Florida Sentinel Bulletin

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — They are the shadowy warriors of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden: two dozen members of the Navy SEALs who stormed the fortified compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was hiding. Their identities will probably never be known; their faces will most likely never appear in photographs at the White House, on magazine covers, or on television talk shows.

But, President Obama flew to the Army air base to thank them, behind closed doors, for what he called “a job well done,’’ describing it as one of the greatest military and intelligence operations in American history.

“This has been an historic week for the life of our nation,’’ Pres. Obama said later to a raucous rally of 2,300 soldiers, many of them just returned from Afghanistan. “The terrorist leader who struck our nation on 9/11 will never threaten America again.’’

During the meeting with the SEAL team, which Vice President Joe Biden also attended, Pres. Obama awarded it and other units involved in the operation a Presidential Unit Citation, the White House said. The president also received a PowerPoint presentation on the raid, with maps, photos, and a scale model of the compound, from members of the assault force. Even the trained dog used in the raid attended.

On Thursday, Pres. Obama visited ground zero in New York and met with relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, drawing a personal link between the killing of bin Laden and the deaths his disciples inflicted on nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center.

Speaking under a giant American flag to the troops of the 101st Airborne Division, Pres. Obama drew another connection, between the soldiers there and the commandos he called “America’s quiet professionals.’’

“Like all of us, they could have chosen a life of ease,’’ the president said. “But like you, they volunteered.’’

Describing the SEAL commandos as “battle hardened’’ and tirelessly trained, Pres. Obama said: “When I gave the order, they were ready. And in recent days, the world has learned just how ready they were.’’

Pictured: President Barack Obama on Friday privately thanked some of the special military operators who killed Osama bin Laden and told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 soldiers that America ultimately will defeat al Qaida.

PITTSBURGH, PA — Three white Pittsburgh plainclothes police officers were reinstated after 15 months of suspension with pay for an alleged beating of 18-year-old Jordan Miles. The police officers thought Miles had a soda in his pocket and ripped out his dreadlocks during the brutality.

Police Chief Nate Harper and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced that the Justice Department closed its investigation without filing civil rights charges against officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte and David Sisak.

“It has been determined there is insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegations made by Mr. Miles,” Harper said.

The teen violinist’s mother, Terez Miles, said the city’s decision was “unfortunate because I think the officers are clearly guilty of wrongdoing.” She said federal authorities “went out of their way to say they didn’t think the police did anything right here or that Jordy did anything wrong. “

Four members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity have been charged with hazing several students at California State University.

According to reports, police began an investigation into a report of a felonious assault during fraternity pledge initiations.

The report was initiated through Mercy Hospital when a 25-year-old man was admitted to the hospital as a result of his injuries.

The investigation revealed that between March 28 and April 25, four CSUB students were assaulted multiple times during numerous initiation ceremonies, during which they were beaten and shot at close range with a BB pistol, DeGeare said.

Four of the group’s members have been arrested.

Louisiana residents are reportedly outraged now that Gov. Bobby Jindal is pushing a bill that would merge Southern University (New Orleans) with predominantly white Institution University of New Orleans.

According to Jindal the move would help both institutions whose graduation rates have been struggling since Katrina.

“It makes no sense to have colleges blocks apart, neither one of them with graduation rates we can accept,” Jindal said at a weekly legislative news conference this week.

More than 200 students from Southern protesting claiming that the school will lose its legacy as an HBCU.

The Labor Department reported non-farm payrolls grew by 244,000 in April, well above expectations and March’s upwardly revised 221,000. The unemployment rate inched back up to 9%, from 8.8%, though the number of unemployed persons, 13.7 million, and the size of the labor force, were little changed.

Private sector payrolls added 268,000 jobs in April, offset by the downward trend in state and local government employment. In an encouraging trend, the gains were broad-based, with jobs in services, manufacturing and mining all picking up.

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials will not release secret video and photos of Osama bin Laden, killed with a precision shot above his left eye, as fresh details emerged of an audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader.

President Barack Obama is going to Ground Zero in New York to mark the milestone and remember the dead of 9/11.

White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the U.S. already was scouring items seized in the raid – said to include hard drives, DVD’s, documents and more that might tip U.S. intelligence to al-Qaida’s operational details and perhaps lead the manhunt to the presumed next-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.

Pres. Obama, who approved the extraordinarily risky operation by Navy SEALs against bin Laden’s Pakistan compound and witnessed its progression from the White House Situation Room, his face heavy with tension, reaped accolades from world leaders he’d kept in the dark as well as from political opponents at home.

OKLAHOMA CITY– The Oklahoma House has voted to reprimand a lawmaker who denigrated Blacks and women during a debate on an Affirmative Action bill.

State Rep. Sally Kern delivered a tearful apology on the House floor Monday, and then voted for her own reprimand.

Kern gained national notoriety in 2008 with an anti-homosexual rant.

Last week, the Oklahoma City Republican questioned whether there were disproportionately high numbers of Blacks in state prisons because “they didn’t want to work hard in school.” She also said women don’t work as hard as men because they “tend to think a little bit more about their families.”

The president of the Oklahoma chapter for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party have called for Kern’s resignation.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the world is better and safer because of the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Speaking at the White House, Pres. Obama said bin Laden’s death shows that the United States has kept its commitment to seeing that justice is done.

Pres. Obama also praised the people gathered spontaneously at the White House and in New York to celebrate bin Laden’s death, saying that embodied the true spirit and patriotism of America.

A team of elite American forces killed bin Laden during a raid at the compound in Pakistan where the elusive terror mastermind had been hiding.

Pres. Obama spoke during a White House ceremony to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to two veterans of the Korean War.

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL — Alfred Stewart, 31, who is deaf and mute, and three others including a bouncer are recovering in a hospital from non-fatal wounds suffered at the Ocean’s Eleven Sports Lounge and Grill in Florida.

A woman named Barbara Lee saw the crew of men communicating with each other and mistook their signs for gang signs. She became enraged and the 45-year-old woman confronted them as they motioned for her to leave them alone.

She left the bar and returned later with a juvenile and 19-year-old Marco Ibanez. They proceeded to stab Stewart and his friends who were out celebrating a birthday. The bouncer was hit with a bottle while Stewart and his party suffered wounds to their back and torso.

Lee and her cohorts were arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.