Claiming otherwise
is one of his many Big Lies. On May 1, 2011, he willfully deceived the US
public saying:
“The death of bin Laden marks the
most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat Al
Qaeda.”
“Today’s achievement is a testament
to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.”
In last Sunday’s
London Review of Books, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh shredded Obama’s Big Lie like others before
him.
Obama’s official narrative “might
have been written by (Alice in Wonderland author) Lewis Carroll,” he said. It
was a total fabrication. More on his account below.
Volumes of evidence
separate fact from fiction. On July 11, 2002, TheNew York Times said “Osama bin Laden is dead. (He) died
in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan.”
“Pakistan’s president, Pervez
Musharraf, echoed the information…(T)he truth is that Osama bin Laden is dead.”
The BBC, Fox News
and other media sources reported the same information. David Ray Griffin‘s seminal book on the topic titled
“Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?” did it best.
He presented “objective evidence and
testimonies.” The former includes the following:
Through December 13, 2001, the CIA
monitored messages between bin Laden and his associates. Suddenly they stopped.
On December 26, 2001, a leading
Pakistani newspaper reported bin Laden’s death. It cited a prominent Taliban
official attending his funeral – witnessing his dead body before it was laid to
rest.
His was very ill with kidney disease
and other ailments. In July 2001, he was treated at the American Hospital in
Dubai.
On September 10, 2001 (one day before
9/11), CBS News anchor Dan Rather reported his admittance to a Rawalpindi,
Pakistan hospital.
He had nothing to
do with 9/11. An earlier article discussed the Mother of All Big Lies.
In January 2001, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
said bin Laden appeared “in the last stages of kidney failure” (according to
Griffin) – based on video evidence he saw in late November or early December
2001.
In July 2002, CNN reported the
capture of bin Laden’s bodyguards months earlier in February. “Sources believe
that if the bodyguards were captured away from bin Laden, it is likely the
most-wanted man in the world is dead,” it said.
Washington offered a $25 million
reward for information leading to bin Laden’s capture or killing. No one came
forward to claim it. More on this below.
Testimonial evidence Griffin cited
included influential “people in a position to know” saying bin Laden died in
December 2001 including:
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Pakistan President Musharraf;
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FBI counterterrorism head Dale Watson;
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Oliver North saying, “I’m certain that Osama is dead…and so are all the
other guys I stay in touch with;”
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Afghanistan President Karzai;
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Israeli intelligence saying supposed bin Laden messages were fake; and
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Pakistan’s ISI “confirm(ing) the death of…Osama bin Laden (and)
attribut(ing) the reasons behind Washington’s hiding (the truth) to the desire
of (America’s hawks) to use the issue of al Qaeda and international terrorism
to invade Iraq.”
In October 2008, former CIA case
officer Robert Baer told National Public Radio when asked: “Of course he’s
dead.”
In March 2009, former Foreign Service
officer Angelo Codevilla published an American Spectator article titled “Osama
bin Elvis, saying:
“Seven years after (his) last
verifiable appearance among the living, there is more evidence of Elvis’s
presence among us than for his.”
Griffin explained today’s advanced
technology can create fake messages and videos able to fool most people.
Pre-May 2011 claims about “bin
Laden’s continued existence (weren’t) backed up by evidence,” Griffin
explained.
Perpetuating the myth about bin Laden
remaining alive until May 2011 remains one of the Big Lies of our time.
It bears repeating. Clear evidence
proves he died of natural causes in December 2001. Keeping alive a dead man was
done to pursue America’s phony “war on terror.”
So-called “Enemy Number One” was used
to stoke fear as pretext for post-9/11 imperial wars on one country after
another to this day.
Griffin hoped his book would help
shorten America’s wars. They rage endlessly. Don’t expect Hersh’s article to
change things.
He said bin Laden’s reported killing
was “the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his
re-election.”
The official White House account of
bin Laden’s death was totally “false,” said Hersh. His version of events
differs markedly from Griffin’s explained above.
Most important is both explanations
and others expose the official Big Lie – hype used as justification for
America’s war on terror, naked aggression against one country after another by
any standard.
Hersh said the May 2011 bin Laden
operation began in August 2010 after a former senior Pakistani (ISI)
intelligence official offered information on his location in return for the $25
million reward Washington promised leading to his death or capture.
Claiming he was in Abbottabad under ISI
house arrest doesn’t comport with convincing evidence of his December 2001
death.
Saying Obama wanted Osama dead belies
his earlier demise. The staged bin Laden killing was hokum – especially with no
visuals, corpse, independent proof and shifting official accounts.
Major events are always strategically
timed for political reasons. In this case, to boost Obama’s sagging image. It
got an immediate bump following the staged event.
It diverted attention from neoliberal
harshness, force-fed austerity and protracted homeland Main Street Depression
conditions.
They’re evident today in
unprecedented levels of borderline/actual/or deep poverty, unemployment or
underemployment, homelessness, hunger and overall deprivation in the world’s
richest country.
It continued post-9/11 fear-mongering
to further Washington’s imperial agenda – featuring one direct or proxy war of
aggression after another against nations threatening no others.
So-called DNA evidence claimed to
prove bin Laden’s death 12 hours after the staged Abbottabad incident was fake.
Experts explain DNA identification
takes days to complete – impossible in hours, especially in a location with no
professional lab or skilled personnel to conduct it.
Convincing evidence revealed about
the alleged May 2011 bin Laden killing proves the official White House account
was fabricated – one of many of Obama’s Big Lies.
A Final Comment
On August 6, 2011, 30 US special
forces (including 20 Navy Seals) involved in the Abbottabad incident died in a
reported helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
Draw your own conclusions. Dead men
tell no tales.
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