------ Forwarded Message > From: Robert Sterling <robal...@yahoo.com> > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:11:34 -0000 > To: <konform...@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Konformist: Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years > > Please send as far and wide as possible. > > Thanks, > Robert Sterling > Editor, The Konformist > http://www.konformist.com > http://robalini.blogspot.com > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/konformist > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven > -years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html > > Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain > covering it up to continue war on terror? > By Sue Reid > 11th September 2009 > > The last time we heard a squeak from him was on June 3 this year. > > The world's most notorious terrorist outsmarted America by releasing a > menacing message as Air Force One touched down on Saudi Arabian soil at the > start of Barack Obama's first and much vaunted Middle East tour. > > Even before the new President alighted at Riyadh airport to shake hands with > Prince Abdullah, Bin Laden's words were being aired on TV, radio and the > internet across every continent. > > It was yet another propaganda coup for the 52-year-old Al Qaeda leader. In the > audiotape delivered to the Arab news network Al Jazeera, Bin Laden said that > America and her Western allies were sowing seeds of hatred in the Muslim world > and deserved dire consequences. > > It was the kind of rant we have heard from him before, and the response from > British and U.S. intelligence services was equally predictable. > > They insisted that the details on the tape, of the President's visit and other > contemporary events, proved that the mastermind of 9/11, America's worst ever > terrorist atrocity, was still alive - and that the hunt for him must go on. > > Bin Laden has always been blamed for orchestrating the horrific attack - in > which nearly 3,000 people perished - eight years ago this week. President > George W. Bush made his capture a national priority, infamously promising with > a Wild West flourish to take him 'dead or alive'. > > The U.S. State Department offered a reward of $50million for his whereabouts. > The FBI named him one of their ten 'most wanted' fugitives, telling the public > to watch out for a left-handed, grey-bearded gentleman who walks with a stick. > > Yet this master terrorist remains elusive. He has escaped the most extensive > and expensive man-hunt in history, stretching across Waziristan, the 1,500 > miles of mountainous badlands on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. > > Undeterred, Barack Obama has launched a fresh operation to find him. Working > with the Pakistani Army, elite squads of U.S. and British special forces were > sent into Waziristan this summer to 'hunt and kill' the shadowy figure > intelligence officers still call 'the principal target' of the war on terror. > > This new offensive is, of course, based on the premise that the 9/11 terrorist > is alive. After all, there are the plethora of 'Bin Laden tapes' to prove it. > > Yet what if he isn't? What if he has been dead for years, and the British and > U.S. intelligence services are actually playing a game of double bluff? > > What if everything we have seen or heard of him on video and audio tapes since > the early days after 9/11 is a fake - and that he is being kept 'alive' by the > Western allies to stir up support for the war on terror? > > Incredibly, this is the breathtaking theory that is gaining credence among > political commentators, respected academics and even terror experts. > > Of course, there have been any number of conspiracy theories concerning 9/11, > and it could be this is just another one. > But the weight of opinion now swinging behind the possibility that Bin Laden > is dead - and the accumulating evidence that supports it - makes the notion, > at the very least, worthy of examination. > > The theory first received an airing in the American Spectator magazine earlier > this year when former U.S. foreign intelligence officer and senior editor > Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston > University, stated bluntly: 'All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more > alive today than Osama Bin Laden.' > > Prof Codevilla pointed to inconsistencies in the videos and claimed there have > been no reputable sightings of Bin Laden for years (for instance, all > interceptions by the West of communications made by the Al Qaeda leader > suddenly ceased in late 2001). > > Prof Codevilla asserted: 'The video and audio tapes alleged to be Osama's > never convince the impartial observer,' he asserted. 'The guy just does not > look like Osama. Some videos show him with a Semitic, aquiline nose, while > others show him with a shorter, broader one. Next to that, differences between > the colours and styles of his beard are small stuff.' > > There are other doubters, too. Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke > University's religious studies' department and the foremost Bin Laden expert, > argues that the increasingly secular language in the video and audio tapes of > Osama (his earliest ones are littered with references to God and the Prophet > Mohammed) are inconsistent with his strict Islamic religion, Wahhabism. > > He notes that, on one video, Bin Laden wears golden rings on his fingers, an > adornment banned among Wahhabi followers. > > This week, still more questions have been raised with the publication in > America and Britain of a book called Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? > > Written by political analyst and philosopher Professor David Ray Griffin, > former emeritus professor at California's Claremont School of Theology, it is > provoking shock waves - for it goes into far more detail about his supposed > death and suggests there has been a cover-up by the West. > > The book claims that Bin Laden died of kidney failure, or a linked complaint, > on December 13, 2001, while living in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains close > to the border with Waziristan. > > His burial took place within 24 hours, in line with Muslim religious rules, > and in an unmarked grave, which is a Wahhabi custom. > > The author insists that the many Bin Laden tapes made since that date have > been concocted by the West to make the world believe Bin Laden is alive. The > purpose? To stoke up waning support for the war on terror in Iraq and > Afghanistan. > > To understand Griffin's thesis, we must remember the West's reaction to 9/11, > that fateful sunny September day in 2001. Within a month, on Sunday, October > 7, the U.S. and Britain launched massive retaliatory air strikes in the Tora > Bora region where they said 'prime suspect' Bin Laden was living 'as a guest > of Afghanistan'. > > This military offensive ignored the fact that Bin Laden had already insisted > four times in official Al Qaeda statements made to the Arab press that he > played no role in 9/11. > > Indeed, on the fourth occasion, on September 28 and a fortnight after the > atrocity, he declared emphatically: 'I have already said I am not involved. As > a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge... nor do I > consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an > appreciable act.' > > Within hours of the October 7 strikes by the U.S. on Tora Bora, Bin Laden made > his first ever appearance on video tape. Dressed in Army fatigues, and with an > Islamic head-dress, he had an assault rifle propped behind him in a broadly > lit mountain hideout. Significantly, he looked pale and gaunt. > > Although he called President George W. Bush 'head of the infidels' and poured > scorn on the U.S., he once again rejected responsibility for 9/11. > > 'America was hit by God in one of its softest spots. America is full of fear, > from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that.' > > Then came a second videotape on November 3, 2001. Once again, an ailing Bin > Laden lashed out at the United States. He urged true Muslims to celebrate the > attacks - but did not at any time acknowledge he had been involved in the > atrocity. > > And then there was silence until December 13, 2001 - the date Griffin claims > Bin Laden died. That very day, the U.S. Government released a new video of the > terror chief. In this tape, Bin Laden contradicted all his previous denials, > and suddenly admitted to his involvement in the atrocity of 9/11. > > The tape had reportedly been found by U.S. troops in a private home in > Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after anti-Taliban forces took over the city. A label > attached to it claimed that it had been made on November 9, 2001. > > The tape shows Bin Laden talking with a visiting sheik. In it, he clearly > states that he not only knew about the 9/11 atrocities in advance, but had > planned every detail personally. > > What manna for the Western authorities! This put the terrorist back in the > frame over 9/11. The Washington Post quoted U.S. officials saying that the > video 'offers the most convincing evidence of a connection between Bin Laden > and the September 11 attacks'. > > A euphoric President Bush added: 'For those who see this tape, they realise > that not only is he guilty of incredible murder, but he has no conscience and > no soul.' > > In London, Downing Street said that the video was 'conclusive proof of his > involvement'. The then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, added: 'There is no > doubt it is the real thing. People can see Bin Laden there, making those > utterly chilling words of admission about his guilt for organising the > atrocities of September 11.' > > Yet Professor Griffin claims this 'confessional' video provokes more questions > than answers. For a start, the Bin Laden in this vital film testimony looks > different. > > He is a weighty man with a black beard, not a grey one. His pale skin had > suddenly become darker, and he had a different shaped nose. His artistic hands > with slender fingers had transformed into those of a pugilist. He looked in > exceedingly good health. > > Furthermore, Bin Laden can be seen writing a note with his right hand, > although he is left-handed. Bizarrely, too, he makes statements about 9/11 > which Griffin claims would never have come from the mouth of the real Bin > Laden - a man with a civil engineering degree who had made his fortune (before > moving into terrorism) from building construction in the Middle East. > > For example, the Al Qaeda leader trumpets that far more people died in 9/11 > than he had expected. He goes on: 'Due to my experience in this field, I was > thinking that the explosion from the gas in the plane would melt the iron > structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all > the floors above it only. That is all we had hoped for.' (In reality the Twin > Towers' completely fell down). > > The words of the true Bin Laden? No, says Griffin, because of the obvious > mistakes. 'Given his experience as a contractor, he would have known the Twin > Towers were framed with steel, not iron,' he says. > > 'He would also known that steel and iron do not begin to melt until they reach > 2,800 deg F. Yet a building fire fed by jet fuel is a hydrocarbon fire, and > could not have reached above 1,800 deg F.' > > Griffin, in his explosive book, says this tape is fake, and he goes further. > > 'A reason to suspect that all of the post-2001 Bin Laden tapes are > fabrications is that they often appeared at times that boosted the Bush > presidency or supported a claim by its chief 'war on terror' ally, British > Prime Minister Tony Blair. > > 'The confession tape came exactly when Bush and Blair had failed to prove Bin > Laden's responsibility for 9/11 and both men were trying to win international > public support, particularly in the Islamic world, for the anti-terrorist > campaign.' > > Griffin suggests that Western governments used highly sophisticated, special > effects film technology to morph together images and vocal recordings of Bin > Laden. > > So if they are fakes, why has Al Qaeda kept quiet about it? And what exactly > happened to the real Bin Laden? > > The answer to the first question may be that the amorphous terrorist > organisation is happy to wage its own propaganda battle in the face of waning > support - and goes along with the myth that its charismatic figurehead is > still alive to encourage recruitment to its cause. > > As for the matter of what happened to him, hints of Bin Laden's kidney > failure, or that he might be dead, first appeared on January 19, 2002, four > months after 9/11. > > This was when Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf told America's news show > CNN: 'I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a kidney patient. > The images of him show he is extremely weak.' > > In his book, Professor Griffin also endorses this theory. He says Bin Laden > was treated for a urinary infection, often linked to kidney disease, at the > American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001, two months before 9/11. At the same > time, he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to Afghanistan. > > How could Bin Laden, on the run in snowy mountain caves, have used the machine > that many believe was essential to keep him alive? Doctors whom Griffin cites > on the subject think it would have been impossible. > > He would have needed to stay in one spot with a team of medics, hygienic > conditions, and a regular maintenance programme for the dialysis unit itself. > > And what of the telling, small news item that broke on December 26, 2001 in > the Egyptian newspaper Al-Wafd? It said a prominent official of the Afghan > Taliban had announced that Osama Bin Laden had been buried on or about > December 13. > > 'He suffered serious complications and died a natural, quiet death. He was > buried in Tora Bora, a funeral attended by 30 Al Qaeda fighters, close members > of his family and friends from the Taliban. By the Wahhabi tradition, no mark > was left on the grave,' said the report. > > The Taliban official, who was not named, said triumphantly that he had seen > Bin Laden's face in his shroud. 'He looked pale, but calm, relaxed and > confident.' > > It was Christmas in Washington DC and London and the report hardly got a > mention. Since then, the Bin Laden tapes have emerged with clockwork > regularity as billions have been spent and much blood spilt on the hunt for > him. > > Bin Laden has been the central plank of the West's 'war on terror'. Could it > be that, for years, he's just been smoke and mirrors? > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > The Konformist must make a request for donations via Paypal, at Paypal.com. 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