President Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan: ” . . . shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we [...]
Anne Arundel Community College teaches wrong lesson: Break Maryland law and get what you want The unfair treatment of instructor Bert Hubinger Colleges should not break the law. Background: In Maryland, recording a private conversation requires the consent of both parties. Secretly recording a conversation falls legally under the heading of an “intercept,” as [...]
Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound hidden deep in Pakistan, President Obama announced Sunday night. Complete transcript of the president’s statement linked here. From the statement: “Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through [...]
With thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis, and U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, the fugitive icon of terrorist networks, was finally tracked down and killed in Pakistan. And not just in Pakistan, either, but in the city of Abbottabad, in the neighborhood of Pakistan’s military academy. Let’s say [...]