“Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts | Global Research
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“Zero Dark Thirty is disturbing for two reasons. First and foremost, it leaves the viewer with the erroneous impression that torture helped the CIA find bin Laden’s hiding place in Pakistan…The statement ‘based on first-hand accounts of actual events’ is deceptive because it causes the viewer think the story is accurate. All it really means, however, is that the CIA provided Hollywood with information about events depicted in the movie.”
Actually, it is even more deceptive than THAT, because, as I have pointed out elsewhere, there is strong evidence that the man killed at Abbottabad was not OBL at all, but a double. This has been proven through forensic medical science based on photos of the man killed at Abbottabad (of which there are few) as compared with photos of OBL (of which there are hundreds).
Between December 2001 and late 2004, there were almost continuous reports that OBL had died of kidney disease. (He probably had Addison’s disease.) This was reported in numerous major news publications throughout the world over a two- to three-year period. Thus, it is likely that OBL was dead by late 2004.
However, even were that not the case, in a November 2, 2007 iunterview on David Frost’s “Frost Over the World” program, Ms. Bhutto stated – calmly and unequivocally – that Osama bin Laden had been assassinated “a few years ago,” and even named his assassin: Omar Sheikh, a shady figure who has been involved in numerous jihadist and other violent activities. (As an aside, Omar Sheikh had strong ties to Ejaz Shah, one of three people Ms. Bhutto forewarned in her letter to President Musharraf would likely be responsible for her own assassination. She herself was, of course, assassinated only six weeks later.)
While everything the author says about torture and its uselessness (even counterproductiveness) vis-a-vis useable intelligence is true, perhaps equally notable is the way in which OBL was “kept alive” (figuratively) by those around him (with U.S. complicity), and how the claim of his being taken out (“heroically”) by a U.S. Navy SEAL team has become part of the breathtakingly Orwellian revisionist history of 9/11 and OBL.
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