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Bin Laden Show 31: Let Sleeping (Dead) Dogs Lie…

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
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Excellent food for thought!

Bin Laden Is Dead, but What About His Ideas?

Uri Avnery, Antiwar.com, May 8, 2011 @ 11:00 pm

“Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, lest the Lord see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.”

This is one of the most beautiful passages in the Bible (Proverbs 24:17-18) and, indeed, in the Hebrew language. It is beautiful in other languages, too, though no translation comes close to the beauty of the original.

Of course, it is natural to be glad when one’s enemy is defeated, and the thirst for revenge is a human trait. But gloating—schadenfreude—is something different altogether. An ugly thing.

Ancient Hebrew legend has it that God got very angry when the Children of Israel rejoiced as their Egyptian pursuers drowned in the Red Sea. “My creatures are drowning in the sea,” God admonished them, “and you are singing?”

These thoughts crossed my mind when I saw the TV shots of jubilant crowds of young Americans shouting and dancing in the street. Natural, but unseemly. The contorted faces and the aggressive body language were no different from those of crowds in Sudan or Somalia. The ugly sides of human nature seem to be the same everywhere.

The rejoicing may be premature. Most probably, al-Qaeda did not die with Osama bin Laden. The effect may be entirely different.

Safety copy below the line…

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Bin Laden Show 30: Five Truths On Killing Bin Laden

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Sense-Making, Military, Peace Intelligence

Osama bin Laden

Comment: Five Surprising Truths About the Killing of Bin Laden

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |

For intelligence and terrorism experts, the frustrating part of Osama bin Laden’s assassination is not the lack of details on the operation, nor the diplomatic ping-pong currently taking place between America and Pakistan. Rather it is the media spectacle that has unfolded around the story ever since it first made headlines. The cacophony of conjecture that has hijacked the global news agenda is maintained by an army of talking heads, who rely on rumor and speculation to satisfy sensationalist media editors. The outcome is a sterile media circus, devoid of substance, which leaves news consumers confused and uninformed. To counter this trend, intelNews lists here five truths of critical importance about Osama bin Laden’s assassination. In summary: One, America does not have to prove it killed bin Laden. Two, bin Laden’s assassination is not a victory against terrorism. Three, it likely will not reduce —and may even increase— terrorism. Four, it will not have the slightest effect on the Taliban or the war in Afghanistan. Five, even if the Pakistani government consciously shielded bin Laden, there is not much the US can do about it. More specifically:

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Bin Laden Show 29: Wikipedia 75% Summary

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Military
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//F-6 INFO//F-6 INFO//F-6 INFO//

Death of Osama bin Laden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Operation Neptune's Spear)

Phi Beta Iota: Assuredly worth a look.  Well-organized but probably developed by CIA sock-puppets, gives almost no attention to the so-called conspiracy theories and completely misses, among many other important counter-factuals, Dr. Dr. Steve Pieczenik (BLS XIV), the SOTTReport (BLS XVIII) and more recently, Presidential Directive 11 of August 2010 (BLS XXV).  As Brother Marcus suggests, F-6, but in our view good as a starting point.

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Bin Laden Show 28: CIA Official Post & Photos

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
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The official CIA posting, with photos, of “the hunt for Bin Laden.”

The Final Chapter in the Hunt for Bin Ladin

“The president gave us a mission and we delivered on it. This success is a testament I think to our great skill, great creativity, and perseverance, and really the courage of hundreds of Agency officers over the last nearly 10 years. You never lost focus. You never lost determination. You never lost faith that we would ultimately tighten the net around Bin Ladin and ultimately rid the world of the most infamous terrorist in our time.”

—CIA Director Leon E. Panetta, May 2, 2011

Phi Beta Iota: The photos, six of them, are a MUST SEE.  They capture the absolute essence of CIA's handling of the Bin Laden Story.  As of today, the photos are: 5 of Leon Panetta in various heroic poses, and one of the CIA Museum.  Note the heights of the various pieces of wall, labeled prior to the operation.

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Bin Laden Show 27: No Tape Measure, No Body

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Navy SEALs forgot to bring a tape measure

CBS Dan Farber 7 May 2011

The odds that Osama bin Laden was the mysterious figure seen walking around the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan were estimated by U.S. intelligence at between 60 and 80 percent. When the Navy SEALs shot the tall figure on the upper floor of the compound, fatally hitting him in the chest and near his right eye, the next step was to get a positive ID. They planned to use several reference points, including facial recognition and eventually DNA when the body was transported back to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

Another measurement was to determine the height of the corpse. Bin Laden is listed on his FBI most wanted poster as being between 6-feet 4-inches and 6-feet 6-inches and weighing  about 160 pounds.

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Woodward also learned that bin Laden was named “the Pacer” as the intelligence gathering proceeded. Satellite imagery showed a person walking in the compound daily, but the face and exact height of the pacer were not identifiable.

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Phi Beta Iota: We suppose a tape measure might have been required if there was no intent of bringing back the body, but this goes from the ridiculous to the sublimely insane. The remarks about not being able to tell the height of the “Pacer” or get a look at his face are inconsistent with what is known about high-resolution imagery, both from satellites today (3″ in 1994) and from air-breathing micro-drones.  These people really do seem to be making this stuff up as they go.   We also consider anything published by Bob Woodward, David Ignatius, or any of the usual suspects from the New York Times and Washington Post to be suspect.  This operation cannot stand up to persistent structured scrutiny.  It completes the circle back to the lies that led to Iraq and the lies and high crimes that allowed 9/11 to happen “with emphasis.”

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Bin Laden Show 26: 5 Old CIA Videos “Unveiled” — Probably Planted by CIA for SEALS to “Find”

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U.S. officials unveil videos of bin Laden

By the CNN Wire Staff

May 7, 2011 1:03 p.m. EDT

(CNN) — Intelligence officials on Saturday unveiled five different videos of Osama bin Laden that were confiscated from the deadly raid at his Pakistan compound — part of an information haul considered to be the most significant amount of intelligence ever collected from a senior terrorist.

In one video, bin Laden is wearing what a wool cap with a blanket draped around his shoulders. He is holding a TV clicker and rocking in his chair. Bin Laden, sporting a gray beard, is seen flipping through a selection of satellite channels as he views video footage of himself.

One of the videos is a message to the United States officials believe was recorded in October or November. Officials didn't play the audio because, they said, it would be inappropriate. In that video, bin Laden's beard has been dyed black.

The three other videos are practice sessions for videos he was planning to release to the world.

A senior intelligence official briefing reporters at the Pentagon said last week's raid by U.S. forces yielded a significant amount of intelligence, and a special federal taskforce — including members of the CIA and FBI — is combing through the material.

The officials say the DNA evidence unquestionably shows that the person shot and killed in the Pakistan compound was bin Laden.

Phi Beta Iota: Emphasis added.  This is the truth-teller.  CIA is scrambling to counter-attack the declarations from Pakistan to India to Virginia to California that this is all a hoax.  To better understand their trying to “re-set” the narrative it helps to understand that after 2001 most Bin Laden videos and audios are considered to be fake, manufactured by the CIA.  See  Bin Laden Show XVIII: TheSOTTReport — US Government Psy-Ops – The ‘Killing’ of Bin Laden for a discussion of this point.  We continue to believe that the “intelligence trove” is false, planted by CIA for the SEALs to recover.  We are beginning to believe that the President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense as well as the SEAL chain of command might have lied to by CIA and its captive Director.  Forensics on the ORIGINALS of all the CDs and tapes should reveal country of origin and probably year of origin as well.  The film of Bin Laden using a clicker to watch himself is an American's idea of B Roll during a phoney session–it strikes us as sacreligious and beyond belief if it were the real deal.  We're pretty sure CIA cannot stand that level of scrutiny.  Congressional hearings are required, and someone like Britt Snider should be brought in to walk the cat back.

Walk the cat back – To attempt to understand the true nature of a situation by reconstructing events chronologically from the present to the past. Earliest citation ‘I find it inconceivable that anybody could walk the cat back,' lamented Mr. Petty,” The New York Times article by Robert A. Bennett, February 19, 1984  Source

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Bin Laden Show 25: Presidential Study Directive 11 of August 2010 and the Package Deal on Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

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Read P. 8; Arab Spring and death UBL are part of a masterplan to get a powersharing accord with the Muslim Brotherhood. All is based on Presidential Study Directive 11 of August 2010.

Phi Beta Iota: August 2010 is also when the “Strategic Narrative” out of the office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (C/JCS) began to circulate.  It is quite clear that this Presidential Directive must now be made public and that Congressional hearings should be held on both the Directive, and the possibility that a) Leon Panetta lied to the President and b) that the President was mis-led and over-ruled by the military-industrial complex with proponency from Hillary Clinton and Bob Gates.  Online PDF Safety Copy of Debka Issue 491.

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Phi Beta Iota: Debka is not questioning the “fact of” Bin Laden's existence, we are.  What Debka does provide is a marvelous context for understanding both why the US Administration blew it on the Arab Spring it neither anticipated nor understood, and why CIA has been given so much lattitude.  The big question–and the Presidential Study Directive  11 of August 2010 will be helpful–is the degree to which the President of the USA has been an unwitting dupe or a full participant in what we believe to the hoax of the century.

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