[Peace-discuss] the useful death of obl (a di)

[E. Wayne Johnson]

by Paul Craig Roberts (writing for LewRockwell.com)

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."

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 not know how to fly -- has not 
pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really 
believe that a government's security system that can so totally fail 
when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew 
itself to perfection overnight?

How many Americans will notice the resurrection of the long missing bin 
Laden as "terror mastermind" after his displacement by Khalid Sheikh 
Mohammed, the Guantanamo prisoner who confessed to being the "mastermind 
of 9/11" after being water-boarded 183 times?

Americobama cream of crap soupans are too busy celebrating to think, a 
capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.

Americans are so enthralled over the death of bin Laden that they do not 
wonder why information gleamed years ago would take so long to locate a 
person who was allegedly living in a million-dollar building equipped 
with all the latest communication equipment next to the Pakistani 
Military Academy. Allegedly, the "most wanted criminal" was not moving 
from hide-out to hide-out in desolate mountains, but ensconced in luxury 
quarters in broad daylight. Nevertheless, despite his obvious location, 
it took the CIA years to find him after claiming to have gained 
information of his whereabouts out of captives in secret prisons. This 
is the image of the CIA as the new Keystone Cops.

In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and 
CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of 
engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the 
gunfire erupted, we have from the pressitutes that "U.S. officials 
conceded the risk of renewed attack. The terrorists almost certainly 
will attempt to avenge bin Laden's death, CIA Director Leon Panetta 
wrote in a memo. . . . Within a few hours, the Department of Homeland 
Security warned that bin Laden's death was likely to provide motivation 
for attacks from 'homegrown violent extremists'."

John Brennan, White House counter-terrorism adviser, told reporters that 
"it was inconceivable that the terrorist fugitive didn't have support in 
Pakistan where his hideout had been custom built six years ago in a city 
with a heavy military presence."

So the claimed murder of bin Laden by the US in a sovereign foreign 
country with which the US is not at war, a crime under international 
law, has set up three more self-serving possibilities:

Terrorists will avenge bin Laden's death, says the CIA, setting up 
another false flag attack to keep the profits flowing into the 
military/security complex and the power flowing into the unaccountable 
CIA. Homeland Security can extend the domestic police state, abuse of 
travelers, and arrests of war protestors. And Pakistan is under the gun 
of invasion and takeover (for India, of course) for shielding bin Laden.

The Israel Lobby's representatives in the US Congress quickly fell in 
with the agenda. Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed 
Services Committee, declared that the Pakistani Army and intelligence 
agency "have a lot of questions to answer, given the location, the 
length of time and the apparent fact that this was actually -- this 
facility was actually build for bin Laden, and its closeness to the 
central location of the Pakistani army."

The two reporters question nothing in the government's propaganda. 
Instead, the reporters join in the celebration. Nevertheless they let 
slip that "officials were weighing the release of at least one photo 
taken of bin Laden's body as part of what Brennan called an effort to 
make sure 'nobody has any basis to try and deny the death.'"

As the Guardian and European newspapers have revealed, the photo of the 
dead bin Laden is a fake. As the alleged body has been dumped into the 
ocean, nothing remains but the word of the US government, which lied 
about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections, about 
yellowcake, about Iranian nukes, and, according to thousands of experts, 
about 9/11. Suddenly the government is telling us the truth about bin 
Laden's death? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that 
I'll let you have for a good price.

My initial interpretation of the faked bin Laden death was that Obama 
needed closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with 
the US budget deficit. Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials 
suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war 
victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. The 
military/security complex will become richer and more powerful, and 
Americans will be rewarded with vicarious pleasure in victory over enemies.
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