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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 21: Translation of Statement

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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 20: NIGHTWATCH on Pakistan

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NIGHTWATCH: Four points are clear. Pakistan is much more concerned about India than about internal terrorism or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan has many alternatives to the ISI Directorate for managing clandestine arrangements with terrorists. The Intelligence Bureau must be investigated. The timing of all known clandestine arrangements falls within Musharraf's tenure.

Phi Beta Iota: Americans are known in Latin America as “tontos utiles” [useful idiots]. It is inconceivable to anyone who actually knows what living in Asia entails [$1 per static, $2 per mobile surveillant], to conceive of Bin Laden [or anyone else, perhaps in Karachi] being comfortable in Pakistan without the knowledge of the intelligence service and Army Chief of Staff; and it is highly questionable whether the same CIA that self-destructed over Khost Kathy could infiltrate Pakistan when its “norm” was the likes of Ray Davis. As much as we may all want to believe this theatrics, a sufficiency of questions demand investigation.

Below the Line: NIGHTWATCH on Pakistan and Bin Laden at Length

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Bin Laden Show 19: White House Photo Ops

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Phi Beta Iota: In another change to its story, to prove that Bin Laden had in fact been “captured,” the White House today released a photo of Bin Laden with Condi Rice at a safehouse maintained by the Department of State at the South-Central Complex between State and the new US Institute for Peace building. Condi remains Bin Laden's closest ally within Washington circles where both Republicans and Democrats agree: Bin Laden has been the single best bi-partisan brand in decades. The White House did not appear to notice the inconsistency between this photograph and its earlier refusal to publish a photograph of the allegedly dead Bin Laden. Source

In addition, it has now been revealed that the below photograph, previously alleged to be in the situation room with the Bin Laden kill operations on screen, was actually taken at the conclusion of a very hard-fought battle over changes in Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) room assignments. Hillary Clinton is reacting to the announcement that the Indian Treaty Room is now the Boy's Club with cigar smoking permitted at all times.

bin laden white house — Click on Image to Enlarge

Below the line: alternative versions of the EOEB briefing photograph.

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Bin Laden Show 18: TheSOTTReport — US Government Psy-Ops – The ‘Killing’ of Bin Laden

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MUST WATCH (13:00)

US Government Psy-Ops – The ‘Killing' of Osama Bin Laden

Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the most extraordinary, erudite, credible, and well-put-together indictments of the CIA and the White House for a variety of false flag attributions to Bin Laden, to include detailed repudiations of CIA translations and detailed repudiations of the figures alleged to be Bin Laden.

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