Osama Bin Laden Beats Federal Criminal Rap Thanks To Intercession of CIA, U.S. Military

Thanks to the efforts of an elite team of American forces, Osama bin Laden will soon have criminal charges formally dismissed against him in federal court in New York City.

The al Qaeda leader was indicted in U.S. District Court in 1998 for his alleged role that year in a series of truck bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa (those attacks resulted in the death of more than 220 victims). An arrest warrant was first issued for bin Laden in November 1998, nearly three years before the September 11 terrorist attacks.

With bin Laden’s demise inside a walled compound outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the Department of Justice will soon have to file a motion seeking dismissal of a mountain of felony charges against him.

There are better ways, of course, to beat a federal case.