Bounty Hunting in Pakistan

Some people claim that Osama bin Laden was actually killed 9 years ago. Allegedly, Benazir Bhutto claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed in late 2001. She was silenced via assassination.Some bloggers claim that the "Osama bin Laden" videos were "certified legitimate" by the US government were obvious fakes.Did US troops kill Osama bin Laden? Did they kill a bearded arabic guy? You can't be sure.

A Taliban suicide bomber Wednesday rammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in Peshawar, flattening the three-storey building and killing four people, officials said.Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the northwest, their fourth in reprisal for the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos north of Islamabad on May 2."At least four people including three policemen and one army man in civilian clothes, were killed in the attack," Liaqat Ali Khan, chief of police in Peshawar, told AFP.

Via the Glenn Greenwald Twitter feed, a fascinating article about the criticism Angela Merkel is taking for some very mild comments she made celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden:

An American who was arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in Pakistan told investigators that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden.

The guy who says he shot Osama Bin Laden may be more known in the community for shooting off at the mouth.

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.

A gun buyback program hosted by the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday was so successful, it yielded thousands of firearms — including two antiquated rocket launchers. The rocket launchers were likely from wars of the past and once belonged to veterans, police told LA Weekly.