Everything about the supposed killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri is suspect, weird and fishy.
♦ First, Al Zawahiri has been reported as killed or dead at least a half dozen times in the last 10 years; including by natural causes.
♦ Second, Ayman Zawahiri was very old. Western citations put his age at 71 (born 1951), however, that is suspect (sounds like his younger brother’s age).
♦ Third, the location of his reported killing in Kabul is odd. Zawahiri was known to avoid large populations, and even with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan the tribal conflicts with factions of the Taliban would have been an issue.
♦ Fourth, somehow the Taliban waited until after the U.S. intelligence community leaked the strike to the media before they issued a statement condemning the drone attack. Since when does al-Qaeda wait 48+ hours to denounce hostile action in their territory? Coordinating and timed joint press releases between the White House and ‘Taliban‘ to western media outlets is seriously sketchy.
♦ Fifth, absolutely no official outline from the Pentagon or White House on this “successful counterterrorism strike“? Despite a primetime presidential address, the White House has no announcement, no official statement, nothing, on their website. Additionally, Biden leads off saying the attack was on Saturday, the Taliban waited 48-hours to denounce a U.S. drone strike? Think about it. Doesn’t add up. More sketchy.
♦ Sixth, and seemingly just an oddball addendum, Fox News breaks the story using Jennifer Griffin as lead reporter. As I noted several days ago, Griffin had been missing from Fox News since she went bonzo in March attacking Tucker Carlson over his cynicism of the official State Dept and Pentagon narrative in Ukraine.
May, June, July, nothing from pentagon deep state promoter Jenn Griffin at all. Then, suddenly, on the same day Griffin resurfaces, after months of nothing, there’s a major terrorism strike in Afghanistan, killing Zawahiri and she’s leading the coverage? …. With Brett Baier cheerleading? C’mon man. Sketchy, all of it.
And yeah, somehow there was an unusual “DNS pointing issue” on the CTH servers, serendipitously timed with the Biden speech. The one site with a specific Al Zawhiri track and trace reference library to deconstruct the official narrative and identify the sketchy.
♦ Lastly, about half the terroristic attribution Joe Biden made in his primetime speech is associated with the “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman, not Ayman Al Zawahiri.
I’m glad Zawahiri is dead; I was cool with him being gone from the earth the last six times we were told Zawahiri was dead. Get all those professional jihadists removed, good. However, that has nothing to do with the seriously sketchy background of this story. This is a pantomime playing out for public consumption, and the same strings visible on the Zelenskyy puppets are glowing on the shoulders of this deep state announcement.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious…
If the strike happened last Saturday night in Kabul...
...There should at least be independent reportage on the morning of an unclaimed bombing in the city during the night.
I’m reading about a suicide grenade attack at the soccer stadium and some rocket attacks. But nothing that sounds like the bombing of a building during the night on the following morning. Not yet.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious… Same here. Remember when Bin Laden was taken out, they had 2 teams going in because of the intelligence bonanza to be obtained from computers, hard-drives, phones, etc. But for this guy - Osama's right-hand? No, we'll just use a drone-launched veg-o-matic and that's all.
No team going in for any intel? Bull.
Sounds more like he wasn't active at all anymore, we knew where he was at all times, and team-Biden wanted the PR value and a change in the narrative. So they offed what was now an easy target, and made a production out of the announcement for that value.
Don't get me wrong - glad this guy's not wasting oxygen any longer. But color me skeptical.