Mr. Pres, everyone knows BC is fake...INITIATE OPERATION DECLARE OBL KILLED!

[bigron]

'Justice not done for unarmed bin Laden'

Fri May 6, 2011 11:29AM

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams says the killing of Osama bin Laden left a "very uncomfortable feeling" since he was unarmed at the time of his death.


The al-Qaeda leader was killed in his hideout in Pakistan in an operation by the US military forces. It was later acknowledged that bin Laden was unarmed when the US forces fired at him.

Lambeth Palace had formerly denied to issue a statement on bin Laden's death, but attending a press conference on Thursday, the archbishop answered the reporters' questions on the death of the long wanted man.

"I think the killing of an unarmed man is always going to leave a very uncomfortable feeling because it doesn't look as if justice is seen to be done," he said.

Regarding the US government's different versions of the death of bin Laden, Williams said, "In those circumstances I think it's also true that the different versions of events that have emerged in recent days have not done a great deal to help.”

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http://presstv.com/detail/178540.html

[2Revolutions]

Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden death, vows revenge

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-binladen-qaeda-confirmation-idUSTRE74528A20110506

Al Qaeda confirmed the death Osama bin Laden Friday in an Internet message that vowed revenge on the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, according to the SITE monitoring service.


Osama Bin Laden's Death Confirmed By Al Qaeda

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/osama-bin-ladens-death-confirmed-al-qaeda/story?id=13543148

One U.S. source told ABC News that bin Laden kept almost a playbook of al Qaeda activities. The files include possible targets within the United States and a fixation on dates and anniversaries, the source said.


   Their psyops are becoming so predictable.

[Freeski]

Well, we have always been at war with Al Qaida.

[bigron]

7 Deceptions About Bin Laden's Killing Pushed by the Obama Administration

As the week wore on, many of the details of the historic raid were "revised."

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on May 5, 2011, Printed on May 6, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150857/7_deceptions_about_bin_laden%27s_killing_pushed_by_the_obama_administration

The Obama administration deftly shaped the media coverage of its prized kill by detailing a picture-perfect, morally unambiguous special forces operation, which culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden. Most of the details of that narrative have now unravelled, but the conventional wisdom that the tale established remains. As Glenn Greenwald put it, that's par for the course: “the narrative is set forever by first-day government falsehoods uncritically amplified by establishment media outlets, which endure no matter how definitively they are disproven in subsequent days.”

MORE

http://www.alternet.org/story/150857/7_deceptions_about_bin_laden%27s_killing_pushed_by_the_obama_administration?akid=6926.127567.yhKa0H&rd=1&t=5




 

[NWOSCUM]

 

[Overcast]

I'm having trouble understanding that in terms of the "it was all faked" narrative.

Were real SEALs sent on a real op, to get a fake bin Laden??

Who says anyone went anywhere?

The Government.

Ran by the same politicians that lie to us on a daily basis - anyone debate that point?

[NYBasher23]

  I was reading my local newspaper today (the Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY, 6 May 2011): our local movie critic (Jack Garner) has an odd title for his column today: "Movie buzz of Team 6 and bin Laden raid". So, how's this so-called "top-secret military op" already being discussed as a script for a movie? It seems rather abrupt...or maybe, just maybe, THE WHOLE OP WAS SCRIPTED TO BEGIN WITH!???

[PhoenixRising]

the guy peering around the corner just looks photoshopped

How many of em look photoshopped in THIS one then?




And then take a closer look at the 3 pics below, seems Obama had time to go home and change his jacket from a blue one to a green one right in the middle of co-ordinating (and allegedly viewing IN REAL TIME) the most critical mission of his career...

[America2]

Has anyone got a peek what Free Republic has said about this?

[Overcast]

I was reading my local newspaper today (the Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY, 6 May 2011): our local movie critic (Jack Garner) has an odd title for his column today: "Movie buzz of Team 6 and bin Laden raid". So, how's this so-called "top-secret military op" already being discussed as a script for a movie? It seems rather abrupt...or maybe, just maybe, THE WHOLE OP WAS SCRIPTED TO BEGIN WITH!???

Maybe Bin Ladin was in on it. Perhaps he's relaxing in a hospital room after plastic surgery.

He was on the CIA's payroll once... so it's' entirely possible.

[worcesteradam]

How many of em look photoshopped in THIS one then?

i cant see him in this one. more evidence he is just a photoshop. 

[worcesteradam]

"The challenge of constructing a timely and accurate narrative will become steadily more difficult. As we have seen, technology will only increase the pace and complexity of unfolding events. Media operating under the demands of a 24/7 news cycle demand quick answers and more details. Governments will struggle to keep pace"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/06/osama-bin-laden-obama-administration

[bigron]

Mutually Assured Terror:

'America's' New Day of Distraction, Bloodshed and Hypocrisy

By Larry Pinkney

BlackCommentator.com , May 6, 2011
http://www.blackcommentator.com/425/425_kir_mutually_assured_terror_printer_friendly.html

"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unfortunately, when it comes to many 'Americans,' virtually any corporate-government/military distraction will suffice to keep this nation from owning up to its own self-induced policies of hypocrisy and endless bloodshed, and reversing them.

Today's Orwellian and fascistic policies at home, combined with corporate/military machismo abroad, bring unrestrained, ahistorical, and blind cries of euphoria from those in this country who utterly fail to understand that sooner or later only the everyday people of this nation can save 'America' from itself. The corporate-stream media, following the direction of this corporate/military government, has only to feverishly beat the drums of war and far too many follow  in a politically drunken stupor as if they are uni-dimensional characters in some 21st century horror story.

So this nation and world has been told that Osama Bin Laden is now officially dead, but what of the U.S. policies of deceit and hypocrisy that brought him into being? What of the intensifying cycle of the U.S. Empire's insatiable appetite for hegemony, deceit, and militarism? What of the cycle of mutually assured terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, north Africa, and elsewhere that has already given birth to other Osama Bin Ladens? What of the terror of political disenfranchisement and economic pain of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people right here in this nation? There is no cause for celebration--only an urgency to fundamentally change this corporate/military government and its concomitant policies of despicable subterfuge, repression, and distraction at home and abroad.

Will Barack Obama, this swaggering, slippery tongued, first nominally black head of the U.S. corporate/military Empire hang his blood-drenched political trophies side by side with his Nobel "peace" prize, his predator drone missile murders, and his trillions of dollars in gifts to Wall Street barons and the corporate elite (at the expense of everyday people) of this nation? Like a colored combination of Ronald Reagan and John Wayne on steroids , Barack Obama and his corporate allies are utilizing every conceivable political trick in the proverbial hat in order to effectively pimp the pain of the people of this nation and planet. Moreover, it is no mere coincidence that Barack Obama has picked a military General to head the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), and the implications alone of this are horrifying, chilling, and undemocratic. But who is paying attention, as there are so many other simultaneous Obama distractions?!

Then of course, all in the cynical name of laying the matter to rest, the Obama White House recently officially released his birth certificate, as if a duly elected, sitting U.S. president of over two years, suddenly felt compelled to officially release a document which was already readily available to virtually anyone who seriously wanted to view it. Had Obama seriously desired to lay the matter to rest he could have easily had the White House release the document in the first week of his so-called "hope and change" presidency and gone on to make his campaign rhetoric a reality, neither of which he did. In any event it is now a moot point and utterly irrelevant as to whether Barack Obama was born and/or raised in Hawaii, Kansas, etc. This was another Obama tactic of distraction, all in the very name of supposedly laying the matter to rest once and for all. One does not put out a smoldering fire by pouring gasoline on it.  At this point and time, what is of the utmost importance is not where Obama was born or grew up but rather what he, his policies, and his corporate confederates are doing right now to emaciate those of us everyday people who are already born, not to mention the environmental pillage being carried out by Obama's financial supporters in the multinational nuclear power and oil corporations, etc. against Mother Earth herself.

This nation's vision of Obama's "hope and change" has sadly, but not surprisingly, proven to be a new day of bloodshed, distraction, and hypocrisy--more of the same only worse.  It is imperative that everyday people make a conscious effort to avoid being sucked in by the political distractions that are sure to come on the part of the two-legged political foxes and wolves, i.e. the Democrats and Republicans.

The obscene new found "personhood" that has been judicially and politically bestowed upon the avaricious U.S. corporations at the expense of everyday real human beings, combined with the continued gutting of the U.S. Constitution and civil liberties in this nation, has ushered in a period of de facto 21st century fascism no matter what guise it might wear or how one chooses to define it. If this reality is ignored, it will be done so at our own peril. This present day corporate-government/military combination, if left to its own devices, ensures mutually assured terror at home and abroad on so very many levels. This must not be allowed to continue. Rather, let us struggle unceasingly for a mutually assured and collectively actualized vision for a different society and more just and humane world. 

It is the everyday, ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation must organize locally and nationally across all color and gender lines, etc. We must take our places as part of Mother Earth's entire human family; placing human need above corporate greed. We must speak truth to power and settle upon nothing less than real systemic change. We must remember that what we allow this corporate/military government to do to others internally or externally is precisely what it will ultimately do to we ourselves. To paraphrase the words of Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand"...and "if there is no struggle there is no progress."

Be persistent, creative and innovative. The time is now. Onward my sisters and brothers. Onward!

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/425/425_kir_mutually_assured_terror_printer_friendly.html

[worcesteradam]

Apr. 30 ~ WALPURGISNACHT
(Blood Ritual)
Animal and/or human sacrifice

May 1 ~ BELTANE (Fire Festival, Coven Initiations
(Fire and Orgy Rituals)

http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/ritual_calendar.html

[TahoeBlue]

I expect some new act of terrorism.
This is the matrix, and they must keep the public IN the Matrix.

It is no mere coincidence that Barack Obama has picked a military General to head the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), and the implications alone of this are horrifying, chilling, and undemocratic

"The circumstances surrounding his final minutes are still a bit blurry".

'America's' New Day of Distraction

New Bin Laden Video proves that the entire "assassination" was fantasyland!

http://www.military.com/news/article/bin-laden-videos-released-by-government.html


WASHINGTON -- Newly released videos show Osama bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos, revealing that even from the walled confines of his Pakistani hideout, he remained a media maestro who was eager to craft his own image for the cameras.

The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week. But they also served to show bin Laden as vain, someone obsessed with his portrayal by the world's media.

One of the movies shows bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in gray, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control.
...
After the CIA discovered bin Laden's suburban compound, they realized that a satellite dish provided a television feed to bin Laden's compound
...
Bin Laden and four others were killed in a daring pre-dawn raid Monday

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/04/getaway-plan-bin-laden-carrying-cash-phone-numbers-time-death/
(CIA Safe House) - USA-MA Bin Laden's Compound 'Built for Deception,' Potential Attack
Published May 04, 2011 | FoxNews.com
...
 Not only was the complex built to slow intruders, it had no phone or Internet. The lack of an "electronic signature" was one factor that convinced CIA Director Leon Panetta bin Laden was probably living there, the official said.
...
Carney said bin Laden also resisted and was killed after that.
...
The code name for the operation was "Neptune's Spear."


http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/pakistan.bin.laden/
Phone call tipped off U.S. to bin Laden compound, source saysBy the CNN Wire Staff
May 7, 2011 -- Updated 1950 GMT (0350

(CNN) -- A single phone call by Osama bin Laden's trusted courier (another CIA Operative) tipped off U.S. officials to his Pakistan compound, ultimately leading to the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Saturday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/03/bin-laden-unarmed-seals-stormed-room-1175184600/
Bin Laden was unarmed when SEALs stormed room - May 03, 2011

WASHINGTON –  Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive ...

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/officials-bin-laden-unarmed-when-shot/6yqyvmo
Officials: Bin Laden unarmed when shot
May 4: The Obama administration has revealed that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when a commando shot him on the third floor of his secretive compound in Pakistan, contradicting earlier reports that he had a weapon. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports. ...

[Kilika]

US Navy SEAL team has to kill an unarmed 60 year old man, but only wound a woman in the leg that is rushing them? Whatever.

[EvadingGrid]

US Navy SEAL team has to kill an unarmed 60 year old man, but only wound a woman in the leg that is rushing them? Whatever.

That is a good summary

Perhaps insert "in order to avoid a public trial" some were 

[endof]

bit of aspartame product placement



its cool to drink stuff that rots your brain you see

[menace]

bit of aspartame product placement



its cool to drink stuff that rots your brain you see

What you think the adds are they just using the same cans but are drinking an healthy version with vitamins and minerals?

[endof]

just part of the set. In films its called product placement, this is a staged scene and it too has product placement. I dont think hes dumb enough to drink that shit.

2009
The Obama Team's Drink of Choice? diet Coke
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882167,00.html#ixzz1LllJ6W1H

[wrappingpaper]

This entire thing is extremely fishy, but I have a question:  why would the government change it's official story?  For example, at first bin Laden was armed, later they said he was unarmed.  Wouldn't they want to keep the story straight, and wouldn't it sound better if Bin Laden was involved in a firefight?  It's not as if they were all unaware of the narrative that was trying to be sold. 

[Dig]

This entire thing is extremely fishy, but I have a question:  why would the government change it's official story?  For example, at first bin Laden was armed, later they said he was unarmed.  Wouldn't they want to keep the story straight, and wouldn't it sound better if Bin Laden was involved in a firefight?  It's not as if they were all unaware of the narrative that was trying to be sold.  

This is how they always do it, and it is done using compartmentalization. The evidence "team" creates the crap and gives it to the leak "team". The leak team leaks the info in various ways, sometimes tweaking the info and there can be many leak teams. They do this so if caught they can claim they caught the patsy and the other leakers are safe to either continue the operation or move on to something else. Then there is the mockingbird team who gets the evidence from the leak team and utilizes the Delphi principals/Tavistock dialectics to make the evidence appear real through talking points and narratives. These are the people you see on TV or at CFR/AEI/Heritage/Brookings lectures. They never discuss the authenticity, they are not allowed to. They only discuss what the evidence means. It is important to note that 90% of the intelligence today reported by the MSM and think tanks is absolute bullshit. Their goal is to make that 100%, that absolutely nothing be based on authentic events. This then allows them the opportunity to change the story any way they wish because there are no actual witnesses to the fake events reported. They own the history, the present, and the future of the event and all of the surrounding data, metadata, witnesses, and narratives about it. Then there is the "adjustment bureau" which tweeks the story, gives more specifics to the evidence creators, claims one thing is a hoax while something else is real, and engages in "behavioral modification", extortion, extermination, etc. The adjustment bureau is responsible to make sure no higher priority or long term narratives are affected by the "narrative in play". The anomalies get handled and cleaned up by the adjustment bureau.

Just look at the events that followed the executions of JFK, RFK, MLK to see how this crap is done:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Evidence of Revision (1 of 6) : The Assassinations of Kennedy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666048701355447870

Evidence of Revision (2 of 6) : The "Why" of it
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5335724479269105967

Evidence of Revision (3 of 6) : LBJ, Hoover and others
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2334637168204169083

Evidence of Revision (4 of 5) : The RFK assassination as never seen
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=679700833693499618

Evidence of Revision (5 of 6) : RFK assassination, MK ULTRA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8273110340777778333

Evidence of Revision (6 of 6) : MLK assassination
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4920540616782600949

[Freeski]

Dig
It is important to note that 90% of the intelligence today reported by the MSM and think tanks is absolute bullshit.

So vital.

[weaving spider]

Thanks for explaining how it all works, Dig. This rabbit hole truly is a continuous learning experience. I will pass this on to others.

[weaving spider]

You know, something else that hasn't made sense to me, is that the raid happened at night, yet the video of inside the compound was shot during the day, as you can see daylight coming through the windows. Who shot this footage and gave it to us? We are led to believe that this was shot right after the raid, with no explanation otherwise.

[Freeski]

You know, something else that hasn't made sense to me, is that the raid happened at night, yet the video of inside the compound was shot during the day, as you can see daylight coming through the windows. Who shot this footage and gave it to us? We are led to believe that this was shot right after the raid, with no explanation otherwise.

It's all an illusion.

[Dig]

You know, something else that hasn't made sense to me, is that the raid happened at night, yet the video of inside the compound was shot during the day, as you can see daylight coming through the windows. Who shot this footage and gave it to us? We are led to believe that this was shot right after the raid, with no explanation otherwise.

In 10 years all the evidence will be known and the MSM will say "we're sorry". Just like they did with WMD's.

Obama's Birth Certificate and all the fake evidence about this crap is exactly like the yellow carke/niger document.

Bill Maher, David Frum, and all the other actors living in the noosphere virtual reality (which they think is the American consciousness, which they also think they control) are laying it on thick and heavy. Maher is saying that this proves Obama is the best president in world history and Frum is saying that all CACI/Kroll employees who raped, tortured, and murdered children and grandmothers are vindicated and all investigations must end.

Frum is right, all investigations will end because if Obama allows any investigation into the neo-cons insanity, they will simply "wikileak" the actual videos of the bullshit mythological assassination raid of a 10x killed frozen CIA agent known at Tim Osmon, Osama bin Laden.

BTW, even Bill Maher called the frozen re-exterminated agent Obama.

[bigron]

"Osama Was Never Here" Abbottabad residents

Video: China Central Television

Operation to kill Bin Laden a hoax

Posted May 09, 2011

WATCH VIDEO HERE :

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28054.htm

[bigron]

"If You Believe The Newest Death Of Osama Bin Laden Your Stupid!"

By Cindy Sheehan

Cindy telling it like it is in an interview with Dr. Drew on CNN

Posted May 09, 2011

WATCH VIDEO HERE

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28044.htm

[bigron]

'Mainstream Western media ditch facts'

Mon May 9, 2011 10:48AM


The mainstream media have left out key facts about the "contradictory" US claims about killing Osama bin Laden although many questions remain unanswered, an analyst says.


“We have the release of some videos [of bin Laden] which really didn't answer any questions; they were very selective; they didn't have sound…which is more of a propaganda exercise than an information exercise,” said Danny Schechter, an editor at Mediachannel.org, in an interview with Press TV.

He said important facts, such as the relation between news of bin Laden's death and the recent reshuffle in key US military posts and President Obama's re-election campaign, are basically being over-looked by selective coverage of mainstream US media outlets.

VIDEO AND ARTICLE HERE

http://presstv.com/detail/179009.html

[bigron]

'Bin Laden dead long before US raid'


Sun May 8, 2011 4:33PM



Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi


Iran's intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.

“We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday.

He questioned Washington's claim that bin Laden was killed by American troops in a hiding compound in Pakistan on May 1.

“If the US military and intelligence apparatus have really arrested or killed bin Laden, why don't they show him (his dead body) why have they thrown his corpse into the sea?” Moslehi asked.

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http://presstv.com/detail/178898.html

[bigron]

Media Scrambles as Bin Laden Story Crumbles 


Written by Alex Newman
   
Friday, 06 May 2011 16:08 
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7387-media-scrambles-as-bin-laden-story-crumbles

While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far more cautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and much more important questions are beginning to emerge.

In terms of coverage, it turns out that the skeptical approach proved far superior in terms of getting it right. Countless mainstream sources were so confident in Obama’s word that they reported many of the claims as fact without even attributing them to the President.

But the official White House narrative has been changed so many times in recent days that now it’s almost unrecognizable. There wasn‘t even a fire fight; yet this was one of the crucial elements of the original story that justified the assassination of a person the government painted as the most valuable source of information on the planet — the leader of al-Qaeda. And in reporting the statements as fact, the establishment press has officially been left with egg all over its face again.

"[Bin Laden] was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in," said terror czar John Brennan. Similarly, Obama said that “after a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.” The next day, however, the White House spokesman admitted bin Laden “was not armed." Trying to save face and justify the killing of an unarmed man, the spokesman added, without elaborating, that “resistance does not require a firearm."

More than a few other important parts of the storyline have been altered, contradicted, or simply exposed as false, too. Everything from which of  bin Laden’s sons was supposedly killed to the claim that his wife was killed after being used as a “human shield” — all of it has changed for some reason or another. The transcript after Brennan’s speech was altered to change the name of the dead son. The new and improved narrative now says that not only was bin Laden’s wife not killed, but that she was not used as a human shield.

Originally the White House also suggested top officials watched the raid live through a video feed. Terror czar Brennan, for example, claimed that they “had real-time visibility into the progress of the operation.” CIA boss Leon Panetta later exposed that claim as false in an interview with PBS, saying: “There was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes that we really didn't know just exactly what was going on."

That means the “photo op” of Obama and other officials intently “watching” the operation in the “Situation Room” was almost certainly staged for the press. And almost every media outlet that ran the picture used inaccurate captions parroting the White House claims.

And there’s more. The night of the raid, one administration official told reporters that a helicopter was lost due to mechanical failure. During that same briefing, another administration official said, "We didn't say it was mechanical." Now they claim the crash had something to do with the temperature at bin Laden’s supposed compound.

A poorly photo-shopped image of a dead bin Laden embarrassed a large swath of the world press and several Senators, too. Shortly after newspapers and television stations around the globe ran the image, it was exposed as a shoddy forgery that had been circulating for years. Now Obama said he “decided” not to release any pictures — or any other evidence that any element of the story is true, for that matter.

And then there’s the burial issue. The Obama administration originally claimed no country would accept the body; so, it was dumped at sea — Mafia style — in accordance with what Obama alleged were Islamic traditions and customs. When prominent Muslim theological leaders repudiated that lie and noted that it was actually a violation of Islamic tenets to bury Osama bin Laden in the ocean, the new line was that the decision was to avoid the creation of a “shrine.” That lie fell apart, too, when it was widely reported that bin Laden’s brand of Islam calls for unmarked graves — building any sort of shrine would have been blasphemous. So far, no new excuses have been concocted for allegedly feeding the body to the fish.

After the numerous discrepancies and falsehoods in the storyline became painfully obvious, the Associated Press, USA Today, Fox News and other outlets slowly and begrudgingly started to report it. “From the first moments, a good number of the details about bin Laden's killing, on points large and small, have been wrong,” admitted a Fox reporter in one of the more candid acknowledgements to appear in the mainstream press.

But of course, most of the media were also dutifully offering and parroting all manner of excuses. “Fog of war” was to blame for the confusion, claimed the White House spokesman after that excuse was suggested to him by a member of the “press” corps asking a question. Virtually every major news outlet reporting the changes in the official story promptly blamed “fog of war,” too.

An apologist reporter at USA Today wrote that “the administration did its best to get the story quickly,” adding “it's common situation with military action.” The paper quoted a Pentagon spokesperson under the Bush administration to bolster its case.

The AP offered a similar excuse along with the “fog of combat” line offered by the White House. “The contradictions and misstatements reflect the fact that even in the case of a highly successful and popular mission, the confusion inherent in a fast-paced, unpredictable military raid conducted under intense pressure in a foreign country does not lend itself immediately to a tidy story line,” the reporter claimed, citing “some experts.”

Several excuses for the ever-changing story were offered by other publications, too. The possibility that they were deliberate lies or worse was virtually never addressed. But the U.K. Independent noted: “The impression persists that the administration sought to cast the operation in the most heroic light possible, at the expense of the facts.”   

Now, the President and his spokespeople and subordinates are refusing to offer more details or explanations. The government has also announced that it will not be releasing pictures or any other evidence to support its claims even as suspicions continue to mount.

But as analysts pointed out, the newly revealed fact that there was no fire fight begs the question about where the “fog” may have come from. And even more importantly: Why, in the absence of a fire fight, would U.S. forces put a bullet through the brain supposedly containing the most valuable intelligence on the planet? What if bin Laden knew where that alleged nuclear bomb in Europe was located that was set to detonate after his capture or death? None of those questions have been addressed so far.

But prominent critics are sounding the alarm. “When such a foundational story as the demise of bin Laden cannot last 48 hours without acknowledged ‘discrepancies’ that require fundamental alternations to the story, there are grounds for suspicion in addition to the suspicions arising from the absence of a dead body, from the absence of any evidence that bin Laden was killed in the raid or that a raid even took place,” noted Paul Craig Roberts, a senior official in the former Reagan administration in a piece entitled “The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event.”

Roberts raised several important questions, too, as well as some comparisons. “The entire episode could just be another event like the August 4, 1964, Gulf of Tonkin event that never happened but succeeded in launching open warfare against North Vietnam at a huge cost to Americans and Vietnamese and enormous profits to the military/security complex,” he suggested, citing a series of government deceptions that have led to war based on lies and other atrocities.

Roberts suspects there are more lies about the bin Laden narrative than those exposed so far. And he’s certainly not alone. It emerged recently that the man who owned the house next to bin Laden’s supposed compound doesn’t even believe the story either. “To be honest, it’s not true,” he told Al Jazeera.

As the official story continues to be re-written by the administration and those in the media who simply re-package government press releases, critics and skeptics would seem to be justified in wondering what other lies and "fog of war" changes may emerge in the coming weeks and months. And perhaps even more importantly, we might also wonder if there are lies that may never be exposed in their entirety?

 
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7387-media-scrambles-as-bin-laden-story-crumbles

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The Unthinking Immorality of the United States

by Lesley Docksey

Navy SEAL ready for action

May 8, 2011
http://uruknet.com/?p=m77542&hd=&size=1&l=e

Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee. (John Donne)

While decorating the men who assassinated Osama bin Laden, President Obama said that the bin Laden raid was one of the most successful intelligence and military operations in America's history. "This week has been a reminder of what we're about as a people, The essence of America, the values that have defined us for more than 200 years, they don't just endure - they're stronger than ever."

Does the President truly believe that the essence and the values of America centre around unauthorised incursions into another state's sovereign territory in order to carry out what was an illegal assassination? That this was the peak of military action in America's history? Do the people of the United States believe that? From their reaction, the joy, the feelings of satisfied revenge, the flag-waving, the surge of 'patriotism', we have to accept that many of them do. It also means that we must accept that as a nation they have no moral judgment or authority, if they ever did.

But just as the US revelled in the killing of an unarmed man, so did many Western leaders and commentators. Too many said justice had been served. Too many raised no queries about the legality of the action. Too many saw it in terms of revenge for 9/11. And while the death toll on that day was terrible and a grievous loss for those left behind we should, if we have any respect for law, remember this. The killing of one man in Abbottabad compared to that of 3000 on 9/11 is a matter of scale, but both legally and morally, they are the same - unjustifiable and utterly wrong. For anyone to celebrate and take pleasure in the killing of any human being is to demonstrate a lack of both morality and justice.

Accepting a highly controversial Nobel Peace Prize, Obama said this: "Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct. And even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, I believe that the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions."

Yet the torture goes on, Guantanamo is still there and the Conventions are still ignored. The true difference between the US and those it fights is that only the US has active forces and military bases all over the world. For a relatively young nation, its record of invasions into other states is appalling. Since achieving its independence the US has become the world's largest war machine. Far from being a 'standard bearer in the conduct of war', it is the world leader in invasion and interference.

We have known for years of its hidden interference in other states's affairs, its willingness to 'take out' those who get in the way of US interests. But the bin Laden killing has been the most publicised and blatant of assassinations. It tells the world in no uncertain terms how little the US regards the rules of international law or national sovereigny. It also makes known how extremely stupid the US administrations (whether Republican or Democrat) are when it comes to international diplomacy and politics. Moral redundancy doesn't even cover it.

The willingness to lie gives a clue, particularly when it comes to reporting on their military actions, and even more particularly when reporting on the actions of the Special Forces and the Navy SEALs. One can only think, from the speed with which the reports come out after any event, that they had written the script beforehand, and were simply, Hollywood style, following the script. And, as ever, after the event the story has to be corrected because the facts are different, in some cases embarrassingly so.

Consider Private Jessica Lynch, wounded in battle and 'rescued' by US Special Forces storming guns blazing into the Iraqi hospital, despite the fact that the doctors had desperately tried more than once to hand her over. They did not have the facilities to treat her injuries, which were not battle wounds but sustained when the vehicle she was in crashed. One Iraqi doctor described the action (filmed of course) as 'like a Hollywood film'. And Lynch herself could not understand the authorities' need to make up a story so far from the facts.

American footballer Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan from 'devastating enemy fire', for which he was posthumously decorated. It turned out he had died from friendly fire. British aid worker Linda Norgrove, kidnapped by Afghan insurgents, was killed in another Special Forces rescue. One initial report said that she died when she was used as a human shield. Then it was said one of the kidnappers was wearing a suicide vest and had blown himself up. That was finally corrected to her having died when one of the rescuers threw a grenade into the area where she was being held hostage.

The Special Forces, used in the botched Norgrove rescue, also killed bin Laden. They 'don't wear uniforms, have long beards (so they can better blend in during covert operations), tattoos and don't mingle with regular soldiers' - although how dressing up to look like Donald Sutherland in the film Kelly's Heroes helps them to be unnoticeable in Afghanistan or Pakistan one can't imagine.

Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan

But Hollywood rules, and Hollywood has often rewritten history in pursuit of a good story. It has been responsible for many of the myths that Americans believe about themselves, and the script of Osama Bin Laden's killing ran true to form.

Within hours of the assassination, the media was being told that DNA tests had confirmed that it was indeed bin Laden. Many people have questioned the speed of this, knowing that at the very least it would take about three days, once the samples have reached a suitable laboratory. I'd question this too, but I have different query. A DNA sample has to be matched with another sample from the same source. So when did the CIA get bin Laden's DNA onto their database?

From the first gleeful announcement by the White House, the story got altered day by day. The 'forty minute firefight' was whittled down to one man firing back at the assaulters. The one accurate thing about these official reports is the use of the term 'assaulters', for that is truly what they were. The woman said to have been killed while being used as a human shield (and how often have they used this story) by bin Laden turned into two women. One, unrelated to bin Laden, was 'killed in crossfire'. The other, his wife, was shot in the leg 'while rushing at the assaulters'. Bin Laden, using his wife as a human shield while firing back at the attackers, turned out to be unarmed as well as unshielded.

The numbers of people living in the compound changes daily - from many bodyguards to the members of two families, one of them bin Laden's, and two men who served as 'couriers'. So does the amount of livestock found in the compound - from two buffalos, one cow and 150 chickens removed by the 'security forces' (in the remaining helicopter, one presumes), to one cow and some rabbits kept by the children. It does seem clear that there were at least as many women and children, if not more, as dangerous terrorists. Perhaps the chickens were armed and were responsible for the fire that brought down one helicopter - later amended to the helicopter landing badly due to a technical fault.

And now, because of the general outcry over the illegality of the assassination of a man who had become operationally unimportant, the White House is currently insisting that he was still actively controlling Al Qaeda, still personally involved in planning attacks on the West, that the compound was a 'control centre' for Al Qaeda. They would have to say that if they had any hope of justifying their actions to the world. But here the stupidity kicks in, for it has also become known that, in this control centre of an organisation that has made great use of modern communications, there were computers but no phone or internet connections. And given the false information the US has consistently fed to the world, we have no good reason to believe what they say they have found in all the files and recordings they removed along with the body. What information they have obtained and release to the media will say precisely what they want it to say, regardless of the facts.

We can be sure of one thing - Hollywood-style, we will be treated to the 'next part in this great trilogy', or the 'Further Adventures of...' or even a 'prequel' or two. By taking the action they did in Abbottabad, the US has guaranteed a resurgence of Al Qaeda activities, an increase in terrorism and threats to the safety of its citizens and, worst of all, the fulfillment of their apparent desire to fight a never-ending 'war on terror'. And this is either very stupid or very immoral, for it threatens the safety of the whole world.

Lesley Docksey

08 May 2011

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   It took me a while to see what was in this pic..  derrrrr..funny!

[wrappingpaper]

This is how they always do it, and it is done using compartmentalization. The evidence "team" creates the crap and gives it to the leak "team". The leak team leaks the info in various ways, sometimes tweaking the info and there can be many leak teams. They do this so if caught they can claim they caught the patsy and the other leakers are safe to either continue the operation or move on to something else. Then t here is the mockingbird team who gets the evidence from the leak team and utilizes the Delphi principals/Tavistock dialectics to make the evidence appear real through talking points and narratives. These are the people you see on TV or at CFR/AEI/Heritage/Brookings lectures. They never discuss the authenticity, they are not allowed to. They only discuss what the evidence means. It is important to note that 90% of the intelligence today reported by the MSM and think tanks is absolute bullshit. Their goal is to make that 100%, that absolutely nothing be based on authentic events. This then allows them the opportunity to change the story any way they wish because there are no actual witnesses to the fake events reported. They own the history, the present, and the future of the event and all of the surrounding data, metadata, witnesses, and narratives about it. Then there is the "adjustment bureau" which tweeks the story, gives more specifics to the evidence creators, claims one thing is a hoax while something else is real, and engages in "behavioral modification", extortion, extermination, etc. The adjustment bureau is responsible to make sure no higher priority or long term narratives are affected by the "narrative in play". The anomalies get handled and cleaned up by the adjustment bureau.

Just look at the events that followed the executions of JFK, RFK, MLK to see how this crap is done:

Thanks for the run-down.  My theory for why they changed the "shoot-out" story is because they realized that the people in the area surrounding the house would report that they neither saw nor heard any gun-fire.

[chris jones]

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"FBI Has No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puf6_kkSmks
FBI: No Hard Evidence Linking Bin Laden or Hijackers To 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-IqWavoAEThe FBI admits: No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
http://www.teamliberty.net/
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/07/25/no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/16-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-9-11/
July 25th, 2009  Ed Haas / Muckraker Report

Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster.  On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster does not indicate that he is wanted in connection with the events of 9/11. Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” Asked to explain the process, Tomb responded, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Haas pauses to ask the question, “If the US government does not have enough hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to ‘smoke him out of his cave?’” Through corporate media, the Bush administration told the American people that bin Laden was “Public Enemy Number One,” responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” bin Laden and the Taliban, yet nearly six years later, the FBI said that it had no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.
Though the world was to have been convinced by the December 2001 release of a bin Laden “confession video,” the Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “There was no doubt of bin Laden’s responsibility for the 9/11 attacks even before the tape was discovered.”

In a CNN article regarding the bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that “the tape removes any doubt that the US military campaign targeting bin Laden and his associates is more than justified.” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “The tape’s release is central to informing people in the outside world who don’t believe bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks.” Shelby went on to say “I don’t know how they can be in denial after they see this tape.”

Haas attempted to secure a reference to US government authentication of the bin Laden “confession video,” to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and US Congress, along with corporate media, presented the video as authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? After all, notes Haas, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficking, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel openly talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand jury. The participants identified in the video would be indicted. The video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court. So why, asks Haas, is the bin Laden “confession video” not carrying the same weight with the FBI?

Haas strongly suggests that we begin asking questions, “The fact that the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama bin Laden to 9/11 should be headline news around the world. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the US media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of September 11, 2001? Why has the US media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government-sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government’s account?” Haas continues. “Who is controlling the media message, and how is it that the FBI has no ‘hard evidence’ connecting Osama bin Laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the US media has played the bin Laden-9/11 connection story for [six] years now as if it has conclusive evidence that bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the twin towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?” No hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11… Think about it.
NOTES
[1] Federal Bureau of Investigation, Most Wanted Terrorists, Usama Bin Laden, http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm, [Accessed May 31, 2006]
[2] United States Department of Defense, News Release, U.S. Releases Videotape of Osama bin Laden, December 13, 2001, http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b12132001_bt630-01.html, [Accessed June 5, 2006]
[3] BBC News, Bin Laden video angers New Yorkers, December 14, 2001, Peter Gould, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1711874.stm, [Accessed June 5, 2006]
[4] CNN, Bin Laden on tape: Attacks ‘benefited Islam greatly”, December 14, 2001, http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/ret.bin.laden.videotape, [Accessed June 5, 2006]

UPDATE BY ED HAAS
On June 6, 2006 the Muckraker Report ran a piece by Ed Haas titled “FBI says, ‘No hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.’” Haas is the editor and a writer for the Muckraker Report. At the center of this article remains the authenticity and truthfulness of the videotape released by the federal government on December 13, 2001 in which it is reported that Osama bin Laden “confesses” to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The corporate media—television, radio, and newspapers—across the United States and the world repeated, virtually non-stop for a week after the videotape’s release, the government account of OBL “confessing.”  However, not one document has been released that demonstrates the authenticity of the videotape or that it even went through an authentication process. The Muckraker Report has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and CENTCOM requesting documentation that would demonstrate the authenticity of the videotape and the dates/circumstances in which the videotape was discovered. CENTCOM has yet to reply to the FOIA request. After losing an appeal, the FBI responded that no documents could be found responsive to the request. The Department of Defense referred the Muckraker Report to CENTCOM while also indicating that it had no documents responsive to the FOIA request either.

The CIA however claims that it can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to the request. According to the CIA the fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from disclosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended. Therefore, the Agency has denied your request pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3).  Many people believe that if the videotape is authentic, it should be sufficient hard evidence for the FBI to connect bin Laden to 9/11. The Muckraker Report agrees. However, for the Department of Justice to indict bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, something the government has yet to do, the videotape would have to be entered into evidence and subjected to additional scrutiny. This appears to be something the government wishes to avoid.  Some believe that the video is a fake. They refer to it as the “fat bin Laden”video. The Muckraker Report believes that while the videotape is indeed authentic, it was the result of an elaborate CIA sting operation. The Muckraker Report also believes that the reason why there is no documentation that demonstrates that the videotape went through an authenticity process is because the CIA knew it was authentic, they arranged the taping.  It is highly probable that the videotape was taped on September 26, 2001—before the US invaded Afghanistan.

Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11!
"The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden with the 9/11 attacks on america" - FBI spokesman Rex Tomb
http://911review.org/Media/Bin-Laden-Not-Wanted-for_9_11.html
http://www.ny911truth.org/articles/osama_not_wanted.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden

On June 5, 2006, reporter Ed Hass contacted the FBI Headquarters to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. He spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI.  When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Ladens Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Ladens Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” (Source: Teamliberty.net) Click image for large format.

CIA reportedly disbands Bin Laden unit

A CIA unit that had hunted for Usama bin Laden and his top deputies for a decade has been disbanded, according to a published report. Citing unnamed intelligence officials, The New York Times reported Tuesday that the unit, known as "Alec Station," was shut down late last year. The decision to close the unit, which predated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was first reported Monday by National Public Radio. (Source: Associated Press, July 4, 2006) This means both the CIA and FBI don’t consider as reliable evidence the confession video released in December 2001 in which a character we’re told is Bin Laden is celebrating the attacks! Notice the main-stream media hasn’t reported on this? Notice our Congress hasn’t acted on this stunning news, yet they have us mired in this “global war on terror” with Bin Laden as their bogeyman?

Instead, they’ve used Bin Ladin to scare us into two Middle East wars, torturing people, and allowing the NSA to tap our phone calls and e-mails.  It's worked like a charm for the war profiteers. But all along they've known that Usama Bin Laden is NOT GUILTY of the 9/11 attacks and have concealed it from us.   The evidence above demonstrates the brutal, frightening truth: we've been DECEIVED AND BETRAYED. Now how could anyone think Bin Laden tapes used to keep us in fear can be real? This knowledge alone should alert you to the fact that something is terribly wrong with the official account of the 9/11 attacks on America. To prevent another 9/11 as a pretext for war, we must demand the truth now.

FURTHERMORE...

From 1993 to 2000, Ron Suskind was senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal and in 1995 received the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The best-selling author has a new book called “The One Percent Doctrine”. In it he tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: “All right. You've covered your ass, now.” Does this sound like George W. Bush was intent on responding to warnings?

Suskind's revelation about the August 2001 briefing Bush received -- and apparently dismissed -- about Bin Laden has been reported in only six news reports available on Lexis-Nexis: one story in The Washington Post, two in Slate, and three in Salon. If only six news reports covered this, can you imagine how much information you’ve being deprived of? Is it reasonable to believe the corporate media has given you sufficient information to know the truth about the real role of Bin Laden, about the alleged hijackers, about the absence of air defense, about anything? Unless you read books like “The New Pearl Harbor” by David Ray Griffin, read reliable web sites like www.911proof.com and www.911truth.org, plus view independently created documentaries, you’ll never know. Remember, the military/industrial complex needs an enemy to justify its escalating budgets and existence. If you want peace, justice, a law-abiding government, and truthful media, understanding 9/11 is required. It’s your move. Spread this information. Call in to radio and TV talk shows. Inform your elected officials. Get the truth out that shows we've been conned about 9/11 by our own government!

Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11
The 'FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11'. Vice President Cheney says, 'We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11'
http://twf.org/News/Y2006/0608-BinLaden.html
by Enver Masud

The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" web page does not state that Bin Laden is wanted for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The FBI page states: "Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."

When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI's web page, Rex Tomb, the FBI's Chief of Investigative Publicity, is reported to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."

In the months leading up to the Septmber 11, 2001 attack, it is reported, the Taliban "outlined various ways bin Laden could be dealt with. He could be turned over to the EU, killed by the Taliban, or made available as a target for Cruise missiles." The Bush administration did not accept the Taliban's offer.

"On September 20, 2001," according to the Guardian, "the Taliban offered to hand Osama bin Laden to a neutral Islamic country for trial if the US presented them with evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington. The US rejected the offer."

On September 23, 2001 the BBC reported that four of the hijack "suspects" - Waleed Al Shehri, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Saeed Alghamdi, and possibly Khalid Al Midhar - were alive, and that FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged "the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt."

Bin Laden, in a September 28, 2001 interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, is reported to have said:
I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.

Experts dismiss the video tape "found in a house in Jalalabad", Afghanistan, which allegedly shows Bin Laden confessing to the September 11 attacks. In a December 20, 2001, broadcast by German TV channel Das Erste "two independent translators and an expert on oriental studies found the White House's translation not only to be inaccurate, but manipulative."

FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19, 2002, said: "In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot."

In fact there are no Arab names on the partial list of passengers on the 9/11 flights.

Yet on September 12, 2001 ABC News reported that "investigators have identified all the hijackers". Among those identified was "Satan Suqami, a Saudi national on American Airlines Flight 11, whose passport was recovered in the rubble."

Bin Laden is the "prime suspect" in the September 11 attacks, said President Bush on September 17, 2001, and he pledged to capture him "dead or alive."

"I am absolutely convinced that the al-Qaida network, which he heads, was responsible for this attack," Secretary of State Colin Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Powell said the government would "put before the world, the American people, a persuasive case that ... it is al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, who has been responsible."

On October 7, 2001, the U.S. military began operation Operation Enduring Freedom - a war on Afghanistan.

The evidence against Bin Laden, promised by Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 23, 2001, has yet to be made available to the public.

On March 29, 2006, on The Tony Snow Show, Vice President Dick Cheney stated: "We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."

Back on September 16, 2001, Cheney had said he would willingly accept bin Laden's "head on a platter".

References
[Digital morphing - voice, video, and photo - has come of age, available for use in psychological operations. PSYOPS, as the military calls it, seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives. . . .

Pentagon planners started to discuss digital morphing after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world.--William M. Arkin, "When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing," Washington Post, February 1, 1999]

"Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset 'Tim Osman'," whatreallyhappened.com

Enver Masud, "Deadly Deception, Pretexts for War," The Wisdom Fund, July 30, 2001

LIVE TV: Taliban deny responsibility -- "BBC Sept. 11, 2001 4:54 pm - 5:36 pm," BBC News, September 11, 2001

Toby Harnden, "Bin Laden is wanted: dead or alive, says Bush," Telegraph, September 18, 2001

Andrew Buncomb, "Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden," Independent, October 15, 2001

Anthony Sampson, " CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July: French report claims terrorist leader stayed in Dubai hospital," Guardian, November 1, 2001

"Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead," cnn.com, January 18, 2002

Standard Schaeffer, "'Al Qaeda Itself Does Not Exist'," CounterPunch, June 21, 2003

Enver Masud, "Why No Arab Names on Passenger List?," The Wisdom Fund, July 26, 2004

George Friedman, "America's Secret War," The Wisdom Fund, October 11, 2005

Bruce Lawrence (editor), "Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden," Verso (November 28, 2005)

Amber Rupinta, "Duke Professor Skeptical of bin Laden Tape," ABC News. January 19, 2006

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Robert Parry, "CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04," consortiumnews.com, July 4, 2006

Ed Haas, "Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden 'confession video'," Muckraker Report, August 11, 2006

[The FBI is confident that it has positively identified the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.--Steve Herrmann, "9/11 conspiracy theory," BBC News, October 27, 2006]

["Able Danger did not identify Mohammed Atta or any other 9/11 hijacker at any time prior to Sept. 11, 2001,"--Greg Miller, "Alarming 9/11 claim is found baseless," Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2006]

[In July of 2006 a large collection of documents was published on a website containing prosecution and defense exhibits for the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. Included in the prosecution exhibits are a set of Flash presentations detailing the government's account of the passengers on all four commandeered jetliners.--"Victims Lists, Passenger Manifests, and the Alleged Hijackers," 911research.wtc7.net, 2006]

AUDIO: Kevin Barrett talks to Bruce Lawrence of Duke University about the Bin Laden confession tapes which Lawrence says are bogus and that he knows people who work for the United States government who agree with him off the record.-- "Bruce Lawrence," radiodujour.com, February 16, 2007

[But more interesting were the examples Krawetz gave of al Qaeda images. Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri (above right), a senior member of the terrorist organization. The image shows al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with writing on it. But after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that al-Zawahiri's image was superimposed in front of the background--Kim Zetter, "Researcher's Analysis of al Qaeda Images Reveals Surprises," wired.com, August 2, 2007]

"Bin Laden's message to the American people," aljazeera.net, September 7, 2007 [Is this video real or fake? Has Al-Jazeera been "neutered"?]

"Latest Bin Laden Video Is a Forgery: All References to Current Events Are Made During Video Freeze," mparent7777-2.blogspot.com, September 9, 2007

VIDEO: "Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered," BBC, November 2, 2007

Elias Davidsson, "The Events of September 11, 2001 and the Right to the Truth," aldeilis.net, April 14, 2008

[On September 20, 2001, the Bush administration officially declared that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attack. Three days later, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced on Meet the Press that the government would soon release "a white paper" detailing the evidence against bin Laden. . . .

As we know, the US government never got around to releasing the promised white paper.--Mark H. Gaffney, "Was 9/11 an Inside Job?," thetruthseeker.co.uk, September 8, 2008]

VIDEO: "911 FALSE FLAG," NuoViso, September 11, 2008

[Even after Sept. 11, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Vice President Dick Cheney continued to resist any military engagement in Afghanistan, because they were hoping for war against Iraq instead.

Bush's top secret order of Sept. 17 for war with Afghanistan also directed the Pentagon to begin planning for an invasion of Iraq, according to journalist James Bamford's book Pretext for War.

Cheney and Rumsfeld pushed for a quick victory in Afghanistan in NSC meetings in October, as recounted by both Woodward and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. Lost in the eagerness to wrap up the Taliban and get on with the Iraq War was any possibility of preventing bin Laden's escape to Pakistan.--Gareth Porter, "Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden After 9/11," antiwar.com, September 30, 2008]

[It is thought the authorities were referring to comments made by Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove 100% that his father - whom he says he has not seen since he was 19 - was responsible for the 2001 attacks in the US or the London bombings in 2005.--"Bin Laden son in Spain asylum bid," BBC News, November 4, 2008]

VIDEO: "Devil's Advocate," Netherlands 2, April 8, 2009

[What was remarkable about the Taliban offer was that there wasn't even an extradition agreement between Afghanistan and the United States. The Taliban was offering to deliver bin Laden to an independent tribunal even though international law did not require it, so long as U.S. officials provided the same type of evidence that is ordinarily required in an extradition proceeding.--Jacob G. Hornberger, "U.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem," fff.org, May 8, 2009]

[He analyzes the purported messages from bin Laden and finds that, as many have suspected, they do not provide evidence of bin Laden's existence after 2001. This leads naturally to the question: if Osama bin Laden did indeed die in 2001, how and why have dozens of messages from bin Laden appeared since then?

Griffin's meticulous analysis supports above all one simple and urgent conclusion: if Osama bin Laden is dead, the US should not be using its troops and treasure to hunt him down.--David Ray Griffin, "Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?," Olive Branch Press, May 20, 2009]

[These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.--"Sibel Edmonds: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11," dailykos.com, May 20, 2009]

[The former FBI translator carefully replied, "I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11."--Muriel Kane, "Whistleblower: Bin Laden was US proxy until 9/11," rawstory.com, July 31, 2009]

Lukery, "Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11," dailykos.com, July 31, 2009

[Only one nation had the means, motive, opportunity and stable nation state intelligence required to take the US to war in the Middle East while also making it appear that Islam is the problem.--Jeff Gates, "Israel and 9/11," middle-east-online.com, September 11, 2009]

[A recent survey of news reports covering Osama bin Laden from 2001 to 2009 has provided overwhelming evidence that the al Qaeda leader has been dead since December 13, 2001, and that all messages that have been aired since that time have been fabricated--Elizabeth Woodworth, "Dead or Alive? Osama bin Laden: A Marketing Tool for US-NATO Military Operations ," Global Research, September 11, 2009]

[Although the case was not good enough to go to court, Blair seemed to be saying, it was good enough to go to war. . . .

Still another reason to doubt the authenticity of this 2004 video is that, although the speaker was addressing the American public, he spoke Arabic rather than English. This is strange, because Osama bin Laden was reportedly fluent in English--David Ray Griffin, "Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence?," Veterans Today, October 30, 2009]

[The US has had no reliable information on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in years, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted.--"No Bin Laden reports 'in years'," BBC News, December 6, 2009]

"Timeline: The search for Bin Laden," BBC News, December 6, 2009

"Spaniard's photo used for bin Laden poster: Lawmaker upset his face was model for new FBI image on al-Qaida leader," Associated Press, January 16, 2010

Gareth Porter, "Taliban 'imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States'," Inter Press Service, February 12, 2010

[The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys--Jeff Stein, "CIA unit's wacky idea: Depict Saddam as gay," washingtonpost.com, May 25, 2010]

[What about the 9/11 Commission? Its entire report is based on the assumption that bin Laden was behind the attacks. However, the report's evidence to support this premise has been disowned by the Commission's own co-chairs, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton. . . .

It is still widely thought to have been established beyond question that the attacks were carried out by members of al-Qaeda. The truth, however, is that the evidence entirely falls apart upon examination, and this fact suggests that 9/11 was instead a false-flag attack - an attack that people within our own government orchestrated while planting evidence to implicate Muslims.--David Ray Griffin, "Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?," globalresearch.ca, June 24, 2010]

" . . . there is no credible evidence that [19 Arabs] boarded any of these passenger planes."--Elias Davidsson, "There is no evidence that Muslims committed the crime of 9/11," opednews.com, August 11, 2010]

Pepe Escobar, "Osama has (not) left the building," atimes.com, October 30, 2010

[Is Bin Laden dead? Probably. Was he killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan? Possibly. Was he the 'mastermind' of 9/11? No -- his death is a distraction from more important issues.--Enver Masud, "Exposed: The Abbottabad, Pakistan Affair," The Wisdom Fund, May 6, 2011] Feedjit Live Blog Stats

Osama bin Laden, among the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives"
Why was he never indicted for his alleged role in 9/11?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3246
by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, September 17, 2006

Osama is classified among among The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. However, on the Usama bin Laden page on the FBI website, there is no explicit statement to the effect that he might be wanted in connection to the Septmber 11, 2001 attacks. He is wanted in relation to the 1998 African Embassy bombings.

"USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."

On first reading the web page seems to be out of date, a pre-9/11 page, which the FBI forgot to update.  The FBI, like most organizations, updates its website periodically, when new information, concerning a "wanted fugitive" becomes available.  On closer examination, the original posting, which dates to June 1999, was updated: in November 2001, at least three weeks after the US invaded Afghanistan. (Click here to go to FBI Usama page)

The decision to go to war was taken without a indictment by the US Justice department and corroborating statements by the FBI to the effect that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda was behind the attacks. It was taken without an indictment issued by the Justice Department.  At eleven o'clock, on the morning of September 11, the Bush administration had already announced that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. This assertion was made prior to the conduct of an indepth police investigation conducted by the FBI. The FBI confirmed in a recent statement (July 2006) that "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on the Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because "the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" (See the Muckracker Report, See also Enver Masud,  FBI: Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11? The 'FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11', Wisdom Fund, June 2006). Rex Tom, FBI Director of Investigative Publictiy stated in this regard that

"The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11."

Barely four weeks later, on the 7th of October, Afghanistan was bombed and invaded by US troops. The war on Afghanistan started on October 7, 2001, less than a month after 9/11.  On September 20th, the Taliban government had offered, "to hand Osama bin Laden to a neutral Islamic country for trial if the US presented them with evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington." (George Mombiot, The Guardian, 11 Nov 2003). This offer which was repeated by the Taliban government on October 1, 2001, six days before the beginning of the bombing:

"We are ready for negotiations. It is up to the other side to agree or not. Only negotiation will solve our problems." Bush was asked about this offer at a press conference the following day. He replied: "There's no negotiations. There's no calendar. We'll act on [sic] our time." (Ibid)

To this date, the Justice department has not formally indicted and charged Osama bin Laden for the 911 attacks:

The FBI maintains a separate "Most Wanted Terrorists" list, which includes bin Laden and 25 others who have been indicted in U.S. federal courts in connection with terror plots. But this second bin Laden listing also makes no mention of Sept. 11. "The indictments currently listed on the posters allow them to be arrested and brought to justice," the FBI says in a note accompanying the terrorist list on its Web site. "Future indictments may be handed down as various investigations proceed in connection to other terrorist incidents, for example, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001." (Washington Post, 28 August 2006)

America Has No Proof That Bin Laden was Mastermind of 9/11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x313544
http://santee.patch.com/articles/america-has-no-proof-that-bin-laden-was-mastermind-of-911
By Ray Lutz, Patch.com Citizens Oversight Projects May 2, 2011

I was disappointed that the SEAL team failed to capture Osama bin Laden alive, which would have been the proper way to handle it. First, do we actually know this occurred? Is there independent corroboration of the facts, or are reporters happy to take the word of the intelligence department, the same one that had bad information about WMD in Iraq? The body was disposed of very quickly. Are there any photographs, DNA testing, etc., to prove that this was indeed bin Laden? We’ve been shown lots of archival footage. I want real reporting. What really gets me about all this coverage is that with the giddy pleasure of seeing a man killed, we forget that we had no hard evidence that 1) this was in fact, Osama bin Laden and 2) he was the ‘mastermind’ behind 9/11. Given other terrorist attacks he admitted to, perhaps he deserved to die. But he was never linked to 9/11 with hard evidence. The proper way to handle this would be through indictments and a trial. What actually occurred is that President Bush, in his ultimate wisdom, decided that it was our right to take him out ‘dead or alive.’ Frankly, I don't trust President Bush with the most simple decisions, including whether it was best to continue to read My Pet Goat.

Vice President Cheney says, “We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11.” According to the FBI "Wanted" page (fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden): "Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.” When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI’s web page, Rex Tomb, the FBI’s chief of investigative publicity, is reported to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” In fact,  Bin Laden, in a Sept. 28, 2001, interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, is reported to have said:

“I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.”

The video supposedly documenting admission was an obvious contrivance and has been dismissed by investigators as reliable evidence. According to the FBI, bin Laden was only a suspect. Would you not need some form of evidence before you kill the man? Apparently not in this country, where we lose all sense of due process if the man is a Muslim who likes to express his manhood by holding an AK-47.

But let's say all this is wrong, and bin Laden, according to widely held belief (without hard evidence), was the ‘mastermind’ of 9/11. Then it certainly points out that had Bush focused on Afghanistan instead of getting distracted on false information about weapons of mass destruction that were never found in Iraq, we may have found this huge bunker only a short distance from the border of Pakistan long ago and likely reduced the growth of al Qaeda in Iraq and other areas of the world.

With 20/20 hindsight, we have to conclude that Iraq was clearly the biggest military blunder in all recorded history. I find it interesting that the bunker was finally found and the operation commenced just prior to the move of Leon Panetta from CIA director to defense secretary, which was just announced last week. Panetta was credited with being behind the operation. Why is it that the CIA is now in charge of military operations, and SEAL teams report to the CIA director?

[Brocke]

"FBI Has No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puf6_kkSmks

Actual Screenshot of FBI Website 05/10/2011. No mention of 911.




USAMA BIN LADEN

Murder of U.S. Nationals Outside the United States; Conspiracy to Murder U.S. Nationals Outside the United States; Attack on a Federal Facility Resulting in Death

REWARD: The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.

Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.

Bin Laden is the leader of a terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda, "The Base". He is left-handed and walks with a cane.

[Kilika]

Keep in mind that the US government has treated 9/11 as an act of war, not a criminal offense, thus the FBI has no play in the "War on Terror". It's a military operation, not a criminal investigation, as far as how it's been handled. There is no way the government's case would stand in an objective court of law.