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By ÁLVARO SERRANO

The Killing of Osama bin Laden →

May 11, 2015 |

You may have come across this fascinating piece by Seymour M. Hersh elsewhere on the Internet, but I feel compelled to link to it anyway:

It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account. The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.

He paints a very different picture of the whole affair, especially regarding Pakistan’s involvement. Well worth your time.