Bush on bin Laden: ‘I guess he is not dead.’

Think Progress

Eight years ago, President Bush asserted with great bravado that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be taken “dead or alive.” “I don’t care, dead or alive — either way,” Bush said at the time. This weekend, while attending a conference of business leaders in New Delhi, India, Bush struck a different tone:

Asked whether al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden could be alive, Bush said “I guess he is not dead.”

He, however, noted that Laden is hiding and “not leading victory parades” or “espousing his cause” on TV.

He expressed confidence that Laden will be brought to justice which “he deserves to be” and it was a matter of time.

Bush, who failed to properly resource the Afghanistan war over the term of his presidency, had some advice for Obama as he considers whether or not to send more U.S. troops into that conflict. “I hope we don’t abandon the people of Afghanistan,” Bush said, adding that U.S. withdrawal would cause the return of “brutal tyranny” in the nation.

6 women girls killed murdered strangled in Cleveland Ohio house by Anthony Sowell

Six women found dead at a Cleveland, Ohio, home killed murdered by convicted sex offender Anthony Sowell. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-349039 The girls appeared to have been strangled, and their decomposing bodies could have been lying there for "weeks, if not months or years

Cops Talk About Anthony Sowell Cleveland Serial Killer Pt 2

Cops Talk About Anthony Sowell Cleveland Serial Killer

Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath held a press conference November 3, 2009 to talk about the gruesome crime scene at the house of Anthony Sowell. The search of the house has yielded 10 bodies. Sowell was convicted of rape in 1989 and released in 2004. When police asked him about the crimes he admitted he had lost track of the people he had murdered.

Serial Killer in Cleveland

Why did Anthony Sowell get away with his crimes for so long? Why did it take police 37 days to investigate a reported rape? Why did Anthony not get the rehab he asked for in prison?

Interview with the Mother of a Missing Daughter

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Yes, over and over again and once again, the lives of Black women are not valued by police, media, and society at all. They only report the negatives about Black people when it comes to crime and morals. They rarely, if ever, show the positive side.

We need to create our own media networks and blogs because nobody else is going to care about us.

Friends and Family Gathered at the Vigil in Cleveland

Newsflash: Four More Bodies Are Found At Cleveland Home

More gruesome discoveries.

Why haven't the police and the neighbors surrounding Sowell's house noticed anything soon? Why the police didn't warn the neighbors that there's a sex offender living in their midst? Some or all of his victims would have been alive today. What's wrong, Cleveland? Why do we wait until at least six dead women before police and neighborhood action? Does LA, Rocky Mount mean anything to us? Does the 1978-79 murders of 12 Black women in Boston matter? What about the 11 victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, a serial killer who killed over a four-year period, beginning in 1990, ended in March 1994, when he was taken into custody in Charlotte, N.C. Do they matter to us? Of course they do!

We take lives of poor and Women and Men of Color less seriously than others. That's sad and it shouldn't be that way. We need to change our way of thinking when it comes to murder victims.

An Open Letter To Black Women: Why You Are Beautiful

Check out this open letter from Leonard Pitts a black man and Miami Herald writer in which he not only states that black women are beautiful but explains why:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Posts by Fellow Bloggers November-2-2009

Von from Black Conscious Thought wrote about the infrequency of BF/WM relationships in America:

http://blackconsciousthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-i-said-it-way-back-when-black.html

From Stuff White People Do:

Americans' tendency to homogenize 50 African countries into one big country called Africa, ignoring cultures, races, religions, and governments. As if they are all alike without any individuality

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/10/homogenize-people-from-over-fifty.html

From Siditty:

Black face is making a comeback. It's not just from Tyra, though. Magazines and TV shows employ the use of Blackface as well.

http://siditty.blogspot.com/2009/10/blackface-has-made-comeback-thanks-tyra.html

From Brian Beach of Dayton, Ohio:

Infiltrating the Enemy: Hategroups such as Chimpout at:

http://sociallyblogwards.blogspot.com/2009/10/infiltrating-enemy-stupid-white.html

From Dovesblood:

"I Spent Three Hours At Nixzmary's Apartment" at:

http://www.nixzmarybrown.info/2009/10/i-spent-3-hours-in-nixzmarys-apartment.html

Horrific Story Out of Cleveland: The Bodies of 6 Women Found in the House

Coroner says 6 women whose bodies were found at home died

Six women found dead at a Cleveland, Ohio, home appeared to have been strangled, and their decomposing bodies could have been lying there for "weeks, if not months or years," a coroner told CNN on Saturday.

Police discovered the bodies at the home of Anthony Sowell, a 50-year-old convicted rapist, after they tried to serve an arrest and search warrant for him related to a sexual assault investigation.

On Thursday, detectives from the department's sex-crimes unit and members of its SWAT team went to Sowell's home to execute the warrant and to arrest the suspect, but he was nowhere to be found, Cleveland Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.

Five female victims were found inside the home, and another female body was discovered outside the home, said Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller III.

Miller's office had yet to identify the victims, who all died of "homicidal violence," he said.

"They were mostly strangled, it appears," he said.

To read more of this horrific story, please go to:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_crime

My heart goes out to the families of the women who were killed during the past six months.

May they finally find peace.

While LA Sleeps, Young Black Women in LA are Murdered

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