Re:Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
« Reply #15 on: 2011-05-16 10:18:26 »
The "Narrative" just gets clearer and clearer, as does the "Agenda".
Cheers
Fritz
Bin Laden's porn stash: Too good to be true?
Source: The register Author: Lester Haines Date: 2011.05.16
The revelation that US commandos who stormed Osama bin Laden's Pakistan bolthole unearthed a "massive smut stash" didn't much surprise those who'd been expecting news that the terrorist wasn't quite the paragon of Islamic virtue he claimed to be.
Of course, the "extensive" collection of "modern, electronically recorded video" may not have belonged to the al Qaeda leader - his son and two couriers also lived in the Abbottabad compound - and there's no evidence he ever viewed it. Advertisement
Reuters' cautious initial report into the discovery stresses as much, but fails to address a critical question: does the porn repository actually exist?
Another report from "American-owned" Associated Press raised an eyebrow down at the UK's Independent on Sunday.
AP wrote: "The disclosure that US investigators found pornography... fuels the US narrative that Bin Laden was not the respectable or noble figure that his supporters embraced."*
Robert Strang, "former co-chair of the New York state Legislature 9/11 task force", expressed a similar sentiment down at the New York Post, saying: "He was inspirational to them [his adherents] in a big way. And the more that comes out about him, the more it shows that he's not the man they thought he was."
The Independent claims AP's words bear "the imprint of a spin doctor", and there's a certain legitimacy in suggesting that "fuelling the US narrative" is a euphemism for "feeding the US black propaganda machine".
Let's face it, the only way the US administration could have got more column inches out of the outrage was if bin Laden had been caught in bed with a Las Vegas hooker and a bottle of Scotch, toking on a post-coital spliff while reading The Satanic Verses.
Among the coverage highlights is a splendid News of the World piece (registration required), which insists that Bin Laden was "obsessed with US singer Whitney Houston - and especially enjoyed porn videos starring women who look like her".
The paper reckons CIA operatives are now staring drop-jawed at vids of "unnatural acts involving black, white and Asian women", which may have been used to carry "subliminal messages".
Whether al Qaeda really did use pneumatic Whitney Houston-alikes to disseminate information remains to be seen, as in fact does whether Bin Laden's penchant for porn was real or an invention of the CIA's dark imagination.
Roderick T Long, professor of philosophy at Alabama's Auburn Uni, refused to be drawn on Friday, when he blogged: "I have no problem believing that Bin Laden was a hypocrite. But I also have no problem believing that the US government is a liar. Hence I have no opinion one way or 'tother as to the existence of bin Laden's alleged porn collection.." ® Bootnote
The full quote reads: "The disclosure that US investigators found pornography - which provoked ridicule among bloggers Friday - fuels the US narrative that bin Laden was not the respectable or noble figure that his supporters embraced."
Re:Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
« Reply #16 on: 2011-05-17 03:10:28 »
[Blunderov] I wonder if there is any truth to the rumour that bin Laden's wife was shot because she brandished a gigantic black rubber cock at the invading Navy Seals? I think it's probably true - US military units are notoriously homophobic.
Re:Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
« Reply #17 on: 2011-05-17 10:55:06 »
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[Blunderov] I wonder if there is any truth to the rumor that bin Laden's wife was shot because she brandished a gigantic black rubber cock at the invading Navy Seals? I think it's probably true - US military units are notoriously homophobic.
Well that sure puts and interesting spin on Disney's new movie.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Walt Disney Co. (DIS) has applied for a trademark on the name "Seal Team 6," the name of the unit of specially trained Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan earlier this month.
Three applications filed May 3 — the day after the raid — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office by Disney Enterprises state an intention to use the mark for a range of products, including entertainment and education services, clothing, toys, games and Christmas stockings.
Companies have tried to trademark combat-related terms before. A day after U.S. allied forces entered Iraq in 2003, Sony applied to trademark the war's catchphrase, "shock and awe," for use as the title of a video game. The application was later abandoned.
The Disney Company has made 3 applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office for rights to the name "Seal Team 6." According to reviews of the applications, they intend to use the name for clothing, games, electronics, Christmas ornaments and snow globes.
Hoo-rah!
I know there is room for objection, ranging from anti-capitalists on the left who recoil from all things business to military purists on the right who believe in an almost sanctity of the armed forces.
I like the idea of an iconic American company embracing the military. I was disappointed with the death of Captain America in the middle of the War on Terror in 2007, and Superman recently renouncing his American citizenship. I wonder what he will do with his tag line "Truth, Justice and the American Way?"
So I say "Go Mickey!" I know Pop-eye is the tougher sailor, but Mickey has put in his time in the military too: Navy Mickey
Mickey Air Force
And let's not forget the enemy in the war on terror has come after Mickey Mouse himself, so our boy is fully invested.
Hamas made a children's show which made Mickey Mouse a Muslim who was martyred by Jews, in an attempt to inflame Palestinian children to take up arms:
When the world rejected the idea that he would be in liege with terrorists, Islamofascists issued a Fatwa not only on Mickey Mouse, but also on his friends Tom and Jerry. You think I'm kidding? Breathe in the flavor of crazy for yourself:
America's top secret military campaign using cartoon characters against the enemy has been slowly leaking out over the years, so maybe it's time to just declassify it and celebrate our colorful heroes. Who can forget the marvelous job Bert from Sesame Street did when he infiltrated al-Qaeda, shown in this real life (no joke - it's real) photo sitting behind bin Laden himself: Evil Bert
Imagine the awesome fighting force: Mickey, Magilla Gorilla, Bam Bam from the Flintstones, Yosemite Sam, Underdog and Bart Simpson as Seal Team.
And let's tip a hat to the best fighting force America has ever known: Team America
Re:Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
« Reply #19 on: 2011-05-18 03:56:48 »
[Blunderov] Pat Condell is allowing his anger to cloud his thinking - to say the least. I want everybody to watch my lips: THERE IS NO KNOWN EVIDENCE THAT BIN LADEN HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. Not even the FBI has any and they have said so.
His shot at conspiracy theorists - the moon landing aspersion - is a common technique beloved of conservatives: that of poisoning the well. There have been plenty of real conspiracies. The JFK assasination was (finally!) conceded to be exactly that. Also The Dreyfus Affair, Suez, Watergate, Iran/Contra to name but a few. And Wikileaks made it very clear that governments habitually pull the wool over the eyes of their less than vigilant electorates - very frequently for entirely self-serving reasons.
And I dispute that "Islam is a war with us". Pat Condell paints with too broad a brush.
Anyway you look at it, the official account of bin Laden and the circumstances of his alleged death is extremely unsatisfactory. Not quite as egregious an insult to the intelligence as "the magic bullet theory" perhaps but it does come quite close.
Re:Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
« Reply #22 on: 2011-05-23 20:18:44 »
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away...
When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away
Antigonish*
[Blunderov] Who was that man in the compound if it wasn't bin Laden? Neither al Qaeda nor Pakistan seems to wish to deny that it was (or wasn't) in fact himself. But how would anybody know that if he wasn't very real in the first place? (DNA will not save us here if the sample has been destroyed.) The least one can assume is that somebody, somewhere, is missing a lover. Quite who that somebody is nobody seems to know. (Yet.) Meanwhile Obama has his winnings in the bank.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat** From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw - For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, And when you reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there! You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air - But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there!
Mcavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin; You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in. His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed; His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!
He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's. And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled, Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair - Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!
And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray, Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way, There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair - But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there! And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say: `It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away. You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs, Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare: At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
Washington Still Working Hard to Plug Gaps in the Bin Laden Assassination Story Never before in history have lies been so powerful and pervasive
by Patrick Henningsen
Global Research, May 23, 2011 21st Century Wire
Washington’s running serial thriller, The Assassination of Osama bin Laden continued this week, as the Pentagon’s department of media and information released its latest chapter, still hoping to plug some of the remaining major holes in their fracturing fable.
Their latest effort suggests that the CIA may have had a mole inside the alleged Pakistani bin Laden hide out, and that US Navy SEALs who supposedly killed Osama bin Laden were carrying a handy CIA “a pocket guide” to the occupants of his compound.
This latest strategic public relations release to The Sunday Times was in response to massive public skepticism about the validity of the raid brought on by the White House’s earlier admission that they had no actual confirmation beforehand that bin Laden was in fact in the compound.
An easier way to translate this situation is that their was no real intelligence regarding the existence of bin Laden at the compound, and that the whole story of the brave US military operation was a fabrication, similar to previous PR stunts like the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in 2003 and the death of Pat Tillman in 2004- both were massive Hollywood-scripted, nationally celebrated events used to bolster support for increasingly unpopular wars. In both cases, blatant misinformation via US government-issued propaganda were employed to market war and militarism overseas.
The US government created a Rambo-style mythology around Jessica Lynch.
There was a cover-up surrounding the death of NFL star and soldier Pat Tillman.
Amazingly, this latest supposed secret leaked document was magically left behind in bin Laden’s compound and later obtained by The Sunday Times, lists the names and ages of all the occupants there, including bin Laden’s wives, children and grandchildren. But the document raises many more questions than answers about what President Barack Obama has labeled “one of the greatest intelligence successes in American history”. During the media circus that followed the announcement of the fabled US mission, Obama said he had been “only 45 per cent to 55 per cent sure that bin Laden was even in the compound”. The document, which is said by an “unnamed source” to have been carried by all the SEALs on the mission, indicates US intelligence was certain of his presence.
Backpedaling in this fashion, Washington attempts to repair a major gaffe by Obama during his post-mission interview with CBS television on May 8, 2011, plugging a large gap in the credibility of this fantastic staged event.
CONFUSED: Obama's recollection of how the bin Laden operation went down forced spin doctors to rewrite their script.
In addition to this, Washington is also able to insert a new footnote which suggests that the CIA is ever-competent, possibly having placed a “mole” into the bin Laden compound which fed them relevant intelligence. Amazingly, a Pakistani official has come forward to say this briefing does in fact indicate the presence of a mole in the compound.
“I think someone from inside may have given information,” says Rehman Malik, Interior Minister and former head of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency. “If the Americans didn’t have definitive information, they couldn’t have gone straight to the room where bin Laden was.”
STAGED PHOTO: THe White House released a reenactment of an event which never actually happened.
From the beginning, Washington PR operatives have chosen to work under the cloak of deception, initially staging their first photo release from the White House’s famed “Bin Laden Situation Room”. Doing his bit to patch up Obama’s shaky story, the head of the CIA admitted that there was no live video footage of the raid on bin Laden’s compound, proving that the situation room photo was indeed a fake, and casting further doubts on the White House version of events. Initially, the White House claimed they did have video, but chose not to release it.
It’s also worth noting here that publishing these photos in this way goes against the National Press Photographers Association Code of Ethics, which includes this relevant passage: “Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.”
This late CIA admission was obviously due to the immense pressure to release some images- but how could they have photos or video of an event which never even took place? The answer is simple: they cannot.
One of the White House’s biggest problems with pulling off this latest media caper was that during his famous 60 Minutes bin Laden wrap-up interview, because of the interview format the US President was forced to ad-lib without a teleprompter to read off of. A brilliant orator, normally Obama is able to deliver near perfect statements, ever line written by his staff and communications team. When he told 60 Minutes that “we could not say definitively that bin Laden was there”, it naturally created a storm amongst his handlers and spin doctors as the President inadvertently threw a curve ball into what was meant to be a carefully crafted story. Following his gaff, Obama can be seen going over the top in grand fashion in order to gloss over his lines, by showering the Special Forces Troops and his own advisory team with glowing glory and praise.
Obama fumbles through Washington’s scripted ‘Hunt for Osama bin Laden’ plot.
Members of the Pakistani military and intelligence network have also done their part to clean up loose ends. Lieutenant General Asad Durrani, former head of the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence service claims his country was forced to deny any knowledge of the raid in order to “avoid a domestic backlash”. His official line has been that Osama bin Laden’s compound had “slipped off our radar” after it raided the building in 2003 while hunting for another senior al-Qaeda operative and they were completely unaware that he was hiding there. It’s worth noting here also that Pakistan has received some $1 Billion USD per year since 2002 from the US to help Washington “fight terrorism”, so it goes without saying that key Pakistani officials have the incentive to coordinate with the White House on any operation that is drawn up.
In this case, it was a PR operation, not an actual military one, but the value to Washington was seen as even greater than an actual military victory on the field.
Never before in history have lies been so powerful and pervasive, and worth so much in terms short-term of political capital. There is little doubt that before its finally discarded, the war on terror will go down in history as one of the most expensive and damaging fables in human history.
-Patrick Henningsen is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)
**(An unbirthday*** present for Hypathia in case she hasn't got it already.)
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