Summary: Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing income growth for all other groups and underscoring the sharply increased U.S. income disparity between rich and poor. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Osama bin Laden threatened to kill French citizens to avenge France’s support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law banning face-covering Muslim veils.