Photo of the Moment: Situation Room, OBL Mission

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Reportedly a photo of President Obama and his national security team watching the U.S. Special Forces operation to capture/kill Osama bin Laden, live yesterday in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The photo is described this way on the White House Flickr stream…

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

UPDATE: White House reporter Paul Brandus quotes Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor John Brennan (seen second from top-right) as saying about the moment in the Situation Room: “It was clearly very tense, a lot of people holding their breath.”

UPDATE 7:34pm PT: More details on what was going on in that room during that picture from CBS News.

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  1. 4)
    stop koch crimes said on 5/2/2011 @ 9:33pm PT: [Permalink]

    osama bin laden’s favorite food was the slimy, stinky brats from johnsonville!

    Isn’t that good enough reason to BOYCOTT JOHNSONVILLE PRODUCTS.

    Supporting scott walker and his war against working families was bad enough, but shame on johnsonville for giving sausages to george w bush’s BFF.

    Those folks at johnsonville are really amoral blights on our society – DON’T BUY THEIR CRAPPY MEAT-LIKE FILLER STUFFED INTO FECES ENCRUSTED CASINGS!

    No wonder obl loved them…

  2. 7)
    mick said on 5/2/2011 @ 11:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Why do we except something as important as the alleged killing of Osama Bin Laden without question ?
    The American Government told us Iraq had WMD’s and thousands are now dead and there was not WMD’s !
    And call me skeptical but the body has already been disposed of in respect to Muslims ! Aren’t American soldiers ,bombers and drone killing Muslims everyday without respect ?

  3. 8)
    Dredd said on 5/3/2011 @ 5:51am PT: [Permalink]

    Suspicions about peace advocates is spreading. One fellow, a pensioner without a criminal record, was being secretly watched by the brain police in Britain.

    If world culture is morphing into glorification of war, then we are heading in the direction of world war, not world peace.

    More and more a lot of people get their joy from killing others.

  4. 9)
    Tra La La La La said on 5/3/2011 @ 6:08am PT: [Permalink]

    Kathryn ‘Hurt Locker’ Bigelow reported set to film the death of Bin Laden

    http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com...igelow_se.html

    Establishment Psychologists/psyops would like to remind everyone to teach their small children who wonder about OBL’s death.

    Just tell them, “A brave soldier, killed a really bad man who threatened our entire country.

  5. 10)
    Ernest A. Canning said on 5/3/2011 @ 8:08am PT: [Permalink]

    According to Los Angeles Times the President and his national security advisers were watching a live video feed from the commando unit which descended into the compound on modified Black Hawk helicopters and then methodically swept through the compound.

  6. 11)
    Dredd said on 5/3/2011 @ 8:24am PT: [Permalink]

    Ernest,

    You live in an area where the movie professionals can make up any reality they want to, in terms of what can be made real with cameras and sets.

    It gives new meaning to “joy to the world” … but diminishes the size of the “world” that joy is targeted for …

    Exceptionalism is exclusive not inclusive, thus all truth is local.

  7. 12)
    karenfromillinois said on 5/3/2011 @ 8:41am PT: [Permalink]

    well now that that is done the feds can concentrate on convicting the man that gave my grandchildren healthcare,gave my poor blind mom in law free bus rides in her final monthes,tried to balance illinois budget with a .05% tax on corps(that paid no taxes) and had the balls to tell bank of america,pay ur workers what they are due or dont expect to do business with the state of illinois http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011...ption-charges/

  8. 13)
    karenfromillinois said on 5/3/2011 @ 9:12am PT: [Permalink]

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2...ty-Fisch-Story

    According to Kleefisch, his bill to allow culling during tournaments is a jobs bill. He says there are millions of dollars to be made by Wisconsin communities who want to attract big, national bass tournaments to Wisconsin ““ dollars currently being reeled in by states that do not prohibit culling.

    So…is Kleefisch’s bill really a jobs bill, or is it a favor for his fishing buddies and bait supplier?

    Regardless of that answer, Kathy and Greg are real entrepreneurs, aren’t they? Not in the classic “free-market”, “no-government” sense, but in the “make connections to get government jobs and official favors” sense

    yes,thats waukesha’s famous kathy nickols..i just post this slightly off topic link to compare justice for dems to justice for the chosen few….nickols and fam will recieve more monetary support with this bait scheme(at the cost of the enviroment)than a twice elected dem gov got

    just sayin….

  9. 14)
    mick said on 5/3/2011 @ 12:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    This is a interesting opinion of the latest terror theatre …

    “I don’t believe a word this government utters”¦especially in regards to Bin Laden and 9/11.

    And, why the hell wouldn’t they take him alive? Wouldn’t that go against national security issue interests, if Osama is masterminding covert plots to terrorize the entire globe? With the entire US military at our fingertips, and him in a known location and compound, we couldn’t manage to even TRY to take him alive? You would think that would be the orders, if national security was the true issue. Get him alive at all possible. And, given that there is an entire movement to bring about the truth of what really happened on 9/11, don’t you think they would want to at the VERY least produce a body to put any doubts to rest AND bring closure to the families and relatives of 9/11 victims?

    Logic and consistency seem to always fray when we go near the subject of 9/11 and its supposed mastermind. The American people were content to just gulp up a ‘independent’ commissions report that was riddled with inconsistencies and holes the size of the grand canyon along with outright fallacies, so this must have seemed small theatre compared to the years long dodge, obfusication, and cover-up of truth to the true events of that day.

    I d-o-n-o-t-b-e-l-i-e-v-e t-h-e-m

    I don’t trust known liars. I don’t trust a government that launched a middle-east strategy based on a boogeyman and fabricated connections to a terrorist organization with a leader whom the US trained. I don’t believe it is all a coincidence that high level officials were warned to not fly that day, or that Norad didn’t scramble planes, and flight tapes were crushed and destroyed and thrown in garbage cans

    And, I am sick of being called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ when the evidence contradicts their own claims and bolsters the case for logical scrutiny and a truly independent investigation. The killing of Osama Bin Laden has not been proven, and if we had him in our custody, that would have been very simple to do.

    Why the hell didn’t we?”

    complete original article

  10. 15)
    mick said on 5/3/2011 @ 1:05pm PT: [Permalink]

    BBC: al Qaeda Does Not Exist

    There is no such thing as “al Qaeda”, there is no one on earth who calls himself a member of “al Qaeda”. “al Qaeda” is a term made up by the U.S. government to be applied to anyone killed during in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no formal organization. There is no secret terrorist network. What there is a is a phantom enemy, a boogyman that was easily sold to the American people for the benefit of the Bush Administration and their friends at PNAC.

    Watch video …

  11. 18)
    stop koch crimes said on 5/3/2011 @ 6:16pm PT: [Permalink]

    Breaking News!

    Lab analysis reveals why johnsonville sausages were the favorite of anti-American terrorist osama bin ladin: They are not actually made of pork, but consist of a secret mixture of chicken and pig feces that are stuffed into oversized rat intestines!

    Now wonder fine folks like the koch brothers, scott walker, and osama bin laden can’t eat enough of them!

    If you want to eat SAFE WHOLESOME meat products that are not stuffed in feces-crusted rodent intestings – THEN BOYCOTT ALL JOHNSONVILLE PRODUCTS AND BE SURE TO TELL YOUR LOCAL RETAILERS/RESTAURANTS WHY YOU REFUSE TO SUPPORT THEM

  12. 20)
    Tra La La La La said on 5/4/2011 @ 10:03am PT: [Permalink]

    Oh, damn. I was hopin’ you would have some Jon Stewart coverage.

    KILL, KILL, KILL. GO TEAM!

    after that, watch Tom Hartmann use his psyop skills to dis Alex Jones. The children the children, oh the poor children. Nothing to do with OBL, but everything to do with psychological warfare and making people change focus off the truth.

    http://www.thomhartmann.com/big...-missiona-fake

    Back to the democrats vs the republicans paradigm, let’s go! Debra Bowen for congress. After all she did such a wonderful job with the voting machines.

    If you want to boycott something boycott all business’s who have TSA and DHS agents. Airports, Malls, Bus Stations, Concerts, Sports Events.

    Now we find out Global Warming / Climate Change is man made, made by HAARP technology.

    The lies are getting a bit thick now. Even for the fluoride drinkers.

    The sooner the monetary system pop’s the sooner a reset of government can happen.

  13. 21)
    peter vincent said on 5/4/2011 @ 10:41am PT: [Permalink]

    Obama should be brought up on criminal charges. He is a war criminal and attacked an unarmed man in his bedroom. EVERYONE KNOWS 9/11 was an inside job and OBAMA is covering it up by killing an innocent man.

    Anyone know of any real petitions I can sign to bring Obama the war criminal to justice?

  14. 23)
    mick said on 5/4/2011 @ 10:49pm PT: [Permalink]

    Don’t you think they should at least have turned on their laptops for the Fake Photo of the Moment ?
    “Photo of the Moment: Situation Room, OBL Mission” yea right !

  15. 24)
    mick said on 5/5/2011 @ 2:26am PT: [Permalink]

    Bwhahaha “Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound

    The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.”

    Original article

    embarrassed much ?

  16. 25)
    mick said on 5/5/2011 @ 2:57am PT: [Permalink]

    This for Earnest.
    “Very, very amateurish. I am an attorney and before my clients testify at a deposition, I always remind them that this will be their first rendering of the events and that they are essentially staking out the territory of their narrative. Should we go to trial, they will not be able to move these stakes without losing credibility. A little change, perhaps, some embroidery ok, but you can’t move the boundaries of the claim without calling into serious question your version of the events.. It seems to me the White House should have done the same. We all know that in the rush of events, you can get some details wrong, but there are now major variants in the White House narrative. They have given conspiracy theorists and those who distrust the USA plenty of material to use.

    – sharon, Detroit, MI USA, 05/5/2011 03:25

    Read more:

    What this lady says is so right.
    America do you feel embarrassed or proud ?

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