Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has a startling new article claiming the White House fed the public lie after lie about how the US killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
The article in the London Review of Books purports to be an "alternative history of the war on terror," and it relies largely on a single unnamed source to question President Barack Obama's narrative about the death of the man behind the 9/11 attacks.
That narrative from the president claimed bin Laden was killed in a firefight with US forces and that Pakistani officials weren't told about the raid in advance.
While Obama touted bin Laden's killing in a Pakistani compound as an "all-American affair" as Hersh puts it, US officials got assistance from upper-level Pakistani officials, according to Hersh. Moreover, he writes, bin Laden wasn't "hiding" in Pakistan when Navy Seals found him as the US government claimed.
Rather, Hersh alleges, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was holding bin Laden as a prisoner. A former senior Pakistani intelligence officer tipped the US off about bin Laden's whereabouts in exchange for $25 million, Hersh writes in his article, which has attracted wide attention in just a few hours.
Hersh says his main source inside the US is an unnamed senior intelligence official with knowledge about the raid that killed bin Laden. Hersh also says he got corroborating information from two longtime consultants to Special Operations Command in the US and that he spoke to sources "inside Pakistan."
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11 comments:
Seems to be a lot of holes in this story. Not going to stand up.
And the Navy Seals and other military personnel who were involved in the mission are complicit in the cover-up?
i still say he's alive and well. you'll see.
Just more liberal bs.
So that would also mean that FOX News darling Rob O'Neil has also been lying about his Seal team's role in killing Bin Laden. Not sure what this "reporter"s motives are.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And the Navy Seals and other military personnel who were involved in the mission are complicit in the cover-up?
May 11, 2015 at 11:20 AM
They are, conveniently, dead.
2006 huh so bush and cheney knew about it too.
12:25. What are you talking about? The Navy Seals from that raid are NOT dead. In fact, some have gone very public about their experiences.
Osama Bin Obama is still at large in DC.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
12:25. What are you talking about? The Navy Seals from that raid are NOT dead. In fact, some have gone very public about their experiences.
May 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, confirmed to FoxNews.com that his subcommittee on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing the crash, and lawmakers probably will hold at least one hearing. The helicopter was shot down by insurgents in August 2011; many of those killed were part of the same Navy SEAL Team 6 unit that carried out the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound three months earlier.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
12:25. What are you talking about? The Navy Seals from that raid are NOT dead. In fact, some have gone very public about their experiences.
May 11, 2015 at 12:40
Americans have short memories. My memory is not that great but some things I remember.
Some think they were set up to be killed. With the new report about obammy and others lying about the raid it wouldn't surprise.
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