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It cannot be validated on any account." 1027: Reiterating previous official statements, Mr Bashir says Pakistan "was not consulted" about the US operation in Abbottabad. "The actions that can be considered ethically permissible in a situation of war are very different from those outside war." 1105: "By blaming Pakistani institutions you get nowhere," Mr Bashir stresses
But his allegations are largely supported only by two sources, neither of whom has direct knowledge of what happened, both of whom are retired, and one of whom is anonymous. Hersh says this entire monthslong incident was staged, a "cover in case their co-operation with the Americans in getting rid of bin Laden became known." Hersh's story is littered with such justifications: when facts seem to squarely contradict his claims, his answer is that this only goes to show how deep the rabbit hole goes
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military personnel washed his body, wrapped it in a white sheet, and gave him a religious Islamic funeral on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier. During his campaign against the USSR, bin Laden received some help from the American CIA, which sought to thwart Soviet expansion into Afghanistan; the CIA purchased vast quantities of weapons, ammunition, and supplies and sent these to the Pakistani intelligence agency, which in turn distributed them to the mujahedeen
Osama Bin Laden's death: How it happened - BBC News
With its distinctive bat-winged shape, the RQ170 Sentinel is capable of flying undetected at high altitude taking photographs and sending real-time video. Behind the perimeter walls were further inner walls cordoning off the three-storey main building where Bin Laden and his family lived and a smaller single-storey guard house
The death of Osama bin Laden - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times
Muslims, Christians, Jews, others, name a religion and there is probably a group somewhere that takes things too far and hates everyone who believes differently. Osama was a terrible person, but dont think for a second that our CIA is not just as guilty, or even more so, when it comes to the death and distruction of innocent people and thier property
From the print edition: Obituary Tweet Submit to reddit View all comments (83) Want more? Subscribe to The Economist and get the week's most relevant news and analysis. The price set on his head for more than a decade never bothered him, for Allah determined every breath in his body, and could ensure that the bombs dropped on his hideout at Tora Bora, or on his convoy through the mountains, never touched him
Osama bin Laden Killed by U.S. Forces in Pakistan - ABC News
Bin Laden's death brings to an end a tumultuous life that saw him go from being the carefree son of a Saudi billionaire, to terrorist leader and the most wanted man in the world. Bin Laden was located at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which was monitored and when the time was determined to be right, the president said, he authorized a "targeted operation." "A small team of Americans carried out the operation," Obama said
(DOD via Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation Advertise (Left image) Middle school teacher Gary Weddle with his beard photographed minutes before he shaves off the beard at his East Wenatchee, Wash., home on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Advertise Advertise Advertise DNA tests The special operations forces were on the ground for less than 40 minutes and the operation was watched in real-time by CIA director Leon Panetta and other intelligence officials in a conference room at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., an official said on condition of anonymity
Local suspicions were understood to have been aroused by the fact that the residents of the compound burned their rubbish rather than putting it out for collection. Salman Riaz, a film actor, said that five months ago he and a crew tried to do some filming next to the house, but were told to stop by two men who came out
Pakistani Asset Helped in Hunt for Bin Laden, Sources Say - NBC News
The official story about how bin Laden was found was constructed in a way that protected the identity and existence of the asset, who also knew who inside the Pakistani government was aware of the Pakistani intelligence agency's operation to hide bin Laden, according to a special operations officer with prior knowledge of the bin Laden mission. officials took pains to note he was one of many sources who provided help along the way, and said that the al Qaeda courier who unwittingly led them to bin Laden, Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, remained the linchpin of the operation
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden: Osama bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence, James Howarth: 9781844670451: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Messages-World-Statements-Osama-Laden/dp/1844670457on November 28, 2005Format: Paperback From the very first speech in this collection, I began to realize how little I knew about bin Laden's ideas--and yes, he has ideas--and how most of what I thought I knew was wrong. Read more Published on June 29, 2009 by Lateisha Thomas-overton Troubling Clarity: A Leftist Reads Osama However readers might dispute the validity of the claims made in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin-Laden, they will no longer be able to claim ignorance regarding..
But, before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with. His expedition is also punctuated by telephone conversations with his wife Alexandra, as well as scenes of her in New York coping with her pregnancy and the worries about his safety
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) - IMDb
His fears, generated due to biased media coverage that Muslims and Arabs are hostile, are laid to rest when he does encounter friendly, and quite refreshingly well educated, hospitable, politically matured men and women, who are well aware of America's faulty 'foreign policy', and do not subscribe to Jihad nor to the Taliban nor Osama's terror-tactics. But he does encounter some hostility, quite ironically, in two of America's allies -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- and it is on the soil of Pakistan -- ..
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