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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Wikileaks
Releases Hacked Stratfor E-mails That Suggest Bin Laden Not Buried at
Sea<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/wikileaks-releases-hacked-stratfor-e-mails-that-suggest-bin-laden-not-buried-at-sea/>by
Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>
All this could have been avoided if the Obama administration released the
death photos of bin Laden.
Via New
American<http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/11092-leaked-emails-suggest-bin-laden-not-buried-at-sea>
:
According to the official version of events promulgated by the Obama
administration, after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, his body was
flown to Afghanistan for identification and then buried in the Arabian Sea
about 12 hours after his death, supposedly in keeping with Islamic ritual.
However, internal e-mails from intelligence service Stratfor, obtained by
the hacker group Anonymous and posted to the Internet by
WikiLeaks<http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html>,
cast doubt on that story.
Austin, Texas-based Stratfor is a very well-connected organization
described by WikiLeaks as “a company that fronts as an intelligence
publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large
corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop
Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense Intelligence
Agency.” The company’s vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton, a
highly experienced counterterrorism expert with many contacts in the U.S.
government, was the originator of most of the e-mails concerning the
disposition of bin Laden’s body in the hours after his death.
Bin Laden was allegedly killed near Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011,
just after 1:00 a.m. local time. President Barack Obama announced bin
Laden’s assassination on May 1 at 11:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (May 2
had not yet arrived in the United States).
At 5:26 a.m. Central Daylight Time on May 2, Burton sent out an e-mail with
the subject “OBL” (Osama bin Laden)
stating<http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1094322_-alpha-obl-.html>:
“Reportedly, we took the body with us. Thank goodness.”
Twenty-five minutes later he sent
one<http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1102718_-alpha-body-bound-for-dover-de-on-cia-plane-.html>
with
the subject “Body bound for Dover, DE on CIA plane.” The text read: “Than
[sic] onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda.”
(“Technically this would have meant the Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center, since the AFIP operations were folded into Walter Reed as
part of a consolidation plan,” explained Jason
Ditz<http://news.antiwar.com/2012/03/04/wikileaks-email-bin-ladens-corpse-not-dumped-at-sea/>
of
Antiwar.com, adding that if confirmed, “it would add yet more intrigue to
Dover Air Force Base, already under enormous scrutiny for its mishandling
of corpses and disposal of remains at a Virginia landfill.”)
At 6:26 a.m. Burton
stated<http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1097638_re-obl-s-corpse-.html>
that
he “doubt[ed]” that bin Laden’s body had been “dumped at sea,” adding, “We
would want to photograph, DNA, fingerprint, etc.” “His body is a crime
scene,” he continued, “and I don’t see the FBI nor DOJ letting that
happen.” He suggested that burying the body at sea would be reminiscent of
the cremation of Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s body following his capture, trial,
and execution, the purpose of which was to prevent anyone from building a
memorial to him.
Stratfor CEO George Friedman agreed but noted that “Eichmann was seen alive
for many months on trial before being sentenced to death and executed,”
then cremated. “No comparison with suddenly burying him at sea without any
chance to view him which i [sic] doubt happened,” he added.
Obviously neither of these highly connected men with plenty of inside
sources had yet bought into the idea that bin Laden had been sent to Davy
Jones’ locker. Indeed, at 1:36 p.m. Burton was still of the opinion that
bin Laden’s body was being taken to the United States, writing: “Body is
Dover bound, should be here by now.”
By 3:11 p.m., however, he appears to have changed his mind,
e-mailing<http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1666377_fbi-more-on-body-.html>:
“Down & dirty done, He already sleeps with the fish.” But he noted the
difficulties that this course of action would create, saying, “It seems to
me that by dropping the corpse in the ocean, the body will come back to
haunt us.”
Although bin Laden’s corpse hasn’t haunted the United States much thus far,
the release of the Stratfor e-mails will likely revive the debate over just
what happened to bin Laden’s body and, consequently, whether or not U.S.
forces actually killed the terrorist mastermind in the first place. Secrecy
prior to the raid is understandable; a refusal to produce the key piece of
evidence that the raid was successful, on the other hand, is quite curious
indeed.
Continue
reading>>><http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/11092-leaked-emails-suggest-bin-laden-not-buried-at-sea>
*Scotty Starnes
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