Friday The 13th

The USA has been fighting a decades-old war against Al-Quada.

At one time its founder, Osama Bin Ladin had been our ally in the insurgency against the Soviets in Afghanistan. His family had ties to power brokers in Washington. Bin Laden's schism with the West began in 1990 with the stationing of foreign troops on the holy soil of Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I. At odds with the royal family OBL sought refuge in Sudan and allied himself with several Arab militant groups aiming to overthrown the no-secular dictatorships of the Middle East as well as any kingdoms backed by the West.

With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the USA re-assessed the threats to its power and identified Al-Quada as a lynchpin of the widening cabal. The Luxor massacre in 1997, his soldiers aid to the Taliban, and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings proved the seriousness of his fatwa against the West and the FBI placed the Yemeni-born terrorist on the Top Ten Most Wanted list along with Whitey Bulger, the infamous Southie gangster.

The CIA reported throughout the summer of 2001 that OBL was funding a scheme to launch hijacked airliners at targets in the United States. George W Bush ignored the danger and his staff didn't even bother to read an August 6, 2001 report entailing the plot. America paid heavily for that blase attitude on 9/11.

The FBI upgraded his status to Most Wanted # 1.

The Bush regime never came close to capturing or killing the fugitive. His ghost haunted America. He was reputedly living under the aegis of the ISI, Pakistan's secret service operation. The full weight of US power could neither bring him to justice dead nor alive.

On May 2, 2012 several teams of Navy SEALS infiltrated Pakistan to attack a guarded compound several kilometers from that country's military academy. In the ensuing firefight Osama Bin Laden was executed by a double tap. He was unarmed at the time. His corpse was evacuated to a US aircraft carrier and after a swift religious rite his body was dumped into the sea. President Obama watched the entire operation via satellite after a night of entertaining reporters with a satirical riposte against the GOP at the White House Correspondents dinner.

"The order was to kill him."

The USA and its allies rejoiced at the news of his death. The Taliban and many in the Arab world doubt the USA could bring down the superstar of terror. Revenge has been promised against the West. The GOP has yet to congratulate the president on this successful mission and 16% of fat white men still believe that Barrack was born outside the USA.

Can't a brother get a break?