ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Three of Osama bin Laden’s wives and two of his adult daughters were convicted by a Pakistani court Monday of illegally entering the country and sentenced to two more weeks of detention, followed by deportation to their home countries.Read the rest here.
The five women, who were formally arrested March 3, will receive credit for time they have already served under house arrest in an upscale section of Islamabad. They were among 16 people detained in the U.S. raid on bin Laden’s villa in the garrison town of Abbottabad last May.
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Pakistan to deport bin Laden's wives, adult daughters
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Obama won't release Bin Laden post mortem photos
Good for him. The wingnuts on the far right are already having a cow and spinning more conspiracy theories. Let them. This was the right call.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has decided not to release photographs of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's body, a senior administration official told NBC News on Wednesday.Read the rest here.
Obama also announced the decision not to release post-mortem photos during an interview Wednesday with CBS' "60 Minutes."
The White House had been weighing the release of a photo, in part to offer proof that bin Laden was killed during a raid on his compound early Monday. However, officials had cautioned that the photo was gruesome and could be inflammatory.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, many of whom have seen the pictures taken by Navy SEALs, agreed with the president.
"In my opinoin there is no end served by releasing a picture of someone who has been killed," Democratic House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said during an unrelated news briefing on Wednesday. "I think there is absolute proof that Osama bin Laden was in fact the person that was taken into custody... killed in the firefight."
"Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway," GOP House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told CBS, "and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East."
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