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Osama Bin Laden Death Skeptics Grow As Lynne Blankenbeker, New Hampshire State Rep, Voices Doubts
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy May 09, 2011 06:16pm |
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| Category | Idiocy |
| Author | Amanda Terkel |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Monday, May 9, 2011 04:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- First there were truthers. Then there were birthers. Now come the "deathers."
Like their refusing-to-believe brethren, a small minority is quietly beginning to insist that there is some doubt about whether Osama bin Laden is really dead. And like their skeptically minded cousins, the movement is beginning innocently, merely asserting that a few questions remain unanswered.
In a Sunday interview with the television station WMUR, New Hampshire state Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (R) joined the deathers' ranks.
When asked about her reaction to President Barack Obama's announcement that bin Laden was killed, Blankenbeker referenced the "possibility" that the al Qaeda leader was dead.
"I was obviously very excited by the possibility that Osama bin Laden is no longer around. That's great," she said. "You know, my first thought went to the victims from 9/11 and their families."
Blankenbeker has been a member of the armed forces for decades. The New Hampshire Republican said that one of the reasons she questioned the news of bin Laden's death was that she hadn't heard anything from her superiors: |
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