Part III

Fast forward to May 2, 2011, a moonless night with “Palm Beach”, the acronym for Bin Laden’s hideaway, already in sight through their night vision goggles.  It is now 12:30 AM, local time in Abbottadad, Pakistan.  The code name for the attack is “Operation Neptune’s Spear” with Bin Laden being referred to as “Jackpot” and upon his death or capture, “Geronimo”.  As depicted in the excellent movie, “Zero Dark Thirty”, one of the Stealth Hawk helicopters, “Razor 2”, did crash with no casualties and had to be destroyed, avionics and all.

Within ninety seconds of the landing Osama Bin Laden, or someone who looked like him, is killed at the hands of the Navy Seals.  He was hit twice and one of the rounds blew out the back of his head.  The code reference, “Geronimo Echo KIA”, was phoned in via satellite to Washington, DC by the CO of Seal Team 6.  The entire operation took only thirty eight minutes and was so precise that only twelve rounds were expended by Seal Team 6.  Bin Laden’s body was then photographed and had a DNA sample taken before put into a body bag for transport by the “Command Bird”  to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

Why killed and not captured?  The answer is simply that it was most likely, from the very get-go, a ‘kill mission’, a popular Washington, DC Beltway phrase.  So who did the Navy Seals kill?  They surely killed someone.  In all probability it was one of Osama’s doubles or stand-ins that helped to keep him alive when he was alive and to continuously confuse his enemies as to his actual whereabouts, as was done during WWII so as to protect some of our own leaders.  And what about the status of the few survivors of Bin Laden’s group such as his three surviving wives and some of his children?  Where are they and why were they not interviewed by the press or anyone else for that matter?

And why didn’t Al Qaeda respond to his ‘death’ with shrill cries of vengeance and threats of a renewed and more horrific Jihad to be inflicted upon the infidels?  Perhaps because they had already accepted the fact that his body rests in some unmarked grave within the Tora Bora Mountains.

The thing that is most puzzling is why the announcement of the operation was made by President Obama immediately after it took place?  Based on the amount of computer files and hard drives supposedly confiscated and all of the valuable intel that it would reveal, wouldn’t it have been far better to make the announcement after all of the captured material had been analyzed and all of the leads tracked back and traced to their original sources to be investigated and pursued?  You think?  Perhaps politics dictated that the ‘picker upper’ was more needed at the time.  And most likely the President and a handful of his closest advisors already knew that Bin Laden did in fact meet his maker at Tora Bora and that all of the captured material was completely useless and obsolete because it was almost ten years old.

“Operation Neptune’s Spear”, and everything that led up to it since September 11, 2001 probably cost our government in excess of one billion dollars.  Perhaps one day the GAO will provide the American public with a definitive accounting. Impossible?  Far fetched?  The proof is in three parts.  First, Osama Bin Laden’s threats via recordings and videos, were never voice print authenticated and none of the videos included the front page of the most recent newspaper.  Second, an immediate announcement was made to the public stating that there was Information that was  allegedly gathered from the hard drives of the captured computers, thereby putting Al Qaeda on notice that they were being hacked, as opposed to first checking out the data to determine what could be learned and to seek out all of their contacts.  Lastly, the burial of the body of Osama Bin Laden unceremoniously at sea without letting anyone outside of the CIA or the mission personnel have access to the body nor permitting anyone to take photographs nor to conduct DNA tests.  At this point I was convinced more than ever and it became crystal clear, at least to me, that the entire operation was carefully staged by the CIA at the behest of the White House.

Think about it.