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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 29 OcTOber 2019
New Sept. 11 exhibit stages the hunt for Osama bin Laden

By VERENA DOBNIK contains items collected
Associated Press during U.S. raids, includ-
NEW YORK (AP) — Declassi- ing some from bin Laden's
fied U.S. government docu- compound.
ments and artifacts will be A declassified, pre-9/11
part of a new exhibit about U.S. intelligence document
the decade-long search reveals: "Bin Laden Deter-
for Osama bin Laden at the mined to Strike in US."
site of the New York terrorist An artifact on display from
attack he masterminded. his al-Qaida training camp
"Revealed: The Hunt for Bin in Afghanistan is a blue wall
Laden" opens Nov. 15 at fragment seen in propa-
the National September ganda videos featuring bin
11 Memorial & Museum, a Laden.
multimedia account of the The presentation titles one
mission that ended with bin section "Gains and Set-
Laden's death in Pakistan in backs," and details the U.S.
2011. failure to catch bin Laden
With direct access to the In this artist's rendering provided by C&G Partners, the exhibit "Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden," before he fled Afghanistan.
operatives who led Ameri- is shown at the National September 11 Museum in New York. "We were working on it; we
ca's feverish post-9/11 hunt Associated Press just didn't do enough," said
for the top terrorist, the ex- Mark Kelton, the former CIA
hibit presents a sort of who- "This is essentially a kind of and second, it was a cliff- freely. chief in Pakistan in charge
dunit drama with graphics, crime story, however, at a hanger." One of those passports will of the bin Laden com-
videos and the voices of horrific scale of crime and Photos show the scenes of be displayed, along with pound operation.
the protagonists. at a global scale of pursuit, the search, including caves enrollment forms used by Speaking at the news con-
Those include intelligence with many trials and tribula- and a wild mountain range al-Qaida to recruit new ference, Kelton's voice
agents, former President tions," the exhibit's main de- in Afghanistan where bin members. broke with emotion as he
Barack Obama and mem- signer, Jonathan Alger, said Laden was believed to In other images, American remembered that after
bers of the U.S. Navy SEALs Wednesday at a news con- be hiding. He was under anti-terrorism military units bin Laden was gone, he
team that raided the com- ference at the museum. protection of the Taliban, are seen on terrain they're told American colleagues
pound where bin Laden "The entire space is cin- which issued al-Qaida combing for possible clues in Pakistan "that we had
was shot and killed in his ematic," he said. "At the members passports allow- to bin Laden's where- delivered justice to a
bedroom. time, every single minute ing them to move around abouts. A trunk on display murderer."q

'Seinfeld' star Alexander, Southside Johnny in NJ fame hall

By WAYNE PARRY playing in clubs where he
Associated Press was too young to legally
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — buy a drink, and credited
New Jersey rock royalty Richie "LaBamba" Rosen-
was onstage Sunday night berg, a member of South-
in the state's musical cra- side's Asbury Jukes, with
dle as rocker Jon Bon Jovi showing him the right way
brought soulful crooner to play several soul songs.
Southside Johnny Lyon with "Without Southside Johnny,
him into the New Jersey there never would have
Hall of Fame. been a Jon Bon Jovi," Bon
The two rockers played Jovi said. "I always wanted
a duet at Asbury Park's to be an Asbury Juke," call-
Convention Hall, a place ing the band's leader "a
where both had performed friend, a mentor, a bad in-
many times on their way up fluence and sometimes a
from Jersey shore local bar cranky S.O.B."
bands to worldwide stars. Bon Jovi and Southside's
Bon Jovi and Southside col- performance came shortly
laborated on "I Don't Wan- after the induction of The
na Go Home," backed by Smithereens, the pop rock
the band Kings of Suburbia. band with members from
"I am very proud to be from Carteret and Scotch Plains
New Jersey," said Lyon, whose hits include "Blood
who is from Neptune and And Roses," and "A Girl Like
best known for his cover In this Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Jason Alexander attends a special screening of Marvel Studios' You."
of "We're Having A Party," "Thor: Ragnarok", hosted by The Cinema Society, at The Whitby Hotel in New York. In the performing arts cate-
the Sam Cooke standard. Associated Press gory, Jason Alexander, who
"When we started out mak- grew up in Livingston and
ing music, making records, Jersey band, they didn't that there was an axe to aggressive, and I worked played the iconic charac-
that was not something you want you. grind," said Lyon, whose hits my ass off." ter George Costanza on
could say. If you tried to "I learned from going to also include "Talk To Me" Bon Jovi, a Sayreville na- "Seinfeld," was inducted.
play in New York City and New York and Philadelphia and "Trapped Again." ''It tive, recalled his days in As- He called the award "a
you said you were a New and other places to play made me stronger, more bury Park as a teen rocker very unexpected honor."q