Osama bin Laden - dead men tell no lies.

"The Finish" a new book by Mark Bowden author of “Black Hawk Down”, says that President Obama wanted to put Osama bin Laden on trial. Obama expected bin Laden to go down fighting according to Bowden. As to why Obama wanted to put bin Laden on trial Bowden quotes the President as saying, "Frankly, my belief was if we had captured him, that I would be in a pretty strong position  politically here, to argue that displaying due process and rule of law would be our best weapon against al-Qaida in preventing him from appearing as a martyr".

 But was capture ever a realistic possibility?  US officials have said the Navy SEAL team was ordered to capture bin Laden if he surrendered or kill him if he threatened them. Bowden asserts the SEALs could have taken bin Laden alive but had no intention of doing so.  Contrary to what had been reported Matt Bissonnette, a member of the SEAL team that killed bin Laden, and author of “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of theMission That Killed Osama bin Laden”, says that night the “point man” saw a man poking his head out and shot at him. The SEALs then went slowly to the room and entered. They found a man lying on the floor, “In his death throes, he was still twitching and convulsing,” Bissonnette goes on to say, “Another assaulter and I trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless.” Unconfirmed sources also assert that taking bin Laden alive was never going to happen – bin Laden knew too much. Bissonnette’s account seems to substantiate that.  Dead men tell no lies.

While our elected representatives “come and go” there are people who “remain in place” no matter which party is in power. There are “those” who are consistently appointed to positions of power and influence – no matter what their political affiliations may be. Why? Where does their first loyalty lie?  Whose interests do they represent?  What “strings” won't they pull at the behest of their masters? To what lengths will they go to “hide” their machinations and manipulations from the public? And if something “leaks” out it's discounted, dismissed and labeled as the product of “conspiracy theorist”. What happens to individuals who are suspected as being a source, or a potential source, of a “leak”? How many witnesses to the JFK assassination died? And what was the probability of the unnatural death of those witnesses?

There are those who assert that bin Laden was a CIA “intelligence asset” – assigned the name Tim Osman – and that he “toured” the U. S.  A former British Foreign secretary, Robin Cook said: “Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.”

There are claims that the CIA knew bin Laden’s “whereabouts” and that in July 2001 a CIA head of station actually met with bin Laden at the American Hospital in Dubai,UAE. CBS’s Dan Rather reported that bin Laden, who was on the FBI’s most wanted list at that time, was back in the hospital, one day before the 9/11 attacks. Is it conceivable that Dan Rather could know this but the FBI and the “intelligence community” did not? 

Then there are those who claim that bin Laden was already dead – that he had died years before; and that the 9/11 attack was actually a “false flag” event.  According to Paul Joseph Watson, of infowars.com, “Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001…”, he goes on to say that “…Pieczenik served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT.” 

Are these claims nothing more than the “product” of conspiracy theorists - as some allege?  What are we to believe? All we know for certain is that bin Laden was not captured and tried. And if Bissonnette is to be believed, bin Laden was unarmed and “dispatched” while lying on his back - notwithstanding the order to capture him. Was the man killed that night the “real” bin Laden or a double – put in place because bin Laden had died? Was the “real” bin Laden silenced that night because there were those who knew if he was captured there was the potential that he could reveal information validating assertions that bin Laden had connections to and was still working with individuals in the intelligence community? Was there a secret “counter” order to assassinate bin Laden?  Did Bissonnette give us a clue? Letting us know  that bin Laden was unarmed and executed while lying wounded on the floor which is contrary to the administrations original assertions that bin Laden was killed while resisting capture.  

What do you think?