The Karakoram highway leading into Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday, May 2. Osama bin Laden had been quietly hiding here, in a three-story house about one-third of a mile away from Pakistan's premier military academy. That all changed on Sunday, however, when four helicopters carrying U.S. Navy SEALs swooped into the town during the early morning hours and killed him.
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MARTY MARTEL
5:12 PM ET
May 4, 2011
Pakistani malarkey with U. S. connivance
The biggest malarkey that Pakistan has spread with U. S. connivance is that ’nuclear weapons are in danger of falling in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists if Pakistani government collapses’ when ‘Pakistan's Army and ISI are covertly SPONSORING four militant groups - Haqqani‘s HQN, Mullah Omar‘s QST, Al Qaeda and LeT - and will not abandon them for any amount of US money‘, as previous US ambassador Anne Patterson to Pakistan clearly pointed finger at Pakistani Army and ISI for supporting Osama bin Laden‘s Al Qaeda when she wrote in a secret review in 2009 according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show.
Ambassador Patterson had NO reason to mislead her own State Department and U. S. government.
How can Pakistan be in danger of falling to the Islamic fundamentalists if Pakistani Army and ISI are SPONSORING those very Islamic fundamentalists led by Osama bin Laden, Haqqani, Mullah Omar and Hafiz Saeed as reported by ambassador Patterson?
Evidence kept popping up again and again that Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency is fueled from across the border in Pakistan but U. S. administrations, congress and military kept accepting Pakistan’s alibis that it did not do no such thing.
Afghan officials from Karzai to Spanta kept asking that ‘the war against terrorism is not in Afghanistan’s homes and villages. But rather this war is in the sanctuaries, funding centers and training places of terrorism which are in Pakistan. Our international allies have the ability to destroy these Pakistani sanctuaries, but the question is why they are not doing it?“ But nobody listened the cries of poor Afghans.
US just kept deliberately ignoring Taliban’s Pakistani connections in fueling and sustaining Afghan insurgency as reported by Matt Waldman in ‘The sun in the sky‘ on 6/13/2010, corroborated by WikiLeaks leaks on 7/25/2010 and then further corroborated by Chris Alexander, Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005 and Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan from 2005 until 2009 in his article on 7/30/2010 titled ‘The huge scale of Pakistan‘s complicity‘.
Let us see if U. S. once again allows Pakistan to get away with a whitewash and a wink and a nod with few more billions to boot.
ESOUL
2:50 PM ET
May 6, 2011
Was Osama so dumb that he trusted ISI for his security?
If the whole world considers ISI and Pakistan unreliable, despite their aid in killing hundreds of terrorists and sacrificing thousands of lives, does anyone seriously think Osama could trust them with his security? How smart would you grade him if he did?
ROMAN GIL
6:15 PM ET
May 4, 2011
The "Osama Is Dead Story" Has Questions For Investigation
The “Osama Bin Laden Is Dead Story” Has Many Questions That Need To Be Investigated.
Osama Bin Laden was a terrorist and deserved the death penalty. This is why the media must investigate this story instead of merely parroting the information that was provided by the government.
Based on my experience as a decorated US Army combat veteran, this story has credibility problems. I tried to post these questions in the comments section of several mass media publications and they did not get posted. A free press is essential in a free society because it has a duty to investigate what the government is doing and it must educate citizens. A free media must publish all responsible questions from the public and be open to debate. Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between government and a printing press, he would take the printing press.
1. Why they did not show Osama’s body publicly? In 1967, Che Guevara the Communist guerrilla was captured alive wounded in Bolivia, interrogated, killed and his body was displayed to the world media. A responsible government would display Osama’s body to the media and to a panel of international physicians to prove without a doubt the death of the most wanted terrorist in the world. The government version that Osama’s head was too damaged to show the public is not credible. Morticians can prepare a body for public display. Media and international physicians would be welcome to take DNA samples from the body as total proof of Osama’s demise.
2. Osama was unarmed when they shot him? Osama was a terrorist veteran of the Afghan Soviet war that was waged in the 1980s between Islamist guerrillas and the Soviet Union. Anybody with his background would have alarmed, mined and booby trapped his house. Weapons would be in his possession at all times and in every room of the house, including hand grenades. He had plenty of time to install command detonated mines everywhere outside and inside the compound. I have problems believing that the most wanted terrorist in the world was killed while unarmed. When I was in a war zone, my weapon was with me at all times and I slept with it and lots of ammo and hand grenades, could Osama be so foolish that he did not have weapons in his room?
3. There were no American casualties? This is simply not credible because attacking a compound that is occupied by dangerous men that had plenty of time to prepare for defense, makes it certain that the attackers must sustain casualties. Osama’s terrorist group specializes in suicide bombers of both sexes. They could not spare even one of them to protect their leader?
4. Why did we spend $1.5 Trillion dollars occupying and "nation building" Iraq and Afghanistan instead of targeting Osama's less than 1,000 terrorists?. We could have got Osama 10 years ago at a reasonable cost. When American troops landed in Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Afghan Northern Alliance had already overthrown the Taliban government that harbored Osama. It was not necessary to occupy the country. A war using Special Forces would have been sufficient
5. Why are we still involved in the Israeli-Muslim conflict? This is the cause of the war on terror. We inherited Israel’s enemies and they struck us on 9/11. The effects of our involvement will continue until we divorce from the Muslim world and focus on killing the actual terrorists until they are finished. Our absence from the Muslim world will make Muslims eventually stop provoking us with terrorism because they will want to keep us out. It is common sense that it would be in the Muslim interest to stop terrorism against America to keep America from coming back to their lands. With America out of the Israeli-Muslim conflict, the Muslims will be free to focus on their affairs and their problem with Israel. Israel has nuclear weapons and a strong military that assures it that it can survive any war without America. The only beneficiaries of the present war on terror are the war contractors and the special interest groups.
Some possible explanations for this unusual story;
a) The government killed Osama Bin Laden but it believes that it is not necessary to provide conclusive proof of their actions because they are universally loved and trusted. This means that they are incompetent because they did not prove their story.
b) Osama Bin Laden was hooked on opium and developed a false sense of security. His followers shared this drug problem and failed to fortify and provide guards for the Osama compound.
c) The masses are so stupid that they will accept without question anything that the government and media tells them, so why bother with proof?
d) Osama Bin Laden died years ago, and now it is a convenient time to bring him back to distract the masses and continue the hugely profitable war on terror and gain mass support for a government that cannot exist without debt and financial dependency on special interest groups.
e) This story is a case that simply shows the irresponsibility and incompetence of the American government.
The $1.5 Trillion spent on the war on terror continues to pile additional debt and there is no end in sight. The money that was wasted on fighting this war with a wrong strategy could have been wisely invested by loaning it to private enterprise companies that would be protected from cheap imports. A new industrial policy like South Korea’s would reconstruct and protect a new American industrial base that would replace the industry and technology that global corporations exported to China and other Third World countries under the globalization false ideology that has ruined America and Europe and created millions of permanently unemployed people. America would be able to replace imports with nationally produced products and services. The trade losses would end and careers in science, engineering, chemistry and skilled jobs would be abundant in an industrial economy.
With a new industrial base, America would be independent of imports and global debt financing. Presently, the Federal government needs to annually beg and borrow $1.65 Trillion a year from international capital and US investors because the industrial base of the American economy is only 9%. There are not enough corporate or individual taxpayers to support the huge Federal, State and local governments, plus their armies of government contractors. In any case, the American governments must reduce their size and expenses by 40% to balance their budgets and avoid digging America deeper into debt and dependency on the kindness of creditors.
The present economic and political dependency of the American economy on debt, special interest groups and imports makes a continuation of the present globalist war on terror fatal for America. It’s a choice of nation building America before it becomes a terminal case of financial and social cancer, or continue to dig the debt and dependency grave deeper until we end like other failed world powers, including the British Empire, the French Empire and Soviet Union.
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JOEYFOTO.FR
8:39 AM ET
May 5, 2011
Israel inherited our enemies. ..jt
First, I respect your service and I respect much of what you wrote as thoughtful and insightful, even though I tend to disagree with many of your points... I concur with your conclusion:
"The present economic and political dependency of the American economy on debt, special interest groups and imports makes a continuation of the present globalist war on terror fatal for America. It’s a choice of nation building America before it becomes a terminal case of financial and social cancer, or continue to dig the debt and dependency grave deeper until we end like other failed world powers, including the British Empire, the French Empire and Soviet Union."
As well as cutting spending, especially in the metastasized Military-Industrial-Intelligence monstrosity, the US government also has to raise taxes on those who are thriving and on those who are amassing unheard of wealth. It's only fair.
There is however one point with which I profoundly disagree. You wrote: "Why are we still involved in the Israeli-Muslim conflict? This is the cause of the war on terror. We inherited Israel’s enemies and they struck us on 9/11. The effects of our involvement will continue until we divorce from the Muslim world and focus on killing the actual terrorists until they are finished. Our absence from the Muslim world will make Muslims eventually stop provoking us with terrorism because they will want to keep us out. "
It is historically myopic to say: "We inherited Israel's enemies," when the clear fact is, Israel inherited our enemies. What side was Syria on in WWII? The Mufti of Jerusalem, did he, Arafat's hero, live in Germany during the war? Was he or was he not Hitler's friend and an enthusiastic supporter of the Final Solution? How about the Muslim Brotherhood's support of Hitler? These folks were sworn enemies of Western Civilization, before the State of Israel existed. The will be America's enemy and Europe'e enemy whether or not we withdraw support form Israel.
The hope here is that the secular Arab Spring becomes real over time and the legitimate aspirations of the vast majority of the people, to lead decent lives and watch their children grow and prosper, are given the chance to approach reality. That will never happen under the cruel rule of these fascist states, who are surviving soul-mates of the Nazis.
Blaming Israel for these tensions lacks realism, in light of clear historical facts.
AARKY
10:32 PM ET
May 5, 2011
OBL is Really Dead
Mr Gil: Thank you for your theories and beliefs, it doesn't make them real.
VIC LESPERANCE
7:57 AM ET
May 5, 2011
Best Statement of the Week
That award goes to the Pakistani individual who posed the question (paraphrase); this city is such a high security zone, how could the authorities not know he was here?" Indeed!
ESOUL
3:09 PM ET
May 6, 2011
Osama's death is a great moment but........
Osama's death is a great moment because justice is served to one of the biggest criminals of our time. It is also important because of the message that terrorists are not safe anywhere.
At the same time, being a Pakistani, I resent my country being wrongly accused by many people. To them I would say that Osama was too cunning to trust ISI or Pakistan Army with his security.
Doubts and problems arise in even best of the coalitions. They are more likely to surface in US-Pak coalition which carries lot of baggage from the past on both sides. Blaming an Ally is no way to promote an alliance.
THEINTERNATIONALIST
9:50 AM ET
May 5, 2011
To slide 7
What balls! First they deny international involvement and circumvent efforts at intelligence gathering, and then they blame "the world" for failing to find him. "The world"'s been saying for years that bin Laden is in Pakistan. And They were denying it. So whose fault is it, really?
JAMESDNE
11:32 PM ET
May 5, 2011
Dead
Yet another Mystery another theory .
Jame
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ESOUL
2:48 PM ET
May 6, 2011
How Could Osama trust such undependable ISI?
If the whole world considers ISI and Pakistan unreliable, despite their aid in killing hundreds of terrorists and sacrificing thousands of lives, does anyone seriously think Osama could trust them with his security? How smart would you grade him if he did?
RONALDO
11:45 PM ET
May 31, 2011
Osama Bin Laden James was a
Osama Bin Laden James was a terrorist and deserved the death penalty. This is why the media must investigate this story instead of merely parroting the information that was provided by the government.
WILLIER
1:00 PM ET
June 3, 2011
Hideout
The government killed Osama Bin Laden but it believes that it is not necessary to provide conclusive proof of their actions because they are universally loved and trusted. This means that they are incompetent because they did not prove their story. energy management Evidence kept popping up again and again that Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency is fueled from across the border in Pakistan but U. S. administrations, congress and military kept accepting Pakistan’s alibis that it did not do no such thing.
ANTOINETTE13
1:12 PM ET
June 3, 2011
Killer’s Lair
Afghan officials from Karzai to Spanta kept asking that ‘the war against terrorism is not in Afghanistan’s homes and villages. But rather this war is in the sanctuaries, funding centers and training places of terrorism which are in Pakistan. Our international allies have the ability to destroy these Pakistani sanctuaries, but the question is why they are not doing it?“ But nobody listened the cries of poor Afghans. cancer Doubts and problems arise in even best of the coalitions. They are more likely to surface in US-Pak coalition which carries lot of baggage from the past on both sides. Blaming an Ally is no way to promote an alliance.