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Disturbing Trend: One in Five Young Americans Express Positive Views of Osama Bin Laden

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A recent survey conducted by J.L. Partners and the Daily Mail has revealed a concerning trend, with one in five young Americans expressing a positive view of Osama Bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda. The survey, which posed the question, “How would you describe your view of Osama Bin Laden?” highlighted stark generational differences in perceptions of the infamous terrorist responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Overall, 81 percent of respondents reported having at least somewhat negative views of Osama Bin Laden, with 76 percent holding a “completely negative view.” In contrast, eight percent of respondents expressed at least somewhat positive views, with four percent holding a “completely positive” view of Bin Laden. However, the most significant shift occurred when breaking down the results by age groups, revealing a disturbing pattern among young Americans.

Among respondents aged 18-29, 20 percent reported having at least somewhat positive views of Bin Laden, with eight percent holding a “completely positive” view. This contrasts with 52 percent of the same age group expressing at least somewhat negative views. Furthermore, 17 percent of those aged 18-29 admitted to having a “mix of positive and negative” feelings about the terrorist leader, while 11 percent claimed to “don’t know.”

The survey results underscore a growing disconnect between the younger generation and the historical reality of the September 11 attacks, as many young Americans were either born after 2001 or were too young to remember the events. The troubling findings coincide with a disturbing trend on the social media platform TikTok, where some users have been recirculating Bin Laden’s 2002 letter attempting to justify the 9/11 attacks.

Notably, eight percent of the Gen Z age group expressed positive views of both Bin Laden’s “views and actions,” while 23 percent believed his views were good but his actions were bad. Overall, 81 percent of American voters reported negative views of Bin Laden, while just under one in ten (eight percent) viewed him positively. Fourteen percent acknowledged that the terrorist leader had some “good in terms of either his views, actions, or both,” while 70 percent believed both his views and actions were bad.

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Report: Navy SEAL Who Killed Terrorist Osama Bin Laden Arrested

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The Navy SEAL credited with fatally shooting terrorist Osama bin Laden was reportedly arrested on two charges in Frisco, Texas, recently.

Authorities booked 47-year-old Robert J. O’Neill into jail on Wednesday and released him hours later on a $3,500 bond, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday.

According to law enforcement, “O’Neill faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. Jail records list only the assault charge,” the newspaper said, noting the Tennessee resident was in the area Tuesday to record a podcast.

A few years after bin Laden’s death in 2011, O’Neill, a Montana native, said he was the one who fired the shots that killed the terrorist leader. . .

During an interview in September, O’Neill recalled the moment he came face to face with bin Laden and recognized him:

(Read more from “Report: Navy SEAL Who Killed Terrorist Osama Bin Laden Arrested” HERE)

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Revealed: How Osama bin Laden Was Found

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. . .In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which killed 2,977 people, Osama’s extended family scattered to the wind. Meanwhile, the jihadist who founded al Qaeda to wage holy war on the West concealed himself in the Afghan mountains and in northern Pakistan to evade justice. But by 2004, as the United States bogged itself down in nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, bin Laden felt the heat of the chase dissipate.

That’s when the world’s most wanted man ordered his bodyguard, Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed abd al-Hamid, to buy some land, hire an architect, and build a fortress big enough to house the family he was intent on reuniting in Abbottabad, Pakistan. . .

The acre of land enclosed within the walls contained a small farm that produced apples, vegetables, grapes, and honey and housed chickens and even cows — food that was apparently being consumed by unseen residents.

But the final clue was the clotheslines on the compound, which flapped each day with women’s garments, shalwar kameez worn by Pakistani men, children’s outfits and diapers — far more than the 11 members of the bodyguards’ families could ever wear.

The invisible inhabitants, according to the agents’ laundry calculations, had to include an adult man, several adult women, and at least nine children, a perfect fit for the polygamous patriarch they were seeking. (Read more from “Revealed: How Osama bin Laden Was Found” HERE)

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Muslim Comedian Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden

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Muslim comedian and national talk radio host Dean Obeidallah compared former President Donald Trump to terrorist Osama Bin Laden in a bid to pressure the media to stop covering the former president’s statements.

Obeidallah, who is a frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN, said on Easter Sunday that Trump was comparable to Bin Laden in that they both inspired terror attacks on the U.S.

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President Trump Confirms Osama Bin Laden’s Son Was Killed

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President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, “was killed in a United States counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.”

“The loss of Hamza bin Laden not only deprives Al Qaeda of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father but undermines important operational activities of the group,” the White House said in a statement. “Hamza bin Laden was responsible for planning and dealing with various terrorist groups.” . . .

Earlier this year, the State Department offered a $1 million reward for any information that lead to Hamza bin Laden, Fox News reported. Although he was not the leader of Al-Qaeda, he quickly followed in his father’s footsteps and climbed the ranks of the Islamic State, a rival terrorist organization. (Read more from “President Trump Confirms Osama Bin Laden’s Son Was Killed” HERE)

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The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents From Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Finally Got Into the Open

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On the penultimate day of the Obama administration, less than 24 hours before the president would vacate the White House, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a press release meant to put to rest what had been a pesky issue for his office. “Closing the Book on Bin Laden: Intelligence Community Releases Final Abbottabad Documents,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced. “Today marks the end of a two-and-a-half-year effort to declassify several hundred documents recovered in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in May 2011.” Accompanying the press release were 49 documents captured during the raid, bringing the total number of documents made public to 571.

For anyone who had paid even casual attention to the long-running debate over the Abbottabad documents—a group that doesn’t include many journalists—the ODNI announcement was cause for a chuckle. Closing the book on Osama bin Laden? The final Abbottabad documents?

In the heady days immediately after the May 2 Abbottabad raid, President Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, had described the intelligence haul brought back from Pakistan by the Navy SEALs and CIA operatives as extensive enough to fill a “small college library.” A senior military intelligence official who briefed reporters at the Pentagon on May 7, 2011, said: “As a result of the raid, we’ve acquired the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever.” . . .

The answer: The self-proclaimed “most transparent administration in history” had spent more than five years misleading the American people about the threat from al Qaeda and its offshoots and had paid very little price for having done so. Republicans volubly disputed the president’s more laughable claims—the attack on the Benghazi compound was just a protest gone bad, al Qaeda was on the run, ISIS was the terrorist junior varsity—but the establishment media, certain that Obama’s predecessor had consistently exaggerated the threat, showed little interest in challenging Obama or the intelligence agencies that often supported his spurious case. (Read more from “The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents From Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Finally Got Into the Open” HERE)

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ISIS Extremists Publish Address of Navy Seal Who Killed Osama Bin Laden and Call for His Death

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A British ISIS supporter has published the name and address of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and called on American extremists to execute him.

Mirror Online has been monitoring jihadi chat on social media and has spotted several people linking to a text file containing instructions on how to find Robert O’Neill, who claimed to have killed the al Qaeda chief.

This information was shared by an unnamed British extremist, who dubbed O’Neill a “number one target” and called for his immediate death.

The address is now being shared on social media along with a sinister hashtag.

Dozens of extremists have now republished the Navy Seal’s private information, despite apparent censorship attempts by social media firms and the website which is hosting the information. (Read more from “ISIS Extremists Publish Address of Navy Seal Who Killed Osama Bin Laden and Call for His Death” HERE)

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MILITARY UNDER FIRE: Obama Ignoring Judge’s Order Regarding SEAL Team 6 Chopper; Pentagon Complains of “Too Many Whites Males” in Special Forces

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downloadBy Fox News. The Obama administration was accused Thursday of ignoring a judge’s order to turn over documents in the downing of a helicopter that killed Navy SEALs from the unit that carried out the raid on Usama bin Laden.

Families of Navy SEAL Team 6 members and others killed in the attack marked the fourth anniversary of the Aug. 6, 2011, tragedy by blasting the government for stonewalling in a public records lawsuit filed by the watchdog group Freedom Watch, the Washington Times reported. All 38 people aboard the chopper, call sign Execution 17, were killed over the Wardak Province in Afghanistan, including 30 Americans.

“It has now been four years since Extortion 17 was shot down,” Doug Hamburger, whose son Patrick was killed, told the paper. “I find it quite disturbing that the government is not willing to give us the answers we deserve. I find it very irritating that we will not question the Afghans about their knowledge of what took place that night.”

The families believe SEAL TEAM 6 had been turned into a Taliban target after President Obama revealed that members of the team, though not the ones killed in the crash, were involved in the killing of bin Laden in Pakistan three months earlier.

They also believe that persons inside the Afghan National Security Forces may have tipped off the Taliban to the Chinook’s mission. (Read more from “Obama Administration Accused of Stonewalling in Suit Over Downing of SEAL Team 6 Chopper” HERE)

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Pentagon Thinks There Are Too Many White Males in Special Forces

By Jonah Bennett. Elite units in the military are by and large both white and male. Pentagon officials, however, are hoping for a major demographic shift, citing the benefits of diversity in terms of increasing operational capacity.

Data provided by each individual service to USA Today illustrates current disparities, which are most prominent in units like the Navy SEALs and the Army’s Green Berets. For instance, in the Army, blacks comprised 17 percent of the force in 2013, a figure slightly higher than their representation in the overall population. As the ranks start climbing, the numbers shift. Blacks amount to only 9.4 percent of officers in the military.

In the Navy SEALs, just 2 percent are black, while Native Americans make up about 4 percent, or 99 SEALs.

Only 5.6 percent of enlisted Green Berets are black. But in the Air Force, among para-rescuers, the number drops even further down to .6 percent.

The Pentagon considers this to be a problem. (Read more from this story HERE)

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If Only US Leaders Read This Book on Pakistan That Was on Bin Laden’s Shelf

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Photo Credit: Defense One Live Last week, I learned that the introduction of my book, Fortifying Pakistan (co-authored with Peter Chalk), was part of Osama Bin Laden’s Abbottabad library. While some other members of the Bin Laden book club were amused to be included, I was incensed. Our book is about Pakistan’s unwillingness to avail itself of American assistance in order to be a more effective partner in combatting terrorism. We argue that Pakistan’s recalcitrance is rooted in its commitment to using terrorism as a tool of foreign policy in India and Afghanistan. One has to wonder why Bin Laden would be interested in reading about that. After all, by the time the book came out, he was already in Pakistan. He, of all people, knew full well the practical implications of our research. He was safely ensconced in a Pakistani sanctuary, a leisurely stroll down the road from Pakistan’s premier military academy, at Kakul.

The research project that culminated in the 2006 publication of Fortifying Pakistan began in 2004, when I was a new researcher at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). My boss, Paul Stares, (now at the Council on Foreign Relations) hired me to initiate a South Asia research program. This project was not an easy sell. Most of Washington had long decided that Pakistan was our most allegiant ally in the war on terrorism. That attitude endured until the Obama administration came into office.

Simply put: It was blasphemous to suggest, in 2004, that then-president Musharraf was playing a both sides with Washington. The Bush administration could not countenance such a possibility, or even consider the plausibility of it, given that its attention and resources were focused on Iraq.

Prior to joining USIP, I served as a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. (Note: I am not, nor have I ever been, an actual political scientist.) During one of my last projects for RAND, I had briefed a senior Department of Defense official in early 2004, after returning from a January fact-finding trip I had made to Peshawar. I learned from numerous persons that the Pakistanis, through elements of the Frontier Corps, were facilitating Taliban operations in Afghanistan and movements into and out of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

This was no surprise to me. After all, Pakistan’s army and intelligence agency (the ISI) had long used the Frontier Corps to train Islamist militants operating in Afghanistan. The official seemed nonchalant at the time of the briefing, which puzzled and discomfited me. He seemed to be playing tic-tac-toe while the Pakistanis were playing three-dimensional chess. (Read more from “If Only US Leaders Read This Book on Pakistan That Was on Bin Laden’s Shelf” HERE)

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CIA Releases Files Showing Bin Laden Bent on Spectacular US Attack Until the End

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By Dan De Luce. Hunkered down in his Pakistani compound, Osama bin Laden pleaded with his followers to stay focused on attacking the United States instead of being dragged into Muslim infighting.

Documents that were declassified on Wednesday shed new light on the mindset of Al-Qaeda’s founder, his debates over tactics, his anxiety over Western spying and his fixation with the group’s media image.

“The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives,” the late Al-Qaeda figurehead wrote.

The letter was among thousands of files found by US Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011 when they descended on Bin Laden’s hideout in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad and shot him dead.

US intelligence agencies have now declassified more than 100 of these documents taken from Bin Laden’s archive, after lawmakers ordered the move and critics accused the CIA of withholding material. (Read more from “Bin Laden Bent on Spectacular US Attack Until the End: Files” HERE)
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Bin Laden: Focus on Killing Americans, not Each Other

By Maxwell Tani. Fearful for his death in 2008, Osama bin Laden had big plans for his family.

In a video letter released by the CIA on Wednesday, the former 9/11 mastermind ordered his son to fight against the West in the event that the elder bin Laden was killed.

“Jihad is an obligated duty for all adults, so he has to conduct jihad,” bin Laden said of his son Usama. . .

From the strategic and theological discussions to the mundane details of domestic funding and security measures, the documents show the man behind 9/11 preoccupied with once again attacking the West in a spectacular fashion.

“The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives,” Bin Laden wrote in one of the newly revealed documents. (Read more from this story about OBL’s plans for a spectacular attack HERE)

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