Posted on 05/11/2015 1:50:45 PM PDT by drewh
Citing interviews with “a retired senior intelligence official who was knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad” and American sources who “had access to corroborating information,” Hersh writes that the American government did not act alone in locating and killing Bin Laden, as it has consistently claimed.
On the contrary, Hersh’s sources say that senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI)—Pakistan’s equivalent of the CIA—knew as early as 2006 that Bin Laden was in Abbottabad, and cooperated with the U.S. in the assassination. Specifically, the story says that top Pakistani Army Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI, knew Bin Laden’s location and knew about the Abbottabad raid before it took place.
Among the report’s most explosive claims is that the U.S. did not find Bin Laden by tracking his couriers, as the government and most official accounts have reported. Instead, according to the Hersh report, the U.S. paid a $25 million reward to an unnamed former senior Pakistani intelligence officer who “betrayed the secret” of Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Hersh’s report says that this officer was relocated to Washington, D.C. and now works as a consultant for the CIA.
The story also claims that Bin Laden’s burial at sea never happened, that Bin Laden was an invalid when the SEALs raided the compound and killed him, and that there was no firefight at all during the SEAL raid. Additionally, Hersh’s account says that the ISI captured and set bin Laden up in Abbottabad in the first place, to use him as “leverage” in the country’s dealings with al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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Obama lies, and that’s “explosive?” Tell me another one.
I wanna see less Hersh.
If Obola (BC unknown, SS# forged) EVER told the truth,
THAT would be real News.
This is SSDD, supported by the Treasonous MSM
(where all REAL journalists are made the Enemy).
Is there anyone either (a) not committed to a mental institution or (b) who has at least one functioning brain cell who does not realize that Clown Prince nobama is a chronic malignant liar? “Explosive”??????? More like “expected” and “typical”.
Beat me to it!
Exactly what is “explosive” about this?
This seems like the administration's attempt to cover for officers in the Pakistani government.
So we knew where Bin Laden was in 2006 and could have killed him then, but didn't. On the face of it it seems suspicious, but it could just have been part of our plan to keep the Pakistani's on our side as we launched waves of drone attacks against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
If Bin Laden wasn't much of a threat at that time, then no need to kill him.
This smells more of realpolitik than Obama incompetence or untrustworthiness.
Maybe in the long run it would have been better for this to have been kept quiet. We'll see what happens with relations with Pakistan over the next few months.
Headlines will be made when he tells the truth!
How do we know Bin Laden is even dead? Anybody see any evidence? Not me.
Where’s the Death Certificate?
Hersh also says the local military cut the power grid the night of the assault... http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
Dislike and never trust the vile Obama to tell the truth, but Seymour Hersch is psychotic and chronically delusional.
So much for the guy who says “I Killed Bin Laden”
THEY HAVE LIED about everything from DAY 1.
Death certificate is being held in s top secret location next to the real birth certificate.
Hersh says there were no machine guns at the compound because it was controlled by the Pakistan military. But that doesn’t mean that we didnt have to take out his sons...
Knock me.over with a feather
Barack Obama would steal credit from his own mother or daughter.
worst cover story ever! (muslim burial ‘with honours’ at sea) by the US Navy
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