Osama Bin Laden Dead

[Michael Scally MD]

I'm just waiting for the "deather" movement to take off! I'm sure that Obama has enough experience dealing with proving birth that his administration must be fully prepared to proving Bin Laden's death.

The Birthers Become 'Deathers'
Osama Bin Laden Killing Launches Birthers' New "Deather" Conspiracy Theory - The Daily Beast

Birthers who claimed President Obama was not born in the U.S. have moved on to another wild conspiracy theory: that Osama bin Laden was not really killed last Sunday—or was killed to shut him up, and then quickly buried at sea.

 

[Millard]

the birthers become 'deathers'
osama bin laden killing launches birthers' new "deather" conspiracy theory - the daily beast

:d

 

[Millard]

Osama bin Laden's formerly secret compound on google maps:

[ame="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Osama+bin+Laden%27s+Compound,+Abbott%C4%81bad,+Pakistan&sll=34.187666,73.24262&sspn=0.006709,0.012606&ie=UTF8&hq=Osama+bin+Laden%27s+Compound,&hnear=Abbott%C4%81bad,+Abbottabad,+Khyber+Pakhtunkhwa,+Pakistan&t=h&ll=34.169453,73.242454&spn=0.001369,0.00327&z=19&iwloc=A"]Osama bin Laden's Compound, Abbott?bad, Pakistan - Google Maps[/ame]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Bin Laden Raid Revives Debate on Value of Torture
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/politics/04torture.html?_r=1

“The bottom line is this: If we had some kind of smoking-gun intelligence from waterboarding in 2003, we would have taken out Osama bin Laden in 2003,” said Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council. “It took years of collection and analysis from many different sources to develop the case that enabled us to identify this compound, and reach a judgment that Bin Laden was likely to be living there.”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Bin Laden's widow says they lived in Pakistani house for 5 years
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-binladen-pakistan-wife-idUSTRE74523V20110506

(Reuters) - One of Osama bin Laden's wives told Pakistani interrogators that the al Qaeda leader and his family had been living for five years in the compound where he was killed by U.S. forces this week, a security official said on Friday.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

POLITICO.com: VIDEOS

 

[Michael Scally MD]

U.S. officials unveil videos of bin Laden
U.S. officials unveil videos of bin Laden - CNN.com

[ame=http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/05/07/exp.new.video.bin.laden.compound.cnn]Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com[/ame]

Pentagon releases bin Laden tapes - The Washington Post

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Millard]

The Birthers Become 'Deathers'
Osama Bin Laden Killing Launches Birthers' New "Deather" Conspiracy Theory - The Daily Beast

I was disappointed to see John Romano jump on the birther to deather bandwagons. Romano was a well spoken and good advocate for the truth about steroids. he was in the documentary bigger stronger faster. now his birther/deather advocacy seriously doesn't help his credibility on steroid matters among general public. i'm surprised at the number of people who latch onto this. I know the government is untruthful about a lot of things, i'm the first one to acknowledge that, but that's not enough to justify every conspiracy theory.

OMG! Al-Qaida and the United States government are working together in the deather conspiracy!!

Al-Qaida vows revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death in first acknowledgment by terror network - The Washington Post

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqoMgUkefXw]YouTube - Bin Laden Is Dead & We're Mad As Hell[/ame]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

What's Osama bin Watchin'?
What's Osama Bin Watchin'?

For example: What's Osama Bin Watchin'?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

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[Millard]

An objective critique of the Obama administration's communication strategy following OBL raid by Jonathan Littman (free of conspiracy theories).

The meticulously planned assassination of bin Laden was so well executed that even a helicopter malfunction didn't throw the team off their game. Not a single Navy Seal was shot or even injured in a devilishly complicated operation.

But the guys in the White House in charge of the words couldn't shoot straight. They seemed to have no comprehensive narrative plan, no organized and orchestrated story for the biggest U.S. military success in decades.

[...]

This was a story that deserved to be told well from the start.

Jonathan Littman: Foggy White House Storytelling

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture
Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture - The Washington Post

By John McCain, Published: May 11

I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. The first mention of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti — the nickname of the al-Qaeda courier who ultimately led us to bin Laden — as well as a description of him as an important member of al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured. None of the three detainees who were waterboarded provided Abu Ahmed’s real name, his whereabouts or an accurate description of his role in al-Qaeda.

In fact, the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on Khalid Sheik Mohammed produced false and misleading information. He specifically told his interrogators that Abu Ahmed had moved to Peshawar, got married and ceased his role as an al-Qaeda facilitator — none of which was true. According to the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, the best intelligence gained from a CIA detainee — information describing Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti’s real role in al-Qaeda and his true relationship to bin Laden — was obtained through standard, noncoercive means.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

If you want to watch the key part, go to around the 5:40 mark:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I94Yb4KUic]YouTube - SENATOR JOHN McCAIN SPEAKS ON THE SENATE FLOOR ON THE DEBATE ON THE USE OF TORTURE[/ame]