The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Written by Seymour M. Hersh
Narrated by Eric Martin
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Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden.
At the same time, the full story of the United States' involvement in the Syrian civil war has been kept behind a diplomatic curtain, concealed by doublespeak. It is a policy of obfuscation that has compelled the White House to turn a blind eye to Turkey's involvement in supporting ISIS and its predecessors in Syria.
This investigation, which began as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world media. In his introduction, Hersh asks what will be the legacy of Obama's time in office. Was it an era of "change we can believe in" or a season of lies and compromises that continued George W. Bush's misconceived War on Terror? How did he lose the confidence of the general in charge of America's forces who acted in direct contradiction to the White House? What else do we not know?
Seymour M. Hersh
Neil Douglas-Klotz is on the faculty of the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA, and is founding director of the International Center for the Dances of Universal Peace. He has over a dozen years of experience teaching movement, music, voice, and body awareness all over the world.
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Reviews for The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Given the evidence that Osama bin Laden was an asset of MI6,aka, Tom Osman, It is certainly reasonable to smell a rat in Obama’ story.
However having just read John Neumann’s Into the Storm, Where he dissects and lays bare all of Hersch’s misinformation about RFK and Castro in cahoots with Sam Halpern of the CIA It is hard to tell what to believe in this post truth era.
The interested reader should look deeper into the family stories of seal team six. Many of them feel their sons were murdered by the government.