A leading Pakistani daily had been on the story for a while. And soon another one confirmed the informer's identity.
Having seen the CIA in action from AfPak to Iraq, I was not surprised, it could not have found even one of bin Laden's brown Pashtun blankets, contrary to established Hollywood myth of the Zero Dark Thirty variety.
As for the kill, it was -- as in Nevada drone slang -- just a kill, a targeted assassination. Once again contrary to myth, bin Laden was not carrying his Kalashnikov and did not use one of his wives as a shield.
Hersh is spot on when he writes: "High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, special forces night raids," etc.
And a key element in the whole charade is -- once again -- the long hand of the House of Saud. Here's the killer quote from Hersh's top CIA source:
"The Saudis didn't want bin Laden's presence revealed to us because he was a Saudi, and so they told the Pakistanis to keep him out of the picture. The Saudis feared if we knew we would pressure the Pakistanis to let bin Laden start talking to us about what the Saudis had been doing with Al-Qaeda. And they were dropping money -- lots of it! The Pakistanis, in turn, were concerned the Saudis might spill the beans about their control of bin Laden. The fear was that if the US found out about bin Laden from Riyadh, all hell would break out. The Americans learning about bin Laden's imprisonment from a walk-in was not the worst thing."
I have examined here why the whole "war on terror" is a fraud. What makes it different now is that the real Masters of the Universe who run the Washington/Wall Street axis seem to have had enough of the House of Saud.
Now even the New York Times is allowed to print: "Saudi support for the Afghan jihad decades ago helped create Al-Qaeda." That would have been off limits until recently. The same story also points out that new King Salman "was a royal point man and fund-raiser for jihadists going to Afghanistan, Bosnia and elsewhere."
It's not a coincidence that this kind of story shows up exactly as Salman "snubbed" Obama by not going to the Wahhabi-Atlanticist party in Camp David.
So here's the bottom line: those who financed Osama bin Laden in the first place, and then paid the Pakistanis to keep him locked up, now want all sorts of iron clad security deals with Washington to make sure they stay in power forever. And continue to be the ideological matrix of a thousand new Osamas.
No, you can't make this stuff up.
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