President Obama plans to address the nation Sunday night
By Michael A. Memoli, Washington Bureau
May 1, 2011, 7:01 p.m.
President Obama will address the nation on a national security issue at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, the White House said.
The announcement was abrupt, coming after the White House had declared a so-called lid, meaning no other news would be coming for the remainder of the day.
A White House official declined to comment further.
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The time slipped from 22:30 to 22:45 to 22:50. So far...
I'm guessing this has something to do with bin Laden.
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Report is Osama Bin Laden is dead, a special action team went into Pakistan got him and have the body.
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I'm feeling a little shocked, maybe disbelief? Yet I think it's awesome otherwise. Good job to the guys that got him and everything else that went in to that!
<---wonders if the Air force pilot who dropped the JDAM will get the bounty.
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I was hoping they'd capture him alive as that would have been the most humiliating result for al-Qaeda, but I'll take him being dead. They have his body apparently, which I believe is true otherwise Obama probably wouldn't be having a sudden press conference since it would take more time to be sure he was really dead. Are we going to see a postmortem mugshot like with Zarqawi?
Rumors so far suggest he was killed by troops on the ground, which would make it way easier to explain how they could ever confirm he was killed. We can officially declare victory in the first campaign of the war on terror now. The glorious murderfest accomplished something.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Rumors so far suggest he was killed by troops on the ground, which would make it way easier to explain how they could ever confirm he was killed. We can officially declare victory in the first campaign of the war on terror now. The glorious murderfest accomplished something.
The news I'm watching is saying it was a bomb that killed him (deployed from a Predator, maybe?), and special forces recovered the body.
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"In 3 years, I passed major health care, fought Republicans tooth and nail, saw democracy take root in the middle east and killed Osama Bin Laden, the Republicans had Washington for 8 and all they did was get us into iraq and tank the economy'
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They have his body apparently, which I believe is true otherwise Obama probably wouldn't be having a sudden press conference since it would take more time to be sure he was really dead. Are we going to see a postmortem mugshot like with Zarqawi?
