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Orleans Jazz Fest veteran Irma Thomas
IrmaThomas2011.JPGMATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE'The Jazz Fest has been a blessing to me,' says Irma Thomas, who will perform at Audubon Zoo Sunday, 'but my closing it out won't be missed. I'll leave that to the Neville Brothers. They can take care of business.'
But on Sunday you won't find her at the Fair Grounds. She'll be at the Audubon Zoo instead.
For nearly 30 years, Irma has put on a Mother's Day Concert at the zoo.
"It started out as a promotional ploy to get families to come to the zoo, and it worked," she said. "I guess they figured, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' I've been doing it ever since."
For her, it has always been a perfect way to spend Mother's Day.
"It's everything from babies in playpens to great-grandmothers in wheelchairs," she said. "It's a great place for families to be together."
And who better to perform than Irma? The New Orleans treasure is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother herself.
Between her and Emile Jackson -- her manager and husband of 34 years -- they have seven children.
"I have four and Emile has three, but I don't think of his as my stepchildren," she said. "We just have seven kids."
Osama bin Laden: Fuller picture emerges
The trove of data shows that “this compound in Abbottabad was an active command and control center for al-Qaida’s top leader,” a senior U.S. intelligence official said in a briefing at the Pentagon. “Though separated from many al-Qaida members, [bin Laden] was far from a figurehead.”
The videos provide post-mortem glimpses of bin Laden in settings that are familiar and surreal. In one, a noticeably gray-bearded bin Laden huddles under a wool blanket and uses a remote control to flip through news footage of himself on a small television propped up on a broken desk.
The senior U.S. intelligence official described another video as a previously unreleased “message to the American people,” in which bin Laden stands before a blue backdrop, wearing a gold robe and delivering a speech in which he “repeats the usual themes by condemning U.S. policy and denigrating capitalism.”
The administration did not release any audio from the segments or a transcript of what bin Laden said. The official said the government was reluctant to give the al-Qaida chief a propaganda platform after his death.
The decision to release the footage — and the choice of which segments to share from a broader collection now in the possession of the CIA — appeared designed to provide new evidence that bin Laden was killed in the U.S. operation, and perhaps to present him in settings that might embarrass him or at least minimize his mystique.
The videos are part of a library of recordings that “would only have been in his possession,” said the U.S. intelligence official, who described other segments as fumbling “outtakes” from a terrorist leader who was “very interested in his own image.”
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the intelligence on bin Laden, who was killed in a pre-dawn raid Monday in Pakistan by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs. The official disclosed few details about the contents of the more than 100 computers, drives and assorted digital storage devices recovered at the compound, except to say that they show a continued focus on planning attacks against the United States and other Western nations.
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