The London Review of Books, 21 May 2015
Seymour M. Hersh
The Killing of Osama bin Laden
It’s been
four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden
in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The
killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in
his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an
all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army
and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid
in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama
administration’s account. The White House’s story might have been
written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive
international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from
Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s
operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
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