People want to see Osama Bin Laden Death Photo

9/11 Families Calling for Osama Bin Laden Death Photo  ABC News

"I have wondered where the photos have been. I just assumed the photos would get plastered everywhere," said Abigail Carter, whose husband, Arron, was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. When she heard that bin Laden was dead Sunday, the news brought a feeling of numbness.



"That photo [of Saddam Hussein] became iconic. It was sort of the face of defeat," she said. "It's been kind of strange, the burial at sea, the very fast DNA. ... I's just been sort of, did this really happen or was this all concocted somehow? It would be reassuring in some sense if the photos were released."

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Osama bin Laden Is Dead

President Obama addressed the nation on Sunday, May 1, and indeed confirmed the news that Osama bin Laden, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, has been killed. 

This is the result of a US action in Pakistan, and he was killed by US personnel. (White House live stream: Osama bin Laden dead)

The United States has bin Laden's body in their possession, and they will confirm that he is dead.  (Transcript: Obama Speech on Osama bin Laden's Death)

• Who Leads Al Qaeda Now That Osama bin Laden is Dead

Osama bin Laden Dead May 1 2011: Obama Confirms Bin Laden Death

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This result is something that has been the target of many military actions over the years, but President Obama has confirmed that Osama bin Laden is now dead.

Now the burden of proof will be very important, as the US will likely have to show the body at the very least.

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Aljazeera English


Taliban demand proof
The Taliban in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that they questioned whether bin Laden was actually dead.
"As the Americans did not provide any acceptable evidence to back up their claim, and as the other aides close to Osama bin Laden have not confirmed or denied the death ... the Islamic Emirate considers any assertion premature," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said.
The United Nations' top human rights official called on the US on Tuesday to give the UN details about bin Laden's killing and said that all counter-terrorism operations must respect international law.
"This was a complex operation and it would be helpful if we knew the precise facts surrounding his killing," Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement to the Reuters news agency.

( read more at Aljazeera English)

IS OSAMA BIN LADEN REALLY DEAD???

Is Osama really dead. If so WHEN and HOW did he die?

I find it difficult to believe that the US would execute Osama Bin Laden and the proceed to destroy all the evidence ,then, dump the body into the sea. This story has all the elements of a lie. How can all these people who have been doubting that the president was born in the United States even with having seen a birth certificate, believe, with virtually hearsay evidence that Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and disposed of at sea?  I'm even wondering if he wasn't already dead, possibly even before 9/11and now they want to eliminate the possibility of this being disclosed. For me it leaves the unanswered question;                      Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

Gangs in the Americas: State or Community Violence?

Gangs in the Americas: State or Community Violence?

I haven't heard from VoxUnion.com for a while.  It's about time.                                                                                                   
Jared Ball interviews Luis Cardona the Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services on the topic of how to best deal with the issues of youth being attracted to street gangs.                                                                                                           

• Are politicians purposefully or neglectfully allowing this situation to continue?                                              
• Are the authorities exaggerating the amount of crime attributed to these gangs?                                     
• How can we prevent gang enrollment before it takes place?
• Is the accepted soultion (incarceration) actually exacerbating the problem?

Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson: A 1944 Court-Martial

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By John Vernon

If the United States does not win this war, the lot of the Negro is going to be far, far worse than it is today. Yet there is . . . an alarmingly large percentage of Negroes in and out of the Army who do not seem to be vitally concerned about winning the war.
—Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, Washington, DC, 1942

We are treated like wild animals . . . like we are inhuman. . . . The word Negro is never used here, all they call us are nigger do this, nigger that. Even the officers here are calling us nigger.
—Anonymous black soldiers, Jackson (Mississippi) Air Base, 1942

As Allied troops continued their drive into the heart of Europe a month after the D-day landing in 1944, an incident that would provide a preview of post–World War II events in America was unfolding in Texas.

A young African American Army officer attached to an all-black unit at Camp Hood was subjected to a general court-martial—for resisting usual southern protocol and refusing to move to the back of the bus on the military post when directed by the driver to do so.

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The 761st Tank Battalion was formed in the spring of 1942 and was the first African American tank battalion to see combat in the Second World War. Commanding this battalion was a white Lt. Colonel, Paul L. Bates.  As the unit fell under the scrutiny of other white officers who were critical of blacks as soldiers and especially as tankers, Bates pushed the 761st in its quest for excellence.

The 761st was referred to as the ‘bastard’ battalion which meant the battalion, like many other white units, was broken up piecemeal and assigned to infantry divisions for support roles.  In 1944, the 761st was assigned to General George S. Patton’s Third Army in France. Patton was generally skeptical of the abilities of black soldiers and he thought African American tankers especially intellectually incapable of handling the challenges of armored warfare.  The men of the 761st proved him wrong. In the autumn of 1944, the 761st left from England, where it was held in reserve training, and arrived in France, ready to fight.

The 761st consisted of 760 black men and white officers primarily operating the M-4 Sherman battle tank.  Soon after the 761st Tank Battalion landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy they became the first black armored soldiers to see battle.  The motto of the 761st, who were also called the Black Panthers, was “Come Out Fighting!”  Before the end of the war, they more than lived up to this motto.

During combat operation in World War II, front line troops rarely spent more than a few weeks on the front lines; the Black Panthers had been in combat for over 183 days straight.  Before the war was over, the 761st would participate in four major allied campaigns throughout a half dozen countries including France, Germany and Austria, and inflict over 130,000 casualties.  The 761st was also highly decorated; earning throughout their six months of combat operations seven Silver Stars for Valor (three posthumously), 246 Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor (posthumously).  Eight enlisted men received battlefield commissions.

Among the men serving in the 761st was baseball legend Jackie Robinson.  Lt. Colonel Bates was so impressed with Robinson and his influence over the men that he appointed Robinson as the official moral officer of the 761st.  Robinson would never see combat overseas however.  He was court-martialed in August, 1944 after refusing to go to the back of a bus driven by a civilian on the Fort Hood military base in Texas.  Robinson was acquitted of all charges, discharged and three years later began playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Sources:

Charles W. Sasser, Pattons’ Panthers: the African American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II (New York: Pocket Books, 2004); Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes.  (New York: Broadway Books, 2004); Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004).

Contributor(s):
Helm, Matt
University of Washington