The Killing of Osama bin Laden

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The chickens have come home to roost!

Well worth clicking on the link and reading the whole article, but here are some highlights...

"...bin Laden had been a prisoner of the ISI at the Abbottabad compound since 2006..."

"...bin Laden was very ill, and that early on in his confinement at Abbottabad, the ISI had ordered Amir Aziz, a doctor and a major in the Pakistani army, to move nearby to provide treatment. ‘The truth is that bin Laden was an invalid, but we cannot say that..."

"Of course the guys knew the target was bin Laden and he was there under Pakistani control,’ the retired official said. ‘Otherwise, they would not have done the mission without air cover. It was clearly and absolutely a premeditated murder."

"The White House’s initial account claimed that bin Laden had been brandishing a weapon; the story was aimed at deflecting those who questioned the legality of the US administration’s targeted assassination programme."

"At the Abbottabad compound ISI guards were posted around the clock to keep watch over bin Laden and his wives and children. They were under orders to leave as soon as they heard the rotors of the US helicopters."

"They knew where the target was – third floor, second door on the right,’ the retired official said. ‘Go straight there. Osama was cowering and retreated into the bedroom. Two shooters followed him and opened up. Very simple, very straightforward, very professional hit."

"Despite all the talk,’ the retired official continued, there were ‘no garbage bags full of computers and storage devices. The guys just stuffed some books and papers they found in his room in their backpacks. The Seals weren’t there because they thought bin Laden was running a command centre for al-Qaida operations, as the White House would later tell the media. And they were not intelligence experts gathering information inside that house."

The Killing of Osama bin Laden

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account. The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.

The most blatant lie was that Pakistan’s two most senior military leaders – General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI – were never informed of the US mission.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Since I would not trust the dear leader to tie my shoes. And they did not share the photos of his dead body to the people who suffered the most from his actions I still am not convinced Osama is actually dead. They wasted no time throwing saying the body was dumped in the ocean. He may very well be dead but until I see the photos myself I will assume otherwise.

 

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Respectfully, I think we need to understand that this story (if true) transcends any 1 administration...This is an institutional problem.

And if the story is true, then I think the value is not that they lied (we all know they lie ), the value lies in what they lied about...

If my government knew Saudi Arabia was funding him, if my government knew Pakistan was hiding him, and if my government lied to me about that...

I want to know why!