James Corbett – Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
STORY #1: Seymour Hersh Says Official US Account of Osama’s Death is Full of Lies! http://ur1.ca/mbbkg
Seymour Hersh’s counter-narrative of the death of Osama bin Laden has put the White House on the defensive. But is there any truth to it?
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– Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh thinks the official US account of the death of Osama bin Laden is full of lies. He’s written a lengthy piece in the London Review of Books detailing what he says is the truth. It’s quite a story.
According to Mr. Hersh, Mr. bin Laden was a Pakistani captive. A walk-in informer told the United States the Al Qaeda leader was in Pakistan – he wasn’t found by a heroic CIA effort. Under US pressure, Pakistan agreed to turn bin Laden over, but insisted on a staged Navy SEAL team “raid” to make things look good. In essence, bin Laden was assassinated, as he was the only person shot in the famous Abbottabad compound.
Bin Laden’s body wasn’t buried at sea. SEAL members threw parts from their helicopter over the Hindu Kush mountains. The cover story was going to involve OBL’s death in a fictitious drone strike, but President Obama rendered this inoperative by rushing to announce the terror leader’s demise a week earlier than US and Pakistani officials had planned.
Hersh doesn’t seem to have a lot of sources for all this. His story appears to be based largely on interviews with an anonymous retired US intelligence official who was “knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabadl”; several US CIA contractors; and Asad Durrani, a retired Pakistani general who was head of the Pakistani intelligence service in the early 1990s.
The White House has pushed back hard, saying Hersh’s story is false.
“There are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one,” said White House spokesman Ned Price in a statement.
So did many other journalists. The initial reaction in the US media to the account was skeptical, despite Hersh’s famed past work, such as revelations about the US prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004.
For instance, Vox’s foreign policy expert Max Fisher pointed out a number of inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the story, such as the question of why an elaborate US “attack” was necessary at all.
“The story simply does not hold up to scrutiny – and, sadly, is in line with Hersh’s recent turn away from the investigative reporting that made him famous into unsubstantiated conspiracy theories,” writes Fisher.
That said, Hersh’s account purports to answer a basic question about the bin Laden raid that the official US government story really doesn’t, at least to the satisfaction of many Americans: What was the terror leader doing in Abbottabad in the first place?
Bin Laden was supposed to be in a cave somewhere along the Afghanistan border, not in a comfortable house in a vacation town, within a mile of a retirement village for military officers. In Hersh’s story, Mr. Obama’s initial reaction to the information that bin Laden was in Abbottabad was caution. Continue reading . . .
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SF Source The Corbett Report May 2015