Osama Bin Laden Is Really, Really Dead

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USS Carl Vinson

Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department. – Huffington Post

Dominant Social Theme: Oh, he is dead. Yes, we killed him. He is gone. Dead. We are so great. And he is cold and dead and drowned.

Free-Market Analysis: We have written numerous stories about the "death" of Osama bin Laden because it seems to represent everything that is wrong or at least inconsistent as regards the US's military-industrial complex.

We have noted in the past that the power elite that wants to build world government uses a variety of dominant and subdominant social themes to do so.

These themes are intended to frighten Western middle classes into giving up power and wealth to elite globalist solutions. One of the main modern tools is the war on terror.
Within this larger (apparently phony) war, the death of Osama bin Laden can be seen as a subdominant social theme, an elaboration on the main symphony of terror.

In retrospect, we think we understand the reason for its presentation. It was to provide a justification for US President Barack Obama to get re-elected.

Of course, we have doubts that Obama WAS re-elected. But the mainstream media has claimed that one of the reasons Obama was re-elected was because of bin Laden's death.
It doesn't really MATTER if bin Laden died or not. What DOES matter is that it provides a narrative that allows the media to offer a rationale for Obama's re-election.

This is what we call directed history. Theoretically speaking, the powers-that-be create a fake bin Laden death. Then they provide phony election results. None of it is true but the narrative itself justifies the results, even if they didn't happen.

We've written a lot about the so-called "death" of bin Laden and you can just search the Internet using "bin Laden death" and "Daily Bell" and find a number of articles on the subject.

The main point is that the death just doesn't add up. He had Marfan Syndrome and failing kidneys more than a decade ago. His death was reported significantly several times, especially in Egypt and Pakistani news, as reported by Fox News. All the CIA messaging from "Osama" after 2001 is identifiably false.

That doesn't stop the elite promotional machinery, though. They keep supporting this elaborate tapestry of evidence – books, movies and news reports – to create this overwhelming presentation of his death.

Absolutely none of it is corroborated and most is second- and third-hand. There is no body, no DNA, no films and many of the SEALS who were involved, at least tangentially, died in a helicopter accident. Some have theorized it was a warning to the SEALS to keep their mouths shut.

There are a few eyewitnesses that the US and NATO have not controlled. We wrote about one eyewitness here:

Eyewitness Tells Different Story of Bin Laden Death

Here's an excerpt of the man's reported testimony:

Anchor: Welcome back, Mohammad Bashir is a resident of Abbottabad's Bilal Town. Muhammad Bashir might seem an ordinary guy but he is no ordinary guy. Muhammad Bashir lives in front of Osama Ben Laden's house in Bilal Town Abbottabad. On 2nd of May, Muhammad Bashir was present on his rooftop from where he saw the whole American operation against Osama Ben Laden with his own eyes. Yesterday when our team was present In Bilal Town, Abbottabad, near Osama Ben Laden's hose, Muhammad Bashir came to us and said, "Sister, I need to tell you something, something that is a burden on my heart and soul," just listen to what he said.

Bashir: I am going to share something about the Abbottabad operation, which till this day nobody else has told you. ... We were awake, not asleep, a helicopter came, some men came down from that, into that house, then that helicopter went away: 10-12 men, then, that helicopter took rounds of those rear hills, then he came back and when he came back, two more helicopters arrived, one from the west and other from the north, there was a blast in the first helicopter and it was on fire ... we immediately came out, when we reached there, the helicopter was burning, then after about 20 minutes the army and police arrived. They pushed us back, now we are asking that if Osama was here then who took him to America because all those men that came in the helicopter died in the blast. Now if Osama was in that helicopter he must have died and got burnt in that helicopter too, then how they took him? This is a question of serious concern ...

We could see the faces of those men but they were speaking Pashto. I don't know whether they were Pakistani or American army or people of agencies, as you know that agency people can speak many languages. May be they were speaking Pashto so that we consider them Pakistani. They knocked and banged at our doors and told us not to come out. I laid down on my rooftop and was watching them. My kids were calling me, I told them to go to their rooms and let me check what's going on...

Anchor: One thing is very clear in this video. Two helicopters hovered never landed. One landed and dropped Pashto speaking people on the roof — 10-12 of them. The helicopter left for 20 minutes and returned to load people in and then a small blast engine failure ... fire helicopter parts all over. Body parts arms, legs, head, all over. Pakistani Army/Police came in dispersed crowd. The whole scene is cleaned up totally now. No evidence left to examine...

So to repeat, according to THIS eyewitness, the only individuals that landed on bin Laden's so-called compound were 10-12 Pashto speaking individuals. The helicopter that returned to pick them up exploded, apparently killing all aboard.

In retrospect, the explosion of the chopper was (if nothing else) a positive coincidence for the US military, as it seems to have wiped out a good many additional eyewitnesses.
You would think newsgathering organizations would be on the ground, searching for this eyewitness and others. No such activity is taking place. The government's unbelievable story, expanded upon by ever more books, movies and reports, remains virtually unchallenged by the mainstream media.

In a way, it's chilling. A decade ago, we didn't understand any of this. But despite what we call the Internet Reformation, the power elite continues to purvey ever more unbelievable versions of directed history – as if the 'Net does not exist and their exposure is not fairly widespread.

Even this article that we are analyzing comes in for scathing criticism at the Huffington Post. A number of people simply don't believe the killing. It's taking on the same kind of resonance as the death of John F. Kennedy, another episode of apparently directed history.

We don't know if it is arrogance, desperation or a combination of both that is driving the elites to continue to deploy ever more unbelievable dominant social themes. But either way it's a significant development.

Conclusion: They don't seem to have any idea of how to grapple with the illumination the Internet has provided except maybe to ban it. And it's too late for that ...

Now the Real Killing of bin Laden Is Revealed?

Daily Bell

Osama bin Laden book by Navy SEAL reveals al-Qaeda leader unarmed and shot in doorway ... Osama bin Laden was shot in the head as he peeked out of his bedroom, according to the No Easy Day book by a Navy SEAL, contradicting previous official accounts of the raid on the former al-Qaeda leader. – UK Telegraph

Dominant Social Theme: This must be a truthful book because it is making the Pentagon very uncomfortable.

Free-Market Analysis: No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer, should probably be withdrawn for being a lie. When Clifford Irving famously concocted a tale about Howard Hughes he ended up serving 19 months in the slammer. But "Owen" will laugh all the way to the bank.

We just finished writing about this book the other day. We explained how eyewitness accounts entirely contradict the official narrative. We reported on a recent Infowars interview that reinforced what many others have reported, that bin Laden died ten years ago.

One only has to look at the videos that bin Laden supposedly released in the 2000s. All are still pictures of him, rather than video, and every one can probably be proven NOT to be him.

He was dying of Marfan syndrome a decade ago; his death was reported multiple times; he made not a single confirmable appearance after, say, 2000.

The caves from which he supposedly engineered his takedown of the World Trade Towers were never found. They conveniently dropped down the memory hole. Here's an article we posted just the other day on this book and the possibility it would be made into a movie:

Steven Spielberg to Make Phony Movie of Fake Osama Death Book?

And here's some more about it from the Telegraph article, above:

The terror mastermind was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door in the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to the book – a copy of which has been obtained by The Associated Press.

The former Navy SEAL writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen in No Easy Day, says he was directly behind the "point man" as they made their way up the stairs of the two-storey house.

"Less than five steps" from the top of the stairs, he heard "suppressed" gunfire: "BOP. BOP." The point man had seen a "man peeking out of the door" on the right side of the hallway.

The author writes that bin Laden ducked back into his bedroom and the SEALs followed, only to find the terrorist crumpled on the floor in a pool of blood with a hole visible on the right side of his head and two women wailing over his body.

Owen says the point man pulled the two women out of the way and shoved them into a corner and he and the other SEALs shot him several times until he lay motionless.

"(We) trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless," Owen writes according to a copy of the book obtained by the Huffington Post.

The SEALs later found two weapons stored by the doorway, untouched, the author said. Neither weapon was loaded.

"He hadn't even prepared a defense. He had no intention of fighting. He asked his followers for decades to wear suicide vests or fly planes into buildings, but didn't even pick up his weapon," Owen writes.
Bin Laden was apparently wearing a white t-shirt, loose tan trousers and a tunic.

The power elite that pursues wars like the Afghan war uses dominant social themes to promote world government. It seeks to frighten people into giving up wealth and power to globalist institutions. But these are large and simplistic promotions that are not easily unraveled.

The bin Laden promotion is worrisome because it is so obviously false and because so many people know it is. There is very little gray here – and Money Power usually manipulates shades of gray easily.

In other words, as the Internet reveals more and more of their plans, they are growing desperate. Or at least it seems they don't care anymore. You know, Bin Laden hasn't been sighted for a decade. His vaunted caves were never found. Plenty of respectable people have indicated he died around the turn of the century.

As far as the "raid" goes ... No photos of the body have emerged, not one. No photos of an aged bin Laden. No DNA. No body.

Nothing. Nada. Zip.

All we get is the ongoing attrition of the SEAL unit that was involved in the episode. And this is more like a mob hit where they rub out some participants as a warning to others.

And then, of course, there is the release of the book, which is obviously supposed to give President Barack Obama an election lift. Just like a movie about the killing, "Zero Dark Thirty."

Bin Laden Death Movie Mired in Controversy

And now, of course, Steven Spielberg is supposedly thinking of optioning the book.
The book is being presented (on purpose) in a counterintuitive way. We learn, for instance, that No Easy Daycontradicts "the official version of events." But no one will comment on the differences (maybe because neither scenario occurred).

We also learn that bin Laden's body was treated with contempt by SEALs who sat on him in the cramped helicopter.

We learn the SEALs "are not fans" of President Barack Obama.

We learn that Vice President Joe Biden reminds SEALs of "someone's drunken uncle at Christmas dinner."
And, of course, we learn, as a final touch, that officials at the CIA are thinking of suing the author for not allowing the book to undergo a "formal review."

Conclusion: But, hey, that's understandable. It was probably written in the Pentagon.

Newsflash: Bin Laden Was Not In The Bin Laden Raid

The Excavator
Saman Mohammadi

A group of professional actors watching an early preview
of Kathryn Bigelow's much-anticipated film about
the mysterious Bin Laden raid called, "Zero Dark Thirty."

The discussion about the mysterious Bin Laden raid on the night of May 1st, 2011, has been focused around government leaks and minor plot revelations, but has avoided the larger issue at the center of the drama, which is that Osama Bin Laden was not in the raid.

Again: Bin Laden was not in the Bin Laden raid.

Where was he?

He was busy being dead.

Bin Laden wasn't acting dead to avoid U.S. suspicion, he was dead for real, like 'Weekend at Bernie's'.

Remember what "being dead" meant? Remember what "for real" meant? It means that when a person is dead, he is dead for real and gone to the next chapter of his spiritual existence. A dead person cannot be resurrected for political purposes by the earthly gods of the dead.

Bin Laden is not Jesus of Nazareth.

I know some people within the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities still want to portray Bin Laden as the Arab Che to justify their illegal war on terror, but let's be real, he was not a revolutionary or Messiah figure. He was a two-bit punk whose anti-American rebel army consisted mainly of CIA rejects and gullible dupes.

Since the "Bin Laden raid," the White House has tried to turn Abbottabad, Pakistan into Bin Laden's Graceland, but their grand hoax has not stood the test of time.

There is a movie due out in December by Kathryn Bigelow called 'Zero Dark Thirty,' and a new book by a Navy SEALs officer, both of which seek to unwrap a mystery that never happened.

It is really charming if you think about it. Grown-up adults (if you can call them that) are arguing about a mythical event and taking the debate so seriously that they are fighting about leaks and counter-leaks.

Take a step back, and laugh at this collective insanity.

No proof of Bin Laden's body has emerged in more than fifteen months since the raid. And his burial at sea didn't take place. Where does that leave us? Are we supposed to wait for the tide of time to recover fragments of Bin Laden's limbs to the shore of our consciousness? What are we, children?

Bin Laden lived and died in the land of myth. That is the truth.

"He has been dead, was dead, and is dead. There has never been any evidence of his body, a video, forensic evidence, or autopsy," said former State Department official and psyop master Steve Pieczenik on the Alex Jones show on Friday, August 24, 2012.

Dr. Pieczenik, referring to the explosive comments he made in May 2011, again on the Alex Jones show, when he told the American people that Bin Laden died of Marfan syndrome in late 2001, added on Friday:
"The intelligence community, State Department, the President of the United States, never refuted my statements. Having worked for five presidents, I stated it categorically. Having still been involved in the intelligence community and military community, I maintain that this has been a serious lie that has been the crux of corruption of both our military and intelligence community."
The Bin Laden saga belongs on the screen, since the telling of his life and death is best done with the arts of fiction.

One should watch the film 'Zero Dark Thirty' not with the mentality of a child but of a seasoned mental warrior who has lived through and survived the psy-op war against global public consciousness by the United States government.

Walk into the theater with more than just a skeptical mind. Walk into the theater knowing that the entire story about the Bin Laden raid is fake.

Pentagon says it has no records of bin Laden's death; CIA hasn't answered open records request

StarTribune
Richard Lardner

WASHINGTON - The hunt for Osama bin Laden took nearly a decade. It could take even longer to uncover U.S. government emails, planning reports, photographs and more that would shed light on how an elite team of Navy SEALs killed the world's most wanted terrorist.

Ten months after that electrifying covert mission, an administration that has pledged to be the most transparent in American history is refusing to release documents about it under the Freedom of Information Act. The records could provide insights into how bin Laden died, how the U.S. verified his identity and how it decided to bury him at sea, as well as photographs taken during and after the May 2011 raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Government officials have openly discussed details of the mission in speeches, interviews and television appearances, but the administration won't disclose records that would confirm their narrative of that fateful night. The Obama administration has not said even where in Washington's bureaucracy all the documents might be stored.

Requests for bin Laden materials were among the most significant of any filed last year under the open records law, which compels the government to turn over copies of federal records for free or at little cost. Anyone who seeks information under the law is generally supposed to get it unless disclosure would hurt national security, violate personal privacy or expose business secrets or confidential decision-making. The law has been the focus of extra attention since Sunday, the start of Sunshine Week, when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information.

Citing the law, The Associated Press asked for files about the raid in more than 20 separate requests, mostly submitted the day after bin Laden's death. The Pentagon told the AP this month it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden's body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden's body on the Navy aircraft carrier where the al-Qaida leader's body was taken.

Bush Knew Bin Laden Murdered in 2001

Veterans Today

Gordon Duff

Toledo Blade, January 19, 2002

Bin Laden Death Deemed Murder of CIA Case Officer as 9/11 Coverup

 by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

President George W. Bush knew Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent and in no way ever involved in 9/11.

He knew bin Laden personally from family visits and knew bin Laden had been to the White House while living in the US under the cover name of “Tim Osmon.”
 
This has been verified by CIA officials.

Bush also knew bin Laden died on December 13, 2001.  How did he know?  He read it on Fox News:

Report: Bin Laden Already Dead

Published December 26, 2001 FoxNews.com

Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung  complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader  who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.

“The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would  never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead,”  the source said.

Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung  complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of  the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest  honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.

About 30 close associates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, including his most  trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some “Taliban friends,”  attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final  tribute to the “great leader.”
The Taliban source who claims to have seen bin Laden’s face before burial  said “he looked pale … but calm, relaxed and confident.”

Asked  whether bin Laden had any feelings of remorse before death, the source  vehemently said “no.” Instead, he said, bin Laden was proud that he succeeded in  his mission of igniting awareness amongst Muslims about hegemonistic designs and  conspiracies of “pagans” against Islam. Bin Laden, he said, held the view that  the sacrifice of a few hundred people in Afghanistan was nothing, as those who  laid their lives in creating an atmosphere of resistance will be adequately  rewarded by Almighty Allah.

When asked where bin Laden was buried, the  source said, “I am sure that like other places in Tora Bora, that particular  place too must have vanished.”

CIA officials report that, even after 9/11, they were actively seeking a kidney transplant for bin Laden to keep him alive.  They confirmed that he was actively being paid, had security clearances and was working on assignments received on or after 9/11.

They also confirmed bin Laden had, because of health reasons, not been living in Bahrain as thought but San Diego.  While there, he visited the White House and met with George H. W. Bush and other members of the Bush family including George W. Bush.

Bin Laden felt betrayed when the President, a man he knew as a personal friend, ordered his killing after 9/11, particularly since bin Laden was an active CIA agent.

Tim Osmon and Brzezinski

Other “hunts” for bin Laden were staged to provide him cover while his severe illness put him in and out of American hospitals, something that would have destroyed his credibility with many groups he worked with.

I confirmed bin Laden’s death in a personal meeting with General Athar Abbas and his staff in 2010.  They confirmed that America has been aware of bin Laden’s death for all along.  General Abbas refused to answer other questions on this subject.

MURDER

Bin Laden died of kidney disease, being forced to leave his dialysis machine behind when American troops came to his home to kill him.  As a response, bin Laden did an interview with Al Jazeera denying any involvement with 9/11 and suggesting America look elsewhere.

This is from the official CIA transcript of Osama bin Laden’s last public statement:

CIA Official Transcript

• “The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive.”
  
  
• “They can be any one, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia.”
  
  
• “Then you cannot forget the American Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him.”
  
  
• “Then there are intelligence agencies in the US, which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY 180)  agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taliban and then this incident happened.”
  
  
• “Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the US Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat.”
  
  
• “President Bush or any other US President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who made the attacks.”

This statement was made September 24, 2001.

There are no further statements from Osama bin Laden.

This transcript is officially certified by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Major General Hamid Gul

By what information we have, from the CIA, from Pakistan, from interviews with ISI Director General at the time, Major General Hamid Gul, the death of Osama bin Laden was the murder of a CIA agent by Presidential order so as to silence dissent and cover up what appears to be a conspiracy of sorts, as many now see 9/11.

MORE MURDER

With bin Laden, a CIA operative, murdered through denial of needed medical care, at presidential order, who else was similarly murdered?

Minimally, we can consider all who died searching for, not just someone uninvolved in 9/11, but a decorated CIA operative, as a victim of an illegal cover operation meant to hide a criminal act.

Every soldier killed in Afghanistan, hunting the imaginary Al Qaeda or the long dead Osama bin Laden was murdered.

EVEN MORE MURDER


Pakistani television interviewed individuals who witnessed a helicopter crash killing its American crew and passengers at Abbottabad, a mission supposedly meant to credit President Obama with the killing of a long dead CIA agent.

The Tempest

Pakistan Today
Humayun Gauhar

It took all of nine hours for the heads of all our political parties (except of the two-headed Peoples Party) to come up with the obvious. A child would have taken nine minutes to write the resolution of the All Parties Conference. But that was not the point of the gathering to meet the gathering storm. The point was to show unity in the face of adversity. But it will only have meaning if they do what they say and don’t go scampering off to US officialdom to reinforce their own utility to America. Don’t bank on it. Our history of broken promises and backstabbing is legion. In less than 24 hours the heads of two parties started making negative noises. And President Obama reiterated his resolve to pursue the same policies.

Oddly, General Musharraf’s party was not invited, although it has been reported in this newspaper that he has been requested to mediate with the US to avert the possible storm.

Pakistan-US relations, tenuous at the best of times, started unraveling with the Raymond Davis affair and touched the bottom with the May 2 Abbottabad caper. Tensions reached their zenith when the outgoing Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Mike Mullen said to Congress that the ‘Haqqani Network’ is a “veritable arm” of the ISI. Relations plunged to their nadir. He raised not a storm in a teacup but a tempest in a teapot. Emotions rose. There was uproar. There was speculation galore – will they, won’t they attack us? No surprise in a relationship historically based on two-way hypocrisy – America regularly using, abusing and discarding us because of which we are never fully on the same page as them and, quite naturally, look out for our own interests, not America’s interests alone. Problem is that the way we have looked after our interests was not always in our interests. The lesson for both is: don’t get into partnership with someone who you don’t quite understand.

Our relations are at a crossroads. Question is: which path will we take, the path less trodden upon or the well-worn one? We have always taken the latter though it has never taken us in the right direction. In any case, for a country that calls itself Islamic there is only one path to take, the Correct Path or Sirat-al-Mustahqeem. But such things are today consigned to the bookshelf, rarely to be read and hardly ever understood.

Let’s try and understand why America seems so desperate, why it is doing what it is doing are and what are the compulsions and demons driving it.

1. America is in election mode and President Obama, with his ratings at rock bottom, is desperate to win them. Thus his decisions are driven not so much by his mind but by his ambition.

2. The US political system is in logjam, unable to come up with strategies to meet crises.

3. Its economy is in terminal decline, joblessness is rife and it is in recession, which could soon become depression.

4. It has lost the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ‘War on Terror’ overall but is still desperate to retain powerful military presences in both countries.

5. America cannot find any exit without Pakistan, just as the Soviets couldn’t. This makes it even more frustrated.

6. America’s influence is seriously eroding in the world, most particularly the Arab and Muslim world.

7. The recent attack on the US embassy in Kabul and one of its military installations by a handful of people has embarrassed America in the eyes of its own people, who are rightly asking how this could happen after the expenditure of billions of dollars over ten years.

8. To deflect the blame, America blames Pakistan for ‘helping’ the ‘Haqqani Network’ to carry out the attacks. When people are embarrassed they look for scapegoats. We are the scapegoats.

9. America has every right to talk to its adversaries, be it the Taliban, the Haqqanis or even Al-Qaeda, but lack of realisation of its twin defeats makes it talk from a position of strength, not realising that only victors can do that. Losers cannot. Thus it makes unrealistic demands like retaining military bases after ‘withdrawal’, which is comical.

10. By the same token, we too have equal right to talk to these groups without America going ape, which it doesn’t seem to understand.

America wants Pakistan to take action in North Waziristan against the ‘Haqqani Network’ and other militant groups. Pakistan doesn’t want to open yet another front in an impossible terrain with harsh winters nigh. The Haqqanis are Afghans and thus freedom fighters. Why should Pakistan go after them, even granting that they are mainly in North Waziristan and not in Afghanistan itself? America’s gambit is that if we launch an operation in North Waziristan, the militants there would turn their attention away from Afghanistan and train their guns on Pakistan.

The first and foremost duty of any government is to protect the lives, liberty and property of its people and the sovereignty, dignity and integrity of its country. This includes not only all the three branches of government – legislature, executive and judiciary – but also the opposition. Failure is not an option.

No government can succeed without co-opting its people. The government and the people must stand firm together as one, like in 1965. The media then played a pivotal role.

In any impending confrontation, while it is important to know one’s own and the adversary’s strengths, it is vital to know one’s weaknesses and the adversary’s weaknesses too. Our two biggest weaknesses are our economic fragility and the nature of our present role in the so-called War on Terror that our people at large do not approve of. How to create self-reliance and economic strength needs another article. But it is important to create the perception that the civilian government and the military are on the same track, a perception that has sadly been lacking, whether true or not. Thus politicians must speak with one voice on this issue and say the same thing in public. This is not the time for politicking and point scoring. We cannot say the wrong or contradictory thing and then excuse ourselves by claiming that it was our personal opinion.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was right when he said that “America cannot live with us and it cannot live without us.” Nothing could be closer to the truth. However, if we look at it carefully, this also applies to us. Statesmanship demands that America and Pakistan should reset their relationship based on mutual interest, not on the one-way self-interest that America has always foisted on us, and which has brought our relations to breaking point. Neither should expect, much less demand, of the other to do that which is not in its interest. Only then can we have a healthy relationship for the first time in our history.

The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None

Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research

The New Yorker  has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden.

There is no useful information in the story. Its purpose seems simply to explain away or cover up holes in the original story, principally why did the Seals murder an unarmed, unresisting Osama bin Laden whose capture would have resulted in a goldmine of terrorist information and whose show trial would have rescued the government’s crumbling 9/11 story?

The gullible Schmidle tells us: “‘There was never any question of detaining or capturing him--it wasn’t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,’ the special-operations officer told me.” In other words, the SEALs murdered bin Laden, because the US government did not want detainees, not because trigger-happy stupid SEALs destroyed a font of terrorist information.

Why did the SEALS dump bin Laden’s body in the ocean instead of producing the evidence to a skeptical world?

No real explanation, just that SEALS had done the same thing to other victims. Schmidle writes: “All along, the SEALs had planned to dump bin Laden’s corpse into the sea--a blunt way of ending the bin Laden myth.” But before they did so, the US checked with an unidentified Saudi intelligence operative, who allegedly replied, “Your plan sounds like a good one.”

I mean, really.

After all of Sy Hersh’s New Yorker revelations of US government lies and plots, one can understand the pressure that might have been applied to the New Yorker to publish this fairy tale. But what is extraordinary is that there was a real story that Schmidle and the New Yorker could have investigated.

In the immediate aftermath of bin Laden’s alleged murder by the SEALs, Pakistani TV interviewed the next door neighbor to bin Laden’s alleged compound. Someone supplied the video with an English translation running at the bottom of the video. According to the translation, the next door neighbor, Mr. Bashir, said that he watched the entire operation from the roof of his house. There were 3 helicopters. Only 1 landed. About a dozen men got out and entered the house. They shortly returned and boarded the helicopter. When the helicopter lifted off it exploded, killing all aboard. Mr. Bashir reports seeing bodies and pieces of bodies all over.

The US government acknowledges that it lost a helicopter, but claims no one was hurt. Obviously, as there were no further landings, if everyone was killed as Mr. Bashir reports, there was no body to be dumped into the ocean.

A real investigation would begin with Mr. Bashir’s interview. Was he actually saying what the English translation reported? I have not been able to find the interview with the English translation, but I believe this is the interview that I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0vo-L3VACs 

Surely there is a qualified interpreter who can tell us what Mr. Bashir is saying. If the English translation that I saw is not a hoax, then we are presented with a story totally different from the one the government told us and repeated again through Mr. Schmidle.

If the English translation of Mr. Bashir’s interview is correct, one would think that there would be some interest on the part of US news organizations and on the part of the intelligence committees in Congress to question Mr. Bashir and his neighbors, many of whom are also interviewed on Pakistani TV saying that they have lived in Abbottabad all their lives and are absolutely certain that Osama bin Laden was not among them. 

Mr. Schmidle goes to lengths to describe the SEALs’ weapons, although his story makes it clear that no weapons were needed as bin Laden is described as “unarmed” and undefended. The “startled” bin Laden didn’t even hear the helicopters or all the SEALs coming up the stairs. In addition to all his fatal illnesses which most experts believe killed him a decade ago, bin Laden must have been deaf as neighbors report that the sound of the helicopters was “intense.”

When Pakistanis on the scene in Abbottabad report a totally different story from the one that reaches us second and third hand from unidentified operatives speaking to reporters in the US who have never been to Abbottabad, shouldn’t someone qualified look into the story?

Related: Check out the "Gallery of Fake Bin Ladens"

Pakistan agrees to return chopper tail and go after enemy sanctuaries

A flurry of activity of Monday provided hope that the Pak-US marriage of convenience was not over despite the recent bellowing and booming of the Pakistani leadership.

By the end of Senator John Kerry’s day-long stay in Islamabad it appeared that the US had convinced Pakistan to undertake several steps for proving its commitment to the fight against terrorism. These included returning the wreckage of the helicopter which had malfunctioned during the May 2 raid in Abbotabad and eliminating terrorist sanctuaries in tribal areas.

In exchange Washington has committed itself to a process, which if successful, will lead to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Islamabad for reviving the strategic dialogue which has been stalled since the arrest of CIA operative Raymond Davis and subsequent events such as drone attacks and the unilateral US operation killing Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.

John Kerry, who heads the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, extracted these promises from the Pakistani leadership; he warned them that “if the relationship is to fall apart …. US will always reserve the right to protect its national security”.

Senator Kerry’s tough love message was reinforced, Dawn has learnt, by the telephone calls Secretary Clinton made to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

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The test will be how long Pakistan stays committed to the deal. Will they go after the Haqqani network? Getting rid of them would be a good way to get the UIS out of their hair.

US helicopter downed inside Osama bin Laden compound

Telegraph

Pictures from Pakistan TV show Osama bin Laden's compound in Islamabad on fire after a US helicopter used in the attack was reportedly shot down.



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US President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, was killed on Sunday by US special forces who stormed his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan using helicopters.

Four helicopters launched the attack in the Bilal area of Abbottabad, about 62 miles north of Islamabad, said a Pakistani intelligence official.

One of the aircraft crashed and burst into flames after it apparently was hit by fire from the ground, the official said. No American casualties have been reported.

The helicopters took off from a Pakistani air base in the north of the country.

Translation Of Pakistani Video --Copter explosion, all dead

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This is a translation of the video linked at the bottom and was translated by my friend Khan Taashk. THANK YOU my dear friend. I wish there were a way for ALL Americans to read this translation.

Anchor: Welcome back, Mohammad Bashir is a resident of Abboottabad's Bilal Town. Muhammad Bashir might seem an ordinary guy but he is no ordinary guy. Muhammad Bashir lives in front of Osama Ben Laden's house in Bilal Town Abbottabad. On 2nd of May, Muhammad Bashir was present on his rooftop from where he saw the whole American operation against Osama Ben Laden with his own eyes. Yesterday when our team was present In Bilal Town, Abbottabad, near Osama Ben Laden's hose, Muhammad Bashir came to us and said, "Sister, I need to tell you something, something that is a burden on my heart and soul", just listen to what he said.

Bashir: I am going to share something about the Abbottabad operation which till this day nobody else has told you.

Anchor: But Muhammad Bashir was a little afraid too, while talking to me he telephoned hia reletive, Vice President of Jummat-e-Islami, Abdur Razzaq Abasi, watch it

Reporter: Tell me your name and tell me whare do you live

Bashir: Let me first, Let me talk to him one minute, i will give you full interview, full or half?

Reporter: Full Full

Bashir: Let me first talk to him

Reporter: To whom? To abbasi?

Bashir: yes, to Abbasi

Anchor: Muhammad Bashir told us something that no one said before. So we checked his identity card, we also onfirmed that he really lives there, we asked from the senior fellows about him. We were very astonished by his story just see and listen what he said.

Bashir: We were awake, not asleep, a helicopter came, some men came down from that, into that house, then that helicopter went away

Reporter: How many men?

Bashir: 10-12, then that helicopter took rounds of those rear hills, then he came bac...k and when he came bach, two more helicopters arrived, one from the west and other from the north, there was a blast in the first helicopter and it was on fire, we immediately came out, when we reached there, the helicopter was burning, then after about 20 minutes the army and police arrived, they pushed us back, now we are asking that if oama was here then who took him to america because all those men that came in the helicopter died in the blast, now if Osama was in that helicopter he must have died and got burnt in that helicopter too, then how they took him? this is a question of serious concern. America claims they they killed him and picked him up. How they picked him up? This is what we are thinking

reporter: Was there only one helicopter?

Bashir? Yes the other that came flew away to Mansehra, there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them but as he was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.

Reporter: Then were in it when it blew?

Bashir: Yes They were.

Reporeter : How you know?

Bashir: We saw it with our own eyes

Reporter: You saw dead man?

Bashir: Yes, dead men,

Reporter: How many?

Bashir: I couldnt count them because then the compound was on fire. The gate was open, we went in, the army and police hadnt arrived then, there were some people but they werent stopping them. The whole neighbourhood has seen that but they are silent now.

Bashir: We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing

Reporter: How many dead bodies you saw?

Bashir: We couldnt count them because they were blown into pieces.

Khan Taashk:

(Arrrrgh...... Loadshedding! power went out. Cant access the computer. But i have noted down all remaining points. I will explain them, not word to word as i cant access the video right now, but in my own words. I am from cell phone.)

Here is ...the remaining part,

the reporter asked Bashir to narrate the story again.

Bashir said we could see the faces of those men but they were speaking pashto. I dont know whether they were Pakistani or American army or people of agencies, as you know that agency people can speak many languages.

May be they were speaking pashto so that we consider them Pakistani.
They knocked and banged at our doors and told us not to come out.
I laid down on my rooftop and was watching them.
My kids were calling me, I told them to go to their rooms and let me check whats going on.

The reporter asks Bashir, that when he saw that the helicopter was American what was he thinking then?
Bashir said that he got afraid. He didn't had in his mind that they will attack that house. He thought that they might have come to attack the Pakistan Army.

The reporter asked so when was your cousin Shamraiz taken away?

Bashir : Shamrez was at our home, as the helicopter exploded, me and many others went out of our homes to see what happened. Shamrez also came out and the gate of the compound was open, we went in, every thing was lying scattered, as it is a huge compound, some body parts were lying here, some there, legs, arms, heads, broken and torn body parts, during that time some part of the helicopter inside, may be the engine or other fuel related part had an explosion so we rushed out. During that time Shamrez was taken away, he is in his home now, but no one is allowed to meet him and i couldn't get a chance to talk to him later.

Then the anchor says that they had vegetations inside the compound and Shamrez was their gardener. We know that two men Arshad and Tariq used to live there. They had good relations with the neighbours, they used to buy things from the local store. Sometimes imported dates and used to send many things to their neighbours.

Then the reporter is at Abdullah Ben Zubair Mosque, which is the nearest to compound of Osama.

She asks a guy: do you think people would have been glad and happy if they would have ever met osama?

The guy : Yes, possibly. Because he was a muslim and he believed in God.

This is the whole story! Every aspect and point translated. :)

Another translation from my dear friend Saba Quraishi, and thank you!!:

Saba Quraishi

Yes jeff The two translations are the same as mine. no need to repeat. I will send it to you privately if you wish. The gentleman being interviewed lives across from the compound. His cousin Sahab Jamrez Khan used to grow vegetables in the compound. He was taken away in all the hullabaloo on tape @10.29 Bashir says he did not see when they wisked his cousin away.

Interviewer asks "Have you spoken to your cousin?"

Bashir "No, I have not seen him yet he in in the house. "They will not let him get out" "They will not let me get in."

2 other men Arshad Sahib and Tariq Sahib used to go to market to shop for that compound and bought international brand items. Dates, dried meat found in compound.

Also food used to come from compound to Bashir's house Kabulu Pilau and things like that used to be presented to Bashir. They will follow up with more information. In the end the lady is standing in front of Abdullah Bin Zubair mosque. The mosque was with in walking distance of the compound. She asks people if Osama did attend this mosque people would have be happy? The one answered maybe. The other said Osama did "not" live here but he was muslim and believed in God. Interview ends.

Another thing to note is that Bashir mentioned that we are very "sharif" meaning law abiding honest people. His town was a peaceful place no excitement no murders, fights, and he is unhappy how they have made his town so frightful with all this news. One thing is very clear in this video. Two helicopters hovered never landed. One landed dropped Pashto speaking poeple on the roof 10-12 of them Helicopter left fo 20 minutes returned to load people in and small blast engine failure fire helicopter parts all over. Body parts arms, legs, head, all over. Pakistani Army/Police came in dispersed crowd. The whole scene is cleaned up totally now. No evidence left to examine.

Link to original Pakistani News video:

Abbottabad residents: Operation of killing Bin Laden a hoax

Xinhuanet

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhuanet) --US President Barack Obama's dramatic announcement that the world's most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden was shot dead in a compound in Pakistan's north western city of Abbotabad surprised the world.

At a distance of about a hundred and thirty kilometers from the federal capital, the garrison city of Abbotabad is a picturesque valley in the foothills of the Karakarom.

Abbottabad is an important military center being the headquarters of an Army brigade.

On May 1st US President Barack Obama's announcement surprised the people of Pakistan but most of all the Government and the armed forces.

Obama calls it an intelligence driven operation.

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."

Pakistan president Asif ali Zardari has denied that Pakistan knew about Osama's presence in the country.

And those who live close to this compound say bin Laden was never in that house.

An eyewitness of Pakistan said, "I have lived here all my life, I have never seen Osama Bin Laden come or go from here. We are a close knit community. At least we would have seen him once, but we did not. And even if he was killed, the Pakistan army should have conducted the operation"

When I spoke with the members of the anti terrorist squad, surprisingly even they couldn't confirm Bin Laden's killing.

Then what are the facts?

Muhammad Imran is a Taliban expert.

Taliban expert Muhammad Imran said, "The people who are living in the adjacent areas and who are the neighbors of this compound, they have a focus on one point, there are certain issues that need to be addressed and I think with the passage of time the story will unfold about what actually happened. Apparently we believe that Bin Laden was here and was killed during the operation, conducted by the American marines."

There are a number of contradictory theories and growing speculation following Osama Bin Laden's death as to how and why the operation was carried out in the way it was.

Locals living in the neighborhood say that this operation was a hoax. And if such a high profile target WAS living here, then why didn't the Pakistani army carry out this operation? Why wasn't Pakistan kept in the picture. These are the questions that need to be answered by the United states.

Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan PM orders inquiry

Guardian

Pakistani security forces cordon off a street leading to the last hideout
of Osama bin Laden. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images

Yousaf Raza Gilani denies Pakistan helped al-Qaida, orders army to answer MPs' questions and warns US over future raids

Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has ordered the army to investigate how Osama bin Laden managed to hide in the country for up to eight years, and has called on the military leadership to answer questions before parliament.

Addressing criticism from US officials, including President Barack Obama, Gilani told parliament it was "disingenuous" to blame Pakistan or accuse its intelligence services of being "in cahoots" with al-Qaida.

"Allegations of complicity or incompetence are absurd," he said. "We didn't invite Osama bin Laden to Pakistan." He also warned Washington that future unilateral strikes could be met with "full force".
The speech came a day after Obama said Islamabad had questions to answer about Bin Laden's "support network" in the country, including possible help from government officials. Gilani retorted that Bin Laden's sanctuary was a "failure of the world" and defended the role of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, which has come under sharp attack at home and abroad.
"The ISI is a national asset and has the full support of the government. We are proud of its considerable contribution to the anti-terror campaign," he said.

The forthright speech was an attempt to rally Pakistan's civilian and military leadership in the face of mounting international criticism following the dramatic raid on the compound at Abbottabad, 35 miles north of the capital, Islamabad, that killed the al-Qaida chief.

The ISI had passed "key leads to the CIA" that ultimately led to Bin Laden and helped capture many senior al-Qaida lieutenants since 2001, including 248 in one operation alone, Gilani said.

He paid lip service to the alliance with America and welcomed a forthcoming visit from the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. But he pointedly paid tribute to help from China, "a source of inspiration for the people of Pakistan", he said.

Left unsaid was Pakistan longstanding military and nuclear co-operation with China, which is believed to have boosted Pakistan's nuclear programme in the 1990s.

The investigation into the Bin Laden raid is to be carried out by the army's adjutant general, Lieutenant-General Javed Iqbal, Gilani said. The army leadership will address a closed session of parliament on Friday and answer questions on the issue, he said.

Echoing Obama's words one week ago, Gilani said the death of Bin Laden was "justice done" but added: "We are not naive enough to declare victory."

Afterwards jeering broke out among the opposition benches before Chaudhry Nisar Ali, leader of the opposition in parliament, stood up to speak, saying: "I have not heard a single word that addresses the deep discontent of the Pakistani people."

Osama Bin Laden: Pakistan's scepticism over videos

BBC

The release of video footage seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in northern Pakistan was part of the continuing effort by the US to convince doubters that the al-Qaeda leader was killed in last Monday's raid.

But people in Abbottabad seem skeptical about the authenticity of the films, as Orla Guerin discovered when she took to the streets of the town where bin Laden was said to have been hiding.

Video Here