{"id":970,"date":"2011-05-03T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:30:22","slug":"osama-bin-laden%e2%80%99s-second-death-by-dr-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Osama bin Laden\u2019s Second Death by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Osama<\/p>\n

If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool\u2019s joke this morning\u2019s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea.\u00a0 As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
\nThink about it.\u00a0 What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade?\u00a0 If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?<\/p>\n

Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden\u2019s death, that \u201cbin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending \u2018holy warriors\u2019 to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about?\u00a0 What banking system was helping him?\u00a0 The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent.\u00a0 Why not bin Laden\u2019s?\u00a0 Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations?<\/p>\n

This morning\u2019s headline has the odor of a staged event.\u00a0 The smell reeks from the triumphalist news reports loaded with exaggerations, from celebrants waving flags and chanting \u201cUSA USA.\u201d\u00a0 Could something else be going on?<\/p>\n

No doubt President Obama is in desperate need of a victory.\u00a0 He committed the fool\u2019s error or restarting the war in Afghanistan, and now after a decade of fighting the US faces stalemate, if not defeat.\u00a0 The wars of the Bush\/Obama regimes have bankrupted the US, leaving huge deficits and a declining dollar in their wake.\u00a0 And re-election time is approaching.<\/p>\n

The various lies and deceptions, such as \u201cweapons of mass destruction,\u201d of the last several administrations had terrible consequences for the US and the world.\u00a0 But not all deceptions are the same.\u00a0 Remember, the entire reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place was to get bin Laden.\u00a0 Now that President Obama has declared bin Laden to have been shot in the head by US special forces operating in an independent country and buried at sea, there is no reason for continuing the war.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the precipitous decline in the US dollar in foreign exchange markets has forced some real budget reductions, which can only come from stopping the open-ended wars. Until the decline of the dollar reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to have been dead for years, was a useful bogyman to use to feed the profits of the US military\/security complex.<\/p>\n

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