But you already knew that, didn’t you? At least if you were reading The Roving Eye, Nafeez Ahmed and a few others.
Read Sy’s original report in the London Review of Books here:
And most of it was already reported in 2011, via other sources. See here:
So what’s now established is that OBL was initially captured by the ISI, kept under vigilance in Abbottabad, and ratted out by a former senior ISI official, who bagged a fortune and is now comfortably ensconced in Virginia, with family.
And obviously we had to have the loooooooong hand of the House of Saud involved in the whole scam. The killer quote from Sy’s top CIA source:
‘The Saudis didn’t want bin Laden’s presence revealed to us because he was a Saudi, and so they told the Pakistanis to keep him out of the picture. The Saudis feared if we knew we would pressure the Pakistanis to let bin Laden start talking to us about what the Saudis had been doing with al-Qaida. And they were dropping money – lots of it. The Pakistanis, in turn, were concerned that the Saudis might spill the beans about their control of bin Laden. The fear was that if the US found out about bin Laden from Riyadh, all hell would break out. The Americans learning about bin Laden’s imprisonment from a walk-in was not the worst thing.’
So, once again, the CIA – and I saw them in action in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq – found NOTHING, unlike Hollywood myth of the Zero Dark Thirty variety.
Dawn in Pakistan was already on the story for a while now:
Amir Mir at the News has just confirmed the informer’s identity:
And yes, OBL was not weaponized when shot and killed, and did not use one of his wives as a shield. This was just a pure, simple, targeted assassination.
Sy is spot on when he writes, “high-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids”, etc..
Now back to the bloody House of Saud.
Key people in real Masters of the Universe circles finally have had enough of those thugs.
Now even the New York Times is printing that, “Saudi support for the Afghan jihad decades ago helped create Al Qaeda.”
The same NYT story also – finally – prints that King Salman, the new top Mobster,
“was a royal point man and fund-raiser for jihadists going to Afghanistan, Bosnia and elsewhere.”
It’s not a coincidence that this kind of story shows up exactly as Salman “snubbed” Obama by not going to the US/GCC summit tomorrow in Camp David.
So the “folks” who financed Osama in the first place, and then paid the Pakistanis to keep him locked up, now want a “security deal” with Washington similar to the “special relationship” with Israel. No, you can’t make this stuff up.
For background, please check my two latest Asia Times stories on why the “war on terra” is a fraud, and what game the “new” House of Saud is playing.
And in the cadaver department, start looking for OBL's body in the Hindu Kush instead of the Indian Ocean.
