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

[David Guyatt]

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/...3776a6e3c3

A long but non-the-less very interesting read.

I was taken with this:

According to Prof. Ram, who was a senior military strategy advisor to the Saudi Royal family for over a decade:[/COLOR]

"The Battle of Tora Bora obviously raises the question why was he [bin Laden] allowed to escape? … if US Special Forces had killed or captured him in Tora Bora in 2001, the basic justification for the Global War on Terror would have been eliminated and the subsequent (and false) claims of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq would have been meaningless."

He points out that many of the "expansionist policies" subsequently pursued by the Bush administration as outlined by the neoconservative think-tank, the Project for a New American Century, would have had little traction had al-Qaeda been routed and bin Laden killed in Tora Bora.[/COLOR]
"The US would have been hard pressed to convince anyone of the need to invade Iraq or continue the war in Afghanistan," concludes Ram, who was previously an editor at SITREP, the defence journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, where he sat on the Defence Studies Committee. "Thus, logic dictates that bin Laden was allowed to escape into Pakistan in late 2001."

And this:

During NATO's intervention in Libya, al-Qaeda's integral presence on the ground as part of the rebellion led Canadian pilots to joke privately that they were al-Qaeda's air force, "since their bombing runs helped to pave the way for rebels aligned with the terrorist group."

Which clearly point to the great game being played re 9/11 and subsequently. [/quote]

Plus this:

The document went so far as to reveal that repeated claims about bin Laden's premature death could be traced back to ISI disinformation, put out to deflect attention from the agency's complicity in harbouring and promoting al-Qaeda:

"ISI has consistently sought to deny the presence of al-Qaida elements in Pakistan, and to mislead US investigators… This deception has been at the very highest level, and Musharraf himself, for instance, initially insisted he was certain' bin Laden was dead."

Musharraf, of course, according to former ISI chief Gen. Ziauddin Butt, was responsible for approving bin Laden's protection at the Abbottabad compound under the jurisdiction of Brig. Ijaz Shah and the Pakistani Intelligence Bureau.

"ISI issues money and directions to militant groups, specially the Arab hijackers of 9/11 from al-Qaida. ISI was fully involved in devising and helping the entire affair. And that is why people like Hamid Gul and others very quickly stated the propaganda that CIA and Mossad did it."

The report noted that although bin Laden was very much alive, reports of his being ill are accurate. The terror chief suffered "from renal deficiency [and] has been periodically undergoing dialysis in a Peshawar military hospital with the knowledge and approval of ISI if not of Gen. Pervez Musharraf himself."
The source of the report even speculated: "Musharraf may be planning to turn over bin Laden to President Bush in time to clinch his reelection bid in November."
Thus, in 2004, the US government-appointed commission to investigate 9/11  staffed with former and active government and intelligence advisors  received startling information that Musharraf and the ISI were not only harbouring bin Laden and fabricating reports of his death, but were willing to hand him over to the US to aid with political point-scoring.

To this day, this unpublished 9/11 Commission addendum on Pakistan remains classified.
The US record on Saudi Arabia is equally damning. The infamous classified 28 pages of the 2002 Congressional Inquiry Report into 9/11 has been described by the inquiry's co-chair Senator Bob Graham as providing shocking confirmation of the role of senior Saudi officials in not just sponsoring al-Qaeda, but providing specific financial support to the 9/11 hijackers and the operation itself. This January, he told a press conference:

"What would you think the Saudis' position would be, if they knew what they had done, they knew that the United States knew what they had done, and they also observed that the United States had taken a position of either passivity, or actual hostility to letting those facts be known?"

The US has turned a blind eye to the Saudi relationship with bin Laden since the end of the Cold War.

And all because:

Former Canadian diplomat Prof. Peter Dale Scott, a leading authority on US covert operations, writes about this nexus in his landmark bookAmerican Deep State (2014), published by the University of California Press. He argues that US protection of Saudi Arabia's terrorism infrastructure boils down to the existence of "a vital triangle at the heart of the American deep state, in which oil companies paid Saudi Arabia for oil; Saudi Arabia paid the US arms industry for planes and weapons, and the resulting huge arms contracts paid for of-the-books US covert operations like Iran-Contra."
This nexus of power undermines establishment claims that "the wars fought by America in Asia since 9/11 have been part of a global war on terror.'" In reality, says Scott, this "pseudowar" has been fought "in alliance with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan  precisely the principal political and financial backers of the al-Qaedist networks the United States has supposedly been fighting."
That compartmentalised nexus of power was responsible for harbouring Osama bin Laden since the very beginning.

And, of course:

Yet according to Jack Murphy, a former US Army Senior Weapons Sergeant in a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group who served in Afghanistan and Iraq:

"Various accounts of the raid itself have surfaced in recent years, some more accurate than others, none of them close to telling the full account. Contrary to official denials, helmet cam video of the raid does exist."

If the video feed of the raid itself does exist, why was it not broadcast to White House officials? Did JSOC keep White House officials in the dark about the real-time execution of the operation?
So resolute was JSOC Commander Adm. McRaven's determination to ensure that public scrutiny of the bin Laden raid, and events leading up it, will remain forever locked down, he ordered all government records relating to the raid to be transferred to the CIA, and deleted from Pentagon files. This guarantees that no information on the raid can ever be gained under Freedom of Information Act requests, and that the real details of the operation will indefinitely remain a closely-guarded intelligence secret.
The Pentagon had even attempted to keep that act secret, by removing mention of it from the final version of an inspector general report published in June 2013. The move allowed the Pentagon to deny repeated FOIA requests from the Associated Press for files about the raid, including copies of the death certificate and autopsy report for bin Laden, as well as the results of DNA tests to identify the body.
So far, there is only one reason to believe the White House's version of events regarding the bin Laden raid: it is the White House's version of events.
But this investigation proves decisively that given the fog of lies surrounding bin Laden, and his relationships with the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, this is no reason at all.
Analysis of open sources on the secretive bin Laden raid reveals that the al-Qaeda terror chief was for nearly a decade after 9/11 being protected by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, two key US allies in the war on terror.' Despite mounting evidence of the complicity of those governments in 9/11 and other anti-Western terrorist activity, successive US governments have systematically protected the Saudi and Pakistani regimes from exposure.
For Prof. Peter Dale Scott, this US protection of, and unwavering alliance with, al-Qaeda's chief state-sponsors, is "related to the black hole at the heart of the complex US-Saudi connection…

"… a complex that involves the oil majors like Exxon, the Pentagon's concern with oil and gas movements from the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, offsetting arms sales, Saudi investments in major US corporations like Citibank and the Carlyle Group (the owners of Booz Allen Hamilton), and above all the ultimate United States dependency on Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and OPEC, for the defense of the petrodollar."

And thus:

By August 2010, when a former ISI officer decided to walk into the US embassy and come clean to US officials who had no idea about bin Laden's concealment, what was once a highly compartmentalised secret became known to the wider US intelligence community. The White House was forced to do something about bin Laden. But its primary interest, from the get-go, was avoiding a scandal.

Whatever was to be done, the White House needed to ensure that bin Laden would not sing like a canary on his relationships with the West's own allies. Administration officials also needed to avoid public scrutiny of the US government's policy of turning a blind eye to mounting intelligence on how bin Laden was harboured, financed and protected by US allies, under a wider US-backed covert operations programme to undermine Iran and Syria.
All those factors no doubt played a key role in the decision to assassinate bin Laden, and manufacture a cover-story that would conceal the damning context of his death from public understanding.
It appears the final decision was not made until late April 2011  when a British proposal to renew a covenant of security' with al-Qaeda was rejected by bin Laden. The haste with which the operation was executed perhaps explains the absurd discrepancies in the cover-story.
In Scott's words: "US security appears to have been hijacked by these deeper forces, in order to protect terrorists who should have been reined in. And the governing media have been complicit in concealing this situation."
And thus, bin Laden's execution successfully obscured the wider context of his state-sponsorship, including longstanding US complicity in protecting the governments that protected the al-Qaeda terror chief, before and after 9/11.

And I would add... allowed 9/11 to take place.