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Osama Bin Laden: No longer Wanted

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris,com, all rights reserved

When three Navy SEALS took simultaneous shots at Somali pirates as they bobbed at sea, we learned what just released photos of dead terrorist in Osama Bin Laden’s compound tell us: Navy SEALS don’t miss.

Ignore hype we need to release OBL’s gruesome photo asap to prove he’s dead to quash impending drumbeats of a U.S. conspiracy he’s not. Why doesn’t the Pentagon issue a psy-ops press release that Osama is bunking with Elvis, in a plush safehouse, enjoying 72 virgins and, while the weather is perfect in heaven, hell is hot.

You know they know…especially if they are watching American networks, the support for the troops, The President, lionizing the US Navy SEALS, Obama’s scheduled visit to the memorial for 9-11 victims in New York Thursday, his surge in the polls, no longer on the ropes.

Deep down, as they lie on cots or beds of sand, shaking scorpions out of boots, double checking their AKs, the clock is hitting midnight, and if we listen hard, we just might hear hearts pounding a world away…Even the most cocky and arrogant among them understands there’s a reckoning and is fighting The Fear, fighting Uncle Sandman to stay awake, even as he slips away, clutching his weapon, nodding off into another nightmare ….then bolts upright…Is he wondering:

Did I hear a noise? A helicopter? Are SEALS coming for ME? Is tonight MY night?

Osama Bin Laden no longer Most Wanted: he’s “deceased”

President Obama: “Justice has been served.”

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Osama Bin Laden, the architect of the 9-11 hijackings that killed almost 3,000 New Yorkers, was gunned down in a firefight with a U.S. Navy SEAL team, crack commandos that swooped in via helicopters after a tip from a “U.S” asset had apparently pinpointed his hiding place in a mansion outside Islamabad, Pakistan, according to President Barack Obama and our military sources.

“Justice has been done,” declared President Obama who detailed a secret CIA-lead operation he ordered to kill or capture Bin Laden once his hiding place could be confirmed. He said after the gunfight, the U.S. team transported Bin Laden’s body back to Aghanistan for forensic identification.

This is the kind of dangerous, risky operation U.S. Navy SEALS are trained to do, sweet revenge after the savage ambush of a SEAL team in the mountains of Afghanistan several years ago, and almost 10 years of frustration in the hunt for Bin Laden, a world wide symbol of anti-U.S. terrorism.

Before Obama made the announcement, U.S. forces had to confirm they had actually killed the FBI’s most wanted terrorist with a $25 million reward on his head. According to CNN sources, Obama had several meetings in recent months to learn of tips U.S. intelligence had gathered and presented to the President. Read the rest of this entry »

Iraqi children’s grade school art, recovered during battle for Nasirya, 2003

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Ah, the preening showboat pastor threatening to burn the Koran conjured flashbacks as a former CNN embed in Iraq with my Facebook friend, Rey Naravis, brave young (ex) Marine who did three tours and often reminded yours truly to keep his head down while traveling with the 2nd LAR in Nasirya.

Some folks just don’t get it, he was saying, how bad guys invoke the Koran to justify taunting the Great Satan, brainwashed believers putting their own at risk.

Ray’s note reminded me of the night 500 pound bombs shook the ground along the Euphrates, softening up the fedayeen who opened fire from the mosque across the river. What were thinking? Maybe, hah, hah, can’t touch us because it’s just plain un-American to fire on a place of worship, right?

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