Osama bin Laden
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Family Values and One Last Act of Magic By Dan Hind
Osama bin Laden had once been a central figure in America’s political narrative. By the beginning of the year he was in danger of disappearing altogether from the public mind. His death has given new salience to the notion of a War on Terror just as it has invigorated the Obama presidency. Continue reading
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The file on Osama bin Laden’s assassination
7 May 2011 A roundup of stories relevant to the assassination of Osama bin Laden America again needs Osama Osama bin Laden conscientiously accomplished the task set and, once September 11th 2001 was over, earned peace and quiet that he was promised by his US bosses. But 10 years went by, and the masters of Continue reading
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Osama bin Laden killing witness account
A local resident of Abbottabad has revealed that a helicopter was hovering low over the city before the operation in which Osama Bin Laden was killed. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, May 5, 2011: Pakistan’s bin Laden Policy
As the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises fresh questions about U.S.-Pakistan relations, newly released documents show that as early as 1998 U.S. officials concluded the Government of Pakistan “is not disposed to be especially helpful on the matter of terrorist Usama bin Ladin.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal Continue reading
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Obit: Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) By Eric Walberg
A devout Wahhabi, bin Laden rose to fame quickly following the occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops in 1979, when US president Jimmy Carter authorised massive funding of mujahideen in Afghanistan and Pakistan and president Ronald Reagan launched his war against the “evil empire”, the ailing Soviet Union, in 1981. Continue reading
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Communiqué by Elias Davidsson on Osama bin Laden’s murder
According to mass media, Osama bin Laden was murdered yesterday, on May 1st, 2011. He was murdered with “other family members”, whose identity is still unknown. The President of the United States of America took credit for this act of murder. Murder is prohibited in every jurisdiction. It is regarded as a criminal act both… Continue reading
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Osama bin Laden’s Second Death By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the… Continue reading
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M.K. Bhadrakumar (India) – The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden
Think of the irony of it. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down not in the lawless wilds of Afghanistan but in the teeming Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is hardly 50 kilometers away as the crow flies from the headquarters of the military establishment in Rawalpindi. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 May 2011: Bin Laden – Justice or Vengeance?
2 May 2011 2011— Information Clearing House Bin Laden Killed In Pakistan By JULIE PACE Osama bin Laden, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28004.htm Continue reading
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The killing of Osama bin Laden By Patrick Martin and Alex Lantier
Obama’s speech and the press commentary was clearly an attempt to rally public support for wars that have become deeply unpopular. Obama asked Americans to ‘think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.’ Media commentators repeatedly expressed the hope that the killing of bin… Continue reading
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THE OSAMA BIN LADEN FILE
The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed in Pakistan by U.S. special operations forces yesterday, ranked as “one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic terrorist activities in the world” as early as 1996, according to declassified U.S. documents posted on the web today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 13, 2010: “No-Go” Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show
U.S. had “Absolutely No Inclination” to Negotiate with Taliban September 2001; Pakistan Disagreed, Claimed “Real Victory” Only Through Talks Continue reading
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9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign By Andrew Gavin Marshall
For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a “new Pearl Harbor”, a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination. Continue reading
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America’s Undeclared War on Pakistan By James Gundun
It was a relatively flawless performance. With Washington stuck in its Afghan review and Pakistan’s cities under bombardment, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched down in a hostile Pakistan in October 2009 on a self-proclaimed propaganda mission. Greeted with bombs from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and treated with hard questions on the freshly signed Kerry-Lugar bill,… Continue reading
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Did Ahmadinejad Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map?
5 May, 2010 — Information Clearing House Ahmadinejad Interview With Russian Television – 5 May, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 President Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is In Washington May 5, 2010 George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Continue reading
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Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001? By Prof David Ray Griffin
In 2009, I published a little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? Much evidence, I showed, suggested that Osama bin Laden had died on or about December 13, 2001. (Although this book was ignored by the US press, it received major reviews in British newspapers, and it even provided the basis for a… Continue reading
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September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan By Michel Chossudovsky
The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade Afghanistan was that the September 11 attacks constituted an undeclared “armed attack” “from abroad” by an unnamed foreign power, and that consequently “the laws of war” apply, allowing the nation under attack, to strike back in the name of “self-defense”. Continue reading
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The Unspoken Truth: The Global Research Reader on 9/11
Turning 9/11 Realities Upside Down: When the “Big Lie” becomes the “Truth” Provided below is a selection of essential reading published by Global Research in the course of the last few years. Continue reading
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Video: Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989. Continue reading
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