LA Times: Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama's office bravery

There is no better example of lack of class then what has happened with the killing of Osama Bin Laden then this from the Los Angeles Times:

Here's something else that didn't get much recognition in all the street celebrations or all-hail-Obama briefings:

The trail to Monday morning's assault on Osama's Pakistan compound began during someone else's presidency. That previous president authorized enhanced interrogation techniques which convinced folks like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to give up, among many other things, the name of their top-secret courier, now deceased. His travels ultimately led the CIA back to Osama's six-year-old suburban home.

On this 'tense' filled weekend Obama managed to play nine holes of golf and that night gave out zingers at the White House Correspondent's Dinner? Very tense much more so then the Navy Seals performing the mission. (sarcasm) Just what is the National Security Advisor Brennan and others trying to spin for Obama. They cannot even get their stories straight.

Last night it comes out that Bin Laden's wife(s) was not used as a shield in front of him. If you are watching on a 'closed' circuit feed, couldn't you see that with your own two eyes? Was the feed live? How do you know from this White House who would rather spin then tell the truth. Pretty big spin to say his wife was in front of him when he was shot and find out that was not the case within hours.

Why bury Bin Laden's body at sea with a Muslim burial within 24 hours? He wasn't killed at sea and per Muslim rules he was to be buried on land with his head facing Mecca. Why give the man behind the Cole bombing and other terrorists acts as head of Al Qaeda a Muslim burial service before putting him into the Arabian Sea within 24 hours from the Navy ship the Carl Vinson? Makes no sense that we would honor any Muslim tradition when it came to Obama. If you are going to bury him at sea, dump him from the Chopper.

Don't get me wrong, I am extremely happy that Bin Laden is dead but it would be nice to get the truth for a change and would have been better if Obama had been willing to give President Bush and his team the credit for the initial break from intelligence interrogation. It was once again all about Obama with his aides pushing him as being so brave (in the office) while virtually ignoring our Navy SEALS who risked their lives.

Now Obama makes a political trip to NYC on Thursday to tie up their traffic. If he wasn't so much about himself and his reelection, he would have invited President Bush to go with him to Ground Zero of 9/11. Class act has never been in the vocabulary when talking about Obama.

Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama's office braveryMay 2, 2011 | 2:42 pm

According to another one of those White House briefings of reporters designed to suck up all available credit for good news, President Obama's homeland security advisor reveals that it was a really tense time in the air-conditioned White House as unidentified U.S. Navy SEALs closed in on the world's most wanted man after midnight a half a world away.

"Minutes passed like days," says John Brennan, who bravely stood with press secretary Jay Carney before reporters and TV cameras today chronicling his boss' weekend heroics.

The heavily-armed commandos flying in a quartet of darkened Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters more than 100 miles into Pakistan were probably listening to their iPods and discussing the NFL draft.

"The concern was that bin Laden would oppose any type of capture operation," said Obama's Sherlock Holmes. So U.S. troops were prepared "for all contingencies."

In fact, this weekend was such a tense time in the White House that Obama only got in nine holes of golf. But he still managed to deliver his joke script to the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner Saturday evening.

Sunday was, Brennan revealed to his eager audience, "probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of times in the lives of the people assembled here." Poor poor bureaucrats. Extra Tums all around. Did someone order dinner?

There may have been a little anxiety aboard those combat choppers. Who knows? We can't hear from them. And, as every day, anxiety in the kitchens, hearts and mind of thousands of military families who put up with the terrifying uncertainty of the dangerous deeds their loved ones have volunteered to secretly do for their country. During his 49 minute presentation Brennan did squeeze in one reference to the mission's "very brave personnel."

But the emphasis, with 2012 just around the calendrical corner, was on the boss' valor. "There was nothing that confirmed that bin Laden was at that compound," Brennan related as if such uncertainty is uncommon in war.

"And, therefore," Brennan continued, "when President Obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this, the president had to evaluate the strength of that information and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory."

According to early reports of the incident, detailed here in The Ticket, 24 SEALs rappelled down ropes from hovering Chinooks in post-midnight darkness Monday Pakistan time with Osama security forces shooting at them. Brennan didn't have much time to go into all that today, the goal is to elevate the ex-state senator to at least a one-star commander-in-chief.

Read More at LA Times

There is something about all of this that bothers me and that was the fact Obama knew this was going down and chose last week to release the birth certificate.  Why?  When 'natural' born versus 'native' born was actually being discussed, the raid to kill Bin Laden happens that next weekend. With the people Obama surrounds himself with in the White House, we have no doubt that everything this man done is for political purposes as he knows nothing else. The trip to Ground Zero during a work day on Thursday says it is not only political but all of this operation was about him according to his staff. He gives little credit to anyone if it doesn't help him politically.  The leadership has been unable to get their stories straight which we don't understand.  At times this seems like a movie ready for Take 2.

Yet he wants the same bi-partisanship that happened with the killing of Bin Laden to continue on his agenda. At the same time he refuses to recognize President Bush and his team along with the interrogation techniques that discovered the link to Bin Laden that eventually took him down. It is only bi-partisan when everyone agrees with Obama.

We don't want anyone to think we are not happy that Bin Ladin is dead but changing stories along with releasing info that should have remained classified makes us wonder about this operation on the part of the White House.  Praise keeps going to Obama for being brave when he sat in an office while the Navy Seals were in the field.  Not sitting well but once again why should we be shocked by this Obama media?  They are in full cover mode no matter what Obama says.

Aerial photo of location for Islamic Mosque NEAR Ground Zero

Source: MichelleMalkin.com

The red square says it all as you see how close to the Ground Zero destruction and the Islamic Mosque NEAR Ground Zero really is.  This is what they consider two blocks away?  In fact it looks to be the 3rd building from Ground Zero.  Sure gives a different feel when you say 3rd building from Ground Zero versus two city blocks.  These definitely are not big blocks if they are blocks at all. 

Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) 9/11/2001

On June 16, 2010, there was a rally in NYC against the proposed Ground Zero Islamic Mosque. No major media, no satellite trucks, no national coverage to speak of happened at this event. Has our media totally forgotten 9/11 or are they in a cover mode for Obama, Bloomberg and others who support the building of the Islamic Mosque at Ground Zero? How can they look survivors in the eye?

These are parents and spouses of firefighters killed on 9/11. The rally took place just a minute’s walk from Ladder 10 Firehouse, where their loved ones were stationed for duty that terrible day. Ladder 10 lost seven firefighters.
Because debris hit the building site where the Islamists want to build the mosque, it should be considered part of Ground Zero. If NYC won't allow St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church to rebuild because it sits on Ground Zero land, what do you call where the Muslims want to build their Islamic Mosque? A Greek Orthodox Church that had stood for over 100 years before being destroyed on 9/11 is not wanted by Bloomberg and members of the various groups controlled in NYC by Bloomberg but the Islamic Mosques is?


Port Authority and NYPD officers kept watch over the rally and were well aware of the need for heightened security at this event. One of their own Port Authority officers, WTC Sergeant Alan T. De Vona was on duty at the World Trade Center on 9/11, 2001, and was one of the first to help victims of the terrorist attack. He spoke these words to the SIOA rally:

“It’s almost nine years. I’m hoping that America is watching. I’m hoping that America is remembering. Because, make no mistake. September 11 was an act of war. And thank the military that has lost almost 5,000 troops from that day, defending us. I don’t know what to say to jar America’s memory. I want America to remember. "

Sergeant Vona -- so do we! We want America to remember that the people who flew the planes into the towers belonged to Islam and that Obama in his speech following 9/11 took the opportunity to blame America for part of the problem. Wonder if Obama blames America for the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941?




How can any American forget that Islamic Jihadist hijacked and flew those planes into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a plane into the ground in Pennsylvania headed for Washington DC?

Now Muslim supporters of Islam want to build an Islamic Mosque near the site of the twin towers where members of their religion destroyed the towers and murdered all those people. As someone said on a website: What would Americans say if the Japanese tried to build a shrine near the USS Arizona?

Never forget 9/11/2001 when everything stopped as we witnessed an attack on American soil by Islamic Jihadists who adhered to Shariah Law -- the same Shariah Law that Muslims want to bring into America through their mosques.

This song and video is a remember of 9/11 -- shame Obama, Bloomberg, and others who support this Islamic Mosque being built near Ground Zero don't remember and if they do have little to no empathy for the survivors.




MEGARA2009 April 23, 2007
A Tribute of slides and footage to the lives lost September 11 2001.
Music: Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) by Alan Jackson.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW8puRqE4Sc&feature=related

Frank Gaffney: Coming to Grips with Sharia (Muslim Law)

The American people are being subjected to spin and lies about Sharia not the truth by Obama and his Administration, along with Democrat leaders of Congress, local elected officials like Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, academia, and financial institutions for starters. All these people are trying to whitewash Sharia claiming it is not counter to the Constitution. That makes us ask if they don't understand the Constitution or they don't understand Sharia because the two are not compatible by any stretch of the imagination. Why won't these people/media tell the truth about Sharia? Political correctness is going to get us killed.

Unfortunately, too many Americans still remain unaware of the magnitude of the danger we face from Shariah. Worse yet, their ability to comprehend this threat, let alone respond appropriately to it, is being seriously disserved by people who know better - or should. Specifically, the public is being seriously misled by 1) some journalists and politicians who are obscuring the true nature of Shariah and 2) Shariah practitioners who engage in deliberate deception to facilitate the penetration of their doctrine into Western societies.

This paragraph from the article leads us to wonder how many in the media/government actually favor Muslims over Christians/Jews? It is mind boggling that these so-called leaders try to put a guilt trip on the rest of us for not wanting Islamic Mosques built. It is not working because most Americans understand what the Islamic faith is all about -- their goal to to turn everyone Muslim or they prefer you were dead. They leave no room for other religions but yet our political and some church leaders want Americans to embrace their Islamic religion as just another church. Last we checked new Christian churches that have been formed, did not want to kill us. The terrorists are not called Islamic Jihadists for nothing even though that is not considered words to be used by this Administration.

Americans across this country are struggling to understand the true nature of the threat we face from Shariah. They are entitled to straight talk about the extent to which it is being insinuated, promoted and legitimated not only in mosques but by financial institutions, banks, academic institutions and government agencies. Those who fail to provide such unvarnished truths are part of the problem, and should be treated accordingly.

The controversy surrounding the building of the Islamic Mosque near Ground Zero has taken a new twist as it has come to light that Con Ed owns half the building which was information not given to the people making the decision. Why did the Muslims hide the fact they didn't own the entire building? Will NYC now make the application process start all over again or will they whitewash it and give permission to build? What are Bloomberg and the City Council of NYC thinking with allowing this Mosque so close to Ground Zero. The hijackers on 9/11 all were Muslim and now NYC wants to build this huge mosque near Ground Zero and actually break ground for it on 9/11? The 3rd term of Bloomberg is turning into a disaster.

Anger is building across America at the boldness of Muslims in America with these mosques and it is not helped by Obama who favors them and covers for what any of their members might do like Major Nidal Malik Hasan who went on a killing spree on Fort Hood, Texas. He is still drawing military pay and benefits while awaiting trial for the murders. This Administration and the media did their best to keep the fact he was a practicing hard liner Muslim from the American people. He had been turned in for his interaction with patients but the Army and their political correctness failed to act.

Why are communities allowing these mosques to be built? There is a mosque near the University of Oklahoma where the 'lone' suicide bomber attended who tried to blow up our football stadium. To this day the 'real' facts are still missing in the case. The local mosque at that time had TV cameras watching people going by, yet by all accounts there was no surveillance of the mosque. This 'lone' person with a Pakistani roommate had enough bomb making chemicals in his apartment that the local PD took 18 trips to the bomb disposal dump so not to blow up a city block. When they detonated the bomb, windows rattled five miles away. Yet we were supposed to believe he really wasn't dangerous and didn't try to blow up the stadium.

Local media had one source but they could not get a second source to go on record so the spin of the Government stood. If they expect anyone in this area to swallow the 'religion of peace' mantra, think again. This is the second instance with Government cover-up of bombings this area has experienced -- the first was with the Murrah Building blown up by McVeigh/Nichols/Others. FBI in both instances were selective in what they investigated. The 'lone' bomber in Norman they tried to tell us had left a suicide note on his computer they found three weeks after he was blown up.

The same BS meter is going off about these mosques they are trying to build around the Country with what has already happened in Oklahoma. Obama said we were one of the largest Muslim countries -- maybe that was wishful thinking for the future.


Is it true that Obama is Muslim even though attending Rev Wright's Church of Christ which was a cover for Muslims in Chicago wanting to pretend their were Christian? Did the media bother to follow up? NO -- they allowed Obama to throw Rev Wright under the bus with little comment. When Obama bowed to the Saudi king, the media still had little comment. What is the media hiding from the American people about Obama's Muslim background?

Read this article from Frank Gaffney and ask yourself what is wrong with the leadership of this Country including with Mayor Bloomberg. Shame Rudy is still not the Mayor because this would not be happening. Rudy refused a check from a Saudi prince after 9/11 while Bloomberg refuses to check the source of the Muslim funding for the mosque. That's the difference between a real leader -- Rudy and someone who will bow to the Muslims and whatever they want to do -- Obama and Bloomberg.

Coming to grips with shariah
Center for Security Policy Aug 09, 2010
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is talking about Shariah. In particular, growing controversies over proposed mosques at Ground Zero and other sites are becoming powerful "teaching moments" - raising awareness about the repressive theo-political-military-legal doctrine that animates the builders and that their fellow adherents seek to impose on the entire world.

This is a most welcome development in light of the grave and growing threat posed by this agenda and the concerted effort being made - here and elsewhere, through violent jihad and the stealthy kind - to realize that goal.

(snip)

As an example of the former, consider the article that led the New York Times front page on Sunday entitled "Battles around Nation over Proposed Mosques." It accurately reported that Americans from the Ground Zero neighborhood in Lower Manhattan to San Bernardino are expressing growing concern about Muslim mosques that "seek to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic Shariah law."

Yet, the Times proceeded to dismiss the idea that such mosques are a problem. It cited "interfaith groups led by Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, rabbis and clergy members from other faiths [who] have defended the mosques." One such individual was quoted as saying that the opponents "have fear because they don't know" those involved in such mosques.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went even further last week declaring that those critical of the construction of a permanent symbol of Shariah adherents' victorious destruction of the World Trade Center "ought to be ashamed of themselves" for being intolerant. Moreover, he categorically rejected the idea that it was reasonable, let alone necessary, to determine the source of funds for the $100-plus million mega-mosque near Ground Zero.

In other words, the Mayor seemingly is indifferent to whether the funding for the mosque sponsored by the Cordoba Initiative (named for the capital city of the Moorish conquerors of Spain and the site where they triumphally transformed a Catholic church into a massive mosque) might be the Saudis, with their version of Shariah known as Wahhabism.

This cavalier attitude is absolutely stupefying insofar as two years ago this month, the New York Police Department issued a report warning that Wahhabi mosques in America were incubators for "homegrown" Islamic radicals.

The Mayor has a duty to know a lot more than he evidently does about Shariah. He certainly has an obligation to figure out whether - as is true of, by some estimates, 80% of the mosques in America - the Ground Zero Mosque is going to fit the profile of a Wahhabi-associated facility.

The challenge of assuring public awareness of the Shariah threat would be hard enough if the only impediment were ill-informed politicians and journalists. Matters are made much worse by the skill with which Shariah's adherents dissemble, or simply lie.

For example, the New York Times article cited Camie Ayash, a spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee - the sponsors of a proposed 52,000 square foot mosque that has precipitated an intense local backlash. It reported that Ms. Ayash "lamented that people were listening to 'total disinformation' on Islam." She then engaged in a classic example of real disinformation - or what Shariah calls taqqiya - claiming, "There's no conflict with the U.S. Constitution in Shariah law."

Now, even the most superficial review of Shariah shows that statement to be preposterous and misleading. In fact, among other Constitution-affronting features, Islamic law prohibits democratic law-making. It requires the replacement of constitutions and governments like ours with a global theocracy governed by Islamic law. It brutalizes women and otherwise treats them as second-class citizens and authorizes the murder of homosexuals and apostates.

Shariah is, in short, wholly incompatible with our legal system, freedoms and way of life.

Read More at: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18487.xml

NOTE: Our emphasis added

Frank Gaffney, Jr.,: On 'bashing' Muslims -- $100 million Mosque Close to New York's 9/11 Ground Zero

We are having a hard time trying to figure out why any rationale thinking American could possibly agree that building a $100 million mosque close to Ground Zero is going to play well with Americans. There is no way this mosque should have been approved to go forward. What was Mayor Bloomberg along with New York City officials thinking?

When Newt Gingrich took on Shariah, he was immediately accused of Muslim bashing which was not the case. Any reasonable Muslim would agree that Newt was not Muslim bashing but pointing out the problems with the followers of the Shariah portion of the Islamic faith who want to destroy America and our way of life.

There is no way that the Mosque near Ground Zero should be built and any New York politician supporting the construction should be thrown out of office. Why give any credibility to people who want to kill us and were successful on 9/11?

Who is this Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf?

'Ground Zero' imam makes stunning terror comments
Claims to support peace but refuses to condemn violent jihad groups--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: June 20, 2010
8:41 pm Eastern

© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

NEW YORK – The imam behind a proposal to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks refuses to condemn violent jihad groups as terrorists.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, head of the Cordoba Initiative, which seeks to construct the massive center, repeatedly refused on-air to affirm the U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization or call the Muslim Brotherhood extremists.

The Brotherhood openly seeks to spread Islam around the world, while Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction and is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks aimed at Jewish civilian population centers.

Rauf was speaking in a live interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts a show on New York's WABC Radio.

Klein asked Rauf on his show whether the imam agrees with the State Department's designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization.

"I'm not a politician," replied Rauf. "I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question. ... I'm a bridge builder. I define my work as a bridge builder. I do not want to be placed, nor do I accept to be placed in a position of being put in a position where I am the target of one side or another."

Klein pointed out Hamas attacks have targeted civilians and asked Rauf again whether that qualifies to define Hamas as terrorists.

Rauf stated: "The targeting of civilians is wrong. It is a sin in our religion. Whoever does it, targeting civilians is wrong. I am a supporter of the state of Israel. ... I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary."

When Klein persisted in asking about Hamas, Rauf charged the radio host of "accus[ing] me of things. You are killing the messenger."

"You are trying to bring down the person who is trying to build security between our country and our faith tradition," said Rauf. "My urge to you. I have worked for the law-enforcement agencies."

Klein interrupted, stating, "And yet you refuse to tell me Hamas is a terror organization."

Read More quotes from the Iman behind the mosque and listen to this interview at WND.com

When you listen to the interview with this Iman, it sends chills up your spine knowing he is behind the building of the mosque. Obama is a huge supporter of the so-called "Religion of Peace" and makes no attempt to separate the radical Islamic Jihadists who want to kill us with more moderate members as he lumps them all in the same category. Refusing to use the word 'terrorist' to describe the Islamic Jihadists is not going to make a difference nor is the current Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to acknowledge Islamic terrorists exists going to make the problem go away. These people want to kill Americans and force their laws on America.

The question many Americans are asking is if Obama and his Attorney General Holder actually would favor Shariah law being implemented in the United States? We think that is a fair question after some of the comments we have seen where they refuse to acknowledge Islamic terrorists want to kill us.

Every last politician supporting the construction of this mosque near Ground Zero needs to be voted out of office and replaced with people who understand terrorism and the fact that there are terrorists sponsored organizations who want to kill us.

Newt Gingrich has highlighted what is bothering a lot of Americans about this mosque near Ground Zero.

On "bashing" Muslims

Center for Security Policy Aug 02, 2010
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Last week, a tectonic shift took place in the firmament of the War of Ideas. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on the entire world. As he noted, the United States is squarely in the cross-hairs of Shariah's devotees.

In response, the usual suspects - the multiculturally sensitive elite that reflexively excuses the Islamists joined by proponents of the latters' stealth jihad, notably elements of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) - have reflexively responded by accusing the Speaker of "bashing" Muslims. It is, of course, far easier to engage in ad hominem attacks than contend with Newt's characteristically thoughtful and informed critique. It is also expedient to try to portray a focused challenge to the beliefs and practices of a subset of the Islamic faith as an assault on all Muslims.

In fact, it is not "bashing" all Muslims if one points out that the comprehensive doctrine to which some of them adhere is a threat to our liberties, our government and our way of life. Objectively, that is the case; a global theocracy - the end-state commanded by Shariah - administering a severely repressive, even barbaric criminal code aimed at enforcing submission by Muslims and non-Muslims alike is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.

As it happens, one man who has expressly said he seeks to "bring Shariah to America" is Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam currently promoting construction of a 13-story, $100 million mosque once dubbed "Cordoba House" in proximity to Ground Zero. Speaker Gingrich has properly and powerfully opposed that idea: In an op.ed. in Human Events last week, he wrote: "It is simply grotesque to erect a mosque at the site of the most visible and powerful symbol of the horrible consequences of radical Islamist ideology.... For radical Islamists, the mosque would become an icon of triumph, encouraging them in their challenge to our civilization."

Unfortunately, the problem is not merely the location of the mosque. Rather, it lies with those like Imam Rauf who are advancing the Muslim Brotherhood agenda that Mr. Gingrich calls "creeping Shariah" and the MB itself says is "to destroy Western civilization from within."

Rauf has myriad connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. His father was a prominent figure in the organization back in Egypt in the 1940s. After Gamal Nasser cracked down on the organization, the elder Rauf fled first to Kuwait, where Feisal was born, then made his way to Malaysia and ultimately America. Once in New York, he bought up a third of a city block on the Upper East Side and built a large, Shariah adherent mosque and Islamic Center on 96th Street. The younger Rauf serves on the board of that mosque.

Feisal Abdul Rauf also published in 2004 a book entitled What's Right About Islam is What's Right about America. It is in English, but intended for Muslim audiences. Interestingly, this book appeared under a different title in Malaysia (and in the local language, not in English). The title has been changed, in an instructive way: A Call to Prayer from the WTC Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post 9/11.

Now, dawa is the essence of creeping Shariah. Dawa is all about proselytizing, recruiting and indoctrinating in the ways of Shariah and the jihad it demands. And, as the acknowledgements page of the American version indicates, "a special non-commercial edition [of the book was published] to promote a proper understanding of Islam and common ground between Islam and the West." The organizations that made that possible were two that the U.S. government has identified as Brotherhood fronts: the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT).

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