After three days in which public interest in this story has been built by all known media outlets, the Whitehouse, its dependents and partners, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, US President Barack Obama spokespersons have finally revealed that images clearly identifying Osama Bin Laden as the male claimed by the US President to have been killed are to be released.
Bin Laden and Barack Obama.
Compound at Abbottabad, Islamabad.
Bin Laden's wife.
After three days in which public interest in this story has been built by all known media outlets, the Whitehouse, its dependents and partners, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, US President Barack Obama spokespersons have finally revealed that images clearly identifying Osama Bin Laden as the male claimed by the US President to have been killed are to be released.
Over the course of three days, the US Whitehouse has continually failed to release the images claiming that the images might cause upset or displeasure with the Whitehouse or that 'conspiracy theorist's might hijack the images for their own ends.
The images are expected to be a depiction of Mr Osama Bin Laden shortly after he was executed by the US military after they had apparently stormed a residential compound claimed to be at Abbottabad, north-west of Islamabad in Pakistan. It is not known how Mr Bin Laden came to be present at the location, or who within either the Pakistani government or the US government knew about his presence in the compound. The compound is situated adjacent to a major regional Pakistani military base, frequently visited by both Pakistani and US military figures for covert training and liason meetings/press briefings during the recent operations in the north of the country.
It is also not known how long Bin Laden had been in the compound, or how he had arrived at the compound, if indeed he was ever there at all.
Media reports are also circulating attempting to suggest that Mr Bin Laden was present in the compound with his family, including his wife and daughter, and a number of other persons as yet unidentified. Initially, the Whitehouse have attempted to suggest that Bin Laden had held his wife in front of him while fighting US military representatives, that he used his wife as a human shield, that he was engaged in a firefight with US military and that the compound threw up heavy weapons fire as US helicopter gunships approached the compound. The Whitehouse has reported that Mr Bin Laden died during the firefight of combat wounds. His wife was claimed to have been killed.
US media have elaborated and heavily exaggerated the incident with some publications claiming that Bin Laden had begged for his life and protested his innocence, that Bin Laden had leapt from his bed fully clothed and had engaged in a forty minute running gun fight with US military through the corridors and rooms of the compound, that two of the soldiers engaged in the execution had family relatives that had been killed in the South Tower of the WTC in 2001 and that the operation had been based on evidence provided by Israeli security services.
Over the following days, the story has been revised continually and Bin Laden is now claimed to have been unarmed, bizarrely was asked to surrender by US military and his wife is now claimed to have been injured. Bin Laden is now claimed to have been removed from the compound alive, and executed by US military possible as the US President looked on, joined by the Vice President, Secretary of State and assorted military figures and domestic staff. The number of persons at the compound has grown from 3 to 18 with an increasing number of apparent relatives being present.
Throughout the previous three days, all known US sympathetic media have reported all statements made by the Whitehouse without any qualification or verification at all. Immediately following the statement made by the President, know media both in the United States and the United Kingdom, reported that Bin Laden had been found and had been killed, despite being in possession of no evidence that confirmed this fact.
In the United Kingdom, the British Prime Minister has confirmed statements made by the US President and Whitehouse staff and the previous, and deeply unpopular, former Prime Minister Tony Blair immediately leapt on the announcement again without any evidence, to issue statements confirming the US claims.
To date, the United States has offered no evidence to confirm that Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi citizen, was involved either directly, or indirectly with the events of September 11th 2001 nor has any known department or law enforcement agency operating in the United States offered any evidence that he has been involved with directly, or indirectly other events claimed by the Whitehouse to be the work of external actors.
The images and video evidence is expected to be released by the Whitehouse over the next few hours.
Report filed at 3.35pm May 4th 2011. GMT.
Over the course of three days, the US Whitehouse has continually failed to release the images claiming that the images might cause upset or displeasure with the Whitehouse or that 'conspiracy theorist's might hijack the images for their own ends.
The images are expected to be a depiction of Mr Osama Bin Laden shortly after he was executed by the US military after they had apparently stormed a residential compound claimed to be at Abbottabad, north-west of Islamabad in Pakistan. It is not known how Mr Bin Laden came to be present at the location, or who within either the Pakistani government or the US government knew about his presence in the compound. The compound is situated adjacent to a major regional Pakistani military base, frequently visited by both Pakistani and US military figures for covert training and liason meetings/press briefings during the recent operations in the north of the country.
It is also not known how long Bin Laden had been in the compound, or how he had arrived at the compound, if indeed he was ever there at all.
Media reports are also circulating attempting to suggest that Mr Bin Laden was present in the compound with his family, including his wife and daughter, and a number of other persons as yet unidentified. Initially, the Whitehouse have attempted to suggest that Bin Laden had held his wife in front of him while fighting US military representatives, that he used his wife as a human shield, that he was engaged in a firefight with US military and that the compound threw up heavy weapons fire as US helicopter gunships approached the compound. The Whitehouse has reported that Mr Bin Laden died during the firefight of combat wounds. His wife was claimed to have been killed.
US media have elaborated and heavily exaggerated the incident with some publications claiming that Bin Laden had begged for his life and protested his innocence, that Bin Laden had leapt from his bed fully clothed and had engaged in a forty minute running gun fight with US military through the corridors and rooms of the compound, that two of the soldiers engaged in the execution had family relatives that had been killed in the South Tower of the WTC in 2001 and that the operation had been based on evidence provided by Israeli security services.
Over the following days, the story has been revised continually and Bin Laden is now claimed to have been unarmed, bizarrely was asked to surrender by US military and his wife is now claimed to have been injured. Bin Laden is now claimed to have been removed from the compound alive, and executed by US military possible as the US President looked on, joined by the Vice President, Secretary of State and assorted military figures and domestic staff. The number of persons at the compound has grown from 3 to 18 with an increasing number of apparent relatives being present.
Throughout the previous three days, all known US sympathetic media have reported all statements made by the Whitehouse without any qualification or verification at all. Immediately following the statement made by the President, know media both in the United States and the United Kingdom, reported that Bin Laden had been found and had been killed, despite being in possession of no evidence that confirmed this fact.
In the United Kingdom, the British Prime Minister has confirmed statements made by the US President and Whitehouse staff and the previous, and deeply unpopular, former Prime Minister Tony Blair immediately leapt on the announcement again without any evidence, to issue statements confirming the US claims.
To date, the United States has offered no evidence to confirm that Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi citizen, was involved either directly, or indirectly with the events of September 11th 2001 nor has any known department or law enforcement agency operating in the United States offered any evidence that he has been involved with directly, or indirectly other events claimed by the Whitehouse to be the work of external actors.
The images and video evidence is expected to be released by the Whitehouse over the next few hours.
Report filed at 3.35pm May 4th 2011. GMT.
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