US Killing Of Osama Bin Laden ‘Contrived Event’

The alleged killing of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces was a “contrived event” intended for the consumption of the “ignorant” public, an investigative journalist in Washington says.
Press TV: The killing of bin Laden in 2011 by US special forces was like a “Hollywood production” meant to ensure President Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012, said Wayne Madsen, an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.
“This was another one of these contrived events for the consumption of a very ignorant and stupid American public who, when decided that this was a highlight of the Obama administration in his first term, felt they should vote for his reelection,” Madsen said on Monday.
Washington announced on May 2, 2011 that bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by US special forces and CIA operatives on the orders of Obama.
In an article published on the London Review of Books website on Sunday, renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote that Obama’s narrative of the killing of bin Laden was false.

Citing a retired senior US intelligence official, the journalist explained that the Obama administration cooperated with Pakistani intelligence officials to kill bin Laden, contrary to Obama's claim that Pakistani officials weren't aware of the raid in advance.

“The most blatant lie was that Pakistan’s two most senior military leaders — General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI — were never informed of the US mission. This remains the White House position despite an array of reports that have raised questions,” Hersh wrote.
“I think that Seymour Hersh really uncovered what really happened,” Madsen said. “I think that Seymour Hersh has basically hit the nail on the head with this one.”

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