Bin Laden – a bogus narrative 5-11-2015

11, May 2015             Bin Laden – a bogus narrative

A new report by investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, reveals that the Obama administration made a false account of the details surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden. Contrary to public assertions that Pakistan was unaware of the whereabouts of Bin Laden, top Pakistani military officials had full knowledge of his whereabouts and held him as a  virtual prisoner at the Abbottabad compound since 2006.Hersh reports that the US military paid $25 million bounty to a former Pakistan intelligence officer who provided the location of Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Numerous reports of a firefight inside the compound were completely untrue. A retired American official mocked the false assertion of US military claims of finding a trove of useful information from Bin Laden’s computers and documents stating that he was operationally irrelevant. Finally, the claim that Bin Laden was buried at sea also appears to be untrue. The false narrative was hyped up for propaganda purposes and denigrate Pakistan as ‘uncooperative’.