{"id":417869,"date":"2011-05-05T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/05\/obama-to-mark-bin-ladens-death\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:46:13","slug":"obama-to-mark-bin-ladens-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/05\/obama-to-mark-bin-ladens-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to mark bin Laden&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"155.657918229\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Ex-extremist weighs in on bin Laden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama will take part in the ceremony, but will not make remarks, White House says<\/li>\n<li>Visit comes after his announcement that he won&#8217;t release photos of bin Laden&#8217;s body<\/li>\n<li>Bin Laden was near weapons when he was shot, an official says<\/li>\n<li>Bush turns down an offer to attend the ground zero ceremony<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Washington (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; U.S. President Barack Obama will visit New York&#8217;s ground zero Thursday, days after a nighttime raid in Pakistan led to the death of the terror leader behind the attacks that toppled the twin towers.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s visit will include a wreath-laying ceremony, the White House said. He does not plan to deliver a speech.<\/p>\n<p>He will also visit Engine Company 54, which lost 15 firefighters in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Former President George W. Bush will not appear alongside his successor.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Bush said he turned down an invitation to travel to the site of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight,&#8221; spokesman David Sherzer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As the president prepares to cap a week that started with an announcement late Sunday night that a team of Navy SEALs had stormed a Pakistan compound and killed bin Laden, more details are emerging about the raid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/04\/bin.laden.raid\/index.html\">More details emerge about the raid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy SEAL team killed him Monday with rapid shots to his chest and forehead, according to a U.S. official who has seen military reports of the raid. Islamabad is nine hours ahead of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He was moving when he was first shot, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Bin Laden was not armed, but the White House said he put up some form of resistance.<\/p>\n<p>There were weapons near bin Laden, who died on an upper floor of the compound toward the end of the nearly 40-minute raid, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was right there and going to get those arms,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You really can&#8217;t take a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators, meanwhile, pored over materials gathered at bin Laden&#8217;s hideout.<\/p>\n<p>They include 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, such as disks, DVDs and thumb drives, a senior U.S. official told CNN. The materials might provide clues on al Qaeda members and plots for future attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The commandos also recovered five cell phones, audio and video equipment, paper documents and some five guns, including AK-47s and pistols, a U.S. official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we glean information from that material, we will make appropriate decisions with regard to who might we add to the terrorist watch list, the no-fly list, all those things,&#8221; U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared bin Laden had contingency plans while he stayed at the fenced compound.<\/p>\n<p>He had 500 euros (about $745) in cash and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed, a congressional source present at a classified briefing on the operation told CNN Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Photos taken shortly after the raid show three men lying dead in pools of blood and the wreckage of a U.S. helicopter abandoned during the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The first shot hit bin Laden in the chest and the second struck him in the forehead just above the left eye, the official told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>A photo shows a gunshot wound to the head above the left eye, with the skull partially blown away, according to two sources who have seen a photograph of bin Laden&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>One of bin Laden&#8217;s daughters has told Pakistani interrogators that she saw her father shot, a senior Pakistani intelligence source said Wednesday. The daughter, believed to be 12 or 13 years old, was among those left behind at the compound after Monday&#8217;s U.S. raid, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said bin Laden&#8217;s wife was in the room with him and rushed at U.S. special operations forces, who then shot her in the leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani intelligence source told CNN Wednesday that four men at the compound were killed in addition to bin Laden: His son, two men who were brothers, and an unknown man. That conflicts with information provided by the White House, which said Tuesday that three men and one woman were killed in the operation, in addition to bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/04\/us.pakistan.relations\/index.html\">Pakistan reacts angrily to tone of U.S. questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because bin Laden was buried at sea, the administration has been under pressure to release a photo proving he is dead. Obama said Wednesday that he will not release a photo of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The president noted that few credible people have questioned the death and that conspiracy theorists would not be satisfied with a photo, the senior Democratic official said. That position was supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democratic official said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina, called Obama&#8217;s decision a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know bin Laden is dead. But the best way to protect and defend our interests overseas is to prove that fact to the rest of the world,&#8221; he said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Nick Paton Walsh, Nic Robertson, Dana Bash, Ted Barrett, Elise Labott, Tom Cohen, Jeanne Meserve, Pam Benson, Barbara Starr, Suzanne Kelly, Chris Lawrence, Jessica Yellin, John King, Ed Hornick, Shawna Shepherd and Dan Gilgoff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ex-extremist weighs in on bin Laden STORY HIGHLIGHTS Obama will take part in the ceremony, but will not make remarks, White House says Visit comes after his announcement that he won&#8217;t release photos of bin Laden&#8217;s body Bin Laden was near weapons when he was shot, an official says Bush turns down an offer to attend the ground zero ceremony Washington (CNN) &#8212; U.S. President Barack Obama will visit New York&#8217;s ground zero Thursday, days after a nighttime raid in Pakistan led to the death of the terror leader behind the attacks that toppled the twin towers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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