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"The Great Game’s New Clothes" by Conn Hallinan
May 5, 2011
According to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, the U.S. never informed Pakistan about the operation to assassinate al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin because it thought the Pakistanis could “jeopardize the mission” by tipping off the target
According to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, the U.S. never informed Pakistan about the operation to assassinate al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin because it thought the Pakistanis could “jeopardize the mission” by tipping off the target
Maybe, and maybe not. This is, after all, the ground over which the 19th century “Great Game” was played, the essence of which was obfuscation. What you thought you saw or knew was not necessarily what was.
The “official” story is that three CIA helicopters—one for backup—took off from Jalalabad, Afghanistan and flew almost 200 miles to Abbottabad, most of it through Pakistani airspace. Pakistan scrambled jets, but the choppers still managed to land, spend 40 minutes on the ground, and get away.
Is it possible the helicopters really did dodge Pakistani radar? During the Cold War a West German pilot flew undetected through the teeth of the Soviet air defense system and landed his plane in Red Square, so yes. Choppers are slow, but these were stealth varieties and fairly quiet. But at top speed, the Blackhawks would have needed about an hour each way, plus the 40 minutes on the ground. That is a long time to remain undetected, particularly in a town hosting three regiments of the Pakistani Army, plus the Kakul Military Academy, the country’s equivalent of West Point. Abbottabad is also 35 miles from the capital, Islamabad, and the region is ringed with anti-aircraft sites.
Still, it is possible, except there is an alternative scenario that not only avoids magical thinking about what choppers can do, but better fits the politics of the moment: that Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) knew where Bin Ladin was and fingered him, estimating that his death would accelerate negotiations with the Taliban. Why now? Because for the first time in this long war, U.S. and Pakistani interests coincide.
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The “official” story is that three CIA helicopters—one for backup—took off from Jalalabad, Afghanistan and flew almost 200 miles to Abbottabad, most of it through Pakistani airspace. Pakistan scrambled jets, but the choppers still managed to land, spend 40 minutes on the ground, and get away.
Is it possible the helicopters really did dodge Pakistani radar? During the Cold War a West German pilot flew undetected through the teeth of the Soviet air defense system and landed his plane in Red Square, so yes. Choppers are slow, but these were stealth varieties and fairly quiet. But at top speed, the Blackhawks would have needed about an hour each way, plus the 40 minutes on the ground. That is a long time to remain undetected, particularly in a town hosting three regiments of the Pakistani Army, plus the Kakul Military Academy, the country’s equivalent of West Point. Abbottabad is also 35 miles from the capital, Islamabad, and the region is ringed with anti-aircraft sites.
Still, it is possible, except there is an alternative scenario that not only avoids magical thinking about what choppers can do, but better fits the politics of the moment: that Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) knew where Bin Ladin was and fingered him, estimating that his death would accelerate negotiations with the Taliban. Why now? Because for the first time in this long war, U.S. and Pakistani interests coincide.
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COMING MORE LIES BY THE US/ MEDIA CIRCUS
Posted on May 12, 2011 by omasiali
THIS SO CALLED DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN IS A COMPLETE LIE, ITS A TOTAL FAKE & A HOAX PRODUCED BY THE CIA/ AND THE MILITARY COMPLEX, ON THE BEHEST OF GEO BUSH AND THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY / WHERE ARE ALL THESE MEDIA STORIES COMING FROM? WHERE IS THE DEAD BODY OF BIN LADEN? THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED BY THE US PRESS, THE MEDIA, AND THOSE LIARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND GEO BUSH / WHY HAVEN,T THEY TOLD THE PUBLIC THE TRUTH, THAT GEO BUSH DID 911/ THAT BIN LADEN WAS WORKING FOR THE US/CIA/ MILITARY COMPLEX/ UNTIL HIS DEATH IN DEC 01, WHEN HE WAS MURDERED BY SHEIK OMAR, ANOTHER ISI, CIA, AGENT, / BENZAIR BHUTTO INTERVIEW WITH DAVID FROST TOLD OF THE MURDER OF BIN LADEN ( CHECK YOU/TUBE THANK YOU BENZAIRE BHUTTO THIS IS A SHAM A SCAM AN MISDIRECTION BY THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CIA/ US MILITARY COMPLEX →
THIS HOUSE NEGRO OBAMA IS ANOTHER MASS MURDERER, FOR HIS ACTS OF WAR/ MURDER IN PAKISTAN, LIBYA, AND IRAQ, JUST LIKE HIS COUSIN GEO BUSH, ALL OF HIS POLICIES MIRROR THE POLICIES OF GEO BUSH ALL OF HIS CABINET IS FROM GEO BUSH/ AND BILL CLINTON, OBAMA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A IN HOUSE BISEXUAL, WHO WILL DO AS HE IS TOLD, PERIOD
THE USA DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, LIBYA, OR ANY PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO OIL MONEY AND WORLD DOMINATION – AMERICA IS THE 4TH REICH A REINCARNATE OF THE NAZIS OF GERMANY, THE USA HAS OUT DONE THE NAZIS IN THEIR TORTURE AGGRESSION, BRUTALITY AND MURDER ALL OVER THE GLOBE
WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS WAR ON LIBYA IS A INVASION, A UNDECLARED WAR OF CONQUEST FOR THE US OIL COMPANIES FOR LIBYAN OIL – THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LIBERATION OF THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA, THE SAME STRUCTURE OF GOV,T BACK BY THE US MILITARY AND THE CIA IN LIBYA WILL CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT, BACK BY THE US/CIA MILITARY MACHINE WHO WILL PUT IN A PUPPET REGIME IN LIBYA AS THEY HAVE DONE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND THE USA WITH THE INSTALLATION OF OBAMA A PUPPET CONTROLLED BY THE BUSH /CLINTON REGIME & CRIME FAMILY ,-ONCE AGAIN THE AMERICAN CIA AND MILITARY VENTURE ON WAR INSPIRED BY OIL PRODUCING NATIONS WHO CANNOT PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM AMERICAN AGGRESSION IN A , WAR OF CONQUEST ,MASS MURDER & GENOCIDE IN AFRICA, AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY NEXT WILL BE THE SUDAN ,THEN YEMEN, ANOTHER OIL PRODUCING NATION THAT CANNOT PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE AMERICAN INVASION OF THIEVERY AND MASS MURDER, AND GENOCIDE BY THE USA/CIA MILITARY COMPLEX THIS IS NOTHING BUT RAPE, ROBBERY, AN MURDER BY USA IMPERIALIST CAPITALIST FOR THEIR GREED FOR THE LUST FOR OIL, SOMALIA IS ALSO ON THE HIT LIST, FIRST IT WAS IRAQ, THEN AFGHANISTAN , ETC, THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS WAR WAS NOT VOTED ON BY CONGRESS THE HOUSE NOR THE SENATE, OBAMA USED HIS POWER OF EXECUTIVE ORDER, WHICH HIS COUSIN GEO BUSH USED IN HIS INVASION OF IRAQ TO MURDER SADDAM -AND STEAL IRAQ,S OIL IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRACY FREEDOM ETC FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ – IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911 NOR DID IRAQ HAVE ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THIS WAS THE LIE THAT RICE AND THAT HOUSE NEGRO COLIN POWELL USED AS AN EXCUSE TO INVADE IRAQ AND STEAL ITS OIL MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE MURDERED BY US MILITARY ACTION IN IRAQ DIRECTED NOT @ TERRORIST BUT DIRECTED @ WOMEN AND CHILDREN ,AN ACT OF GENOCIDE BY THE US MILITARY WHICH IS A WAR CRIME DONE BY CLINTON, BUSH NOW HIS COUSIN OBAMA -THESE PEOPLE ARE WAR CRIMINALS, LIBYA FACES THE SAME FATE, OF BEING ANOTHER US SATELLITE NATION BEING DRAINED OF ITS OIL, IN AFRICA- RUSSIA IS SITTING ON TRILLIONS IN OIL RESERVES IN THE CASPIAN SEA, AREA SURROUNDED BY THE BALTIC STATES WHICH ARE RICH IN OIL, ALL NATIONS THAT DON,T HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE VICTIMS OF THE VAMPIRE US MILITARY COMPLEX AND THEIR COLLABORATORS – THESE VAMPIRES WILL SUCK THE LIFE BLOOD OUT OF LIBYA WHICH IS ITS OIL -,LIBYA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC THE PEOPLE ARE VERY POOR, THE ARMY IS A JOKE, NO MATCH FOR AMERICAN FIRE POWER, NOR THE ALLIED NATO FORCES WHO WILL CRUSH THE REGIME, OF QUADDFI THE US WILL TAKE OVER THE NATION AN STEAL ITS OIL AS IT HAS DONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST – BASICALLY LIBYA WAS SOLD OUT BY THE POWER/ELITE IN A DOUBLE CROSS AND PUT IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF AMERICAN WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS LUST FOR OIL MONEY GREED AND A WAR OF , GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER, RAPE, ROBBERY OF AFRICAN OIL HOW MANY INNOCENT LIVES WILL BE LOST IN THESE WARS OF OIL THIEVERY ? BY THE US IMPERIALIST? NO OIL PRODUCING NATION IS SAFE FROM THE BEAST THE US HAS BECOME , NEXT IT WILL BE HUGO CHAVEZ OF VENEZUELA WHO CALLED GEO BUSH A DEVIL FROM HELL, @ A UN COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH BUSH DIDN,T DENY NOR REFUTE MR CHAVEZ STATEMENTS IS NUMBER 7 OIL PRODUCING NATION IM SURE HE IS ON THE CIA/USA HIT LIST THERE WILL BE MORE WOMEN AN CHILDREN SACRIFICE TO THE GOD,S OF OIL AND THE CORPORATE GREED OF BANKERS AND THE BOYS ON WALL STREET!!!!!!
Posted on May 12, 2011 by omasiali
THIS SO CALLED DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN IS A COMPLETE LIE, ITS A TOTAL FAKE & A HOAX PRODUCED BY THE CIA/ AND THE MILITARY COMPLEX, ON THE BEHEST OF GEO BUSH AND THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY / WHERE ARE ALL THESE MEDIA STORIES COMING FROM? WHERE IS THE DEAD BODY OF BIN LADEN? THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED BY THE US PRESS, THE MEDIA, AND THOSE LIARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND GEO BUSH / WHY HAVEN,T THEY TOLD THE PUBLIC THE TRUTH, THAT GEO BUSH DID 911/ THAT BIN LADEN WAS WORKING FOR THE US/CIA/ MILITARY COMPLEX/ UNTIL HIS DEATH IN DEC 01, WHEN HE WAS MURDERED BY SHEIK OMAR, ANOTHER ISI, CIA, AGENT, / BENZAIR BHUTTO INTERVIEW WITH DAVID FROST TOLD OF THE MURDER OF BIN LADEN ( CHECK YOU/TUBE THANK YOU BENZAIRE BHUTTO THIS IS A SHAM A SCAM AN MISDIRECTION BY THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CIA/ US MILITARY COMPLEX →
THIS HOUSE NEGRO OBAMA IS ANOTHER MASS MURDERER, FOR HIS ACTS OF WAR/ MURDER IN PAKISTAN, LIBYA, AND IRAQ, JUST LIKE HIS COUSIN GEO BUSH, ALL OF HIS POLICIES MIRROR THE POLICIES OF GEO BUSH ALL OF HIS CABINET IS FROM GEO BUSH/ AND BILL CLINTON, OBAMA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A IN HOUSE BISEXUAL, WHO WILL DO AS HE IS TOLD, PERIOD
THE USA DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, LIBYA, OR ANY PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO OIL MONEY AND WORLD DOMINATION – AMERICA IS THE 4TH REICH A REINCARNATE OF THE NAZIS OF GERMANY, THE USA HAS OUT DONE THE NAZIS IN THEIR TORTURE AGGRESSION, BRUTALITY AND MURDER ALL OVER THE GLOBE
WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS WAR ON LIBYA IS A INVASION, A UNDECLARED WAR OF CONQUEST FOR THE US OIL COMPANIES FOR LIBYAN OIL – THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LIBERATION OF THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA, THE SAME STRUCTURE OF GOV,T BACK BY THE US MILITARY AND THE CIA IN LIBYA WILL CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT, BACK BY THE US/CIA MILITARY MACHINE WHO WILL PUT IN A PUPPET REGIME IN LIBYA AS THEY HAVE DONE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND THE USA WITH THE INSTALLATION OF OBAMA A PUPPET CONTROLLED BY THE BUSH /CLINTON REGIME & CRIME FAMILY ,-ONCE AGAIN THE AMERICAN CIA AND MILITARY VENTURE ON WAR INSPIRED BY OIL PRODUCING NATIONS WHO CANNOT PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM AMERICAN AGGRESSION IN A , WAR OF CONQUEST ,MASS MURDER & GENOCIDE IN AFRICA, AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY NEXT WILL BE THE SUDAN ,THEN YEMEN, ANOTHER OIL PRODUCING NATION THAT CANNOT PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE AMERICAN INVASION OF THIEVERY AND MASS MURDER, AND GENOCIDE BY THE USA/CIA MILITARY COMPLEX THIS IS NOTHING BUT RAPE, ROBBERY, AN MURDER BY USA IMPERIALIST CAPITALIST FOR THEIR GREED FOR THE LUST FOR OIL, SOMALIA IS ALSO ON THE HIT LIST, FIRST IT WAS IRAQ, THEN AFGHANISTAN , ETC, THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS WAR WAS NOT VOTED ON BY CONGRESS THE HOUSE NOR THE SENATE, OBAMA USED HIS POWER OF EXECUTIVE ORDER, WHICH HIS COUSIN GEO BUSH USED IN HIS INVASION OF IRAQ TO MURDER SADDAM -AND STEAL IRAQ,S OIL IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRACY FREEDOM ETC FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ – IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911 NOR DID IRAQ HAVE ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THIS WAS THE LIE THAT RICE AND THAT HOUSE NEGRO COLIN POWELL USED AS AN EXCUSE TO INVADE IRAQ AND STEAL ITS OIL MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE MURDERED BY US MILITARY ACTION IN IRAQ DIRECTED NOT @ TERRORIST BUT DIRECTED @ WOMEN AND CHILDREN ,AN ACT OF GENOCIDE BY THE US MILITARY WHICH IS A WAR CRIME DONE BY CLINTON, BUSH NOW HIS COUSIN OBAMA -THESE PEOPLE ARE WAR CRIMINALS, LIBYA FACES THE SAME FATE, OF BEING ANOTHER US SATELLITE NATION BEING DRAINED OF ITS OIL, IN AFRICA- RUSSIA IS SITTING ON TRILLIONS IN OIL RESERVES IN THE CASPIAN SEA, AREA SURROUNDED BY THE BALTIC STATES WHICH ARE RICH IN OIL, ALL NATIONS THAT DON,T HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE VICTIMS OF THE VAMPIRE US MILITARY COMPLEX AND THEIR COLLABORATORS – THESE VAMPIRES WILL SUCK THE LIFE BLOOD OUT OF LIBYA WHICH IS ITS OIL -,LIBYA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC THE PEOPLE ARE VERY POOR, THE ARMY IS A JOKE, NO MATCH FOR AMERICAN FIRE POWER, NOR THE ALLIED NATO FORCES WHO WILL CRUSH THE REGIME, OF QUADDFI THE US WILL TAKE OVER THE NATION AN STEAL ITS OIL AS IT HAS DONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST – BASICALLY LIBYA WAS SOLD OUT BY THE POWER/ELITE IN A DOUBLE CROSS AND PUT IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF AMERICAN WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS LUST FOR OIL MONEY GREED AND A WAR OF , GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER, RAPE, ROBBERY OF AFRICAN OIL HOW MANY INNOCENT LIVES WILL BE LOST IN THESE WARS OF OIL THIEVERY ? BY THE US IMPERIALIST? NO OIL PRODUCING NATION IS SAFE FROM THE BEAST THE US HAS BECOME , NEXT IT WILL BE HUGO CHAVEZ OF VENEZUELA WHO CALLED GEO BUSH A DEVIL FROM HELL, @ A UN COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH BUSH DIDN,T DENY NOR REFUTE MR CHAVEZ STATEMENTS IS NUMBER 7 OIL PRODUCING NATION IM SURE HE IS ON THE CIA/USA HIT LIST THERE WILL BE MORE WOMEN AN CHILDREN SACRIFICE TO THE GOD,S OF OIL AND THE CORPORATE GREED OF BANKERS AND THE BOYS ON WALL STREET!!!!!!
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