World Affairs Brief, May 4, 2012 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com)
THIS WEEK’S ANALYSIS:
Chinese Dissident Betrayed by the USA
NY Times Admits the FBI Foments Terror
Obama Continues Push for North American Union
Demonization of Survivalism
Capitalizing on bin Laden’s Faked Death
Hit Men Strike Two This Week
Sea Change in French Politics
Ammo Shortages Starting to Appear
Labor Department Backs Down of Family Farms
RFK Assassination Witness Confirms Second Shooter
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CAPITALIZING ON BIN LADEN’S FAKED DEATH
The establishment never loses an opportunity to play the terror card in keeping America compliant. Obama’s politicization of the Bin Laden death is facing mounting criticism even in the mainstream media. The Obama propaganda machine reveled in the claim that Osama was killed in a US commando attack in his alleged compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The trouble is, the entire raid was completely contrived by the US as a propaganda stunt.
Paul Joseph Watson of infowars.com put out “10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax” I’ll add what he left out [in brackets] and edit them down to the 8 essentials:
1) Before the raid, every intelligence analyst, geopolitical commentator or head of state worth their salt was on record as stating that Osama Bin Laden was already dead, and that he probably died many years ago, from veteran CIA officer Robert Baer, to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to former FBI head of counter terrorism Dale Watson.
2) The official narrative of how the raid unfolded completely collapsed within days of its announcement. First there had been a 40 minute shootout, then there was no shootout and just one man was armed, first Bin Laden was armed then he was not, first Bin Laden used his wife as a human shield and then he did not. First the compound was described as a ‘$1 million dollar mansion’ then it turned out to be a rubbish-strewn dilapidated compound that was worth less than a quarter of that. Almost every single aspect of the official narrative has changed since Obama first described the raid last Sunday as the White House struggles to keep its story straight.
3) The alleged body of Bin Laden was hastily dumped in the sea to prevent any proper procedure of identification. The White House claimed this was in accordance with normal Islamic burial rituals, however numerous Muslim scholars all over the globe disputed this claim, pointing out that Muslims can only be buried at sea if they die at sea. While the White House claimed that Bin Laden’s death on May 1st was proven by DNA and facial recognition evidence, such proof was never released for public scrutiny and the Obama administration refused to release photos of Bin Laden’s dead body, suggesting a cover-up.
4) Despite the fact that the White House released ‘situation room’ photos which purported to show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and the rest of Obama’s security staff watching the raid which killed Bin Laden live, it was later admitted by CIA director Leon Panetta that Obama could not have seen the raid because the live feed was cut off before the Navy SEALS entered the compound. The photos were described by many as having ‘historical significance,’ forming a ‘captivating’ record of Obama’s greatest success and being the ‘defining moment’ of his Presidency. One image showed Hillary Clinton with her hand over her mouth as if witnessing an anxious or crucial moment in the raid. Media reports at the time claimed that the photos represented the moment when ‘The leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.’ However, the photos were staged as a PR stunt for public consumption, nobody in the photos ever saw Bin Laden killed live, nor did they see the Navy SEALS even enter the compound.
5) The media reported that Al-Qaeda itself had confirmed every detail of Obama’s address to the nation. However, the conduit for such a claim was in fact an organization called SITE, which is a notorious Pentagon propaganda front run by the daughter of an Israeli spy that has been caught on numerous occasions releasing fake cartoonish ‘Al-Qaeda’ videos at the most politically expedient times for both the Bush and Obama administrations. The SITE organization is nothing more than a contractor for the U.S. government, receiving some $500,000 a year annually from Uncle Sam [Al Qaeda, itself, is a US run black operation funded through Saudi Arabia].
6) Almost every single neighbor that lived near the alleged Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad that was interviewed by news reporters said with absolute certainty that they had never seen Bin Laden and that they knew of no evidence whatsoever to suggest he lived there. Since the town is a staging ground for the Pakistani military, which has a training facility situated virtually a stone’s throw away from the alleged Bin Laden compound, residents were required to show ID when they moved into the area. Pakistani troops and anti-terror police in the town refused to confirm that Bin Laden had lived in the house. [More importantly, one neighbor documented to the Pakistan media how the team of commandos all died in the helicopter crash that occurred during the staged raid–pictured in many news stories. He said that no one got out alive in the fiery crash. This means that the supposed death of seal team six members in a larger army helo months later was done to provide cover for the earlier death during the staged raid].
7) The videos released by the White House this past weekend which purport to show Osama Bin Laden making Al-Qaeda tapes in October-November 2010 are almost identical to footage first released by Pentagon front group SITE nearly four years ago. Remember, a May 2010 Washington Post story reported how the CIA had admitted to making fake Bin Laden videos. Despite the White House’s insistence that the footage of Bin Laden is recent, he looks younger and healthier than tapes released almost a decade ago, having apparently dyed his beard black. A separate video that purports to show Bin Laden in his compound flicking through satellite TV channels depicts a much older looking man with a gray beard. Analysts have pointed out that the man has different shaped ears to real Osama pictures from back in 2001.
8) Despite the fact that numerous neo-cons came out on the days after the alleged raid to erroneously assert that torturing terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay led to the discovery of Bin Laden [The claims of Sheik Khalid Mohammed were so ludicrous as to be unbelievable. 10 teams of CIA operates couldn’t have done all that Khalid claims in his ‘confession.’], Osama himself, the supposed world’s most wanted terrorist and a treasure trove of terror information, despite the fact that he was unarmed, was not taken in for questioning, he was instantly shot in the head according to the official narrative.”
As I mentioned above, Paul Watson overlooked the story about the crash of the stealth helicopter in the courtyard, killing all on board, according to local witnesses in Abbottabad. They said nobody got out, and no second helo ever landed. That means there was no taking Osama away and dumping his body in the sea, and no victorious Seal Team Six eulogized by Obama at Fort Cambell. The US had to falsify a different death scenario of Seal Team Six by placing their names on a later Army helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
To capitalize on this anniversary threat, ABC reported on Monday that officials fear al Qaeda may soon attempt to explode United States-bound aircraft with body bombs. The body bomb threat has surfaced before, but the renewed concern is based on new information originating overseas, the official said. Details of the threat have been shared among intelligence agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom within the past two weeks, the official said.”
What now, X-ray machines at every airport to counter this new manufactured threat? When will it all end? One thing all this tells me is that if the American people ever got up enough courage to demand the TSA stop all this nonsense (Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is sponsoring a bill to dismantle TSA), they’d throw another manufactured terror event at us within a month to chase all the opposition back into submission. Using false flag terror is extremely effective. Look closely at how the 9/11 attack, a government operation from beginning to end, changed the way everyone thinks and acts. They can keep doing those kinds of things for as long as necessary.
Nothing is more emblematic of the callousness of government about not caring about civilian ‘collateral damage’ in the face of fighting terror, than the high handed way in which the Obama administration talked openly about drone attacks and how we’re going to see more of these in the future: Jason Ditz has the story:
“It’s no real secret that the Obama Administration’s ever escalating drone war has killed a massive lot of innocent people, but White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan was surprisingly glib today when pressed on the matter in an interview with ABC’s This Week.
“‘Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population,’ Brennan insisted, though he did not mention that the drone strikes have been carried out almost exclusively in nations with which the United States is not at war: Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Brennan went on to defend the killings, saying ‘sometimes you have to take life to save lives [that old excuse].’ He provided no examples of how the killing of nearly 2,000 people, virtually all of them unidentified, had ‘saved lives.’
“Indeed the only thing that the drone strikes have conclusively done is ruin the US relationship with Pakistan, whose parliament has conditioned a return to normal relations on the US ending such attacks.”
Obama also slipped away on a secret trip to Afghanistan in order to emerge in a high profile meeting with Afghan president Karzai, announcing the signing of the tenuous agreement giving a longer lease on life to the US occupation there, and the payoffs to high officials that keep some semblance of cooperation going. Having the president fly out there is an indication of just how strained the relationship is with Afghanistan and how hard it is for puppet president Karzai to remain in power without periodic public relation stunts like this.
But as Gareth Porter writes, the agreement doesn’t do what the White House claims. “The optics surrounding the Barack Obama adminisration’s ‘Enduring Strategic Partnership’ agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war.
“But the only substantive agreement reached between the U.S. and Afghanistan – well hidden in the agreements – has been to allow powerful U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to continue to carry out the unilateral night raids on private homes that are universally hated in the Pashtun zones of Afghanistan.
“It also allows President Hamid Karzai to claim he has gotten control over the SOF night raids while getting a 10-year commitment of U.S. economic support. But the actual text of the agreement and of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on night raids included in it by reference will not end the U.S. war in Afghanistan, nor will they give Karzai control over night raids.” That’s the real story!
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