{"id":233156,"date":"2010-01-25T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010889818_terrorismupdate.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-25T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:29:45","slug":"terrorism-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233156","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bin Laden is dead<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why is a respected publication such as The Seattle Times taking seriously allegations that Osama bin Laden is still releasing audiotapes [\u201cBin Laden takes credit for plot,\u201d News, Jan. 25]?<\/p>\n

Bin Laden has been dead since December 2003, as evidenced by the funeral held for him, his lack of credible public appearances since then and the obvious forgeries of video and audiotapes since that year \u2014 along with other evidence of his death.<\/p>\n

It is not feasible that a man near death from kidney failure could survive for so many years without technologically advanced health facilities. It is easy to fake audiotapes these days using voice sampling and the tone and message of the audiotapes changed drastically after bin Laden\u2019s death in 2003, strongly suggesting that someone was forging them.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Roger Burton, Bothell<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t try suspected terrorists in court<\/strong><\/p>\n

It disgusts me and my family to hear about Obama\u2019s plan to try these terrorists in federal court [\u201cBomb-plot interrogation fuels debate on terrorism suspects,\u201d News, Jan. 24]. They are terrorists as he finally mentioned; They should be interrogated and then put to death.<\/p>\n

Provide them with any type of a weapon and they will take your life immediately. All the while he is sending bombs onto suspected terrorists in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we arrest them first and provide them with a lawyer and a jury of their peers. We are taking a known terrorist into a civilian courtroom and killing other suspected terrorists. Under the Obama administration\u2019s theory wouldn\u2019t that make the administration the murderers? Or am I the murderer when I fight over there to keep you safe?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dustin Whitford, Monroe<\/em><\/p>\n

Appalled by accusations thrown at Obama<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stories I hear on the news these days \u2014 primarily those by the right wing aimed at undermining the Obama presidency \u2014 are appalling.<\/p>\n

We Americans are expected to forget some very important facts, such as the fact that 9\/11 happened on Bush\u2019s watch. And on the heels of that fact, the Bush administration had a whole lot of intelligence suggesting that such a terrorist act would be attempted.<\/p>\n

We can, of course, follow that up with the fact that the Bush administration seemed to do everything it could to make sure bin Laden would not be captured.<\/p>\n

And now we\u2019re supposed to believe the fiction that Dick Cheney is peddling about how the Bush administration made us safer? If it wasn\u2019t so tragic, it would be hilarious.<\/p>\n

\u2014 David McKenzie, Federal Way<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bin Laden is dead Why is a respected publication such as The Seattle Times taking seriously allegations that Osama bin Laden is still releasing audiotapes [\u201cBin Laden takes credit for plot,\u201d News, Jan. 25]? Bin Laden has been dead since December 2003, as evidenced by the funeral held for him, his lack of credible public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}