{"id":6091,"date":"2011-05-04T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:16:45","slug":"and-still-more-bin-laden-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=6091","title":{"rendered":"And Still More Bin Laden Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more post-Osama postmortem tidbits:<\/p>\n<li>Ace of Spades <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/315638.php\">presents a timeline of the hunt for Bin Laden<\/a>.\n<li>It turns out that, despite initial reports, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-05-03\/world\/bin.laden.dead_1_bin-senior-government-official-cia-director-leon-panetta?_s=PM:WORLD\">Bin Laden was unarmed when the SEAL team sent him to Allah<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got absolutely no problem with that, but you know there are some liberals who will get their panties in a knot over the very thought.\n<li>Just like there are people who are saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-05-03\/world\/bin.laden.dead_1_bin-senior-government-official-cia-director-leon-panetta?_s=PM:WORLD\">we shouldn&#8217;t be celebrating Bin Laden&#8217;s death<\/a> because he was, you know, a human being and all. To which I reply:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popularvirals.com\/images\/bite-me\/bite-me-0926.jpg\"><\/p>\n<li>Iowahawk <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahawk.typepad.com\/iowahawk\/2011\/05\/american-pride-is-back.html\">brings the praise<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Little did I know that this untested young Commander-in-Chief would muster the courage to read his weekly Gallup numbers and, in one daring unilateral extra-judicial targeted hit job, toss aside every single idiotic foreign policy principle of his election campaign. Perhaps most satisfyingly, it was a mission made possible thanks to information extracted by methods he previously banned as &#8220;illegal torture.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t just get Osama&#8217;s ass, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0511\/54151.html\">we got his hard drive<\/a>.\n<li>Muslim Brotherhood to English media outlets: Osama Bin Laden was a dirty stinking terrorist, and we&#8217;re glad hes dead. Muslim Brotherhood to Arab outlets: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/266323\/when-they-think-west-isnt-listening-muslim-brotherhood-praises-bin-laden-andrew-c-mcca\">Osama Bin Laden was a great holy warrior who achieved martyrdom at the hands of the infidels.<\/a>\n<li>The Pakistani ISI was shocked, SHOCKED <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503543_162-20059361-503543.html\">to find out Bin Laden was living in their country.<\/a>\n<li>According to Wikileaks, the CIA puts the ISI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/04\/25\/national\/main20057002.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;10\">in the same category as Hezbollah and Hamas<\/a>. About damn time.\n<li>Can&#8217;t figure out which side Pakistani is on? Don&#8217;t worry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/05\/02\/the_lies_they_tell_us\">Neither can Pakistanis.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more post-Osama postmortem tidbits: Ace of Spades presents a timeline of the hunt for Bin Laden. It turns out that, despite initial reports, Bin Laden was unarmed when the SEAL team sent him to Allah. I&#8217;ve got absolutely no problem with that, but you know there are some liberals who will get their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,49,31,11,194],"tags":[588,2867,990,97,99],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-media-watch","category-military","tag-al-qaeda","tag-jihad","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistani-isi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6113,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}