Bin Laden’s dept of inhuman resources

Photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse and burial at sea, ordered to be kept secret by President Barack Obama, should be made public, a self-described conservative watchdog group told a federal appeals court. Judicial Watch Inc., in arguments today before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, said the Central Intelligence Agency has failed to demonstrate how images of bin Laden’s body — specifically those showing it cleaned and prepared for burial — would harm national security or reveal classified intelligence strategies.

NEW YORK — A judge said he found it “stunning” to hear Monday that federal budget woes could delay the start of a terrorism trial for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s comment came as he set deadlines for lawyers to submit pre-trial arguments regarding Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who pleaded not guilty last month to charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaeda’s top propagandist after Sept. 11, 2001.

Mark O'Byrne submits: Gold has remained robust despite the potentially negative short term implications for safe haven demand due to Bin Laden’s death. This suggests that market participants do not believe that Bin Laden’s death is of any great importance or that participants realise that the global economy faces greater challenges than that of Bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Here’s a very important point from my colleagues Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman about the lessons we ought to draw from the killing of Osama bin Laden:

NEW YORK — A senior al-Qaeda leader and son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, captured in Jordan in the past week, pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in New York to plotting against Americans in his role as the terror network’s top spokesman. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was brought into the largest courtroom at the federal courthouse shortly after 10 a.m. and entered the plea through a lawyer to one count of conspiracy to kill Americans in a case that marks a legal victory for President Barack Obama’s administration.