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Bin Laden Is Dead ... But Why Didn't We Kill Him 10 Year Ago?
President Obama announced tonight that U.S. special forces killed Osama Bin Laden.
That's great ... but we could have killed him years ago.
As I noted in 2009:
According
to the U.S. Senate - Bin Laden was "within the grasp" of the U.S.
military in Afghanistan in December 2001, but that then-secretary of
defense Rumsfeld refused to provide the soldiers necessary to capture him.
This is not news: it was disclosed in 2005 by the CIA field commander for the area in Afghanistan where Bin Laden was holed up.
In addition, French soldiers allegedly say that they easily could have captured or killed Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but that the American commanders stopped them.
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A retired Colonel and Fox News military analyst said that the U.S. could have killed Bin Laden in 2007, but didn't:
We
know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the
world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a
convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on
satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s
best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and
other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their
wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on
the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it
....Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama
bin Laden.
Indeed, a United States Congressman claims that the Bush administration intentionally let Bin Laden escape in order to justify the Iraq war.
Similarly, Cenk Uygur pointed out:
The New York Times reported ... that we sent in 36 U.S. Special Forces troops to get Osama bin Laden when we knew
he was in Tora Bora. By contrast, we sent nearly 150,000 soldiers to
get Saddam Hussein. In case you're keeping count at home, we got Saddam
and we didn't get Osama. What does that tell you about this
administration’s priorities? This goes beyond incompetence. If you send
only 36 soldiers to get somebody in the middle of Afghanistan, it means
you don’t want to get him...Osama had about 1,500-2,000
well-armed, well-trained men in the region. 36 guys to get 2,000? Why
would we let ourselves be outgunned like that?...There is an inescapable fact – if you put this little effort into capturing someone, it means you don’t want to capture him.
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If people inside the administration actually held back from capturing
Osama bin Laden when we had him cornered, it borders on treason.
Postscript: Of course, some people claim that Bin Laden was actually killed years ago. But as I pointed out
in 2009, whether or not he was alive or dead was less important than
the fact that the American government pretended that he was a supremely
powerful boogeyman who justified an endless and all-consuming war on
terror:
Many people claim that Bin Laden died a long time ago. According to Israeli intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, and other sources, Bin Laden is dead.
According to video experts and and top Bin Laden experts, recent Bin Laden videos are fake.
So if Bin Laden is alive, American leaders have to explain why they have repeatedly chosen not to pull the trigger.
And if he is dead, they have to explain why they are claiming that he's alive and authenticating his videos.
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Links please?
You missed it. Right up above.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bin-laden-dead-why-didnt-we-kill-him-10...
Points to -->> http://beforeitsnews.com/story/557/477/BIN_LADEN_-_KILLED_Dec_2001_-_PHO...
Sorry, it's even worse, total time is 9 hours from killing to body disposal of world's most wanted man.
The whole thing stinks. Anyone have photos? (not that any 15 y/o with photoshop couldn't doctor one)
And why now? Seems odd. A morale boost?
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
William Blum
Again, why on this site is there only a 'junk' and not something that means the opposite?
It would seem no more accurate words have ever been spoken.
The wheels are coming off of this story pretty damn fast.
Just when you thought the governments credibility couldn't sink any lower...
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What is it about you people? Are you conditioned to disbelieve 100% of what the government is telling you? Can you accept that maybe 1% is true?
"Can you accept that maybe 1% is true?"
Which 1% would that be?
Cicero: "Mendaci neque quum vera dicit, creditur" (a liar is not to be believed even when he speaks the truth)
Never believe what you read and only half of what you see.
Shit 10% of it is true, but still can't figure what 10% it is.
So you discount the low percentage further. Once you calculate it, then you can answer the access question to zero hedge and are able to post your message.
No, but I've been a disbeliever in anything the US government says about Osama Bin Ladin since the Clinton Administration.
He, or his character, just reminded me too much of 'Goldstein' in 1984. Orwell meant it as a warning to us, but the governments of the world seem to have turned around and used it as an operations manual.
Yes everything IS lies, so please pardon me for not believing anything these liars tell me.
When are they gonna kill Silverstein?
There's wisdom in this question, as it is where the true war on terror originates.
I junked you. Does it get old listening to everyone say the Government is lying? Maybe. I'll give you that.
But this should be setting off your bullshit detector. They found him. After 10 years, and billions made (and spent by the taxpayer), and his body has already been disposed of.
You just accept that? The timing doesn't bother you?
Don't you find the similarity between these pictures, "supposedly" taken 15 years apart, to be worthy of a least a little skepticism?
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/02/6568249-we-think-that-bi...
The CIA, bar none, has the shittiest Photo Shop skills.
Found the birth certificate and Bin Laden... Talk about luck !
LOL!!
Actually, I understand that Osama had the BC in his file cabinet in the compound. Lucky they grabbed it. Still waiting to see Linda Green's sig on it.
Perhaps we didn't kill him 10 years ago because he was already dead?
According to Benazir Bhutto, he was...as she mentions in this interview with David Frost...shortly before she was killed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TeYyHt3JZ4&feature=player_embedded
Or as Fox News reported...in December of 2001:
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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
But maybe I'm just being nit-picky...
posted here for weeks...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/557/477/BIN_LADEN_-_KILLED_Dec_2001_-_PHOTO_Warning_very_gross.html
Whatever will be said of him, i'm sure it'll put the BITCH into 'obituary'
Obama claims they got him inpakistan, i heard he was one of those who perished in america's recent tornadoes ;p
Osama Bin Laden's body has already been buried at SEA
Very convenient that eh!
I wrote this before, but burying him at sea was smart. His gravesite would have instantly become a shrine to Islamic extremists. They probably would have built a new Dome of the Rock on top of it. Can't really do that if he is sleeping with the fishes.
That's how you know who to round up. See who comes to the shrine
NH's BS detector is going off...This is prelude...or a distraction...
Bollywood movie "Tere Bin Laden" is a very entertaining movie on this very topic - aka a Chicken farmer in Pakistan is the comic replacement for OBL.
I'm hoping it's not a prelude and going with distraction:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/29/banking-credit-default-sw...
People must be bored of the Royal Wedding by now...
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."
While the sheep are intently watching the blow by blow account and listening to the learned commentaries, some enterprising businessmen will be gathering wool and burying the non-edible remains of the dead lambs.
Get your popcorn while it's fresh. Place your bets. Round and round she goes; where she stops nobody (except for a few backroom boyz) knows. This is looking to be an interesting week.
Benazir Bhuto said Bin Laden was dead 7 years ago right before she was assasinated.
Its real simple - Bush was running his own war of terror - against the American people, in order to get his Homeland Security draconian measures through, and for whatever other reasons his masters might have had. Even his limited brain was able to unerstand that a LIVE terrorist would be more terrifying to the American people than a dead one. Fear makes people very malleable... and willing to give up some of their constitutional liberties in exchange for "protection" by the government.
I notice they're playing it for a two-fer, with credit for the info regarding OBL's couriers given to "Guantanamo detainees." Guess we really need a lawless gulag after all.
Saw that. Maybe if we imprison and torture a few high placed bankers we'd solve the ecomomic crisis. Just make sure they're wearing a Casio watch. I was gonna reverse the joke and suggest we hand out money to terrorists...but we already do that.
funny comment. I like how you set it up
Well said... And make "a little money" on the side for the MIC.
There are many benefits for the PTB. However, something tells me that this "play" is far from over.
Since bin Laden's remain have 'already been buried at sea' I guess we'll never know the truth:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2011/05/hero-or-zero-did-we-really-...
How convenient!
well, if there are no more Bin Laden videos, we have some evidence.
If there are new ones, then we have other evidence.
I always thought he was hanging out in Saudi Arabia myself.
Here's a highly reliable video showing proof positive how Osama died:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vh3mpw5RYg
This is priceless, a must watch!