Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan which is north of Islamabad and the U.S. has his body according to reports by AP, CNN. Bin Laden was killed and his body dumped in the sea after DNA tests it was confirmed that the body of Bin Laden was among those that were killed.

U.S. President Barack Obama is suppose to make an announcement tonight (Sunday, May 1, 2011).

Barack Obama addressed the nation last night (Dec.1) in a prime time address from the US Military Academy in West Point to announce his order to send 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan over the next 6 months and his strategy to defeat Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Video of Barack Obama’s FULL address to the nation from US Military Academy in West Point (Dec.1, 2009):

Don’t you just love how Obama resurrected Bush’s 9/11-fear-resolve-unwavering speech? Naomi Wolf was right about Obama being no better than Bush.

We mistakenly posted an additional 34,000 troops were being sent to Afghanistan in a post the other day, but then again, we may still see more troops sent in the future.

Al Qaeda’s alleged No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri insulted Barack Obama in a new tape just released in the terror group’s first reaction to his election as President of The United States. In the tape, Al-Zawahiri calls Obama, former and current secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, “House Negroes”, a term that was previously used by Malcolm X for blacks who were subservient to whites.

Watch the Associated Press Video Report:

As CNN points out, The speaker praised Malcolm X for his “fraternity with the Muslims,” his condemnation of the West’s treatment of oppressed peoples, and his backing of resistance movements.

“That’s why it wasn’t strange that Malik al-Shabazz (may Allah have mercy on him) was killed, while you have climbed the rungs of the presidency to take over the leadership of the greatest criminal force in the history of mankind and the leadership of the most violent crusade ever against the Muslims,” the speaker said.

The speaker was referring to Malcolm X’s Muslim name and his assassination in 1965.

Al-Zawahiri also attacks Obama on his plan to increase troop levels in Afghanistan.

Al-Zawahiri states, “If you still want to be stubborn about America’s failure in Afghanistan, then remember the fate of Bush and Pervez Musharraf, and the fate of the Soviets and British before them. And be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them.”

Paul Joseph Watson of PrisonPlanet.com asks some interesting questions about Ayman Al-Zawahri:

Is this Al-Zawahiri a different person to the real Al-Zawahiri who was reported to have been captured in Tehran in February 2002?

Is this a different Al-Zawahiri to the one reportedly captured near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in September 2004?

Or is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, as the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, fought for the CIA in Bosnia?

Is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, according to January 2000 U.S. Congressional testimony, was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service – something almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain?

Is this the same Al-Zawahiri whose brother Zaiman is running terrorist camps under NATO protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo?
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On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith reports on an Al Qaeda linked website posting that Al Qaeda wants John McCain to win the 2008 Presidential election because John McCain will basically continue the policies of George W. Bush.

Watch the Video:

John Byrne
Raw Story
Sunday, Aug 31, 2008

As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain’s choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in a state of permanent war.

Buried in a recent proposal by the Administration is a sentence that has received scant attention — and was buried itself in the very newspaper that exposed it Saturday. It is an affirmation that the United States remains at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban and “associated organizations.”

Part of a proposal for Guantanamo Bay legal detainees, the provision before Congress seeks to “acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations, who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated to the slaughter of Americans.”

The New York Times’ page 8 placement of the article in its Saturday edition seems to downplay its importance. Such a re-affirmation of war carries broad legal implications that could imperil Americans’ civil liberties and the rights of foreign nationals for decades to come.

It was under the guise of war that President Bush claimed a legal mandate for his warrantless wiretapping program, giving the National Security Agency power to intercept calls Americans made abroad. More of this program has emerged in recent years, and it includes the surveillance of Americans’ information and exchanges online.

“War powers” have also given President Bush cover to hold Americans without habeas corpus — detainment without explanation or charge. Jose Padilla, a Chicago resident arrested in 2002, was held without trial for five years before being convicted of conspiring to kill individuals abroad and provide support for terrorism.

But his arrest was made with proclamations that Padilla had plans to build a “dirty bomb.” He was never convicted of this charge. Padilla’s legal team also claimed that during his time in military custody — the four years he was held without charge — he was tortured with sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, forced stress positions and injected with drugs.

Times reporter Eric Lichtblau notes that the measure is the latest step that the Administration has taken to “make permanent” key aspects of its “long war” against terrorism. Congress recently passed a much-maligned bill giving telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for their participation in what constitutional experts see as an illegal or borderline-illegal surveillance program, and is considering efforts to give the FBI more power in their investigative techniques.

“It is uncertain whether Congress will take the administration up on its request,” Lichtblau writes. “Some Republicans have already embraced the idea, with Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, introducing a measure almost identical to the administration’s proposal. ‘Since 9/11,’ Mr. Smith said, ‘we have been at war with an unconventional enemy whose primary goal is to kill innocent Americans.’”

If enough Republicans come aboard, Democrats may struggle to defeat the provision. Despite holding majorities in the House and Senate, they have failed to beat back some of President Bush’s purported “security” measures, such as the telecom immunity bill.

Bush’s open-ended permanent war language worries his critics. They say it could provide indefinite, if hazy, legal justification for any number of activities — including detention of terrorists suspects at bases like Guantanamo Bay (where for years the Administration would not even release the names of those being held), and the NSA’s warantless wiretapping program.

Lichtblau co-wrote the Times article revealing the Administration’s eavesdropping program along with fellow reporter James Risen.

He notes that Bush’s language “recalls a resolution, known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed by Congress on Sept. 14, 2001… [which] authorized the president to ‘use all necessary and appropriate force’ against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks to prevent future strikes. That authorization, still in effect, was initially viewed by many members of Congress who voted for it as the go-ahead for the administration to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban, which had given sanctuary to Mr. bin Laden.”

“But the military authorization became the secret legal basis for some of the administration’s most controversial legal tactics, including the wiretapping program, and that still gnaws at some members of Congress,” he adds.