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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 »

Elizabeth Edwards, lawyer, author, mother, wife

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, © www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

As a journalist shivering in the cold Carolina rain before dawn, camera crew in tow, we were under orders from campaign staff NOT to knock for another 15 minutes.

It was 5:45 a.m. mid fall, 2004, and Elizabeth Edwards, a vice presidential candidate’s wife and mother of four, was a television show dream date. As a middle aged supermom with two children under five, she juggled cereal boxes for rebellious Jack and Emma Claire and a legal career turned campaign strategist for husband John. She joked that People magazine had chosen him as a hot-looking guy, but he was married to a wife in perpetual diet mode. She had endured the ultimate parent’s tragedy–losing a son, Wade, when the 16 year old died in a car crash.

Millions of women, and lots of mothers, hung on her every word, lessons life had taught her, and she was sought after by all the talk shows, to share about surviving, relearning how to find joy in life, what really mattered, which mattered to the good as gold Oprah demo. Now she was inviting us in to share herself to millions of ET and The Insider viewers, not only as a way to humanize her family, and by extension, the Kerry Edwards ticket. She said it was a typical school morning Chez Edwards.

“Come on in. I can’t let you all stand in the rain like that,” said Elizabeth, flinging open the door to her elegant, sprawling home outside Chapel Hill. “Want some coffee?” Read the rest of this entry »