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US jokes it finds no bin Laden in State Department
The US State Department, after hearing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say Osama bin Laden was in Washington, joked Wednesday it found no trace of him despite a thorough search. “We’ve done an intensive search here at the Department of State — every nook and cranny, every rock — and we…
Maddow: ‘I could kill Osama bin Laden with a spoon’
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow may be able to keep her cool when subjected to slighting remarks by Republican senators, but a “cold-blooded killer” like Osama bin Laden can inspire even the normally unflappable Maddow to thoughts of violence. “I believe that I could kill Osama bin Laden with a spoon,” Maddow…
Holder: Osama bin Laden will never be taken alive
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. During a heated exchange with Republican congressmen, Holder predicted that “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse…
Osama bin Laden nearly killed Clinton in 1996, book claims
Osama bin Laden attempted to assassinate President Bill Clinton during a summit in the Philippines in 1996, says a new book about the 42nd president’s financial and sexual scandals. Ken Gormley’s The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, set to be published in February, recounts an incident during Clinton’s…
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