The Afridi Conviction

By Ghalib Sultan
ZoneAsia-Pk

An Assistant Political Agent in FATA has sentenced Dr Afridi to 33 years in prison and a fine under the Frontier Crimes Regulations for collaborating with the US CIA in the process that led to the unilateral US action to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Dr Afridi is a Pakistan national domiciled in FATA though his CIA directed activities were carried out in the town of Abbottabad that is not in FATA. Pakistan must have made sure that his trial under the FCR was legally correct because of his domicile status. According to media reports Dr Afridi’s wife is a US national and if true then that may have given the CIA a coercive advantage if any was needed—material gain was definitely involved.

The US by publicly defending and championing the cause of Dr Afridi has established beyond all doubt that Dr Afridi, a Pakistan government employee, was subverted and recruited to work for the CIA. What the US has not explained is why Dr Afridi was left to face the music and why he and his family were not taken out especially when his role was sure to be discovered. The US had abandoned Cuban collaborators after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in the Kennedy era. South Vietnamese collaborators were also abandoned to a horrific fate and now the Afghans are bracing for what awaits them. Angry US law makers have now woken up and demanded that Afridi be released as he has done nothing wrong. He hasn’t under US law but can Pakistan ignore the fact that a Pakistani government official collaborated with a fToreign intelligence agency in a clandestine manner? Not if they do not want to set a precedent for others. Dr Afridi under US direction also recruited other government employees to work with him and by using a vaccination campaign as a cover discredited the government’s health care programs. US law makers have proposed a cut of US$ 33mn—one for each year of Dr Afridi’s prison term—to be deducted from the aid to Pakistan and perhaps paid to Dr Afridi as compensation. This cut comes after a proposal to cut all aid to Pakistan by half for the continued closure of the NATO logistics route. The gloves are off and the strategy is to brow beat Pakistan into compliance. Pakistan, and Dr Afridi, are learning what collaboration with the US really means.

US lawmakers are calling Pakistan an extortionist because it has demanded adequate payment for damage to its infrastructure. Pakistan has been called a schizophrenic ally—living in Alice’s wonderland and one has speculated that if this is Pakistan’s idea of cooperation then what would its opposition look like? You do not want to go down that route not with the present situation in Pakistan. Many in the US are also questioning the timing of Dr Afridi’s conviction and asking who is orchestrating policy in Pakistan. Some media anchors, analysts and writers are answering the question exactly as the US wants it answered. Pakistanis are now realizing the full implications of the change in the US’ strategic direction in South Asia away from Pakistan and decisively towards India. If the down slide in US Pakistan relations is not arrested then Pakistan’s response options will be severely restricted and the US would have effectively destabilized another country and region with disastrous consequences. The Afghans are not the only ones bracing for a catastrophe.

OBL Killing Photos: To show or not to show?

Global Post

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed court documents arguing against releasing photos and video of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Justice officials said the 52 images of the deceased bin Laden were classified and could prompt violence against Americans overseas if they were made public, The Associated Press reports.

The government asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit.

In a declaration included in the documents, John Bennett, director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, described the photos and video recordings as “quite graphic, as they depict the fatal bullet wound to (bin Laden) and other similarly gruesome images of his corpse,” the AP reports. Images were taken of bin Laden’s body at the Abbottabad compound and during his burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson, Bennett said.

The government’s filings were also accompanied by a declaration from Admiral William McRaven, who’s in charge of the U.S. Special Operations Command and commands the Navy SEALs who carried out the bin Laden raid, Politico reports. McRaven wrote that releasing the images would likely “make the special operations unit that participated in this operation and its members more readily identifiable in the future.”

Judicial Watch said it disagreed with the government’s arguments. “There’s always something that can be released,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

According to Politico:

The legal fight over the bin Laden photos has produced some disagreement among FOIA experts. Some expect the government to prevail in the case without much difficulty because courts are traditionally very deferential to the executive branch in litigation involving national security, particularly FOIA cases. However, a few FOIA specialists have said aspects of the government’s arguments against disclosure is weaker than in other cases, chiefly because of reliance on the harms that stem in essence from the public relations impact the imagery could have.

Judicial Watch is one of several organizations, including the AP and Politico, that has requested photos and video of bin Laden’s death, Politico reports.

The judge in the case is unlikely to rule before December, Politico reports.

Pakistan Let China Sample Crashed US “Stealth” Copter

The Telegraph

Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. “stealth” helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

During the US operation one of two modified Blackhawk helicopters, believed to employ previously unknown stealth capability, malfunctioned and crashed in Abottabad forcing commandos to abandon it

The disclosure, if confirmed, is likely to further shake the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, which has been improving slightly after hitting its lowest point in decades following the killing of bin Laden.

During the raid, one of two modified Blackhawk helicopters, believed to employ unknown stealth capability, malfunctioned and crashed, forcing the commandos to abandon it.

“The U.S. now has information that Pakistan, particularly the ISI, gave access to the Chinese military to the downed helicopter in Abbottabad,” the paper quoted a person “in intelligence circles” as saying on its website.

It said Pakistan, which enjoys a close relationship with China, allowed Chinese intelligence officials to take pictures of the crashed aircraft as well as take samples of its special “skin” that allowed the American raid to evade Pakistani radar.

One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters there was reason to believe Pakistan had allowed the Chinese to inspect the aircraft. But the official could not confirm it happened with certainty.

No one from the Pakistani army was available for comment, but the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan’s top spy agency, denied the report. The paper said Pakistan’s top general, chief of army staff Ashfaq Kayani, denied that China had been given access.

The surviving tail section, photos of which were widely distributed on the Internet, was returned to the United States following a trip by U.S. Senator John Kerry in May, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy told Reuters.

Shortly after the raid, Pakistan hinted that it might give China access to the helicopter, given its fury over the raid, which it considers a grievous violation of its sovereignty.

“We had explicitly asked the Pakistanis in the immediate aftermath of the raid not to let anyone have access to the damaged remains of the helicopter,” the Financial Times quoted the source as saying.

In an incident such as the helicopter crash, it is standard American procedure to destroy sophisticated technology such as encrypted communications and navigation computers.

DISPLEASURE

Pakistan is a strategic ally to the United States but the relationship has been on a downward spiral since the killing of the al Qaeda leader in the raid by U.S. forces.

Islamabad was not informed in advance and responded by cutting back on U.S. trainers in the country and placing limits on CIA activities there.

The fact that the al Qaeda chief lived for years near the Pakistani army’s main academy in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad reinforced suspicions in Washington about Islamabad’s reliability in the war against militant Islamists.

There are also growing frustrations with Pakistan over its reluctance to mount offensives against militant factions in the northwest who are fighting U.S.-led foreign forces across the border in Afghanistan.

In a show of displeasure over Pakistan’s cutback in U.S. trainers, its limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants, the United States has suspended about a third of its $2.7 billion annual defense aid to Pakistan.

Despite this, both sides have tried to prevent a breakdown of relations.

The head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, visited the United States last month for talks with U.S. government and intelligence officials, which both sides said went well.

Despite the billions in aid, Pakistan still considers China a more reliable ally than the United States. China is a major investor in predominantly Muslim Pakistan in areas such as telecommunications, ports and infrastructure. The countries are linked by a Chinese-built road pushed through Pakistan’s northern mountains.

Trade with Pakistan is worth almost $9 billion a year for Pakistan, and China is its top arms supplier.

In the wake of attacks that left 11 people dead in the China’s western region of Xinjiang in late July, Pakistan dispatched the ISI’s Pasha to Beijing.

Al-Qaida says al-Zawahri has succeeded bin Laden

By HAMZA HENDAWI

CAIRO — Al-Qaida has selected its longtime No. 2 to succeed Osama bin Laden following last month’s U.S. commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted Thursday on a website affiliated with the network.

Ayman al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, is believed to be operating from somewhere near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

He is the son of an upper middle class Egyptian family of doctors and scholars. His father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University’s medical school and his grandfather was the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, a premier center of religious study.

In a videotaped eulogy released earlier this month, al-Zawahri warned that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies.

“Today, praise God, America is not facing an individual, a group or a faction,” he said, wearing a white robe and turban with an assault rifle leaned on a wall behind him. “It is facing a nation than is in revolt, having risen from its lethargy to a renaissance of jihad.”

Al-Zawahri also heaped praise on bin Laden, who was killed in a May 2 raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, and criticized the U.S. for burying him at sea.

“He went to his God as a martyr, the man who terrified America while alive and terrifies it in death, so much so that they trembled at the idea of his having tomb,” he said.

Al-Qaida gave no details about the selection process for bin Laden’s successor but said that it was the best tribute to the memory of its “martyrs.”

The statement announcing al-Zawahri’s succession was filled with the terror network’s usual rhetoric, vowing to continue the fight against what it called “conquering infidels, led by America and its stooge Israel, who attack the homes of Islam.”

The group also said it will never accept Israel’s legitimacy and will continue to support Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa.

The al-Qaida statement also stated the group’s support for this year’s popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria and Libya.

“We encourage the people of Islam to rise up and continue the struggle, persistence and devotion until all the corrupt and oppressive regimes imposed by the West are gone,” it said.

A DEADLY NARRATIVE

By: Ismail Khan

As high level US visitors come to Pakistan the impression is that efforts are being made to revamp end reorient the US-Pakistan relationship after the Raymond Davis and OBL incidents. This may or may not be so but much more is happening on the street and a narrative is taking shape that is getting more and more takers. It would be folly to ignore this reality.

If confused and convoluted official statements are ignored then what eye witnesses and some from the forces that battled the attackers in Karachi’s Mehran Base have said is eye-opening. It is being reported that there were up to 11 Chinese on the base. No one has explained why they were there when the base was home to US supplied P3c Orion Aircraft – especially when US sensitivity to transfer of their technology to China is well known and clearly communicated to Pakistan. It is clear from events as they unfolded that the primary objective of the attack were the US supplied aircraft and not the Americans on the base for maintenance and training. There is plausible evidence that the attackers attempted to take the Chinese hostage but the Americans were not targeted. It is said that some of the attackers had tattooed arms-a typically American habit but frowned upon in this part of the world. One such tattooed person who looks to be an American was shot dead in a bush and had communication equipment with him indicating that he was controlling the operation. Reports on the number of attackers vary from

12 to 25 and most believe the higher figure. The talk of help to the attackers from inside the base is now leaning towards the notion that this help came from the Americans on the base and not, as people are being tutored to believe, from penetration of the Navy by militants. The journalist Salim Shahzad was probably killed because he was peddling the story about ‘Al Qaeda within the Pakistani ranks’ – something of which there is no evidence. There is, however ample evidence of covert American presence in Pakistan after they used their moles to gain access through liberally supplied visas. If Raymond Davis was not enough then the stand-off in Peshawer just a day ago is a more recent event-diplomats when checked identify themselves, they don’t sit and sulk behind locked doors and black tinted glasses in their host country defying the laws of the land.

There is more on the street. A Tehrik Taleban (TTP) spokesman speaking from Mohmand (a supposedly subdued tribal agency of FATA) has said that even if the Americans/NATO leave Afghanistan their fight against Pakistan would go on because they are fighting to bring ‘Islamic rule’ in Pakistan and that Pakistan’s nuclear assets are not in danger because these are Islamic assets to be used in the service of Islam. These pronouncements come when the US is being asked to pull out after the OBL killing and after pulling out rely on small forces carrying out focused operations. Pakistan has been pushing for a shift to political resolution in Afghanistan balking at the pressure to get into North Waziristan in tandem with US led military operations in Afghanistan and stepped up Drone strikes. The reports of US drones targeting the anti-Pakistan TTP and the new revelations of TTP’s global agenda as well as long term designs on Pakistan are all coincidentally timed to ramp up the pressure on Pakistan even as the Hedley courtroom drama makes headway in incriminating the ISI – already reeling from the US delivered below the belt blow in Abbottabad. The earlier reports of Raymond Davis’ contacts with TTP now start making sense because the best option would be to stay covert and get the TTP to do the dirty work in Pakistan with careful pay-offs using Indian RAW and Afghan NDS assets as well as old Pakistan hating loyalists like the ex NDS chief now operating from the background. Cleverly orchestrated this could keep the TTP in the dark about who they were actually working for. Add to all this the fact that post OBL and post Mehran the military and the ISI are in the dock and severely downgraded domestically – something that surely gladdens the hearts of the US, the Indians and the Afghan government.

What does all this add up to? It gives the Pakistani street a narrative that fits neatly into anti-American sentiment. To many the logic is simple – use covert operations to launch the overt OBL raid. Use covert operations and local assets to launch a ‘terrorist’ attack that sends the message about not transferring US technology. Use covert contacts to create the pressure that will get Pakistan into North Waziristan to help create the environment for the Obama promised withdrawal in July. If this narrative is flawed then it is time for the US to start telling the Pakistanis what they are up to and to end the charade of de-hyphenation when it is actually a trilateral hyphenation against Pakistan – the CIA, RAW and NDS behind the smoke screen that is the TTP. A civil-military confrontation, public opinion and media running down the military and ISI, lawlessness and internal breakdown are bonus dividends not to be scoffed at.

Attack on Abbottabad House (New Revelations)

General Mirza Aslam Beg
Former Chief of Army Staff

From the cool comfort of the White House Obama watched the drama of raid on the house in Abbottabad. This was a CIA operation, meant to fool the world and embarrass Pakistan but the fact of the matter is that the whole exercise was a fake and a lie, same as the 9/11 episode was to find an excuse to launch the Crusade against the Muslim World. On the day of attack, that is 2nd May, I made the comment to the Pakistani media, that “It was a drama and a lie, to embarrass Pakistan. There was no Osama there, attack helicopters came from Tarbela base, carrying an Osama look-alike and killed him in cold blood, in front of his family members who were living in the house.” And that is coming true.

And now, as more information is coming through, it is getting clearer that Osama was killed in 2009 and his bullet ridden photo was published and the same picture was shown on 2nd May 2011, but was immediately withdrawn, when the mistake was realized. The Iranian President, in his recent statement, has said “Osama was captured a few years back and now they have played the drama of killing him in Pakistan for political gains.”

Some of our eminent journalists, who visited the sites and interviewed eye-witnesses, have something very interesting to reveal: “The people from village Kund Hassan Zai of Kala Dhaka, claim that the two helicopters came from the direction of Tarbela, midnight ½ May, flying low, along the river and landed in the fields of Manab Khan, stayed there for about thirty minutes and flew away in the direction of Mansehra. In the morning we saw wheel marks of the helicopters and some trash also.” The locals of Abbottabad living in the proximity of the house said that “The two helicopters came over the house and as they hovered, we saw fire in the compound of the house, which soon got extinguished. If a helicopter had crashed and caught fire, the fire could not have been extinguished in such a short time. Later on, when we visited the site we saw burnt-up plastic pieces with letter ‘NSA’ written on one of the piece. There was no trace of a burnt-out helicopter.”

The local school teacher Muhammad Asif revealed: “There is no question of Osama living here for the last five years. This house is located a little away from the main road, on a lower ground. It has no telephone connection and no other communication facility. Other houses also have high boundary walls and we just cannot believe that such a high value target was living there, with no security cover at all.” A neighbour, said: “On several occasions I met Khan Sahib, his brother and children, living in this house but never saw any elderly person. They spoke Pashto, but spoke to us in Urdu. It appears the Americans brought here some one other than Osama and killed him, for a specific purpose.”

A neighbour, Latif Akbar says “on night 01/2 May, due to load shedding, there was no light when the two helicopters came over the house from the PMA side, past mid night. One helicopter threw a flare, which lit-up the area of Thanda Choa – Bilal Town. As the two helicopters hovered over the house, we came-out of our houses and saw about 20-25 soldiers jump-out, close to the outer wall of the house, while soldiers from the second helicopter, came sliding down the ropes inside the house compound. In the meantime, some 20-25 of us neighbours had collected in the lane leading to the house. Suddenly the lights were switched on and one of the soldiers shouted in Pashto: “Lights-off Laka” and soon the lights were switched-off. In the meantime, we heard three explosions and a portion of the boundary wall fell-down. Some of the people who had collected there, rushed inside through the gap, thinking it was Pak Army helicopter, which needed rescue but soon rushed back as they saw the foreigners. A few of these were taken prisoner and whisked away. We heard shots being fired from inside. The operation continued till about one thirty at night. Pak troops came later, when the two helicopters had flown away in the direction of Mansehra. Its surprising that for the next two days, the residents of the area and the media, had free access into the house.”

It is rather unfortunate that the government of Pakistan and the institutions fell victim to this ploy and accepted security lapses without finding answer, to these basic questions:

· This house was raided in 2009, to capture Abul Faraj and why couldn’t they find Osama then, if he and his family were living there since 2006?

· Reportedly, two of our fighter aircrafts scrambled, within thirty minutes of the raid, but failed to intercept. Why?

· Our civilian intelligence apparatus, such as the IB, CID and the SAC (Special Anti Crime) units have the prime responsibility for the security of the urban and rural population. What was their role and why the entire blame has fallen on the ISI?

· The USA had been our ally for the last half a century and we also earned the title of “most allied ally, and the non-NATO ally of USA” and yet we have been stabbed in the back and are being blamed for failing to protect ourselves, from this “friendly deceit.”

Senator John Karry is in town and the joint declaration says: “Jointly we shall undertake such actions in the future”, which means that the drone attacks will continue and now we will be asked to capture Aiman-al-Zawahari and after him, the next and the next and the blood of innocent Pakistanis will continue to be spilled. Why can’t we have the courage to tell the Americans to lay-off because Osama, the source of all terrorism is dead? In fact terrorism started with the occupation of Afghanistan and will end when occupation ends, and that should have been the crux of the declaration, i.e., “the end game and the time frame of exit.”

Pak-US ties: Might is right

To mourn Osama bin Laden, as many in Pakistan are doing, is outrageous. He was a bloodthirsty terrorist with little regard for Muslim and non-Muslim life, alike. However, to mourn the circumstances of his killing, and the consequences it leaves behind for Pakistan is more appropriate.

The US stated that Pakistan was not told of the raid in advance because it could not be trusted. The decision to keep Pakistan out of the loop was, clearly, the correct one if the goal was to enhance the mission’s chances of success. Given that Bin Laden appears to have resided in Abbottabad for a number of years, either Pakistan has comically incompetent security forces or he was being harboured by elements within. However, the US raid into Pakistan was clearly illegal. Even the Americans would be hard-pressed to deny this. US forces entered Pakistani airspace without permission (and detection), conducted a raid on the compound and left. The opposite circumstances – Pakistani helicopters with commandos landing on US soil to deal with a terrorist without telling the US authorities – are laughably inconceivable.

After all, Pakistan is at best a junior partner, at worst a servant on wages who can be pushed around at the whim of the master without any regard for the rules. America is a wealthy, well-managed nation which looks after its citizens in a way which we simply cannot. Of course, what angers Pakistanis is the lack of concern for non-American lives. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Drone attacks have callous disregard for bystanders. On average there are 10 innocent deaths for every militant killed. So, the fallout of 3,000 tragic deaths on 9/11 has probably been at a cost in excess of a hundred times that number of Muslim lives, the large majority of which have been civilians. And there is barely an apology or a tear shed in America for these deaths.

Of course the major payoff to Pakistan has been aid; a total of over $18billion since 9/11 of which about $12billion has been in the form of military aid, the rest in economic aid. So this money flows to the armed forces, which have shown they are neither capable nor trustworthy. Congressmen in the US are asking why the US is providing funding to a nation that cannot be trusted.

America is a strong, well-organised country, hence, they flout international law and Pakistani sovereignty at their convenience, with Pakistani lives being collateral damage. As a consequence, Pakistan is left with the begging bowl and weakly managed institutions which deny us justice and sovereignty. It seems our government is in utter disarray and there is limited trust and communication between the government and armed forces. And even within the armed forces, it seems that there are splits. In other words, in contrast to the Americans, Pakistan is disunited and incompetent.

Pakistan should use this opportunity to learn lessons and take action that will put us on a better path. Firstly, there needs to be accountability for the fact that Bin Laden’s home was found on Pakistani soil in public view in a major city. We all know that running the army is a difficult job, particularly with much of it radicalised in the post 9/11 environment. But there is no excuse for incompetence of this magnitude, or indeed harbouring the world’s leading terrorist, whichever is the truth. So the right outcome would be for the army chief to resign for presiding over one of the worst national security lapses in our history. Secondly, Pakistan needs to re-evaluate its cooperation with America. As a principle, Pakistan needs to reassert sovereignty over its own soil. Thirdly, we should use Bin Laden’s death as a catalyst for a peace agreement. We need to bring elements of the Taliban to the negotiating table, however repugnant their ideology, and give them an opportunity to lay down their arms. Hilary Clinton is now hinting at this regularly. Pakistan should seize the opportunity to play a leadership role and help stop the ongoing carnage on our soil.

Al Qaeda Exposes Itself By “Confirming” CIA’s Hoax At Abbottabad

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .” — Pierre-Henri Bunel [Former French artillery and intelligence officer]

Truth-seekers around the world have found another self-revealing lead. Reuters reports that ‘Al Qaeda’ has “confirmed” that “bin Laden died in Abbottabad operation”.

According to the Reuters report (excerpts):

“Al Qaeda confirmed the death Osama bin Laden Friday in an Internet message that vowed revenge on the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, according to the SITE monitoring service” [Echoing exactly what CIA Director Panetta said a few days back, strange isn't it? Since when has the CIA been assessing proper intel?]

“We call upon our Muslim people in Pakistan, on whose land Sheikh Osama was killed, to rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame that has been attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves … and in general to cleanse their country from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it.”

This is a huge blunder made by the so-called ‘Al Qaeda’. They actually acknowledge the fake “recent killing” of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, thereby indirectly giving credibility to the Obama Administration, Pentagon and CIA.

Let us analyse how after the OBL hoax, we have Israel’s intelligence Mossad losing its control on propagation of proper formulated disinformation. First of all, if the ‘Al Qaeda’ was ever a real jihadi organisation, it would have known that Osama bin Laden had actually died about a decade ago.

WHY BIN LADEN DIED ABOUT A DECADE AGO

> Dr. Steve Pieczenik, a senior US government insider, former CFR member, former subordinate to Henry Kissinger and James Baker to name a few and who still serves in the Department of Defense mentioned 9 years ago and recently again in an interview that a top General of the Paul Wolfowitz squad revealed back then that Osama bin Laden had been killed at Tora Bora and that 9/11 was a false-flag operation [Source]

> Former CIA Middle East case officer-turned writer Robert Baer had stated in a 2008 interview to Terry Gross in the latter’s show Fresh Air on National Public Radio that bin Laden is long dead and that his alleged videos can be easily manipulated.

He also went on to say:

“He hasn’t shown up, I’ve taken in the last month a poll of CIA officers who have been on his trail, and what astounded me was not a single one was sure he was alive or dead. They have no idea, I mean this man disappeared off the side of the earth.”

Baer also warned that the war is shifting into Pakistan, a dangerous precedent that could see the vaguely defined conflict move anywhere. [Source]

> Dr. Steve Pieczenik had revealed in his April 2002 interview that he worked with Osama bin Laden in 1978 and 1981 and the latter “had kidney disease. As a physician, knew that he had to have two dialysis machines and he was dying” Pieczenik told Jones during the April 24, 2002 interview.

Pieczenik then stated that the video tape of a fat Bin Laden look alike “taking responsibility” for 9/11 that was released in December 2001 was “such a hoax” designed to “manipulate” people in the emotional aftermath of 9/11.

The subsequent war in Afghanistan that followed 9/11 was orchestrated “With the agreement of the bin Laden family, knowing fully well that he would die,” said Pieczenik. “And I think that Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, spilled the beans by accident three months ago when he said that bin Laden was dead because his kidney dialysis machines were destroyed in East Afghanistan.”

> Add to this a statement by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta who gave his professional assessment of bin Laden’s medical condition based on the videotape broadcasted by al Jazeera on December 27, 2001. He explained that bin Laden’s ghastly appearance – “grayness of beard, paleness of skin, very gaunt sort of features” – is often associated with chronic kidney failure or renal failure. He also noted that bin Laden couldn’t move his left arm probably due to a stroke because people suffering from kidney failures have a higher risk for stroke. Dr. Gupta pointed out that dialysis machines require electricity, clean water and a sterile environment to function properly. Without an operational machine, a patient could only survive for less than a week.

> An Egyptian paper posted on December 26, 2001, ran an obituary on Osama bin Laden whose death resulted from lack of proper medical care for “serious lung complications.” A Taliban official told the Pakistan Observer that he saw bin Laden’s face before the burial in Tora Bora where some members of bin Laden’s family, friends and al Qaeda fighters gathered for his funeral. Asked whether he could pinpoint the spot where bin Laden was buried, he answered, “I am sure that like other places in Tora Bora that particular place too must have vanished,” implying that it was obliterated by U.S. aerial bombing.

> According to Washington Post (Oct. 28.2002), the Arabic-language al-Majallah obtained bin Laden’s will from a “very reliable” source in Afghanistan. The will – typed, signed by bin Laden and dated December 14, 2001- includes verses of Koran and the words of a man “who appeared desperate and on the verge of death.”
The link to the Washington Post piece was originally:

Which has been removed for obvious reasons

> Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program had joined Kevin Barrett on his radio show (gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first hour) in his first public interview since comments he made in 2006 indicating that he believes Bin Laden may be dead and that many of the newer tapes are either fake or consist of old audio and video.
The “Confession” video, played ad infinitum in the wake of the attack on Afghanistan in December 2001, was magically found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in. It featured a fat Osama laughing and joking about how he’d carried out 9/11. The video was also mistranslated in order to manipulate viewer opinion and featured “Bin Laden” praising two of the hijackers, only he got their names wrong.

Real Bin Laden (left), Fake Mossad “bin Laden” (right)

This Osama also uses the wrong hand to write with and wears gold rings, a practice totally in opposition to the Muslim faith.

Men wearing gold is considered strictly “haram” (prohibited) in Islam

Despite the fact that the man in the video looks nothing like Bin Laden, the CIA stood by the video whilst many, including Professor Lawrence now, have declared it an outright fake.

Lawrence is the author of a book entitled Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, which translates Bin Laden’s writing. In January 2006 he told ABC news that a newly released audio tape was missing several key elements and “was like a voice from the grave”. The Professor had analyzed more than 20 complete speeches and interviews of the al Qaida leader for his book, and, while the CIA confirmed the voice on the tape as Bin Laden, Lawrence questioned when it was recorded and declared the timing of its release as politically convenient.

> One of Osama’s sons Omar bin Laden in a video strongly suggested that the videos of bin Laden emerging after 2001 seem fake.

> In May 2009, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari confirmed that his “counterparts in the American intelligence agencies” hadn’t heard anything from Bin Laden in seven years and confirmed “I don’t think he’s alive” [whereas he shamefully retracted a few days back after CIA's new feed]

> In November 2, 2007, former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto told David Frost of Al Jazeera in an interview while speaking of people who threaten her “Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man who murdered Osama bin Laden”

> Benazir Bhutto gets assassinated just a few days later on December 27, 2007 (after her revelation of Osama being long dead)

WHY THE CIA WOULD HAVE KILLED BIN LADEN

The CIA has a habit of recruiting assets and then disposing of them once their objectives are fulfilled. If you want to be aware of your history, you should know that during Afghan jihad when the CIA was looking for Saudi intelligence representatives for jihad, one of them was codenamed “Tim Osman” who met Michael Riconosciuto and FBI’s Theodore Gunderson in 1986 at the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California to procure a sizeable cache of advanced weapons. ‘Tim Osman’ was none other than Osama bin Laden himself.

See the declassified FBI file here

Later on, as many might have surely read over the years, the Bin Laden family started to severe ties with the Bush family (who were good friends). The personal hatred might have forced George Bush Jr. and Dick Cheney to order the CIA to send in a double-agent to kill Bin Laden. You have read the varying statements above. According to my intel reports, Osama bin Laden was killed in 2002 (early) at Tora Bora by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who tricked him into accompanying him “to get safe haven in Pakistan”. He was killed right then.

Whichever narrative is true, the one thing we all agree upon is that Osama bin Laden died about a decade ago during the aerial carpet-bombing at Tora Bora by the USAF.

Bin Laden would most probably have been killed for the reason that he clearly mentioned in a detailed interview to Pakistani daily Ummat newspaper on 28 September 2001: “I am not responsible for 9/11, I have no knowledge of it. Killing innocent men, women and children is prohibited in Islam”

In short, what I can gather is that the Bush administration needed to subvert and frame Osama bin Laden and hold him accountable for whatever attacks and terrorism the US would commit since 2001 in the name of “retaliation”. For this, the real Osama had to be killed and replaced by a fake and rather fatty duplicate, who recorded videos most probably in some Hollywood-type studio with the CIA as Directors and Israeli Mossad as Producers.

The continuation of the OBL “boogeyman” in the form of duplicate bin Ladens (plastic surgery galore!) was to give justification for American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US is already extracting oil from Iraq and engaged in depopulation of the Arabs there. In Afghanistan however, they are facing continuous defeat at the hands of the Afghan Taliban who have recently promised “the most ferocious guerilla attacks to date” dubbed as ‘Operation Badar’ from May 1 onwards. Plus, Barack Obama had to divert attention from his birth certificate issue and the fact that his “proof” was also dubbed as fake by major intelligence agencies of the world who said his birth certificate is a “rank forgery”.

The “recent killing” of Osama bin Laden (really?) has benefited the US administration in every way:

1) Now that “the man” is dead, the US can run out from Afghanistan before being buried in the Graveyard of Empires (Afghanistan) like the Soviets

2) The “birther” issue behind Obama now quite diverted

3) Obama’s re-election campaign

4) Targeting Pakistan’s strategic nuclear assets

5) Declaring Pakistan’s ISI as a “terrorist organisation” as lobbied by India and Israel

6) Alleging presence of more “Al Qaeda leaders” in Pakistan. Recently, Jewish senator Carl Levin even went a step ahead to claim “Pakistan also knows the whereabouts of Mullah Omar”

7) Trying to lure Pakistan back into American dependency since Pakistan was the central state in fomenting good ties with China and Saudi Arabia on increased strategic cooperation. Analyst and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley Ph.D in an interview to Russia Today said that the CIA hoax at Abbottabad was staged to target Pakistan for its China and Saudi ties. Recently, Saudi Arabia had bought advanced nuclear-capable missiles from China with the assistance of Pakistan’s military establishment. Dr. Tarpley further mentioned that the next false-flag after this hoax at Abbottabad will be staged by the CIA to target the ISI and “prove” it as a “terrorist outfit”

HISTORY OF AL QAEDA

A few interesting things to share:

> BBC News reported on 8 December 2002:

“Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas.”

Also, Executive Intelligence Review reported on 20 December 2002:

“The United States government has been provided with concrete evidence that the Israeli Mossad and other Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a 13-month effort to “recruit” an Israeli-run, phony “al-Qaeda cell” among Palestinians, so that Israel could achieve a frontline position in the U.S. war against terrorism and get a green light for a worldwide “revenge without borders” policy. The question: Does the United States have the moral fiber to investigate?”

Mossad agents arrested by the Palestinian Authority (2002)

> The FBI lists Adam Yahya Gadahn as a most wanted Al Qaeda operative.

Interestingly, Adam Pearlman is his real name. Adam is the grandson of the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993, much as AIPAC has been caught up in the more recent spy scandal.

> In 2004, Times Online reported: Abu Qatada boasted to MI5 that he could prevent terrorist attacks and offered to expose dangerous extremists, while all along he was setting up a haven for his terror organisation in Britain….Among the scores of young militants who came to visit him in London was the chief suspect in the Madrid train bombings. His followers also included people who wanted to be suicide bombers for al-Qaeda, such as Richard Reid, the shoe bomber…. Instead, MI5 agents held three meetings with the cleric, who bragged of his influence among young Islamic militants and insisted that they were no risk to Britain’s national security.

> Al Qaeda in Iraq:

The BBC reported on 12/5/2002:

“The two British operatives, arrested by Basra police and later freed by a British military operation, were identified by the BBC as “members of the SAS elite special forces” . They were disguised by wigs and Arab dress. Iraqi sources reported that the Iraqi police were watching the two, and when they tried to approach them they shot two policemen and tried to escape the scene”

Original link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/424614.stm
(apparently removed)

> Israeli Al Qaeda in the Phillipines, as reported by The Manila Bulletin Online on 18 June 2004:

“Philippine National Police (PNP) operatives apprehended an Israeli suspected to be a member of the al-Qaeda terror network in in Baguio City on June 7″

Original link:
http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2004061411759.html
(apparently removed, archived here)

> Adil Hadi Al Jazairi bin Hamlili, the Al Qaeda terrorist responsible for several terror attacks in Pakistan including a powerful bomb blast at a hotel in Karachi in 2004 turned out to be an MI6 double agent [Source]

> BBC’s award-winning documentary “The Power of Nightmares” [Watch]

> FBI engineers Al-Qaeda terror plot, builds fake bomb, creates real terrorist [Watch]

> Press TV reported on 23 June 2009 that Qari Zainuddin Mehsud, former terrorist-turned whistleblower revealed that the ‘Pakistani Taliban’ (TTP) who are allied with Al Qaeda is “pursing a US and Israeli agenda, backed by both American and Israeli intelligence agencies”. He was assassinated by the TTP a few days later. [Watch his confession here]

CONCLUDING REMARKS

There should be no atom of doubt left that ‘Al Qaeda’ is actually a joint worldwide group of assassins and terrorists who are controlled by the CIA, MI6 and MOSSAD. All three have vested interests spearheaded by their governments:

1) The US wants extended access to oil reserves such as those in Libya and Iraq

2) Israel wants to hasten the race to their dream of a “Greater Israel”

3) The British want to revive their colonial/imperial stronghold over their territories

Pakistan is the next target. The pace is on road to World War III, with much accreditation to the corporate media networks in the West spreading disinformation and propaganda which is sadly picked up by local news agencies in Pakistan also.

The “confirmation” by the fraud Al Qaeda of Osama’s “recent death” is enough to show whose interests they serve and where the message is coming from.

The prime objective: De-nuclearization of Pakistan and making it subservient to India.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE >

First, they said “Obama and top officials were watching the raid live in the Situation Room”

Later the CIA chief says “there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off”

Questions:

1. What were they watching then, for which they posed so heroically?

2. How can they prove they killed “Osama bin Laden” in Abbottabad?