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January 9, 2013
My Guide To This Year's Oscar Movies
The holiday film classics piled up last month--and when I say holiday films, I mean stuff about tsunamis, plane crashes, shipwrecks, and bin Laden. It's all pretty horrible--except that when quality films result, the ennobling glow can be felt all the way to the Academy Awards ceremony. So I've de ... More >>
Film
December 19, 2012
The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty
Darkness on the edge of town
Blogs
April 29, 2012
Rightbloggers: Obama Unfairly Uses Bin Laden, Jokes, and Slow Jam to Get Reelected
We're coming up to the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's demise. Some media outlets celebrated with cute headlines ("Osama Bin Laden Used Viagra And 'Just-For-Men' To Keep His Wives Interested In Him"). President Obama celebrated with an ad reminding everyone that he killed him. To rightblogge ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Had Been Plotting U.S. Attack for 10th Anniversary of September 11
Osama bin Laden had apparently been gathering a team of militants to orchestrate an attack on the U.S. on September 11 of this year, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The Wall Street Journal reports that this intelligence comes from communications Nav ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Criminal Charges Formally Dropped
Following the death of top Al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden last month, federal prosecutors today dropped criminal charges against him because, as ABC puts it, he'd be "unable to appear in court to answer them." There had been a criminal case against bin Laden for the bombings of U.S. embas ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Here's the NYC Subway Map as an Erect Penis, Excited About Osama Bin Laden's Death
See, by flipping the standard subway map 90-degrees, Manhattan becomes a big dick, thrilled by the death of Osama Bin Laden. (For an extra "ew," the train lines are veins.) The project is the work of the street artist Beast, who calls the work "Unexpected Improvements," probably in reference ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Tape Celebrates Middle East Revolutions as 'Arab Spring'
A newly released audio message recorded by Osama Bin Laden not long before he was killed by U.S. forces has the terrorist leader co-opting the largely nonviolent successes of others as his own as he praises the rash of Arab uprisings around the world. "I think that the winds of change will bl ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Death Photos Still Secret Despite Freedom of Information Act Attempts
When President Barack Obama decided he would not make pictures of a dead Osama Bin Laden public for fear of inciting violence by "spiking the football," a handful of enterprising journalists went the legal route to campaign for their release. By filing Freedom of Information Act requests, pub ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2011
Bin Laden Audio Recording "Puzzling"; New York Ranger Found Dead
An unreleased audio message from Osama Bin Laden recorded just before his death has been described as "puzzling" and "a head scratcher" by an official. In the recording, Bin Laden talks about the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, but not Libya, Yemen, or Syria. It's confusing that Bin Laden would ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Secret, Simple Email Plan
More like, You've Got Flash DrivesOsama Bin Laden was a "prolific email writer" despite having no internet in the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where he hid for about five years. U.S. intel after the raid that killed Bin Laden shows that the Al Qaeda leader managed to send "thousands of messa ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Busted With Porn!
The reports coming out of Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani compound keep getting more strange -- from wacky ways to send emails to TV time and pot plants -- but this one is the money shot: "A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him," Re ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Journal Was Really More of a Diary
With reports that U.S. officials seized Osama bin Laden's handwritten notes in a bound book with blank pages comes a semantic debate: "journal," "notebook," or "diary." Reports indicate that the pages were filled with ideas and "details of operations," not unlike anyone else in this world in ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Noam Chomsky on Osama Bin Laden: George W. Bush's Crimes 'Vastly Exceed' Bin Laden's
Legendary linguist, philosopher and far-left activist Noam Chomsky chimed in over the weekend on the death of Osama Bin Laden, offering a counter-intuitive, sometimes thoughtful, if incendiary, critique of American foreign policy, perhaps more controversial if it wasn't exactly what anyone wh ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Was a Pisces: Excerpts From His Astrological Chart
We confess an interest in astrology. Not that we believe it, per se, but you know, it's an interesting way to think about things. Right? Right! So, imagine our shock when we googled "Osama Bin Laden" and "astrological sign" and found Bin Laden's personal free astrology birth chart, from Astro ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Death Pictures Hit First Freedom of Information Act Bump
With President Obama deciding that the United States is not the type of country to release photographs of a dead Osama Bin Laden, shot in the head, there are two ways the public will ever see them: 1) a government leak when this all dies down, or 2) an enterprising journalist whose Freedom of ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2011
Obama Ordered Bin Laden Raid On 50/50 Chance; Cairo Mobs Attack Churches
National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told CNN that President Obama decided to go through with the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden based on "what was probably a 50-50 case that Osama bin Laden was there." In light of that info, it's interesting to read this alternate history of what would have h ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2011
Rightbloggers Explain How Killing Osama Was Bad for Obama, America
Last Sunday, right after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, we did a quick scan of rightblogger responses to the event. The brethren basically felt Obama had nothing to do with it and if he did, it wasn't worth doing. A week has passed. Which means rightbloggers have had time ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2011
Taliban Confirms Bin Laden's Death; CUNY Board Reconsidering Kushner Decision
The Taliban has joined al Qaeda in admitting that Osama Bin Laden is in fact dead. Bin Laden "embraced martyrdom as per the Will of the Almighty Allah during an abrupt attack by the American invading soldiers," as per their statement. In other Bin Laden-related news, the U.S. has demanded to know ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2011
Bin Laden Wears Robe, Watches Self On TV in Home Videos
A still from a "home video" of Bin Laden.U.S. officials are releasing a series of videos from the Bin Laden compound today. They were confiscated as part of the motherlode of intelligence information culled from the Abbotabad compound during the raid that killed OBL. One of the videos shows ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Eyed 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11 For Terrorist Attack
A "rush examination" of the evidence gathered from Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan reveals that the Al Qaeda leader was still involved in thinking up future terrorist attacks, despite now-outdated guesses from analysts that he may have become more of a figurehead in recent years ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Killing Was 'Cold-Blooded,' 'One-Sided' in New Versions of Raid Story
Because every morsel of information about the U.S. raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this week has been closely considered and scrutinized, the shifting nature of the White House's story has been extra apparent. By Thursday morning, the initial tales of a 40-minute firefigh ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Geronimo, Osama Bin Laden's Code Name, Too Offensive to Even Get Native Americans Pissed
The United States military referred to the mission aimed at Osama Bin Laden as Geronimo, after the Native American leader known for his stealthiness, but Indian groups who should be pissed are more resigned to the fact that the government will just never get it. "We've been oppressed for so l ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Gary Faulkner, Bin Laden-Hunter, Wants His Cut of the Reward Money
Remember Gary Faulkner, the 52-year-old Colorado construction worker on a one-man mission to kill Osama bin Laden? Despite being on dialysis, he made it to Chitral, in Pakistan, where he was picked up last summer, complete with dagger, biblical literature, night-vision goggles, and sword. Chi ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Death Pictures Now in Freedom of Information Act Limbo
Since President Barack Obama decided that the pictures of Osama Bin Laden were too gruesome to make public, lest they inflame violence or be used as anti-U.S. propaganda, it will be up to journalists to force transparency from the administration. (That, or Obama could have them leaked, thereb ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Now Osama Bin Laden 'Shoved' Wife, Acted 'Cowardly'
The ever-changing account of what happened when U.S. forces found and killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan has been updated once again. This time, an unnamed "senior U.S. official," who presumably was not there that fateful night and doesn't necessarily know more than the rest of hi ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Likely Executed 'After' the Raid, Not Killed in a Firefight
After more than two days of speculation and an ever-evolving account of what really happened, it is starting to become clear that Osama Bin Laden was never going to make it out of his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound alive, despite U.S. counterterrorism expert John Brennan's claim that, "If we h ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
There Were 62 'Suspicious Package' Reports in New York City After Osama Bin Laden's Death
The "suspicious package" reported in Times Square on Monday minutes after a Ground Zero news conference about the killing of Osama Bin Laden -- later deemed to be a bag of trash -- was one of 62 reports on Monday alone. "The daily totals typically spike when terrorist plot makes headlines her ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, Osama Bin Laden's Youngest Wife, Rushed to Save Him
A passport in the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed has identified Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah as the woman in the room with Bin Laden when he was killed. According to ABC News, though the story has changed multiple times over the last three days, Fatah is Bin Laden's ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Death Photo Will Not Be Released, President Obama Decides
Updated below President Barack Obama has opted not to release a photograph of Osama Bin Laden's dead body, CBS is reporting. We wondered yesterday if the United States should release one of the pictures taken depicting Bin Laden shot above the left eye and in the chest after Sunday's raid in ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Reuters Publishes Photos of Men Killed With Osama Bin Laden: Will Others Leak?
Yesterday we asked "Should the United States Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos?" but by this afternoon the White House announced that President Barack Obama had opted to keep the images secret for fear they would inflame anti-U.S. anger worldwide. "There is no doubt that we killed Osama bi ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Story Changes: No Weapon, Wife Human Shield? Death Photo Coming Soon
Updated below White House officials can't get their story straight about what happened in the Pakistani compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed. Though officials have clarified that he was shot twice -- in the head and in the chest -- reports from Monday that Bin Laden was using a woman, p ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Mike Moran, Firefighter Who Told Osama Bin Laden to Kiss His Ass, Responds to News
Back in October of 2001, Mike Moran, a firefighter whose brother, John Moran, was killed in the World Trade Center attacks, announced to the world at a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden that Osama bin Laden could kiss his "royal Irish ass." NBC NY followed up with him after Sunday's news tha ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Barack Obama Will Visit Ground Zero on Thursday
President Barack Obama will be in New York City on Thursday to visit Ground Zero, where Osama Bin Laden's September 11 attack brought down the World Trade Center towers almost ten years ago. Though no schedule for the trip has been announced, New York 1 confirms that Obama will meet with fami ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Wouldn't Give Kids Back Their Soccer Ball
Along with being an evil terrorist the likes of which this world has seldom, if ever, seen, CNN's international correspondent Nic Robertson reports via Twitter that Osama Bin Laden was also that scary neighbor whose yard was a black hole for kids' balls. The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan w ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Compound: Photos From Outside, the Neighbors Speak
Outside the compound, via @ReallyVirtual.Sohaib Athar, or @ReallyVirtual, the civilian who accidentally live tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden on Sunday night, went from several hundred Twitter followers to nearly 100,000, basically overnight. Athar, who describes himself as "an IT consulta ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
There Is Pot in Osama Bin Laden's Backyard
The Daily News has this tidbit of slightly-related-to-Osama-bin-Laden info: Small plots of marijuana have been found growing in deserted lots on the perimeter of the formerly Most Wanted Terrorist's compound! Right next to good, wholesome vegetables like cabbage and potatoes! Does this mean B ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
New York City on Terrorism Watch After Osama Bin Laden Killing
CIA Director Leon Panetta says that al Qaida will "almost certainly" attempt to get revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden, and thus, nowhere are security officials on higher alert than in New York City today. The New York Post reports that the NYPD "will pay special attention to subways, ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List: Osama Bin Laden Is Deceased; DNA Testing Confirms
You surely know at this point that Osama Bin Laden is dead, killed in a 40-minute operation that Barack Obama gave the final sign-off for on Friday. Bin Laden had been in a secure compound in Abbottabad, in Pakistan. U.S. officials report that at least three others were killed in the operatio ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Rudy Giuliani: Osama Bin Laden Was a 'Symbol,' But 'Symbols Are Really Important'
Rudy Giuliani, New York City's mayor on September 11, 2011, was reached for comment on Monday morning by Politico about the United States' killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the historic attacks nearly ten years ago. "I feel a great deal of satisfaction that justice has been done, ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Dies in the Cartoon Version Too
The ineffable Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese company responsible for cartooning every current event from the Tiger Woods sex scandal to the Royal Wedding, has already delivered their dramatization of Osama bin Laden's death, entitled "Osama Bin Laden get got," starring Donald Trump, a finger-gu ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
John Cena Announces Osama Bin Laden's Death at WWE Championship; Crowd Goes Insane
Last night, after winning the WWE championship in a triple threat steel cage match, wrestler John Cena came out and announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. As you can imagine, the crowd goes absolutely wild. "Things I saw: servicemen showing their Army tats, people crying, kids being lifted ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Fake Death Photo Makes New York Post, Daily Mail, Sun, Mirror and So On
The obviously Photoshopped picture of a "dead" Osama Bin Laden, which has been circulating since at least 2009, is printed large and proud (though obscured due to some bad stretching) on page two of today's New York Post. They were far from the only ones to take the bait, which the internet c ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
15 More Things to Read About the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Today on Runnin' Scared was, obviously, dedicated to news surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden, for too long the world's most elusive terrorist, who shook our city almost ten years ago. Since news of his demise broke late last night, we've covered the scene at Ground Zero on Monday mornin ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead [BREAKING]
CNN is confirming that Osama Bin Laden is dead. More to come when President Obama speaks at the White House in the next 5-10 minutes. UPDATE 10:56 P.M.: From Fox News' website. "Usama Bin Landen Dead Fox News Confrims." For real: UPDATE 11:03 P.M.: CNN is reporting that the Pres ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Poster From FBI Doesn't Even Mention 9/11
FBI's poster of Bin Laden.The FBI's Ten Most Wanted list of course includes Osama bin Laden, but it doesn't say he's wanted for murdering several thousand New Yorkers on 9/11. What gives? Why the pussyfooting around such an obvious fact?
Blogs
October 3, 2010
Bin Laden Book Club: Terrorist's Recordings Recommend More Than Killing Americans
Sunday's New York Times includes a somewhat original, overlooked take on the most infamous terrorist in the world, the still-not-caught Osama bin Laden, who released two new audio recordings over the weekend. The article, instead of the standard "Where's Waldo?", focuses on bin Laden's "wide- ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Will Bin Laden Baby Mama Drama Become Problem(a) for Grandpa Osama?
Okay, it's from Harold and Kumar. But you know some people actually see this when they hear "Omar Bin Laden."Every now and then, the New York Post finds their tragically underrated Middle Eastern Affairs desk at the top of their game. The story of Omar bin Laden hiring a pretty, young, Britis ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2009
Senate report: Bush, Rumsfeld let bin Laden get away
The hot topic in Washington this week is President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point on Tuesday, which is expected to call for deploying 30-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Just ahead of the Sunday news shows, the Senate Foreign Relations committee chaired by John Kerry has releas ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
Scientologist Reveals "Psychiatry" Made Osama Do 9/11
Update: Original video pulled, here's a clean version. What was really behind 9/11? Now it can be told, at least by Scientologists: psychiatry. It should comes as no shock that Scientologists, who think psychiatry is behind all the great wrongs of the world from the Middle Ages forward, would al ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2009
Bin Laden Back, Calls for Jihad; Nude Celebrity Angle Found
It's been a season of comebacks: Mickey Rourke, Kurt Warner, and now Osama Bin Laden. A voice that "resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages" has told followers via audiotape to prepare "for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza." The alleged Osama further claims that Israel is trying to " ... More >>
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