- In the end they couldn't get away with it.
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- As I noted back on Monday in my first article on the
Sunday Navy SEAL raid into Pakistan that killed Osama Bin Laden, President
Obama himself spilled the beans in his initial midnight statement, when
he said, "After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took
custody of his body."
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- After that perhaps unintentionally honest account of
an execution, the lies began, with White House chief counter-terrorism
advisor (great title huh?) John O. Brennan fabulating that Bin Laden had
"engaged in a firefight" with the SEALs who "entered the
area of the house he was in," and adding, "Whether or not he
got off any rounds, I frankly don't know." Then there were the lies
that Bin Laden had shamefully used his wife as a "human shield,"
that he had been armed with an assault rifle, etc.
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- In the end, the truth came out. There had been no fire-fight
at all with Bin Laden. The 79 Navy SEALs who assaulted the compound were
resisted by a total of four men, with no reports that the women and children
who comprised the rest of the residents of the compound offered any armed
resistance at all, unless you count his unarmed wife allegedly "charging"
the men coming into the bedroom.
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- By the time the assault team members had reached Bin
Laden's third-floor boudoire, the entire compound had been secured and
most of the team was busy packing up computers, hard drives and other potential
evidence to be stowed on the escape helicopters.
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- The cornered Bin Laden was, at that point, simply executed
with two shots to the forehead.
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- There was, as I correctly surmised from the available
evidence on Monday, no attempt at all made to capture him alive.
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- The only thing missing from the assault narrative at
this point is an admission from the White House that in fact the goal of
the mission was precisely to kill Bin Laden, and then make him vanish.
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- The story of his resistance and his cowardly hiding behind
a wife was a Jessica Lynch fable that fell apart faster than a popping
balloon. with the White House attributing the whoppers to "the fog
of war." Try the foghorn of propaganda...
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- For the rest of this story by DAVE LINDORFF in ThisCantBeHappening!,
the new independent alternative online newspaper, please go to: <http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/594>www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/594
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