Well it’s (expletive deleted) about time! That is both my analytical and emotional bottom line on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden yesterday, on May 1, 2011. It is embarrassing, even humiliating, that it took the US government, notably the CIA, nearly a decade to chase down and take out of play this horrible […]

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