Osama Bin Laden didn’t think he was worth offing:
US officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden’s diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that he didn’t think Vice President Joe Biden was worth bumping off (hat tip: a tweet from my New York colleague Jon Swaine).
According to ProPublica, the Obama administration is briefing that Barack Obama was bin Laden’s the “top target” (no surprise there) while “military chiefs like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary” were also major scalps.
But Joe Biden’s scalp (hair plugs and all)? Apparently, not so much. A counterterrorism official said: “There is a note indicating that the vice president is not an important target because that position has less weight.”
To be fair, it seems that Uncle Joe was not mentioned by name and the al-Qaeda leader tied the comment to the constitutional weakness of the vice-presidency rather than the antics of the garrulous current occupant.
But one does suspect that bin Laden might have rather liked to have got Dick Cheney.
Yet another thing that the radical left and an al-Qaeda cell have in common.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThey realized that Biden does more harm to the U.S. above ground. Moreover, if you are a hunted, terrorist-mastermind shut-in, you need a good guffaw now and then.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJoe Biden's comment: "This is a big f%**ng deal!"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePresident Joseph Bi&eme
I would think that would have been a strategic goal for OBL.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think it was personal. I mean, OBL was smart enough to know that if the Prez is killed, the Veep becomes Prez; and if the Veep is killed, we move further down the line, causing the crisis that would have ensued to expand even further.
No, they didn't want to waste brain power and valuable resources on a guy who finished dead last at SU law, of all places!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOsama and Joe shared a common interest; destroying the U.S. economy via the choo choo train.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTHEORETICALLY SPEAKING (FOR ORWELLIAN GUB'MINT INTERNET MONITORS)... you could shoot Joe Biden in the head ten times and still not hit a vital organ.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePresident Obama was so close to getting it right. He should have said, "Nobody BOTHERS to mess with Joe."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI just laughed and laughed.
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