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Bin Laden Show 39: Death of a Witness

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Obama Kills Top US Terrorist Asset Osama

By Dr Gideon Polya

09 May, 2011
Countercurrents.org

US President Obama has blocked 9-11 truth by the   extra-judicial murder of  Al-Qaeda leader and US-alleged 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden who was America's most valuable terrorist asset  over the last 30 years by  (a) assisting the US-backed defeat of the Russians in Afghanistan (and  thence the dismemberment of the Soviet Empire) and (b) by killing hundreds of Westerners in terrorist atrocities, thus providing the anti-terrorism justification for the post-Cold War explosion of US state terrorism in the Muslim world (bombings, invasions, occupations and 11 million Muslim dead since 1990 in US-attacked countries. Scientific evidence says that the   US rather than man-in-a-cave Osama did 9-11 but Osama was used by the actual perpetrators as an endless war-justifying bogeyman like Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell's novel “1984”.

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Bin Laden Show 36: Pakistan PM Allegations “Absurd” Plus 10-Year-Old Deal Anything Goes…

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Pakistan PM Calls Accusations Over Bin Laden ‘Absurd'

VOA, May 09, 2011

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday denied that his country's intelligence agencies helped hide Osama bin Laden, insisting that allegations of complicity or incompetence were “absurd”.

Intelligence failure

In a speech to Islamabad's parliament, Gilani said it was “disingenuous” for anyone to insinuate that Pakistani authorities, including the country's spy agency, the ISI, were aligned with al-Qaida.

“We emphatically reject such accusations. Speculative narratives in the public domain are meant to create despondency,” said Gilani. “We will not allow our detractors to succeed in offloading their own shortcomings and errors of omission and commission in a blame game that stigmatizes Pakistan.”

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Osama bin Laden mission agreed in secret 10 years ago by US and Pakistan

Phi Beta Iota: CIA is still in denial over the reality that the Pakistani ISI put one over on them for decades.  The FACT is that ISI has always had a special section for nurturing radical Islamic factions and the tribes, and CIA was all too quick to accept the claim that they were “renegades.”  The Pakistan PM is blustering and knows that part of the truth.  What we do not understand is why Pakistan, which has some very smart people, doesn't flip the tortilla on the CIA and start an investigation on how they set up the assassination of a patsy to “frame” Pakistan.  We might as well make this interesting.

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Bin Laden Show 35: Chomsky on Assassination

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

Guernica, May 6, 2011

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”

Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

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Bin Laden Show 33: How Did CIA Stage It?

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Phi Beta Iota: The jury is still out on this one, but here is one notional depiction of how CIA did it.  Bear in mind that CIA is admitting it has a safehouse and observation post within sight of the larger compound and that this is in the equivalent of a “resort town” where foreigners have relatively easy (but still observed) passage.

01  Decision is made by Panetta, after suggestion by the Directorate of Operations (DO), to stage the execution of Bin Laden as Panetta's final “accomplishment” with three major side effects: a) pressure on Pakistan; b) excuse to exit Afghanistan and pretend Petraeus was successful; and c) bump for Obama

02  Decision is made by Panetta, after suggestion by the DO, that this be a totally black operation that deceives all participants outside of the closed CIA circle executing the deception operation.  The President, the Secretaries of Defense and State, and the Joint Special Operations Group will all be lied to.  [We prefer this version, but the really scary version, as with 9/11, is that they are all a party to the deception.]

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Bin Laden Show 32: Journalists on Fiction and Lies

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Jeff Carney, Born 22 May 1965

Journalists Are Grumbling About Changing Raid Details

By Uri Friedman May 05, 2011

Atlantic Monthly

The White House's account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has undergone some revisions in recent days–a fact White House press secretary Jay Carney (pictured above) attributed to a “fog of war” atmosphere as information continues to stream in. But that explanation hasn't been sufficient for some journalists, who are beginning to grumble on Twitter.

The changing story has drawn considerable criticism, notably from analysts on the left, where there was already ambivalence about celebrating bin Laden's death. Salon‘s Justin Elliott has been hitting hard, claiming the Pentagon's report from Monday now “reads like fiction” and writing “on my way to becoming a Deather with latest story change that there was no big firefight after all.” Filmmaker Michael Moore observes, “The Pentagon lied about the Jessica Lynch rescue & they really lied about Pat Tillman. They've already changed their OBL story 3x in 3days..” Bin Laden, states author Joe McGinniss, “was unarmed, we killed him. Spinning it like self-defense is as wrong as Vietnam.”

Elsewhere on Twitter, Politico‘s Ben Smith writes, “Admin could have avoided all this grief by just making up a story out of whole cloth and sticking to it, as is traditional,” while Slate's Dave Weigel tweets, “Tomorrow, admin sources will revise story. bin Laden actually in purgatory” (where a majority of CNN poll respondents believe he is). Weigel also cites the claim from administration officials in the Times report that bin Laden had an AK-47 and Makarov pistol in arm's reach: “So was one in hand and one in arm's reach? STUPID LANGUAGE.”

Then there's Time‘s Bobby Ghosh, who says “methinks media would not have been so understanding if it was Bush in the WH now, making so many mistakes in announcement of #OBL‘s killing,” adding, “‘Fog of War' excuse doesn't wash. How many factual errors did Bush White House make in announcing Saddam's capture… or Zarqawi's killing?” Ghosh delivers one more parting shot: “By claiming ‘fog of war' the WH is suggesting Seals gave wrong first information. If there was a fog, it was in the WH. Fog of politics.”

To catch you up, here are some of the main ways the story has changed in recent days:

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Tip of the Hat to George Donnelly at Facebook.

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

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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.

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Bin Laden Show 30: Five Truths On Killing Bin Laden

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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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