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US navy seals destroyed to cover up Washington’s Bin Laden execution hoax?

Finian Cunningham | 20.08.2011 08:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Sheffield | World

The wiping out of 30 US special forces in the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan comes at a time when Washington’s official version of how it carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden was falling apart from incredulity.

The Mail on Sunday, 7 August 2011
The Mail on Sunday, 7 August 2011



Dead men don’t talk: US navy seals destroyed to cover up Washington’s Bin Laden execution hoax?

by Finian Cunningham, Global Research, 7 August 2011


The wiping out of 30 US special forces in the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan comes at a time when Washington’s official version of how it carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden was falling apart from incredulity.

Among the 38 dead in the helicopter disaster – the biggest single loss of American lives in the 10-year Afghanistan war of occupation – are believed to have been 17 US Navy Seals. The dead also include other members of US special forces and Afghan commandos.

Early Western news media reports indicated that the Chinook may have been involved in a significant military operation against Afghan militants when it went down in Wardak Province, not far west from the capital, Kabul, early Saturday.

Taliban sources are reported to have claimed that its militants shot down the Chinook with rocket fire.

US military officials say they are investigating the cause of the crash.

However, significantly, unnamed US sources have told media outlets that they believe the helicopter was shot down. This unofficial US briefing seems a bit odd. Why would US military sources want to hand enemy combatants a stunning propaganda coup?

Perhaps, it serves US interests to divert from the real motive and cause of the helicopter crash, whether it was it hit by a rocket or not.

US officials have admitted that the dead Navy Seals were part of the Team Six unit that allegedly carried out the assassination in May of the supposed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

From the outset, Washington’s account of how its special forces murdered Bin Laden in his residential compound in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan, has been riven with contradictions. Why was the liquidated Bin Laden buried hurriedly at sea? How could the world’s “No 1 Terrorist” have resided inconspicuously only miles from the Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi?

Most glaringly, several informed sources are convinced that Bin Laden died from natural causes years ago. Author Ralph Schoenman dismissed the alleged Navy Seal execution as “a big lie”. Schoenman cited evidence on this subject from former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, among others, for their confirmation that Bin Laden had died from kidney failure years earlier.

More recently, as Paul Craig Roberts reports [1], Pakistani locals have claimed that the Navy Seal operation in Abbottabad ended in disaster, with one of three US helicopters exploding as it took off from the ground near the compound. The other two choppers had not landed and, according to witnesses, they flew from the scene immediately after the explosion. As Roberts points out, that means there was no Bin Laden corpse to dispose of at sea, as Washington maintains.

The key people who would know the truth about Washington’s incredible Bin Laden assassination are now unavailable for comment. Case sealed.

Finian Cunningham is a Global Research Correspondent based in Belfast, Ireland.

Correction:

In a prior version of this article, Ralph Schoenman was quoted in error as stating: "I have interviewed several members of the Pakistani intelligence service and militants, and they have all confirmed that Bin Laden died from kidney failure over 10 years [ago]."

Schoenman's meetings with Pakistani intelligence preceded the putative assassination of Osama Bin Laden. These meetings concerned the role of US intelligence in the events of 9/11 and the false claim that the US captured and now holds in custody Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.


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Notes:

[1] The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25898

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Finian Cunningham
- e-mail: cunninghamfin@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25923

Comments

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doubtful

20.08.2011 09:18

Was only some of the members + taliban claimed responsibility


> Why was the liquidated Bin Laden buried hurriedly at sea?
So that there is no shrine place for his followers to gather

> Why just miles from pakistani's?
Because they've been paid lots of money and are under death treats?

anon


Bin Laden

20.08.2011 10:54

Very risky indeed: imagine Bin Laden releases a video tomorrow... makes the whole thing look ridiculous. So ridiculous and so high risk I doubt the US would do that..

Also doubtful


Less than doubtful.

20.08.2011 11:42

"Very risky indeed: imagine Bin Laden releases a video tomorrow... makes the whole thing look ridiculous. So ridiculous and so high risk I doubt the US would do that.."

I would imagine that even if Bin Laden were to release a video tommorrow, its impact would easily be deflected by the US and its loyalists in internet forums and newspaper websites by the very same people that kept alive the notion that Bin Laden has been alive all these years.

What is far more likely is that the US has had a lookalike stowed away all these years which it has used to make videos at opportune periods to bulk up its domestic support during periods of difficulty. Its this lookalike that has been wheeled out to tame media around the world at periods in which they have been reporting in a less than friendly manner.

The raid on Abbottabd may well have been an operation to kill off this lookalike in an attempt to draw a line under this whole sorry mess the US finds itself in.

The failure to report the incident properly in terms of releasing evidence of what they have done is probably more about avoiding the issue of releasing clear photographic evidence of what this lookalike really looks like...close up! If this really was the death of Bin Laden, we would undoubtadly find that the world would be awash with evidence of his death. It would fundamentally suit US strategic interests.

As far as this highly suggestive report from Global Research is concerned, it is just as problematic as the original US claim. There is no evidence whatsoever that the specific individuals that were engaged in the operation at Abbottabd, were the specific individuals killed in the downing of this helicopter...even if they were from the same technical unit.

I think this report may well be further evidence, that Global Research is a US entity, the primary purpose of which is to 'derange' and 'infantilise' anti-US commentary around the world.

All we need do...is speak the truth. That is all it will take to down this invidious empire.

Knot-Eyed Jaguar


remarkable

20.08.2011 14:38

i dont think i've ever seen such a concentration of paranoid thinking on one webpage.

suggestion: get out more and use internet less

dave the rave


there reading my thoughts

20.08.2011 15:18

wrap your head in tinfoil...... it stoppes them reading your thoughts.

the swollen eyeball


Trolls

20.08.2011 16:01

Think that governments play it straight? Don't believe they'd lie to you? How naive. It almost makes you loveable.

If you don't think you've seen such a concentration of paranoid thinking on one webpage, allow me to open your eyes:

www.dailymail.co.uk - Anything by Melanie Phillips is dynamite!

Remember, don't question anything our exultant leaders and their media mouthpieces tell you.

Yawn


know your enemy

20.08.2011 17:49

Most likely scenario: CIA leaked to ISI, ISI leaked to Taliban, imperialist henchmen got what they deserved.

Most likely background: Bin Laden whereabouts have already been known to ISI and CIA for some while, but timing of execution was chosen due to circumstances unrelated to the target (e.g. lobbying for military budget approvals).

Most likely conclusion: After the execution, CIA cannot operate in Pakistan any longer the way it was used to, can neither abandon its collaborators nor trust them, and drone attacks only worsen that dilemma.

Most likely prediction: Karsai to demand resignation of Pannetta in 5...4...3...2...1...

my guess


@Yawn - that lady is a joke

21.08.2011 12:46

The idea that people revolting against an authoritarian regime were somehow "fatherless" is ridiculous. S. Schielke on the psychology of it (13th minute):  http://freie-radios.net/41276

german observer


global research give impartial facts?

22.08.2011 16:43

It will be a sad day when i actually believe a word that global research write.

They're history with this is absolutely deplorable. They write anti-west articles and will go to any length of lieing to get their hatred across.

anon


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