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This collection of articles I gathered together shows the many inconsistancies in the official story on Bin Laden. It also includes on it's last page the article from cbs news about all charges being dropped against Bin Laden bu the US government after his death reported on June 17th 20011. To help support my independent research please donatehttp://ecclecticskeptic2.chipin.com/donations

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The Bin Laden Story The following is a collection of articles I put together from the mainstream media that went down the memory hole regarding Osama Bin Laden. These articles are to illustrate the many inconsistancies in the Bin Laden story including his CIA ties, the FBI not having him listed as "wanted" for the Sept 11th attacks and the earlier report of him dying in 2001 among other things. I hope you find these articles useful in persuading others about how the mainstream media is full of lies to keep us in a state of fear. Hopefully it can open a few eyes.

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Bin Laden Denies Role in Embassy Bombings
By DAVID STOUT Published: December 25, 1998

Osama bin Laden, whom the United States intelligence authorities consider one of the world's most dangerous terrorists, has denied that he had any role in the deadly bombings of two American embassies in Africa. ''I was not involved in the bomb blasts, but I don't regret what happened there,'' Mr. bin Laden told the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, The Associated Press said. The A.P. said it had obtained its information from an independent Pakistani news agency, which spoke to the Taliban. Mr. bin Laden said he knew some of the men suspected in the Aug. 7 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 250 people and wounded several thousand. ''These are two men whom we respect and hold in the highest esteem,'' he said through an interpreter in a separate interview broadcast tonight by ABC News. Mr. bin Laden did not specify which two men he was talking about. The Federal authorities have indicted at least 14 people, including Mr. bin Laden, in their investigation of the embassy bombings and what investigators have called a global terrorist organization. They also suspect him of financing the 1996 bombing of an American military apartment complex in Saudi Arabia in which 19 servicemen were killed and several hundred people wounded. Mr. bin Laden told his interviewers that he was not at his Afghanistan headquarters and training camp when the United States attacked with cruise missiles on Aug. 20 in retaliation for the embassy bombings. A pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan that Administration officials said was believed to be involved in chemical weapons production for Mr. bin Laden was also hit. About two dozen people were killed in the two missile attacks. Just after the missile strikes, Mr. bin Laden said, he survived an assassination plot ordered by a prince in Saudi Arabia, which expelled Mr. bin Laden nearly a decade ago. ''They were offered large sums of money in return for assassinating me, but I was not hurt,'' he said. Wearing camouflage garb and seated in a tent that ABC News said had been set up in the Afghan wilderness for the interview on Wednesday night, Mr. bin Laden renewed his fatwa, or religious decree calling for attacks on the United States and Israel. ''We are confident that the Muslim nation would rid Islamic countries of the Americans and the Jews,'' he said. The interview, which ABC News said was conducted by Ramiullah Yusufzi, its news producer in Pakistan, was Mr. bin Laden's first public appearance since the August attacks, but it produced no surprises. Asked about suspicions that he is trying to obtain chemical and nuclear weapons, he said: ''If I seek to acquire such weapons, this is a religious duty. How we use them is up to us.''

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Islamic militant leader Osama bin Laden, the man the United States considers the prime suspect in last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, denied any role Sunday in the actions believed to have killed thousands. In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, "The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. "I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons," bin Laden's statement said.
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"I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations," bin Laden said. Asked Sunday if he believed bin Laden's denial, President Bush said, "No question he is the prime suspect. No question about that." Since Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the United States, Bush has repeatedly threatened to strike out against terrorism and any nation that supports or harbors its disciples. Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi-born exile, has lived in Afghanistan for several years. U.S. officials blame him for earlier strikes on U.S. targets, including last year's attack on the USS Cole in Yemen and the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. Bin Laden's campaign stems from the 1990 decision by Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. troops into the kingdom after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait -- a military presence that has become permanent. In a 1997 CNN interview, bin Laden called the U.S. military presence an "occupation of the land of the holy places." Immediately after the attacks that demolished the World Trade Center's landmark twin towers and seriously damaged the Pentagon, officials of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said they doubted bin Laden could have been involved in carrying out the actions. The Taliban -- the fundamentalist Islamic militia that seized power in Afghanistan in 1996 -- denied his ties to terrorism and said they have taken away all his means of communication with the outside world. The repressive Taliban regime has received almost universal condemnation, particularly for their harsh treatment of women. Only three countries, including Pakistan, recognize them as the country's rightful government. A high-level Pakistani delegation was set to travel to Afghanistan on Monday to urge Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to hand over bin Laden, CNN learned Sunday. The Taliban, which controls more than 90 percent of the country, has threatened any neighboring country that allows its soil to be used to help the United States stage an attack on Afghanistan.

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Bin Laden comes home to roost
His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1998— At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term describing an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow. Befpre up click on my face and call me naive, let me concede some points. Yes, the West needed Josef Stalin to defeat Hitler. Yes, there were times during the Cold War when supporting one villain (Cambodia’s Lon Nol, for instance) would have been better than the alternative (Pol Pot). So yes, there are times when any nation must hold its nose and shake hands with the devil for the long-term good of the planet. But just as surely, there are times when the United States, faced with such moral dilemmas, should have resisted the temptation to act. Arming a multi-national coalition of Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the 1980s - well after the destruction of the Marine barracks in Beirut or the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 - was one of those times. BI N LADEN’S BEGI NNINGS
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Passersby look at damaged buildings in Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 7 after a huge bomb planted next to the U.S. embassy there.

By Michael MoranMSNBC

As anyone who has bothered to read this far

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certainly knows by now, bin Laden is the heir to Saudi construction fortune who, at least since the early 1990s, has used that money to finance countless attacks on U.S. interests and those of its Arab allies around the world. As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army i n Afghanistan after Moscow’s invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war. What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan’ s state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA’s primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow’ s occupation.

nationals. Yet the CIA, concerned about the factionalism of Afghanistan made famous by Rudyard Kipling, found that Arab zealots who flocked to aid the Afghans were easier to “ read” than the rivalry-ridden natives. While the Arab volunteers might well prove troublesome later, the agency reasoned, they at least were onedimensionally anti-Soviet for now. So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the “ reliable” partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow. WHAT’S ‘I NTELLI GENT’ ABOUT THI S? Though he has come to represent all that went wrong with the CIA’s reckless strategy there, by the end of the Afghan war in 1989, bin Laden was still viewed by the agency as something of a dilettante - a rich Saudi boy gone to war and welcomed home by the Saudi monarchy he so hated as something of a hero. In fact, while he returned to his family’s construction business, bin Laden had split from the relatively conventional MAK in 1988 and established a new group, al-Qaida, that included many of the more extreme MAK members he had met in Afghanistan.

Taliban militiamen watch as one of their tanks light up an opposition position northeast of Kabul on Aug. 15.

By no means was Osama bin Laden the leader of Afghanistan’ s mujahedeen. His money gave h im undue prominence in the Afghan struggle, but the vast majority of those who fought and died for Afghanistan’s freedom - like the Taliban regime that now holds sway over most of that tortured nation - were Afghan

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Intelligence Committee making those decisions, told my colleague Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. “ It was worth it,” he said. “ Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union,” he said. HI NDSI GHT OR TUNNEL VI SI ON It should be pointed out that the evidence of bin Laden’s connection to these activities is mostly classified, though its hard to imagine the CIA rushing to take credit for a Frankenstein’ s monster like this. It is also worth acknowledging that it is easier now to oppose the CIA’ s Afghan adventures than it was when Hatch and company made them in the mid-1980s. After all, in 1998 we now know that far larger elements than Afghanistan were corroding the communist party’s grip on power in Moscow. Even Hatch can’t be blamed completely. The CIA, ever mindful of the need to justify its “ mission,” had conclusive evidence by the mid-1980s of the deepening crisis of infrastructure within the Soviet Union. The CIA, as its deputy director Robert Gates acknowledged under congressional questioning in 1992, had decided to keep that evidence from President Reagan and his top advisors and instead continued to grossly exaggerate Soviet military and technological capabilities in its annual “ Soviet Military Power” report right up to 1990. Given that context, a decision was made to provide America’s potential enemies with the arms, money - and most importantly - the knowledge of how to run a war of attrition

Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April, 1998 photo in Afghanistan.

Most of these Afghan vets, or Afghanis , as the Arabs who fought there became known, turned up later behind violent Islamic movements around the world. Among them: the GIA in Algeria, thought responsible for the massacres of tens of thousands of civilians; Egypt’ s Gamat Ismalia, which has massacred western tourists repeatedly in recent years; Saudi Arabia Shiite militants, responsible for the Khobar Towers and Riyadh bombings of 1996. Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level combat weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the Cold War. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate

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violent and well-organized enough to humble a superpower. That decision is coming home to roost. International EditorMichael Moran writes a weekly column on foreign affairs.
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Osama bin Laden was not armed when he was shot and killed Sunday by a U.S. special-operations forces team, the White House said on Tuesday in a revised account of the daring raid on a Pakistani compound where the world's most-wanted terrorist was hiding. Press secretary Jay Carney appeared to be walking back remarks made Monday by President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, who had initially told reporters that bin Laden was engaged in a firefight with U.S. commandos and using one of his wives as a human shield. Mr. Carney said bin Laden's wife was in the room with him and rushed a member of the assault team and was shot in the leg but not killed. Mr. Carney explained the flawed account given to reporters Monday as the result of the administration working to declassify as much information about the raid as quickly as possible. He said he didn't have an update on the ongoing deliberations whether to release visual proof in the form of a photo or video to prove that the al Qaeda founder is in fact dead, and wouldn't offer a timetable on the decision. "There are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing
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photographs of Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of this firefight," Mr. Carney said. "And we're making an evaluation about the need to do that because of the sensitvities involved ... It's fair to say that it is a gruesome photograph." Asked to explain how bin Laden was resisting capture if he were unarmed, Mr. Carney said he couldn't elaborate. "Resistance does not require a firearm," he said, adding that U.S. forces ran the operation from the ground and Mr. Obama and his advisers were observing and listening from the Situation Room. The press secretary told reporters that the feat of killing the al Qaeda leader is an "American accomplishment," not a Republican or Democratic accomplishment, and that both the Obama and Bush administrations share in the credit. Still, he said that Mr. Obama redoubled U.S. efforts to hunt bin Laden. © Copyright 2011 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.

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By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times The successful operation against Osama bin Laden has rekindled debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration, as a key intelligence leader acknowledged their role in a TV interview Tuesday. Published 8:17 p.m. May 3, 2011

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Obama watched live video of bin Laden raid, U.S. official says
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As the death of Osama bin Laden reverberates around the world the root causes of extremism are apparently largely being ignored.

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In the town where the commando team that killed bin Laden are widely believed to be based, you would never know it -- which is clearly by design.

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(CNN) -- As special-operations military troops prepared for a firefight about 7,000 miles away, President Barack Obama entered a room in the Washington area early in the afternoon on Sunday to follow along. Like a page plucked from a Hollywood screenplay, Obama and other principal coordinators for the mission that killed Osama bin Laden convened in a "situation room" to remotely monitor the situation, John Brennan, the U.S. counterterrorism chief, said in a White House news briefing on Monday. Obama arrived after many of the mission's leaders had assembled there, but the president joined before the attack on bin Laden's mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan, began, Brennan said. "We were able to monitor on a real-time basis the progress of the operation, from its commencement, to its time on target, to the extraction of the remains," Brennan said. "We were able to have regular updates to ensure that we had real-time visibility into the progress of the operation." The mood in the room was anxious because the stakes were so high, Brennan said.

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"There were some very tense moments," he said. "We were just saying our prayers that everything would go according to plan." The White House and Central Intelligence Agency didn't have access to a live audio feed, but they were able to tap other communications, a U.S. official told CNN. There was some live video,
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though the official declined to elaborate on the nature of that footage. The Los Angeles Times reported that the CIA had led the bin Laden attack operation, and officials on the 7th floor of the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters had access to live video of the raid, the report said. Brennan declined to say whether they had access to a video feed or radio communications. A White House spokesman declined to comment.

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Google, Apple and other Internet companies have mastered the process of streaming live video from events to the world. But that task would get much trickier if the cameramen are also carrying rifles and broadcasting from an untested, faraway locale. After Obama had signed off on the operation, CIA Director Leon Panetta gave the official order around midday Sunday for the operation to commence, the Times reported. "We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time," Panetta said in a statement Monday. "We gave President Obama and his team accurate, relevant, timely intelligence -- providing the information and insight they needed at key points as this mission developed." The CIA had been tracking bin Laden and provided intelligence to the White House saying the agency was "confident" the terrorist leader was inside the Pakistan compound, Brennan said. "It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time, I think, in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday," Brennan said. "The minutes passed like days, and the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel. That was what was on his mind throughout." Shortly after taking office in 2009, Obama had directed Panetta "to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda," the president said in his speech Sunday night. "We give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who've worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names." However, Obama apparently does get to see their work as it's being carried out.
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Bin Laden comes home to roost
His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1998— At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term describing an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow. Befpre up click on my face and call me naive, let me concede some points. Yes, the West needed Josef Stalin to defeat Hitler. Yes, there were times during the Cold War when supporting one villain (Cambodia’s Lon Nol, for instance) would have been better than the alternative (Pol Pot). So yes, there are times when any nation must hold its nose and shake hands with the devil for the long-term good of the planet. But just as surely, there are times when the United States, faced with such moral dilemmas, should have resisted the temptation to act. Arming a multi-national coalition of Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the 1980s - well after the destruction of the Marine barracks in Beirut or the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 - was one of those times. BI N LADEN’S BEGI NNINGS
BRAVE NEW WORLD

Passersby look at damaged buildings in Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 7 after a huge bomb planted next to the U.S. embassy there.

By Michael MoranMSNBC

As anyone who has bothered to read this far

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certainly knows by now, bin Laden is the heir to Saudi construction fortune who, at least since the early 1990s, has used that money to finance countless attacks on U.S. interests and those of its Arab allies around the world. As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army i n Afghanistan after Moscow’s invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war. What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan’ s state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA’s primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow’ s occupation.

nationals. Yet the CIA, concerned about the factionalism of Afghanistan made famous by Rudyard Kipling, found that Arab zealots who flocked to aid the Afghans were easier to “ read” than the rivalry-ridden natives. While the Arab volunteers might well prove troublesome later, the agency reasoned, they at least were onedimensionally anti-Soviet for now. So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the “ reliable” partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow. WHAT’S ‘I NTELLI GENT’ ABOUT THI S? Though he has come to represent all that went wrong with the CIA’s reckless strategy there, by the end of the Afghan war in 1989, bin Laden was still viewed by the agency as something of a dilettante - a rich Saudi boy gone to war and welcomed home by the Saudi monarchy he so hated as something of a hero. In fact, while he returned to his family’s construction business, bin Laden had split from the relatively conventional MAK in 1988 and established a new group, al-Qaida, that included many of the more extreme MAK members he had met in Afghanistan.

Taliban militiamen watch as one of their tanks light up an opposition position northeast of Kabul on Aug. 15.

By no means was Osama bin Laden the leader of Afghanistan’ s mujahedeen. His money gave h im undue prominence in the Afghan struggle, but the vast majority of those who fought and died for Afghanistan’s freedom - like the Taliban regime that now holds sway over most of that tortured nation - were Afghan

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Intelligence Committee making those decisions, told my colleague Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. “ It was worth it,” he said. “ Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union,” he said. HI NDSI GHT OR TUNNEL VI SI ON It should be pointed out that the evidence of bin Laden’s connection to these activities is mostly classified, though its hard to imagine the CIA rushing to take credit for a Frankenstein’ s monster like this. It is also worth acknowledging that it is easier now to oppose the CIA’ s Afghan adventures than it was when Hatch and company made them in the mid-1980s. After all, in 1998 we now know that far larger elements than Afghanistan were corroding the communist party’s grip on power in Moscow. Even Hatch can’t be blamed completely. The CIA, ever mindful of the need to justify its “ mission,” had conclusive evidence by the mid-1980s of the deepening crisis of infrastructure within the Soviet Union. The CIA, as its deputy director Robert Gates acknowledged under congressional questioning in 1992, had decided to keep that evidence from President Reagan and his top advisors and instead continued to grossly exaggerate Soviet military and technological capabilities in its annual “ Soviet Military Power” report right up to 1990. Given that context, a decision was made to provide America’s potential enemies with the arms, money - and most importantly - the knowledge of how to run a war of attrition

Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April, 1998 photo in Afghanistan.

Most of these Afghan vets, or Afghanis , as the Arabs who fought there became known, turned up later behind violent Islamic movements around the world. Among them: the GIA in Algeria, thought responsible for the massacres of tens of thousands of civilians; Egypt’ s Gamat Ismalia, which has massacred western tourists repeatedly in recent years; Saudi Arabia Shiite militants, responsible for the Khobar Towers and Riyadh bombings of 1996. Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level combat weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the Cold War. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate

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USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. The order was made public Friday, more than six weeks after bin Laden was killed by the U.S. military in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan. The al-Qaida leader was first indicted in June 1998 in federal court in Manhattan on charges related to the terrorist attacks on the two U.S. embassies in Africa.

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