The Obama Administration had to improvise within hours of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden with a hurriedly cooked up story.
According to Seymour Hersh’s account, the original plan of the Obama Administration regarding the disclosure of the execution of Osama bin Laden to the press was that he had been killed in a drone strike in the Hindu Kush mountains on the Afghan side of the border. But things didn’t go as planned during the operation as a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, and the whole town now knew that an operation was underway.
Therefore, the original plan was abandoned and the Obama Administration had to go public within hours of the operation with a hurriedly cooked up story. This explains so many contradictions and loopholes in the official version of the story; the biggest being that the United States’ Navy Seals conducted a raid deep inside the Pakistani territory on a garrison town without the permission of the Pakistani authorities.
Moreover, according to an AFP report, Pakistan’s military sources have confirmed that there was a defector who had met several times with Jonathan Bank, the CIA’s then-station chief in Islamabad, as a consequence of which Pakistani intelligence disclosed Bank’s name to the local newspapers. He had to leave Pakistan in December 2010 because his cover had been blown.
Seymour Hersh posited in his report on the Bin Laden operation in Abbottabad that Saudi Arabia had asked Pakistan as a favor to hide Bin Laden because he was a scion of a powerful Saudi-Yemeni Bin Laden Group and it was simply not possible for the Saudis to hand him over to the US.
Moreover, it should be remembered that the Pakistani military and Saudi Arabia have very deep and institutionalized links: thousands of Pakistani retired and serving army officers work on deputations in the Gulf States; furthermore, during the ‘80s, when Saudi Arabia lacked an efficient intelligence set-up, the Pakistani ISI virtually played the role of Saudi Arabia’s foreign intelligence service.
But once the Pakistani walk-in colonel told the then-CIA station chief in Islamabad, Jonathan Bank, that a high-value al Qaeda leader was hiding in an ISI safe house in Abbottabad, right next to the Pakistan’s Military Academy, and after the CIA obtained further proof in the form of Bin Laden’s DNA through the fake vaccination program carried out by Dr. Shakil Afridi, then it was no longer possible for the Pakistan’s security establishment to deny the whereabouts of Bin Laden.
In his report, Seymour Hersh has already postulated various theories about why it was not possible for Pakistan to simply hand Bin Laden over to the US. Note that in 2011, Pakistan had a liberal and US-friendly People’s Party’s government. It is quite plausible that the then army chief, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, and the ISI head, Shuja Pasha, might still have had strong objections to the US Navy Seals carrying out an operation in the garrison town of Abbottabad.
But Pakistan’s civilian administration under former President Asif Ali Zardari and especially the disgraced Pakistani ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, must have persuaded the army chief and the ISI head to order the Pakistan Air Force to stand down during the operation. Ambassador Haqqani’s role in this saga ruffled the feathers of Pakistan’s security establishment to the extent that Husain Haqqani was later implicated in a criminal case regarding his memo to Admiral Mike Mullen, and eventually he had to resign.
Moreover, Greg Miller of the Washington Post posited in his May 5 report that Mark Kelton, the CIA station chief in Islamabad at the time of Bin Laden operation in Abbottabad, was poisoned by the ISI. The only purpose of this leak, five years after the operation, seems to be to discredit Seymour Hersh’s account, in which he has proven beyond doubt that Pakistan’s government fully cooperated with the US during the operation. It is not a coincidence that this news report was released within a month of the publication of Seymour Hersh’s book The Killing of Osama bin Laden.
It should be remembered here that Mark Kelton succeeded Jonathan Bank in January 2011, after the latter’s name was made public by the ISI due to Bank’s suspicious activities. Hersh mentioned in his report that the Pakistani walk-in colonel had met Jonathan Bank and told the latter that Bin Laden was hiding in a compound in Abbottabad under the custody of ISI. But in order to be sure, the US needed further proof; that’s why they arranged the fake vaccination program run by Dr. Shakil Afridi to get Bin Laden’s DNA samples.
The original deal between the Obama and Zardari Administrations was that the story would be made public a week after the operation, as mentioned by Hersh in his report, that Bin Laden has been killed/captured in the Hindu Kush mountains on the Afghan side of the border. The crashed Black Hawk in Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, however, made it impossible.
The Obama Administration had to improvise within hours of the operation with a hurriedly cooked up story, and they tried to gain maximum political mileage out of the incident in order to secure a second term for Obama in the presidential elections of 2012. This explains so many contradictions and loopholes in the official version of the story, as I have already mentioned.
Seymour Hersh claimed in his version of the story that the Pakistani military authorities were also on-board months before the operation; let me clarify, however, that according to inside sources of Pakistan’s security establishment, only the Pakistani civilian administration under the Zardari-led and the US-friendly People’s Party administration was on-board, while the military authorities, who were instrumental in harboring Bin Laden and his family for five years, were intimated only at the eleventh hour.
The fact of the matter is that the mainstream media’s Western audience knows very little about the geography of Pakistan; that’s why they uncritically bought the “official version” of the story. It’s a fact that the Af-Pak border region is the lawless wild west of Pakistan where the US can carry out occasional drone strikes; but the area between the garrison towns of Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and Abbottabad is the hub of Pakistan’s defense production industry and is littered with arms factories, ammunition depots, and ballistic missiles’ manufacturing sites. It simply stretches the limits of one’s credulity to believe that the US Navy Seals conducted a raid in Abbottabad right next to Pakistan’s Military Academy and several battalion headquarters without the permission of the relevant quarters.
Nice try, but with Social Media it is not possible to hide the Truth. Osama Bin Laden had been dead for years. He died of Renal Failure from Kidney cancer years before. He was treated in the American Hospital in the UAE where there were several witnesses who have not put it out Virally in Social Media – they are not loyal to Saudi or the USA. It’s the same deal as having people from Gaza on your Social Media circle and the fact that you have tried to do this is a joke. His Dr from UAE Hospital is now based in Tripoli in Libya, treating USA backed Al Qaeda linked Militias there. Many of us even have his Google Plus Profile.
Your statement about ISI, Pakistan and Saudi is a decade and more out of date as well. The Pakistan Military and ISI are no more Pro Saudi today than Iran is. They have the PM and Corrupt Regime of Pakistan in Lockdown, and are fighting TTP and Saudi/USA backed Extremism in Pakistan to the level of mass Purges of the Tribal areas and quite recently Mass Hangings. They REFUSED to get involved in Yemen, Saudi have lost an Ally, and the USA is ANGRY about it.
Where did Osama really die? Let us tell all your readers your Corrupt or Unconnected sad individual. He died at Bethesda Hospital on Long Island as the Guest of President Bush – he had the BEST treatment. British Popstar Rick Astley was caught up in the Flight Cancellations at UAE in order for the CIA to get Osama Bin Laden out of the American Hospital there and over to the USA. And that is why Anonymous Global left Youtube Film of Rick Astley’s song “Never Going to Give You Up” as SATIRE all over thousands of Twitter Al Qaeda and Daesh Profiles in 2015 as part of a Global Hacking Operation.
Osama Bin Laden’s 3rd Son was apparently killed at Abbatobad, and that would be the reason for any DNA turning up in any tests.
The situation of Social Media Viral Knowledge is so out of control for ANY individuals like yourself now – there are now THOUSANDS of Pak Military, even ISI, Intelligence Services of KSA and CIA and Pentagon Whistleblowers all over Social Media talking to anyone who wants to listen. When such cases as the Lockerbie Pan Am Flight bombing have been thrown out of Court in the UK this year and PROVEN it was not the LIbyan, and PROVEN it was the CIA., and NO COMPENSATION is legally being deducted from Libyan Assets frozen in British Banks for Victim Compensation – and Pentagon Whistleblowers all over Social Media claiming the attack was carried out by the CIA – what on earth makes you think that anyone either should or will read your appalling pack of lies? Or are you just so unconnected – or connected to the PM of Pakistan – who still lives in some sort of Fantasy Delusion that Pakistan can be the scapegoat and the Terror Bogeyman here, so the USA has an excuse to Invade it in the future (and that IS the plan, I have that on good authority).
Shame your correct story of the Bin Laden phony assassination will never be read by those who need to know.
The power of Social Media means that it already has gone Viral and BILLIONS already know. The OBL Abbatobad attack by the USA is one of the biggest Satirical Jokes in the International Community. Hellery Clinton there is only looking “Aghast” because a US Military Helicopter crashed (? Crashed or got shot down by a Son of Bin Laden ? )
It will and it has.
Just one question…How many times the USA will kill OSAMA BIN LADEN ? How many times ?
I suggest you “Google” and discover the Factors of change in the International Community since the invention of the Internet and Social Media. Your statement is several Oxymorons. Firstly, it’s been viral for years. The entire continent of Asia has been laughing about it for years. And it has spread. Stating that the International Community will never hear about i the exact same as stating that the International Community would never hear about the *Reality* of the Palestinian situation. For example, 10 years ago, the number of humans in a European Country who were *Aware* of the *Truth* of the situation numbered just a few, due to the only Media being Mainstream Paper based Newspapers and TV Channels. Today the numbers who are *Aware* number the majority. In each Country, regardless of their personal opinion on the subject. It never ceases to amaze me the number of *retarded* individuals with no *awareness* whatsoever of how Social Media and Internet Communications has transformed the Globe, and how they continue to operate under defunct principles that “Propaganda” still functions to the same capacity as it did a decade ago. Whereas in the past it took decades for facts to “Leak”, one human at a time, today it happens in “Real Time*, and those that continue to Propagate “Propaganda” based on decades old principles fine tuned by individuals such as Goebbels during WW2 are not living in Reality. If you only knew how Viral this is – with Evidence, Globally, you would have a heart attack if you stick to your deluded principles.
I’m only happy about stating the obvious, because it is in FACT already Globally viral, and quite a laughing matter. If I thought only a few people knew, I wouldn’t even bother to state it. I’m just giving you all a mind spank, and telling you FACTUALLY that Propaganda is fruitless, and will only serve to discredit those who perpetrate it on public forums.
There are several CIA and Pentagon Whistleblowers openly discussing it for starters. When that happens on the Internet on various Platforms, what can you do do stop it? You really are a Self Hating Muslim also, can you not recognise that the continued LIES about Bin Laden is only serving to put Pakistan up as a “Target” for Balkanisation and Regime Change? Have you not seen the Pentagon Map of how they envisage the Country to look when they have finished with it? A separate Balochistan? Tribal Regions of SWAT and Waziristan added to Afghanistan? Jammu & Kashmir separate and part of India? What a Self Hating Pakistani you are, and apart from the Uneducated of the region and those who are corrupt and being paid by Zionists to undermine their own Country, YOU are on your own. If you have one ounce of love for yourself, your Country and your Community, if you had one gram of Integrity, then you would join the Majority, and shout the Truth from the rooftops. You are happy to allow the USA to blame Pakistan for 9/11, to blame a man, Osama Bin Laden for planning it when he was already dead? Can you not see what you are doing Shahid? I PITY you – you are a Bigot, and Ignorant and an Oxymoron of a Propagandist, and fortunately a dying breed.
That scene reminds me of my youth, when I used to appear in “Commercials” for money when I was at University. It is totally “Staged”. I can just imagine it. “One of you type on a computer to make it look real ” (And he’s not very good at it, he would never be re hired for a Commercial Shoot, he’s actually gone red and is looking down embarrassed). The laptops are all brand new and look like they have never been used, probably added for the “shoot” from “stores’. As IF that is a “Situation Room” – it’s very small – it looks like a side room – there is NO WAY that is a “Situation Room” – there are bigger “Situation Rooms” in small businesses. Obama is not really up for it, he’s number 2 with the General on the Laptop that would never be re hired for a Commercial Shoot – the “Acting is not good enough. He looks like he doesn’t want to be there – *in on it* at all. There is some “Over Acting” going on, Hellery Clinton and man in blue shirt stood second from left. I suggest that that *Room* is some non descript side office that is rarely used where they could hurriedly concoct this “Staged Shoot” – so the rest of the Whitehouse Staff did not suspect anything and put their noses in and see *reality*. If it really is a Whitehouse “Situation” room, then really, even Erdogan has a better one. It’s a joke, it really is. If it was REAL then it would be a BIG ROOM, with masses of Staff, Media and all sorts. If they had nothing to hide it would not have been done like that. If any Journalists want my sources and Evidence, and want to publish the TRUTH, it won’t be hard to find me.
India is laughing at us for trusting ISI. Check out the very funny film (English subs) “Tere bin Laden – Dead or Alive” Best line, “Where is the proof?” It boggles the mind that every shred of evidence that the Seals shot somebody, and that somebody was bin Laden, has all vanished or been suppressed. But then, it would be so embarrassing after all the fuss to find out that the corpse belonged to some local guy with a beard that ISI had hired to sit in a room and watch old movies, while the real bin Laden was spirited away and Saudi Arabia is still paying board and lodging.