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  • **FILE** New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (center) briefs New York police officials and John O. Brennan (center left), assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, and Deputy New York Police Commissioner of Intelligence David Cohen (center right) on Sept. 26, 2009, at police headquarters in New York on events surrounding an alleged plot to bomb New York commuter trains. (Associated Press/NYPD)

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  • Mr. Brennan originally said one of bin Laden's wives was killed when the terrorist leader tried to use her as a human shield.

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  • On Monday, White House counterterrorism chief John O. Brennan, in the usual reverential tone he employs when discussing matters Muslim, said, "The disposal of - the burial of bin Laden's remains was done in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices."

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