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The Last Days of Bin Laden
 by Nick Kollerstrom, PhDIn Orwell’s novel 1984, there is a figure called Emmanuel Goldstein who functions as an all-purposeenemy - even though we gather, in the story, that he may have died some time ago. Osama BinLaden (1947 – 2001) has been used in a similar manner by the Powers that Be, through a processof identity theft during the last days of his life. In reality there have been no sightings or reports of him since 2001. I here argue that he died on or around December 16th, 2001, in consequence of theintensive bombing of his then-residence the Tora Bora caves of eastern Afghanistan; and that hehad no involvement in the events of 9/11.Osama Bin Laden - Warrior of God or CIA Asset? – somehow his life needs to become a film, atranscontinental drama. But, any film company making such could expect a glowing future…. Far safer, to make a film of the bogeyman we all know and fear – but, who never existed. The SundayTimes in March 2007 had a nine-page article about where he might be lurking, and how oddlyenough no-one had been able to find ‘the world’s most wanted man.’ It gave not the slightest hintthat he might have died five years ago [1]. Pakistan was blamed, as if it could have hid him throughthe years, even though he was six foot six in height and having a distinctive appearance known allround the world. The article conceded that ‘the last positive sighting’ of OBL had been in theDecember, 2001 US attack upon Tora Bora.You might at this point like to consult a book review I did, concerning the speeches and videosallegedly produced by OBL. Message from Bin laden. The view here advocated means that all of these from 2002 onwards are faked. In the US Presidential election campaign 2008, McCainpromised that if elected he would find Bin Laden – nobody laughed.The last months of Bin Laden’s life, July to December, are now crucial for world-history and we needand we need to review them. In July 2001 he was residing for a week in an American hospital inDubai to treat his kidney trouble, as reported by the French paper Le Figaro. He had an operation onthe 4th [2] and he there met CIA station chief Larry Mitchell on 12th July {*} Many members of theBin Laden family came to visit him - ‘There goes the story that he’s a black sheep!’ was MikeRuppert’s laconic comment {*}. He flew off on the 14th in a private jet. We do not hear about BinLaden again until September 10th, when he reappears in a military hospital in Rawalpindi inPakistan – with some military protection - again for kidney dialysis [3].On September 12th a Pakistani newspaper reported OBL’s first denial that he had been involved inthe event of 9/11http://web.archive.org/web/20010913191943/http://english.pravda.ru/acc
 
idents/2001/09/12/14910.html,then on the 16th OBL’s assistant Abdul Samad faxed a message tothe Afghan Islamic Press (in Islamabad, Pakistan) that was broadcast by al-Jazeera in Quatar {*}. Init OBL declared, ‘I categorically state that I have not done this,’ adding that he had an agreementwith Mohammed Omar, chief Mullah of the Taliban in Afghanistan, that prohibited his involvement insuch political activityhttp://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2001-09/17/article17.shtmlA weeklater, on 22nd September he gave a longer set of replies to questions from the Pakistani newspaper ‘Ummaut’:"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of theattacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United Statesshould try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make thepresent century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government mustbe asked as to who carried out the attacks....The American system is totally in the control of theJews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States ... I have already said that we are not hostileto the United States. We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the UnitedStates, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom {*}." [4]On the 20th September, OBL was officially designated by President Bush as responsible for theattacks. Then on 23rd Secretary of State Colin Powell promised that a paper would shortly be readywith the supporting evidence. Although announced repeatedly, no such paper ever appeared [5]. Aletter by OBL of 24th September urges Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan to stand firm againstaggression from the ‘Crusaders,’ [6] and contains no hint that he might have been involved in theevent of 9-11, still less any approval of the notion of attacking America.In mid-September the Taliban responded to US requests for OBL to be handed over, by saying theywould be happy to do so, if some evidence for his complicity in the 9/11 event could be produced.(That may have been unwise, given that the UN Security Council had two years earlier passed aresolution demanding that the Taliban ‘hand over’ Bin Laden, though without specifying to whom [7];however, let us recall that he was regarded as a hero in Afghanistan for having driven out the SovietUnion). After that request for evidence was declined, the Taliban offered on October 1st to give over OBL for trial to an Islamic court in Pakistan - apparently with OBL’sapprovalhttp://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2004-10/13rai.cfm; this proposal was vetoed byPakistan’s President. Days later, the bombs started falling.On October 1st, Britain’s prime Minister Tony Blair averred: "I have seen absolutely powerful andincontrovertible evidence of his [OBL’s] link to the events of the 11th of September [8]. "Thatstatement was presumably related to the UK Government’s ‘Bin Laden Dossier’ which appeared onOctober 4th – a mere three days before the US/UK bombing began, of one of the poorest nations onEarth. That dossier lacked any references for its didactic and unlikely statements. It was describedby the Independent on Sunday as ‘little more than conjecture, supposition and assertions of fact’ [9].Only an ‘updated’ version of this document remains available to investigators {*} [10]On November 3rd, after the war had begun, al-Jazeera released Bin Laden’s final major statement,in which he viewed Afghanistan as the last in a series of ‘crusader wars’ {*} against Muslim nations,and insisted that there was no evidence of any Afghan involvement in the event of 9/11. British MPswould, I suggest, benefit from reading this statement.The Real OBLThe Fake Video OBLThe centrally-important fake ‘Bin Laden’ video appeared in mid-November 2001, shown on al-Jazeera television station, with the main character expressing approval of the 9/11 event andapparently having some degree of foreknowledge. Although much of the tape was only semi-
 
audible, the Pentagon produced its English ‘translation’ on Dec13th.http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386299712.html. The main figure of thatvideo did not even resemble OBL {*}, so it remains a mystery how media hacks were prepared to gowith such a story at all. That video was the only evidence the US ever produced, to justify itsbombing of Afghanistan.Radio transmissions of OBL’s voice from Tora Bora were normally intercepted by four differentintelligence agencies, American, Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian [11], up until 14th December 2001when they ceased {*}. His funeral took place on the 16th in Pakistan, as reported in Pakistani andEgyptian newspapers, at an undisclosed location {*}. A four-page will of his surfaced some monthslater, dated 14th December http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/jihad/s_99623.html. In a videoed speech of his broadcast 27 December, 2001, OBL declared,‘Regardless if Osama is killed or survives, the awakening has started, praise be to God [12],’ andthat was his (posthumous) final broadcast.A Valuable AssetThe Pentagon was able to produce that fake OBL video, without fear of OBL denouncing it, because(I suggest) it knew where he lay, dying. Since then a series of ‘Bin Laden’ tapes has been fabricated,to help the world live in fear. His image has been misused by those concerned to promote globalterror. A shelfload of untrue books linking OBL to 9/11 exist, of which Jason Burke’s Al-Qaeda thetrue Story of Radical Islam is only the most recent. One would prefer to hear from some Muslimresearchers, in ascertaining the identity and life-course of this character, fully demonised by the USand UK. Max Hastings wrote on 3rd Sept 2004 in the Daily Mail, ‘If Bush gets back to the Whitehouse, more than any other man he will have Osama bin Laden to thank’ – too true!Shortly after 9/11, the Independent informed its readers that ‘in late August, Mr bin Laden boasted inan interview with the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi that he was planning ‘anunprecedentedly large strike against the United States’ [13] and this was cited in Ahmed’s book asevidence for Bin Laden’s fiendish intent [14]. I ascertained that nothing resembling such an articlehad ever been published by that Arabic newspaper, which had never even conducted an interviewwith him [15].The National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, apparently has the record of a phone callmade by OBL to his mother {*}. There cannot have been many phone lines out of the Tora Boracaves, and did the persons who made this phone-tap record OBL’s preparations for the event of 9/11? [16].The term ‘Al-Qaeda’ started to be used around 1997/8 as a designation for Islamic terrorist groups (itmeans ‘the base’ in Arabic [17]). In 1998, FBI-led investigations of bombings of African embassiesstarted using this name [18]. These groups lacked any sort of insignia and have been well describedas a loose collection of groups and individuals that doesn't even refer to itself as "Al Qaeda." Most of the affiliated groups have distinct goals within their own countries or regions, and pose little directthreat to the United States’.Thus there do not exist, or hardly exist, documents by members of such groups referring tothemselves as ‘Al-Qaeda’ {*} (although one would like to hear more discussion of this issue). TheBBC film series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ gave a compelling account of how the ‘Al-quaeda’ threatwas mocked up, because it is so important for the people to have something to fear {*}.By 1998 the FBI had issued an arrest warrant for OBL in six countries (for his presumed involvementin the Nairobi and Kenya embassy attacks of that year), and yet a British couple had the followingexperience. Alan and Cindy Thompson ended up in the town of Zhob, Pakistan, after making anunexpected detour, and stayed overnight. They left quickly the next day, after discovering that Bin
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