Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'. Again.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I think highly of Magda, but I tend to assume that those who post here are up-to-speed on these things, which, it turns out, is often a baseless assumption. I am a bit more perplexed that, when I suggest someone is not current, you come after me, hammer and tongs, but when some mindless twit accuses me of being "the government's leading spook", not a peep! Please explain. Am I missing something?

Trowbridge Ford's description of you as "the government's leading spook" was banal. It barely registered in my consciousness, and I ignored it out of ennui.

However, for the record, Trowbridge - you were out of line and should withdraw that remark.

Now, back to the substance.

I wrote:

A very good case can most certainly be made that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001.

A very good case can also be made that he has been deliberately kept alive, as an iconic and impotent bogeyman, to be ritually slaughtered at a time of the West's choosing.

Both these possibilities, and others, are plausible and deserve intelligent, incisive, discussion on DPF.

In fact, there are many variations of these basic themes, including a scenario where Bin Laden the man died in December 2001, but his legend, as an iconic bogeyman, continued to be built as an intelligence psyop, to ensure that a suitable "monster" was available for ritual slaughter at a time of need.

Now, I know about Marfan Syndrome. I made a BBC/Discovery documentary which examined the various medical conditions associated with giantism over a decade ago. It is entirely possible that Bin Laden has Marfan Syndrome. However, it is not 100% proven on the available evidence.

And this is the nub.

It is entirely possible that Bin Laden died in December 2001. It is not proven on the available evidence.

It is entirely possible that Bin Laden (or a version of Bin Laden) died in May 2011. It is not proven on the available evidence.

My own view, as stated throughout this thread, is that the most important deep political question is not whether Bin Laden died, but why the American President decided to kill the legend of Osama on May 2, 2011?

WHY NOW?

This question matters regardless of whether Bin Laden died in December 2001, May 2011, is still alive, never existed, etc etc etc.

Why has Obama decided to declare, with full fanfare, that this impotent, iconic, phantasm has been ritually slaughtered by American heroes at this moment in time?

Many of us on this thread have drawn attention to the sloppy nature of the production. Indeed, I've recorded some of the original official MSM narrative in this thread, so that we can watch it unravel in real time. And unravelling it is, at a breakneck speed.

It is important that we continue to investigate and unpick the officially presented "evidence" to discover what really happened, and why this charade has been played now.

As to when Bin Laden died, you may well be correct. But none of us knows for sure.