Posted on 05/14/2015 7:22:16 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in modern American history.
It turns out that much of what the American public was told about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was a blatant lie. According to Hersh, Osama bin Laden had been captured by Pakistan all the way back in 2006, and he was being held by the ISI as a prisoner at the Abbottabad compound that the Seals ultimately raided in 2011.
In addition, Hersh says that the ISI and Pakistan’s military knew about the Seal raid in advance. Arrangements were made so that the Black Hawk helicopters could travel through Pakistani airspace safely, and the ISI guards at Osama bin Laden’s compound were pulled away before the Seals got there. And by that time, Osama bin Laden was reportedly in such bad health that he was essentially a cripple. There was no “firefight” at all – only a turkey shoot.
Afterwards, Osama bin Laden’s body never made it to the USS Carl Vinson for a “burial at sea”. That was all just part of the cover story according to Hersh. Of course the White House and Obama’s lackeys at CNN are strongly denying all of this, and they will continue to deny the truth for as long as they possibly can. But there are individuals in the U.S. military and in the U.S. intelligence community that can come forward and tell us what really happened. Let us hope that at least some of those individuals still care enough about this country to do that.
According to Hersh, one of the biggest lies that Obama told was that Pakistani leadership had no idea that the Seals were coming in. Actually, the truth is that the head of the army, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and the director general of the ISI, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, were both heavily involved in the planning of the operation. The following is an excerpt from Hersh’s article for the London Review of Books…
Pasha and Kayani were responsible for ensuring that Pakistan’s army and air defence command would not track or engage with the US helicopters used on the mission. The American cell at Tarbela Ghazi was charged with co-ordinating communications between the ISI, the senior US officers at their command post in Afghanistan, and the two Black Hawk helicopters; the goal was to ensure that no stray Pakistani fighter plane on border patrol spotted the intruders and took action to stop them. The initial plan said that news of the raid shouldn’t be announced straightaway.
All units in the Joint Special Operations Command operate under stringent secrecy and the JSOC leadership believed, as did Kayani and Pasha, that the killing of bin Laden would not be made public for as long as seven days, maybe longer. Then a carefully constructed cover story would be issued: Obama would announce that DNA analysis confirmed that bin Laden had been killed in a drone raid in the Hindu Kush, on Afghanistan’s side of the border. The Americans who planned the mission assured Kayani and Pasha that their co-operation would never be made public. It was understood by all that if the Pakistani role became known, there would be violent protests – bin Laden was considered a hero by many Pakistanis – and Pasha and Kayani and their families would be in danger, and the Pakistani army publicly disgraced.
When the Seals got to the compound in Abbottabad, bin Laden and his family were completely unguarded. That is because the ISI guards had already been pulled back.
My first question is how could Pakistan get away with catching and holding Obama Bin Laden without even as much as a rumor getting out.
“The team leader has said that Hersh is full of it, that things went down as claimed.”
Team leader wants to protect his family....
“I haven’t believed any press reports nor “witness” reports since!”
Unfortunately, a LOT here do.
Did he get shot in the looting?
I haven’t followed all the details, but is it possible that the raid went down as claimed, but the SEALs were unaware of the maneuvering behind the scenes?
I wonder if the Seal team that carried out the raid can add anything to this story.
“Hersh is a fraud.”
This is the same “Hersh” who exposed Abu Grahib ‘torture’. I would not call him a fraud.....yet. I have to see how all of this pans out.
Where’s the Death Certificate?
Yes, but a broken clock is right once every 12 hours. That whole "long distance raid deep into Pakistan without the Pakistanis knowing about it" struck me as ridiculous. Helicopters, "stealth" or not are the most detectable devices - and the least reliable - on earth. Nobody in their right minds depend on helicopters for critical long-range missions.
That, and the whole "no photographs of OBL's body will be released" and the "burial at sea" stuff is beyond belief. They must think that we're all brain-dead children.
And if all this is true, why is a Doctor doing time in a Pakistani prison for allegedly assisting America?
Nope - think about it; the admin. threatens these guys to keep quiet or their families will be harmed - and they roll over and take it?!
I don't think so...
He’s dead Jim.
That was supposed to be some kind of stealthy helicopter based on the blackhawk, probably still in development.
“Nope - think about it; the admin. threatens these guys to keep quiet or their families will be harmed - and they roll over and take it?!”
YEP. I respectfully disagree after having thought about it before my earlier post. A whole chopper full of Seals were taken down, biggest ever message sent to the Seals. I don’t recall more than a couple of them vocally “corroborating” the Fraud’s story.
Rumor has it that he left the shop... early on....changed into his Hoodie..and joined in the “fun”...
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Perhaps, but this is the most obvious response to this whole “story”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3289737/posts?page=13#13
bottom line: a conspiracy of this magnitude involving folks who by and large hold their CinC in contempt, would collapse.
Why would the conspirators continue to shield Obama? It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Especially the idea: “their families were threatened”.
“Burial at Sea” bullshit for the most wanted man on Earth = WE WERE LIED TO
Exactly HOW we were lied to, we may never now. But the accepted story is 1000% BS
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