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Paul Craig Roberts: Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death 1/2

Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death Paul Craig Roberts www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv May 3, 2011 In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago (emphasis added) from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday.” “No credible image to show Osama killed by US Special Forces.” How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001. How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the “terror mastermind” who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did

members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden

A few nice National Security images I found:

members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden
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Image by Beacon Radio
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 1: (EDITORS NOTE: Please be advised that a classified document visible in this photo was obscured by The White House) In this handout image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House May 1, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama later announced that the United States had killed Bin Laden in an operation led by U.S. Special Forces at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Hillary Clinton;Joe Biden;

Former Defense Secretary Perry And Former National Security Advisor Hadley
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Image by Talk Radio News Service
Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley presented their recommendations on modernizing U.S. defenses before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Photo By Sarah Mamula

Aboard Air Force One, President Barack Obama discusses his Afghanistan speech with Ben Rhodes Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communica
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Image by U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia
President Barack Obama discusses his speech with Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes, en route to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in West Point, N.Y., where the President announced his Afghanistan war strategy, Dec. 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Jeremy Scahill Comments on the Death of Osama Bin Laden & the US-led War on Terror (Democracy Now!)

DemocracyNow.org – The manhunt for Osama Bin Laden is over. Nearly 10 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, US forces are said to have assassinated the Saudi-born founder of Al Qaeda inside Pakistan. At the time of his death, Bin Laden was living in a heavily fortified mansion just a mile from the Pakistani Army’s principal military academy. The US operation was reportedly carried out by 25 Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command. It is unclear what role Pakistan played in the killing. For analysis, Democracy Now! interviews Jeremy Scahill, the national security correspondent for The Nation magazine. This clip is part of an hour-long roundtable discussion about Bin Laden’s death and the ongoing war on terrorism. Click here to watch the entire interview: www.democracynow.org For the video/audio podcast, transcript, to sign up for the daily news digest, and for Democracy Now!’s comprehensive news archive on reports on the 9/11 terror attacks and the resulting war in Afghanistan, visit www.democracynow.org FOLLOW US: Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit www.democracynow.org
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Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death Paul Craig Roberts www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv May 3, 2011 In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago (emphasis added) from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday.” “No credible image to show Osama killed by US Special Forces.” How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001. How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the “terror mastermind” who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did
Video Rating: 4 / 5

US security advisor defends Pakistan on Osama

US security advisor defends Pakistan on Osama
Washington, May 8 : Despite the shadow of the Osama episode affecting their ties, United States National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said there was no evidence to infer that Pakistan establishment was aware of Osama bin Laden hiding at Abbottabad before the US killed him in a covert action on May 2.
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Kuwait´s Prime Minister Addresses National Assembly; Lays Out Hopes for Cooperation
KUWAIT CITY, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah addressed Kuwait´s National Assembly today and urged lawmakers to move past differences between one another in an effort to end …
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US Official: Items Seized from bin Laden’s Compound, Biggest Ever
The national security adviser for the White House says the material seized from Osma bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan amounts to the largest cache of intelligence ever gathered from any single terrorist.
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US official says bin Laden information cache is largest ever derived from any single terrorist
WASHINGTON — The national security adviser for the White House says the material seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan amounts to the largest cache of intelligence ever gathered from any single terrorist. National security adviser Tom Donilon (DAHN’-uh-lihn) says the CIA estimated the intelligence haul to be the size of a small college library. Donilon says the U.S. can’t consider …
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