Source Claims Bin Laden Death Coverup BY U.S.

[Nodack]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/11/opinions/ ... index.html

The principal claims that Hersh's article makes, which largely rely on the assertions of a single, unnamed, retired senior U.S. intelligence official, are:

• That the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid on the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was hiding in northern Pakistan was not a firefight in which SEALs went into a dangerous and unknown situation, but a setup in which Pakistan's military had been holding bin Laden prisoner in Abbottabad for five years and simply made him available to the SEALs who flew in helicopters to the compound on the night of the raid.

• An officer from Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency ISI accompanied the SEALs on the raid and showed them around the Abbottabad compound, and the only shots fired that night were the ones that the SEALs fired to kill bin Laden.

• A "walk in" to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad tipped off the CIA that bin Laden was living in the Abbottabad compound, and it was not true -- despite the statements of multiple U.S. officials after the raid -- that the CIA had traced back one of bin Laden's couriers to the Abbottabad compound and built a circumstantial case that bin Laden was living there.

• Saudi Arabia was financing bin Laden's upkeep in his Abbottabad compound.

• A Pakistani army doctor obtained DNA from bin Laden that proved he was in Abbottabad, proof that was provided to the States so that all the supposed uncertainty -- cited by Obama administration officials after the raid -- about whether bin Laden was actually living in the compound was a lie.

• The "most blatant lie," according to Hersh, was that "Pakistan's two most senior military leaders -- General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI -- were never informed" in advance of the U.S. raid on the bin Laden compound.

In short, according to Hersh's account, President Barack Obama and many of his top advisers lied about pretty much everything concerning what is considered one of the President's signal accomplishments: authorizing the raid in which bin Laden was killed.

This sounds a little far fetched to me. The real story put out was a little Hollywood, but the coverup story seems much less plausible to me.

The Pakistani's hold him there for five years and then just hand him over to the U.S., but don't hand him over, they make us fly in stealth helicopters at night and pretend to go behind their backs?

Bin Laden wanted to overthrow the Saudi Government and they stripped him of his citizenship, but they finance the housing of Bin Laden in Pakistan for five years?

There was no firefight that night according to the story, but they found bullet holes all over the compound.

In short this sounds like BS to me, but the story is getting traction and I suppose it will be used as a political weapon at some point soon.

[Dan H]

Two words: Seymour Hersh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Criticism

[Ghost]

It sounds pretty ridiculous to me too, but because I love a good conspiracy...if they were going to create such an elaborate cover-up, they did it right. Fly in those choppers; fill the walls with bullet holes. Make it look like there was a raid. Hollywood knows how to stage a battle; I'm sure the Illuminati are even better at it.

But yeah, it reeks of BS from top to bottom. And, as Dan said...Seymour Hersh.

However, a lie doesn't need to be good in order to win people over in today's world of idiots.

[Nodack]

Just tell them what they want to hear.

[LazarusLong]

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