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Former CIA Operative: "Of Course Bin Laden is Dead"
Warns war on terror could be eternal
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An important news item that flew under the radar for the most
part last week was the assertion from former CIA operative turned
whistleblower Robert Baer that Osama Bin Laden is long dead.
The hugely
respected intelligence & foreign policy expert
told Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio show Fresh Air,
"Of course he is dead, where are the DVDs? Bin Laden wouldn't
dye his hair, all these things can be manipulated."
Baer, who has has previously publicly
questioned the official story of the 9/11 attacks,
continued "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, who's previous book See No Evil was
the basis for the film Syriana, asked "When in history
has a country fought another country or another entity when the
leader may be dead?" and warned that the so called war on
terror could be an eternal war if the goal continues to be to
capture Bin Laden.
Baer also warned that the war is shifting into Pakistan,
a dangerous precedent that could see the vaguely defined conflict
move anywhere.
Last July it was revealed that Pakistan
has an agreement to allow CIA-operated Predator drones
fly over the country and strike targets in the so called "hunt"
for Bin Laden. Since that time many strikes have taken place,
killing civilians in the process.
In addition, details of a secret
Pentagon plan to send U.S. special forces into the
wild tribal regions of Pakistan to find Bin Laden have also emerged.
The plans have reportedly not yet been implemented due to White
House in fighting.
Listen to the short excerpt here.
Listen to the whole interview here.
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There is voluminous evidence to suggest Bin Laden
is long dead.
According to French newspaper Le Figaro, Bin
Laden was on a kidney dialysis machine after he
had one shipped to his base in Kandahar Afghanistan in 2000,
and when the CIA personally visited him in a Dubai hospital.
Other accounts suggest he was also suffering from Hepatitis
C at the time and had only two years left to live.
Journalists who met Bin Laden before 9/11 later proclaimed
their disbelief about the fact that he didn't appear on video
after December 2001 to brag about the fact that he had not been
captured. Since that time, every single Bin Laden video tape
released has contained vague non-specific messages and in many
cases the footage is old
and re-hashed.
"With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden
would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long
if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even
for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent
for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?" wrote
the New York Times' Amir Taheri in July 2002.
A very good reason for Osama remaining silent after the end
of 2001 would be the fact that he probably died on December
26 of that year, according
to a report in the Pakistani Observer, which cited
a Taliban official as stating that Bin Laden died due to an
untreated lung complication and that he had attended his funeral.
In 2002
CNN reported on the fact that Pakistan's president
Pervez Musharraf believed Bin Laden to be dead:
[A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is
that bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it
is fairly obvious that that could be an issue when you are running
from place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate
electricity in a mountain hideout,".
Others have gone on record insisting they believe Bin Laden
to be dead, they include:
Afghan
President Hamid Karzai, FBI
counter-terrorism chief Dale Watson, Israeli
intelligence sources, the late former Prime Minister
of Pakistan Benazir
Bhutto, Bin Laden expert Professor
Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s
Religious Studies program.
In addition, a
leaked French secret service memo in September
2006 concluded that Bin Laden had died of typhoid poisoning
the previous month. The memo cited Saudi Arabian secret service
sources who were convinced that Bin Laden had died in Pakistan.
"The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that
the head of al-Qaeda fell victim, while he was in Pakistan on
August 23, 2006, to a very serious case of typhoid that led
to a partial paralysis of his internal organs," states
the French memo.
Judging from all the available evidence, the White House knows
for certain or at least strongly suspects that Bin Laden is
dead and has been for many years, but they have chosen to maintain
his myth for the purposes of political propaganda and as a hook
on which to pin the advance of the imperial Neo-Con agenda.
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