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Email shows effort to shield bin Laden photos
AP-Yahoo ^ | Feb. 10 , 2014 | STEPHEN BRAUN

Posted on 02/10/2014 11:19:44 PM PST by LeoWindhorse

A newly-released email shows that 11 days after the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, the U.S. military's top special operations officer ordered subordinates to destroy any photographs of the al-Qaida founder's corpse or turn them over to the CIA.

The email was obtained under a freedom of information request by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. The document, released Monday by the group, shows that Adm. William McRaven, who heads the U.S. Special Operations Command, told military officers on May 13, 2011 that photos of bin Laden's remains should have been sent to the CIA or already destroyed. Bin Laden was killed by a special operations team in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

McRaven's order to purge the bin Laden material came 10 days after The Associated Press asked for the photos and other documents under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Typically, when a freedom of information request is filed to a government agency under the Federal Records Act, the agency is obliged to preserve the material sought — even if the agency later denies the request.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2011; 201105; 20110502; 20110513; admiralmcraven; binladenraid; binladenscorpse; coverup; destruction; mcraven; obama; obamalies; obl; oblcorpse; seals; ubl
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To: Politicalkiddo

A muslim guy drove me from the airport once recently. He was laughing at us idiot “westerners” and said that there are hundreds of Bin Ladens. He also said it won’t be long before they own Canada and the US. The guy was serious.


21 posted on 02/11/2014 4:37:28 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: LeoWindhorse

This and General BETRAYUS has endorsed hillary for president... I would bet all of these people did illegal biddings for the rats and now have to march to the rat’s tune or die on their swords.


22 posted on 02/11/2014 4:43:45 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Whoever heard of burying an arab at sea? Sounds fishy to me.
23 posted on 02/11/2014 4:54:20 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

There’s something rotten about the whole thing.


24 posted on 02/11/2014 5:47:27 AM PST by onedoug
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To: GraceG

Well there’s that and he prolly wasn’t thawed all the way out when he was dumped out of the chopper er I mean buried at sea. :-)


25 posted on 02/11/2014 6:55:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I agree

but they are led by an impure coward


26 posted on 02/11/2014 12:04:23 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Crim

Yeah he was filthy rich but how could he get dialysis on the run. The last radio communication intercept they heard 0BL with his distinctive voice was back in 2003.


27 posted on 02/11/2014 10:39:07 PM PST by hamboy
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