The Conversation: Dick Gregory

[Smiley and West]

Groundbreaking comedian Dick Gregory offers his take on the assassination of Osama bin Laden

[Penguin Board of Directors]

 

Add these to the rest of the byeline for this story, as credited to Dick Gregory;  

"All the news is about bin Laden...Give us some proof! What do you mean you killed him and buried him...Here's a man we ('re) supposed to be mad at and they gave him a burial?

 

What were they supposed to have given him, Mr. Dick? A Congressional Medal of Honor?!

The Obama Administration buried bin Laden within 24 hours of 'taking him down' in sensitivity to Islamic belief systems, rituals and practices; regardless of whether or not we share those cultural artifacts!

Why in the sea? You have been told that already, if only to save you the trauma of thinking it through. No rational person would facilitate some fanatics' urge to build a shrine after this guy. Now, they should feel free to create an artificial flotilla somewhere on the North Arabian waters if they desperately want a shrine! BTW, they should ensure they get a permit first.

Discretion, they say, is the better part of valor. I fully support the decision of the president and his team to wait out the immediate euphoria and caustic sentiments surrounding this. They will pick an auspicious time to 'de-classify' bin Laden gory pictures. Otherwise, many of you know where WikiLeaks Capoon lives! Go get him to do the hatchet job.

The same set of die-hard, never-see-good critics would take to the airwaves and criticize a cowboy display of a dead man's carcass, if Obama and team were to rush out the pictures. If any party felt Sadam and his boys got a comparatively raw deal, the individual or group should feel free to approach the International Criminal Court at The Hague.     

[Penguin Board of Directors]

Correct that to read "where WikiLeaks Al Capone lives!"

[LibyaWest]

By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press – 

WASHINGTON – Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired any shots, a senior defense official said Thursday, acknowledging that the new account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic, intense and prolonged firefight.

The sole shooter in the al-Qaida leader's Pakistani compound was quickly killed in the early minutes of the commando operation, before the team of Navy SEALs swept through the house and shot the others, the official said. The details have become clearer now that the assault team has been debriefed, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

He said the raid should be described as a precision, floor-by-floor operation to hunt and find the al-Qaida leader and his protectors, rather than as it has been portrayed by a succession of Obama administration briefers since bin Laden's death was announced Sunday night.

In another development, aviation experts said a helicopter used in the assault appeared to be a stealthier, top secret and never-before-seen version of a routinely used special ops helicopter. The helicopter made a hard landing and was destroyed by the military team at the site, leaving behind wreckage for experts to analyze.

As the SEALs moved into bin Laden's compound, they were fired on by bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, who was in the guesthouse, the senior defense official said. The SEALs returned fire, and the courier was killed, along with a woman with him. She was hit in the crossfire, the official said.

The Americans were never fired on again as they encountered and killed a man on the first floor and then bin Laden's son on a staircase, before arriving at bin Laden's room. Officials have said bin Laden was killed after he appeared to be lunging for a weapon.

White House and Defense Department and CIA officials through the week have offered varying and foggy versions of the operation, though the dominant focus was on a firefight that officials said consumed most of the 40-minute assault:

• "There were many other people who were armed ... in the compound," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday when asked if bin Laden was armed. "We expected a great deal of resistance and were met with a great deal of resistance."

• "For most of the period there, there was a firefight," a senior defense official told Pentagon reporters in a briefing Monday.

• And though officials later revised these words, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan originally said bin Laden, too, took part in the shootout. Later the administration said bin Laden wasn't armed but that there were guns in the room.

NBC News, which was first to report that four of the five people killed were unarmed, said the majority of the operation was spent gathering up the compound's computers, hard drives, cellphones and other items that could provide valuable intelligence on al-Qaida and potential operations worldwide.

Those materials have been taken to the FBI lab at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., the defense official said.

Widely published photos of the remains of the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that made a hard landing at the outset of the operation — and was destroyed with explosives before the SEALs left — show it had been modified to make it harder to detect with radar, said Richard Aboulafia, aviation expert with the Teal Group consultants said.

"It's pretty clear it was meant to penetrate Pakistani airspace," he said.

The SEAL team was flown in by an elite Army Special Operations unit, known as the Knight Stalkers, according to a defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the clandestine operation. The unit is based at Fort Campbell, Ky., and Obama is scheduled to visit there Friday.

The Knight Stalkers specialize in night flight operations and are equipped with Black Hawk, Chinook and MH-6 Little Bird helicopters. But Aboulafia said the existence of a helicopter like the one at the scene in Pakistan "was a very well-kept secret."

Also Thursday, two shopkeepers in Pakistani told The Associated Press that the bodies of al-Kuwaiti and his brother are shown in other photos taken in the compound after the raid.

The photos were published by Reuters news agency, which said it had bought them from a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the assault.

The shopkeepers said they couldn't identify a third man's body in the photos. But by elimination, that would suggest the third man was bin Laden's son, since the Obama administration has said five were killed — bin Laden, his son, the courier, the courier's brother and a woman...........

 

 Liar!  Liar!  Obama is a LIAR!!!!

[LibyaWest]

Here's my post from another blog that describes what is sure to be some up and coming fallout from the assassination of Osama Bin Laden:

 

Now see what a fool obama is? EVERY leader denies the intentional targeting this or that person for assassination. Why? It's against international law? But not the mutt......... he had to give a Rambo speech, taking credit for this assassination. To boot, he tried to "credit" to Pakistan for its participation, trying the characterize this ill adventure as "joint". But it was an invitation which the Pakistanis declined with a unequivocal "HELL NO! We don't like the weather in the Netherlands!"

 

Hearing rumblings......

[Wanda Renee]

Can't wait Dick Gregory on a serious subject, "THE PROOF." 

[Mark Wells]

THIS IS WHAT MR. GREGORY GOING TO TELL YOU!!!!


IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!

[Earl E. Speight]

Uncle Dick is telling it like it is. Americans look like real fools primping and prancing about something that has no proof. A bunch of lost sheep, the reason this country is in such bad shape is because the american people believe anything. They don't read or research, they don't question information and analyze it.  People all over the world are protesting Austerity in their homelands, and we are sitting around talking about how racist Donald Trump is. Get real my fellow citizens and start to wake up to this administration. Pawns in the Game many of us are, oh that is a book also many have never read. How about a Behold a pale white horse, another book many have never read. If we don't wake up, then our children are subject to being slaves to the banking cartels and the city of London. youtube: zeitgeist and just wake up a little.

[LibyaWest]

My reply isn't working but Mark..........I think he ought to be holding something that says "Nobel Peace Prize".

[LibyaWest]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8493391/Osama-bi...


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.

By Steven Swinford 10:25PM BST 04 May 2011

Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.

A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.

In an interview with PBS, Mr Panetta said: "Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.

[Percell Brown]

I love to hear Brother Gregory speak because of the wisdom he posseses. There is one other thing that stands out to me about John Brown, he said he regretted or was sorry that he had only one life to give for the cause of freeing his fellow human beings. That is not a direct quote but his conviction amazed me when I first read about the man.

[Avid Follower]

Was glad to hear from Mr. Dick Gregory again.  Thank you.  Mr. Gregory, if your'e reading this, and I hope so, may God continue to bless you, your wife and family in your longevity.  I understand most comics, comedians and/or "humorist"(s) as you define yourself -  have come from hard, no make that harsh, abusive family backgrounds growing up and along the way have learned they project laughter in the truth instead of crying.  Your mama ways you mentioned made you who you are so beloved to our country and abroad. Happy Mother's Day!

[One Iam]

Captain John Brown is the only white man that I've worn on a tee shirt.