In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press, or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release, that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday” (emphasis added).
How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001.
How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the “terror mastermind”—who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies, along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO; who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control; who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day; who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail; and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly—has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight?
How many Americans will notice the resurrection of the long missing bin Laden as “terror mastermind” after his displacement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Guantanamo prisoner who confessed to being the “mastermind of 9/11” after being water-boarded 183 times?
Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.
Americans are so enthralled over the death of bin Laden that they do not wonder why information gleamed years ago would take so long to locate a person who was allegedly living in a million-dollar building equipped with all the latest communication equipment next to the Pakistani Military Academy. Allegedly, the “most wanted criminal” was not moving from hide-out to hide-out in desolate mountains, but ensconced in luxury quarters in broad daylight. Nevertheless, despite his obvious location, it took the CIA years to find him after claiming to have gained information of his whereabouts out of captives in secret prisons. This is the image of the CIA as the new Keystone Cops.
In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the gunfire erupted, we have from the pressitutes that “U.S. officials conceded the risk of renewed attack. The terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge bin Laden’s death, CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote in a memo. . . . Within a few hours, the Department of Homeland Security warned that bin Laden’s death was likely to provide motivation for attacks from ‘homegrown violent extremists’.”
John Brennan, White House counter-terrorism adviser, told reporters that “it was inconceivable that the terrorist fugitive didn’t have support in Pakistan where his hideout had been custom built six years ago in a city with a heavy military presence.”
So the claimed murder of bin Laden by the US in a sovereign foreign country with which the US is not at war, a crime under international law, has set up three more self-serving possibilities:
Terrorists will avenge bin Laden’s death, says the CIA, setting up another false flag attack to keep the profits flowing into the military/security complex and the power flowing into the unaccountable CIA.
Homeland Security can extend the domestic police state, abuse of travelers, and arrests of war protestors.
And Pakistan is under the gun of invasion and takeover (for India, of course) for shielding bin Laden.
The Israel Lobby’s representatives in the US Congress quickly fell in with the agenda. Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declared that the Pakistani Army and intelligence agency “have a lot of questions to answer, given the location, the length of time and the apparent fact that this was actually—this facility was actually built for bin Laden, and its closeness to the central location of the Pakistani army.”
The two reporters question nothing in the government’s propaganda. Instead, the reporters join in the celebration. Nevertheless they let slip that “officials were weighing the release of at least one photo taken of bin Laden’s body as part of what Brennan called an effort to make sure ‘nobody has any basis to try and deny the death.'”
As the Guardian and European newspapers have revealed, the photo of the dead bin Laden is a fake. As the alleged body has been dumped into the ocean, nothing remains but the word of the US government, which lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections, about yellowcake, about Iranian nukes, and, according to thousands of experts, about 9/11. Suddenly the government is telling us the truth about bin Laden’s death? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll let you have for a good price.
My initial interpretation of the faked bin Laden death was that Obama needed closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with the US budget deficit. Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. The military/security complex will become richer and more powerful, and Americans will be rewarded with vicarious pleasure in victory over enemies.
RIGHT ON THE MONEY…brilliant observations as usual.
If Obama and his “masterminds” where a bit more thoughtful they would have
waited to get hid of the “body” until a dozen or so world leaders could come to an agreement that it was, in fact, Bin Laden’s body so the the world does not questions it.
My first thought when I heard the news was of several alternatives. One of which was that someone did find or dig up the body, of long dead Osama, and produced it for this news. Here we go with the questions again.
Isn’t the killing of an unarmed fugitive an abominable crime?
There are a number of unanswered questions about the continually changing story of the unarmed fugitive, Osama, who, we are told, was taken into custody alive and then murdered by the American special forces by blowing his face into pieces.
We were also shown a picture where Obama and his security team watched on a screen the murder of an unarmed man in the most cowardly and gruesom manner. In addition, the world was told that within hours of his murder, Osama’s corpse was thrwon into the sea according to the ‘Islamic’ burial rites’!
Then the Obama officials said they would release the photos of the dead Obama. But that was not to be; there was another twist:again: Obama would not make the photos of the dead Osama public.
It is obvious that much has been going on behind the scenes in the portals of power about which we know nothing and the world would be kept in dark. Will we ever know the truth from the Washington ruling clique? I have my doubts.
In any case, I have posted a few articles from different sources on Peace and Justice Post who have doubts about the official version in view of the emerging new versions by the mightiest military power in the hitherto history of this planet.
REMEMBER-THE TRIAL OR EXECUTION OF BIN LADEN IS LUDICROUS-THE ALLIES AND UNITED STATES CANNOT CONTROL THE FAR-REGIONS, THEIR PEOPLES, OR ADD THEIR RESOURCES TO OUR ECONOMY WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS. THEY W-I-L-L TRY , BRUTALLY, I MIGHT ADD-TO CONTROL YOUR MINDS THROUGH PACIFYING ANY RESISTANCE HERE WITH CONFUSION AND IDLE THREATS. THE FRAUD IS SOON TO BE EXPOSED-AND THERE ARE QUIVERING NECKS THAT WISH TO AVOID THE JUSTICE OF A TIGHT ROPE! THAT IS THE GAME-OBFUSCATION, EVADING OWNERSHIP OF EVIL DEEDS, AND USING WEALTH AS A WEAPON—-AGAINST FELLOW AMERICANS.
THEY SHUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S MOUTH WITH A CHEAP ITALIAN RIFLE-AND THE EVIL GAME HAS PERPETUATED ITSELF TO OBSCENE PROPORTIONS WHEREBY THE PUBLIC CANNOT TRUST ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT SAYS OR DOES-THEY HAVE WORN OUT THEIR SERVICE WELCOME TO THE CITIZENS OF MANKIND….
So even though AL-QAEDA has come out with a statement confirming Bin Laden’s death it is still some kind of clandestine American conspiracy? I don’t see how that follows any sort of logic.