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Did 'dead' courier betray Osama bin Laden? The White House story doesn't add up
Telegraph ^ | 5/3/11 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 05/03/2011 7:07:59 PM PDT by Nachum

There’s a lot about the White House’s account that doesn’t quite add up. I’m not just talking about the changing story that led spokesman Jay Carney to admit: “Even I’m getting confused”. The erroneous details that Osama bin Laden was armed (he wasn’t), that his wife was used as a human shield (she wasn’t), that his wife was killed (she wasn’t) can be put down to over-egging the pudding or, if you’re feeling generous, the fog of war.

What I’m talking about is the bigger picture of how bin Laden was discovered and who was killed in that compound. Don’t worry, I’m not a “Deather”. It seems incontrovertible that bin Laden is indeed sleeping with the fishes. But what about the others - the Sheikh Abu Ahmed, also known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti – his brother, bin Laden’s son Hamza and bin Laden’s wife?

This is just a hunch but it seems to me that a plausible conclusion to be drawn from the confusing and opaque mass of detail is that Abu Ahmed, his brother or bin Laden’s own son betrayed him and is currently being given a new identity as he prepares to collect the $27 million reward for the al-Qaeda leader’s scalp.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: Nachum

The completely changing details about the assault have me really wondering what really happened and why the double accounts and what may have been gained by changing the original account to the second account. They are miles apart from each other.


41 posted on 05/03/2011 9:22:57 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: Artemis Webb

You drink the KoolAid and I’ll wear my tinfoil hat.


42 posted on 05/03/2011 9:27:47 PM PDT by Misterioso (The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Nietszche)
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To: Artemis Webb

I go by his track record-
the percentages say he’s lying


43 posted on 05/03/2011 9:28:46 PM PDT by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: paythefiddler
your trusting Obama the man is congenital liar

The only time a congenital liar lies is when he opens his mouth and speaks. People are so naive as to personality types. They do not understand that real evil exists and usually is cleverly disguised and every thing connected with a truly evil person you can bet your bottom dollar on will be twisted and evil at it's source.

44 posted on 05/03/2011 9:31:07 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: DallasDeb

If he didn’t have a gun or any weapon was it legal to kill him? He must have been trapped being on the upper floor. Why not bring him in alive. In our law even the worst criminal isn’t shot down like a dog when they are unarmed and have no where to go. I wonder what it may have been that they were afraid he would reveal. We should have taken him in and interrogated the stuffing out of him to get any possible information that we could have gotten out of him. A trial would have been justice drawn out and savored providing that he ultimately was put to death like Saddam H and Nazi war criminals. Killing him instantly was much easier for him than going through a long drawn out trial before being put to death would have been.


45 posted on 05/03/2011 9:40:01 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: scooby321

Panetta said they did not. THAT story keeps changing too. It is apparent from implication in most of the articles, that they did not watch it at all, and Obama etc, watched Panetta, or someone else, on a screen give updates.


46 posted on 05/03/2011 9:47:49 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: scooby321
Panetta: President Obama Couldn't See Bin Laden's Death, but Received 'Geronimo' Signal

Panetta told Lehrer neither he nor President Obama watched the actual shooting of bin Laden as it happened. Panetta spoke from CIA headquarters about the military intelligence operation that led to the al Qaeda leader's death.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/05/leon-panetta.html

47 posted on 05/03/2011 9:49:39 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: F15Eagle

Double Goat & Double Cross.


48 posted on 05/03/2011 9:52:14 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Is Trump a Stalking Horse for Guiliani?)
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To: Artemis Webb

“I couldn’t care less. I’m just glad that he’s dead and that it was our military that killed him.”

Agreed. I hope someone in this administration is thinking about how to obscure how we got him so that we don’t compromise sources.


49 posted on 05/03/2011 9:53:16 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Bellflower
In our law...

It's a war. "Our law" doesn't apply.

The Geneva Convention is more applicable. And, under the Convention, terrorists (or "illegal combatants") may be shot on sight.

As OBL evidently was...

50 posted on 05/03/2011 10:01:03 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Nachum

BTTT


51 posted on 05/03/2011 10:01:52 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: Bellflower

I agree. I have not heard anyone echo or even mention this point. What American law allows someone to kill another unarmed person? When police officers do this there is always an investigation and sometimes charges are brought against them. Shouldn’t they have tried to taser him or subdue him before they executed him?


52 posted on 05/03/2011 10:15:19 PM PDT by dupree
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To: Bellflower

Ditto


53 posted on 05/03/2011 10:31:25 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: Nachum
Good luck getting a coherent answer out of this White House.

Even mouthpiece Jay Carney complained about being confused.

54 posted on 05/03/2011 10:44:07 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused on Debt, Deficits & Immigration.)
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To: dupree
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

My aim, then, was to whip the Rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

---William Tecumseh Sherman

55 posted on 05/04/2011 12:50:59 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper! We still love you!)
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To: penelopesire
abc news is at it again this morning, with an entire new series of “facts” out of the White House. I believe binny is dead... but since ALL of our information is from the White House and there have been no public Military briefings as done in the past... I consider anything that I hear to be a lie until proved otherwise.

obama is the worst pos to ever serve in government... much less the White House. He will go down in History as the worst President and by a huge margin... and we have had a few extremely bad ones. He is the all time worst!

LLS

56 posted on 05/04/2011 4:15:18 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: Nachum
Don’t worry, I’m not a “Deather”.

I'm getting sick of this crap. Anyone who asks questions is labeled a kook?
AFAIC anyone who accepts things without any questions is a brain dead fool.
And anyone who accepts what 0bowdown says at face value is a zombie.

57 posted on 05/04/2011 5:59:42 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
Anyone who asks questions is labeled a kook?

There was a whole long thread yesterday trying to prove just that. It was troubling. It also tried to prove that Free Republic just sucks today and isn't like it was in the old days.

It seems that there are some malcontents here that still like to post but don't seem to like anybody else's opinions.

58 posted on 05/04/2011 6:03:39 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: TigersEye
I'm getting sick of this crap. Anyone who asks questions is labeled a kook?

Amen to that! I'm sick of it too. It's starting to wear as thin as the race card.

59 posted on 05/04/2011 6:05:18 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: dupree
Oh please are you kidding me. LOL Osama would walk by you and cut your head off and let roll on the floor. Who are you kidding.
60 posted on 05/04/2011 6:07:00 AM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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