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Just to Clarify . . .

Carol Platt Liebau | May 03, 2011 3:20 PM

As Elisabeth notes below, The White House is now saying that Osama did not use his wife as a human shield, thus rendering part of this post from yesterday inaccurate.

I would point out again, however, that for someone who has extolled the glory of dying when others are the ones are the firing line, Osama bin Laden certainly went to extraordinary lengths for a long time to escape his own shot at "martyrdom."