{"id":2801,"date":"2011-05-04T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T02:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:02:42","slug":"osama-bin-laden-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2801","title":{"rendered":"Osama bin Laden killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Jordan Ogren&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Justice was served Monday when reports that 9\/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a small task force of U.S. Navy Seals in a firefight at a secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden had been in hiding for nearly ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were killed in the firefight, including bin Laden and one of his sons.&nbsp;Bin Laden\u2019s compound was located just forty miles north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad in a city that hosts a Pakistani military base and military academy. This should be a red flag for U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>How could one of the world\u2019s most-wanted terrorists not be found hiding within 1,000 yards of a Pakistani military academy? Either the Pakistani government and military really were oblivious of bin Laden\u2019s whereabouts, which is unlikely, or they knew where bin Laden was hiding and kept it a secret from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden,\u201d President Obama said Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Monday that it was &#8220;inconceivable&#8221; that bin Laden did not have support from the Pakistani military in order to stay in hiding right under their noses.<\/p>\n<p>Required by Islamic law, bin Laden was reportedly buried at sea within 24 hours of his death. The ceremony was conducted on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier due to the fact that there was no land alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The friends and families of the victims of the 9\/11 attacks can finally feel a sense of closure knowing that the culprit of the plot has been killed in return.<\/p>\n<p>However coincidental, Osama bin Laden was announced dead on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of May, the same day in history as the death of Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jordan Ogren&#8211; Justice was served Monday when reports that 9\/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a small task force of U.S. Navy Seals in a firefight at a secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden had been in hiding for nearly ten years. Five people were killed in the firefight, including bin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/10851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}