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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:23 PM Jun 2015

BBC: The Bin Laden Conspiracy

Have we been told the truth about Bin Laden's death?
By Jane Corbin | BBC News | 17 June 2015

A recent controversial account of the death of Osama Bin Laden claims there was a conspiracy at the highest levels of the US and Pakistani government to assassinate him.



I have been investigating al-Qaeda and Bin Laden for the BBC for nearly two decades - a quest which has taken me from the caves of Tora Bora to the high-walled Pakistani compound where he met his bloody end. So is there any truth in this latest theory?

Seymour Hersh, a veteran US investigative journalist, has embarrassed US governments before with revelations about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

He laid low for several weeks after a mauling in much of the American press but eventually agreed to speak to me about his article published in the London Review of Books.

Mr Hersh claims that Pakistani intelligence - the ISI - were holding Bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in the garrison town of Abbottabad...SNIP
MORE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33152315

Until Youtube takes it down:



ishamm from Reddit comments:

The re-enactment parts included us special forces finding dvds of A New Pearl Harbour, as if watching things like that link you to bin laden. It was all very propaganda-like, made for annoying viewing, and made me dislike the BBC somewhat, what with this and the "conspiracy Road trip" bollocks. Not worth the half hour, I'd suggest. Link


The CIA's plot to kill Osama bin Laden: was it a conspiracy?

By Michael Hogan | UK Telegraph | 17 Jun 2015

In May 2011, when a team of US Navy SEALs stormed a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed the world’s most wanted terror target, it became a definitive moment in Barack Obama’s presidency. Over the past four years, though, doubts about the official account of Osama bin Laden’s death have been raised – to the point where veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has alleged that the whole story was fabricated...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11681399/The-Bin-Laden-Conspiracy.html

Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash
Democracy Now | May 12, 2015



Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong. Hersh claims at the time of the U.S. raid, bin Laden had been held as a prisoner by Pakistani intelligence since 2006. Top Pakistani military leaders knew about the operation and provided key assistance.

Contrary to U.S. claims that it located bin Laden by tracking his courier, a former Pakistani intelligence officer identified bin Laden’s whereabouts in return for the bulk of a $25 million U.S. bounty. Questions are also raised about whether bin Laden was actually buried at sea, as the U.S. claimed. Hersh says instead the Navy SEALs threw parts of bin Laden’s body into the Hindu Kush mountains from their helicopter. The White House claims the piece is "riddled with inaccuracies." Hersh joins us to lay out his findings and respond to criticism from government officials and media colleagues

Jahangir Khan- A Neighbour of Bin Laden - speaks to Imtiaz Tyab from Al-Jazeera



A resident of Abbottabad recounts witnessing the US raid on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's mansion in the Pakistani city.

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