OSAMA BIN LADEN DEATH

MAY 2, 2011, ABBOTTABAD

OSAMA BIN LADEN, DIED

OSAMA BIN LADEN FULL NAME WAS OSAMA BIN MOHAMMED BIN AWAD BIN LADEN ,HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF AL-QAEDA, THE JIHADIST ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS OTHER MASS-CASUALTY ATTACKS AGAINST CIVILIAN AND MILITARY TARGETS…

 HISTORY OF OSAMA BIN LADEN......

      

BORN: MARCH 10, 1957, RIYADH

     

DIED: MAY 2, 2011, ABBOTTABAD

     

HEIGHT: 1.95 M

     

BOOKS: MESSAGES TO THE WORLD

   

 SPOUSE: AMAL AL-SADAH (M. 2000–2011), SIHAM SABAR (M. 1987–2011), MORE

   

 CHILDREN: OMAR OSAMA BIN LADEN, HAMZA BIN LADEN, ABDALLAH OSAMA BIN     

      LADEN,SAAD BIN LADEN, FATIMA BIN LADEN, KADHIJA BIN LADEN,AISHA BIN   

LADEN, OSMAN BIN LADEN, MIRIAM BIN LADEN, SUMAIYA BIN LADEN, IMAN BIN LADEN,LADEN BIN LADEN, KHALID BIN LADEN, ALI BIN LADEN,RUKHAIYA BIN LADEN, NOUR BIN LADEN, SAFIYAH BIN LADEN, MOHAMMED BIN LADEN, ABDUL RAHMAN BIN LADEN, AMER BIN LADEN

STORY:

EARLY DAYS AS A NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, I’D NEVER HEARD OF WHAT IS CALLED A “FALSE FLAG” OPERATION. IT WAS AUG. 4, 1964. I WAS FLYING ABOVE U.S. NAVY SHIPS IN THE GULF OF TONKIN IN A RADAR AIRCRAFT ABOVE CLOUD COVER AT 1,500 FEET AS PART OF THE FIGHTER SQUADRON VF-51. MY MISSION COMMANDER, JAMES BOND STOCKDALE, WAS FLYING AT 800 FEET IN AN F-8 CRUSADER TO OBSERVE NORTH VIETNAMESE PT BOATS SUPPOSEDLY ATTACKING THE DESTROYERS MADDOX AND TURNER JOY BELOW.

THE PROBLEM WAS, I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING. I DIDN’T HEAR ANYTHING. WHEN I CHECKED WITH THE CREW BENEATH ME, THEY CONFIRMED, “THERE IS NO ATTACK TAKING PLACE.” BACK ON BOARD, WHEN I TRIED TO GIVE MY REPORT DURING THE DEBRIEFING, I WAS TOLD, “LIEUTENANT, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!”THAT MONTH, MAJOR NEWS SOURCES SUCH AS LIFE, NEWSWEEK AND TIME REPORTED THE INCIDENT IN DETAIL, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT THAT READ:“THROUGH THE DARKNESS, FROM THE WEST AND SOUTH … INTRUDERS BOLDLY SPED … AT LEAST SIX OF THEM … THEY OPENED FIRE ON THE DESTROYERS WITH AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, THIS TIME FROM AS CLOSE AS 2,000 YARDS.”THE RESULTING PUBLIC OUTRAGE LED TO NEARLY UNANIMOUS SENATE PASSAGE (TWO SENATORS OPPOSED) OF THE GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION ON AUG. 7, WHICH ALLOWED PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON TO “TAKE ALL NECESSARY MEASURES TO … PREVENT FURTHER AGGRESSION.” THE DEBATE LASTED 45 MINUTES. THE DOOR OPENED TO BOMB NORTH VIETNAM AND INTRODUCE U.S. COMBAT TROOPS BY EARLY 1965.

LATER, CLEARER VOICES CAME FORWARD FROM THE COMMANDERS OF THE U.S. DESTROYERS THAT THEY COULD NOT STATE WITH ABSOLUTE ACCURACY THAT THEIR SHIPS HAD ACTUALLY BEEN ATTACKED. DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA LATER EXPRESSED DOUBT THAT THE ATTACKS EVER OCCURRED. ACCORDING TO KENNETH C. DAVIS, WRITING ON THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EVENT IN THE HUFFINGTON POST, “THERE WAS NEVER ANY CONFIRMATION THAT EITHER SHIP HAD ACTUALLY BEEN ATTACKED.” THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED IN THE OBITUARY OF FLORIDA REP. SAM GIBBONS EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT, “HE SAID HE HAD BEEN MISLED BY PENTAGON OFFICIALS ABOUT THE WAR AND CALLED IT ‘THE SORRIEST VOTE I EVER CAST.’”

IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, BEFORE THEY STEP INTO THE VOTING BOOTHS ON NOV. 6, AMERICANS WILL BE ABLE TO VIEW TWO FEATURE FILMS ON THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN. A BOOK, “NO EASY DAY,” WRITTEN BY A SEAL PARTICIPANT, IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM. THE RAID TO KILL THE LEADER OF AL-QAEDA ON MAY 2, 2011, IN BILAL TOWN, ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN, WAS ORDERED BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND CARRIED OUT BY A HAND-PICKED SEAL TEAM SIX UNDER A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT BY THE CIA.

ALMOST INSTANTLY THERE WERE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RAID, OPERATION NEPTUNE SPEAR: WHETHER IT WAS REALLY OSAMA BIN LADEN; WHETHER HE WAS REALLY KILLED IN THE RAID AND WHY THE BODY WAS BURIED AT SEA WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE EVENT. SOME IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY QUESTIONED THE OFFICIAL REPORT ON MANY LEVELS. AND SOME AMERICANS ARE TAKING A SECOND LOOK AT FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE