday’s trading, one should look no further than the CME (Chicago Mercantile (…)

With its flip-flopping over the official narrative of Bin Laden’s killing, the White House has squandered the political capital
Last weekend, as the operation to strike Osama bin Laden’s lair was first postponed, then greenlighted and then finally carried out, President Barack Obama and his administration appeared to have ice running through their veins. Amid the behind-the-scenes risk-taking, Obama played golf and found time to roast Donald Trump expertly at the White House (…)

There’s not one iota of proof that the U.S. Navy SEALs has killed the REAL CIA-made-world-terrorist, Osama bin Laden. There’s plenty of proof that CIA’s tactic is an attempt to fool the public with disinformation, inconsistencies, and confusion for its multiple ulterior motives.
The mainstream media lapped up the spoon-fed storyline by the U.S. administration, heaping praises on President Obama and the CIA for a job well done until their story starts to unravel under the scrutiny of the (…)

In a previous Pravda.Ru article, Justice in America is a Lie (02/21/11), I explained how attorneys are trained to not only look at the immediate impact of a legal case or historical event, but also at the precedent that case or event might set. As I said, “while some attorneys fight hard to prevent the ascendancy of bad precedents, others actually work to create them, knowing that once a door is slightly ajar it can easily be pushed open the rest of the way.”
Because of this training, it (…)