Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad

Azhar Masood
The Nation – Pakistan
August 21, 2011

ISLAMABAD – Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabad’s compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of the reasons the CIA kept Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in dark.

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The STRATFOR says: “The possibility that bin Laden was already dead and in terms of his impact on terrorist operations, he effectively was. That does not mean, however, that he was not an important ideological leader or that he was not someone the United States sought to capture or kill for his role in carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack in the US history.” In its latest intelligence gathering, the STRATFOR claims that aggressive US intelligence collection efforts have come to fruition, as killing of Osama bin Laden was perhaps the top symbolic goal for the CIA and all those involved in the US covert operations. Indeed, President Obama said during his speech on May 1 that upon entering the office, he had personally instructed CIA Director Leon Panetta that killing the al-Qaeda leader was his top priority. The logistical challenges of catching a single wanted individual with Bin Laden level of resources were substantial and while 10 years, the United States was able to accomplish the objective it set out to do in October 2001.

Because of bin Laden’s communications limitations, since October 2001 when he fled Tora Bora after the US invasion of Afghanistan, he has been relegated to a largely symbolic and ideological role in al-Qaeda. Accordingly, he issued audiotapes on a little more than a yearly basis, whereas before 2007 he was able to issue videotapes.

The growing infrequency and decreasing quality of his recorded messages was the most notable when al-Qaeda did not release a message marking the anniversary of 9/11 in September 2010 but later followed up with a tape on January 21, 2011.

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25 Responses to “Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad”

  1. Obongo might have said he wanted SOME remains of OBL trotted
    out, but as a red herring to occupy rednecks so he and his gang of
    THUGS could sneak around and continue destroying the nation.

    But WHO BELIEVES A SINGLE WORD Kissinger’s groom says?

    Someday the whole stinking PACK OF LIES will be EXPOSED anyway.

  2. Anyone believe this bullshit article?

    Here’s a quote from the STRATFOR article: “The killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden represents possibly the biggest clandestine operations success for the United States since the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003. The confirmation of his death is an emotional victory for the United States and could have wider effects on the geopolitics of the region, but bin Laden’s death is irrelevant for al Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement from an operational perspective”

    What a bullshit article. And AJ…what a bullshit artist!!

    He’s been caught in another lie!!! A-hole!!!

  3. When will ppl so clued into money, wealth and power get it.
    No matter how many OBL you kill or concern yourself about it is not doing anything except keeping this B S alive. the past life of materialism, G7 countries meeting and deciding on the fate of the world at the expense of smaller nations and ppl’s is over. Man himself if he can not figure out how to live in peace, sharing, right relationships and equality will not make it.
    You can kill all the OBL’s, print all the money you want, discover and hoard all the gold and silver, stach weapons for survival, compete heavely with each other for the upper hand, keep the international market system in tact to preserve your wealth and losing prosperity. all these thing are what is the problem and until you let it go and create something new to take its place we will all end up destroying one another. It is a choice of letting go of the past which is never going to create any sort of a future based on anything out of the past.
    About 60% of the ppl on the planet are stuck in the past paradigm and wont let go. They will lose everything and rather go to their graves protecting the past and their market based ideoplogy rather than let it all go for something different.
    The thing is what they do is this.
    Worship money over life. All the money in the world can not buy life or produce the life of one human being with a spirit and geneology we have been given as a gift.
    It was free without cost.
    What we do is fight over who is right and who is wrong. We dress up to find satisfaction within ourselves and approval of the world.
    At the expense of the many the few get rich.
    There are groups in the United States who think they have the answers and they just sing the same old past song of take, take, take and then let us be in charge because we have all the answers.
    It is obvious this system is doomed and the longer we hold onto it it will doom us all with it.
    Like the man said if there is a hell below we are all going to go.
    The last fight and the next destruction of man will come about because of these very issues.
    We require a realignment of the mind by the spirit. If you think the spirit has changed then you are totally out of touch. It is waiting on the mind to change so it can straight out things the way it was intended to be.
    The new consciousness will not accept anything wighin the old.
    There is information that the 25 thousand year cycle is here and that there is nothing we can do except change and if we don’t it is to our own destruction.
    I am finding out more information everyday about this idea which time has come.

    • Well said.

  4. I think I saw OBL’s look-a-like in the 2010 Pima County Sheriff’s Award Ceremony’s pamphlet.
    Now THAT would explain EVERYTHING!

  5. The ‘DNA evidence’ story didn’t add up then and it still doesn’t.

    These politicians of the US government, both Republican and Democrat, have turned the United States into the biggest, most beligerent terrorist state in history. You and your family struggle while they play imperialism, and it’s all paid for with your tax dollars.

  6. I double tapped his ass!!! BwaHaHaHa I kill me!!! I did the Argentinian thang and dropped his a$$ in the Indian Ocean!!! InshAllah!!! It’s all about the love!!! Y’all have a goodin’!!!

    “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

    HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront

    • ?!?

      • Hey man…Augusto Pinochet would feed prisoners Thorazine and toss them out of UH-1′s at 5000 feet!!! Can’t make this up!!! Men can be strange creatures!!! May Shiva protect you!!! Have a goodin’!!!

        “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

        HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront

  7. One wonders if the eyewitness to the explosion on the departing chopper, Mr. Bashir ,is still alive . Should be in witness protection program and a deposition taken asap.

  8. An interesting twist. Isn’t Stratfor, like it’s cousin Freedom House, a CIA front?

    • my brother works in Shanghai China and he said, the whole eastern world knows bin laden has been dead since dec 2001. He said when he sees, wolf blitzer/ex-aipac chairman, and all he talks about is bin laden and afraid for retaliation at the 10th anniversary, setting the stage for another false flag. Blitzer knows damn good and well laden has been dead. Yet he lies through his teeth to us. I think all of americas media needs to be taken down. It is pure evil and is getting worse by the day. a world order one day, but NOT now and NOT led by the rotten ratschilds and their zionist evil pucks.

  9. The original STRATFOR article
    stratfor.com/memberships/193267/analysis/20110502-tactical-irrelevance-osama-bin-ladens-death

    Copy here
    businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Al-Qaeda-Bin-Laden-America-economy-pd20110505-GK29A

  10. No one with an above 85 IQ believes anything the government says or does. Those that do believe this fantasy probably believe in Leprechauns as well.

    The problem is that the people that manufacture these pathetic stories grew up watching TV and not reading books. They have a 22 min attention span. They themselves are maybe 10 IQ points above their target audience.

    click on my name for more about the mentally deficient thugs that call themselves government

    • I believe in leprechauns !!!

      • We would do well to elect leprechauns to our legislative bodies. They’re crafty little rascals, somewhat like our current Congresscritters, but a lot cuter. Besides, we know where they stash their gold…

        • It might be a lot more fun too …

        • The leprechauns are preferable any day over the current trolls and goblins

        • ..and yes, the leprechauns’ gold is better than the trolls’ gilded tungsten bars

        • Tungsten bars … right …

          Well … it could actually depend , because if you made jet fighters the
          currency … ( I guess , you’d go buy a loaf of bread with bolts and nuts
          belonging to a fighter jet to be assembled later … or somethin’ … ) it
          might be an idea …

          P.S. Sounds rough though … ( and a lot of schleppin’ !!! )

      • Their after me lucky charms.

    • Well, unlike the Gov. fables, at least the Leprechauns are real.

  11. Duh!!

  12. His wives and children were not shown speaking on TV. So what they said or not is an unknown factor. All a bundle of fabrications and lies. They did not kill OBL.

  13. 10 years the dude’s deader than a coffin nail , and he’s still hot news …

    P.S. Ossama’s Been Laden Superstar !!!

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