couldn’t discern exactly what lies were being told. However, it was difficult not to sense that there were at least a few big ones. Yet, the potential biggest one of all — “We came, we saw, he died” — appears to be true.
A Sy Hersh tour de force: The Killing of Osama bin Laden. He connects all the dots and explains why all the seeming anomalies and inconsistencies didn’t add up. It was because they were lies and fabrications.
It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account. The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.
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There’s plenty to discuss from Hersh’s article, but it’s best first to read the whole thing.
What it doesn’t address was who had custody and where of bin Laden before 2006 in Abbottabad. Why six months after 9/11 and a year before the invasion of Iraq, Bush (likely off-script) was confident enough to speak like this of OBL:
Another question I have is what was the KSA response to the assassination? Any unintended blowback from that quarter?
