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Bin Laden Show 24: Abbottabad Resident Say Bin Laden Operations a Hoax

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Military

Abbottabad residents: Operation of killing Bin Laden a hoax (Xin Hua, 5 May 2011)

An eyewitness of Pakistan said, “We are not fools, it's America, and the dirty American policies. Whenever they want to take control of an area, they act this way. Osama was never here, America wants to destroy the image of the Pakistan army.”

“Osama Bin Laden Dead, Al Qaeda Confirms”…Really? (OpEdNews, 6 May 2011)

If I wasn't 100% convinced before that the killing of bin Laden was a hoax, with these newly released claims of confirmation by Al Qaeda, I am now.

Bin Laden Conspiracies Rely on Complex Scenarios

Phi Beta Iota: What is astonishing is that nominally intelligent organizations such as DiscoveryNews have difficulty grasping the reality of a hoax that relies on Bin Laden's having been dead all these years, not producing the unarmed body, and then faking the Al Qaeda announcement.  We are not 100% certain but we are assuredly 80% certain that this was a hoax and the US Government should be investigated by independent authorities.  If it was a hoax, it is an impeachable event.  Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about oral sex from a chubby intern.  Surely the truth of this matter is a bit more important.

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Bin Laden Show 21: Translation of Statement

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, IO Multinational, Media, Non-Governmental
Berto Jongman Recommends...

Following is a translation of a statement attributed to the Qaida't al-Jihad Organization-General Command.  It's actual provenance cannot be confirmed.

You Lived a Compassionate and You Died a Martyr

Statement Regarding the Defiant Battle and the Martyrdom of Sheikh Usama
bin Laden-may Allah have mercy on him

In the name of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Compassionate [Verse]
and prayer and peace upon His prophet [Hadith] and upon his family and
companions who spread the truth with their justice, and preserved the religion with their bodies and shed their blood to raise it, and upon those who walked their path and carried jihad as theirs, and were steadfast like them until the day of judgment, and thereafter:

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Bin Laden Show 10: Alternative Media

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Military
Official...Or Not...

PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCES: BIN LADEN STILL DEAD (updated continually)

NATIONAL VICTORY OR CHILDISH SNAKE OIL TO AID THE 9/11 COVERUP AND BOOST OBAMA POLLS?

LAST WEEK’S WIKILEAK NUKE WARNING IF ‘OBL’ WAS CAUGHT HAS TAKEN ON A SMELL…..

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Veterans Today, 1 May 2011

Osama Eliminated. His Spirit Lives On In The US Administration

By Sadanand Patwardhan

03 May, 2011, Satark.Blogspot.Com



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Bin Laden Show 06: Glenn Beck & Muslims Agree — Seven Questions About Alleged Burial at Sea

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Media
Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck, Muslims Agree On Bin Laden's Burial

Osama bin Laden's death may have been only the third time the New York Times actually stopped their presses, but maybe they should go for four, because Glenn Beck and many Muslims both agree that the terrorist shouldn't have been given a burial at sea.

Read whole story….

In Muslim World, Many Doubt bin Laden's Demise

Taliban voice doubts…

Controversy in death: Seven questions about Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea

Osama bin Laden's burial at sea: critics range from 9/11 families to militants.

Only On Fox Business: Questions About Whether Bin Laden Is Dead

Louisiana: Local doubt lurks about bin Laden’s killing

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Public Intelligence Forensics: Atomic Untruths

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Media, Military, Misinformation & Propaganda, Peace Intelligence, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

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The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession

What vintage bomb survival suits have to do with Dr. Stragelove and Richard Nixon.

The recent tragedy in Japan has triggered a tsunami of terror, founded and unfounded, about the potential risks of nuclear reactors.

While there are people better equipped than us to explain the precise implications of the situation, we thought we’d put things in perspective by examining the flipside of these dystopian fears: The exuberant optimism about nuclear power in mid-century America.

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Foreign Policy Slanders Sy Hersh–Loses Its Integrity

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Analysis, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, IO Sense-Making, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Media, Misinformation & Propaganda
(from left to right) Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Hersh and the contents of his January 17th, 2011 speech.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed

By Matthew Phelan on February 23, 2011

WhoWhatWhy: Forensic Journalism

It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank.

It seems unusual, but it’s exactly what the staff of Foreign Policy has done to Seymour Hersh, following a lecture the venerated reporter gave at Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar. You may know Hersh as the dogged investigator who exposed the My Lai Massacre during Vietnam. You may know him as the staff writer for The New Yorker who published some of the earliest pieces on Abu Ghraib in May 2004. You might even know him as the man derided and then vindicated for claiming that Dick Cheney was running a secret assassination squad right out of the Vice President’s office. (In truth, the squad was and is a bipartisan affair, initiated under Clinton and still operative under Obama.)  Read more….

Phi Beta Iota: Sy Hersh is as honest as it gets.  Foreign Policy used to be a reputable, imaginative endeavor.  This is now the second time it has been disreputable and ignorant.  Inquiry has established that Moises Naim, the extraordinary editor who took Foreign Policy from nothing to being twice as good as Foreign Affairs, has moved to other duties within the Carnegie Endowment, and it is clear to us that with his departure, Foreign Policy has lost its integrity as well as its intelligence.

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WikiLeaks Nails Saudi Royals–March Protests Planned

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Media
Who, Me?

Wikileaks Goes After The Saudi Royal Family

Gus Lubin | Feb. 28, 2011, 6:28 AM

Business Insider

Wikileaks just released a motherload of info on the taboo subject of Saudi Arabian royal rents.

The 1996 cable — entitled “Saudi Royal Wealth: Where do they get all that money?” — describes legal and illegal ways that royals grab money, according to Reuters.

For legal ways, there's the monthly allowance given to thousands of princes and princesses. This ranged from $800 a month for “the lowliest member of the most remote branch of the family” to $270,000 a month for sons of Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud.

For illegal ways, schemes include skimming $10 billion yearly from off-budget projects related to defense and infrastructure. One Saudi prince complained: “One million barrels per day” go entirely to “five or six princes.”

It's nothing to start a revolution over, but the sheer scale of payments might anger the Saudi people. The big concessionary social-welfare package offered last week was worth only $37 billion. Big anti-government protests are scheduled for later in March.

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Phi Beta Iota: The cable is also valuable in demonstrating that the US Government  (regardless of party in power) chose to sell our soul for Saudi crude.

See Also:

Review: Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

The Saudi Royals Are Traitors To Islam

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