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Controversy about Osama resurfaces after admiral's email
2014-02-20
[DAWN] A conservative political group in the United States has launched a campaign to force the B.O. regime to release the photos of the Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
raid that killed Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...

The Judicial Watch claims that the administration is refusing to release the pictures because it wants to hide something that may cast doubt on President Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
's greatest achievement: eliminating Osama.

This week, the group claimed uncovering "smoking gun evidence that the B.O. regime's efforts to keep these photos secret included an order by a top Pentagon official to destroy them."

In this email, dated May 13, 2011, the then head of the US Special Forces, Vice Admiral William McRaven, orders the commandos who participated in the operation to destroy all the pictures they might have taken.

"One particular item that I want to emphasise is photos; particularly Osama's remains. At this point, all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them, destroy them immediately or get them to the (redacted)."

The order to purge the photos came 11 days after Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Department of Defence for "all photographs and/or video recordings of Osama bin Laden taken during and/or after the US military operation in Pakistain on or about May 1, 2011". Judicial Watch is seeking the photographs and videos to prove if it was actually him.

The US administration had announced after the May 2, 2011 operation that they had buried OBL at sea because they could not find a country that would bury him within 24 hours, in accordance with the Mohammedan custom. They also avoided burying him on land because they feared that Osama's grave would become a shrine for his followers.

Later, President B.O. explained that he had decided not to release the pictures for similar reasons. "It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool," he told CBS News.

The refusal encouraged rumour mongers to insist that it was somebody else, and not, the Al Qaeda leader, who was killed in the raid. The rumours, which had subsided, resurfaced this week after Judicial Watch released Admiral McRaven's email message.

This forced US officials to release another denial, saying that there was no question who was killed in the Abbottabad raid. Along with being visually identified on the scene by US operatives, Bin Laden was identified by name by a woman believed to be one of his wives, they argued.

CIA specialists compared photos of the body with known photos of Bin Laden, determining with 95 per cent certainty that they were one and the same, the officials said.

The denial, however, did not satisfy the rumour mongers who are once again busy spinning out all sorts of theories.

They claim that Osama arrived at the American hospital in Dubai on July 4, 2001 for renal processing or a Kidney Dialysis and left on July 14. While at the hospital, he also met a person in charge of the CIA.

He came to Dubai on July 4 by plane from Quetta and was immediately transferred to the hospital for a renal processing.

The rumours mongers use such reports to prove that Osama had a serious kidney problem and needed regular treatment. After, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he could not get this treatment and died of kidney failure.

An American anti-War activist Cindy Sheehan
...anti-war activist and publicity hound. After her child was killing in the Iraq war she set up camp outside President G.W.Bush's ranch. In Washington she bared her boobs for peace. She was the 2012 vice-presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party and intends to run for governor of Caliphornia in 2014. She will probably lose...
wrote that those who believed the government's claim that Osama was killed in the raid were 'stupid.'

"Just think to yourself, they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead, why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of Osama at sea?"

US officials dismiss these claims as "figments of someone's wild imagination" that better be ignored but this does not discourage rumour mongers from claiming that Osama did not die in the raid.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Poor Cindy Shehag.

Her BFF Hugo Chaveaz goes and kicks the bucket then her other BFF Osama gets a fatal dose of lead-in-the-brainpan and ends up feeding the fishes (literally).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-02-20 17:58  

#3  Yeah, all he'd have to of done is reference games of golf, and speech bingo phrases. Wouldn't have needed a crystal djinn for "After the glorious collapse of the great satan health care site".
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-02-20 16:02  

#2  I'm surprised they havne't released a bin laden audiotape. If I were binny I would have had a few extra ones in the que in case of my death to spread confusion. One for burial at sea, one for my duplicate bodyguard captured alive, that sort of thing.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-02-20 15:29  

#1  **** cough *** cough **** cough ***

D *** NGED DECAF!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-02-20 00:44  

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