In November, 2007 interview, Bhutto names Osama bin Laden's killer as Omar Sheikh. Before her assassination, Benazir Bhutto identified Omar Sheikh as the murderer of Osama bin Laden.Hat tip to Ghost in the Machine for these next two links:
NY TimesBy AMIR TAHERI
Published: July 11, 2002
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html">FOX News December 26, 2001
Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
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(Although, if FOX said it was a "peaceful death", it would likely support the evidence of murder, as Bhutto indicated..)
Whether he was murdered or died a natural death, what all of these sources seem to agree upon, is that Bin Laden is dead.
And it happened in late December, 2001.Two months later, the highest-ranking US Senator who chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence learned that Bush was moving military and intelligence assets and Predator drones out of Afghanistan and sending them to Iraq.
With bin Laden dead, Bush wanted to hot-foot it into Iraq to expand his new-fangled *War on Terror* before anyone noticed.
On
February 19, 2002, Senator Bob Graham met with General Tommy Franks at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. Franks informed Graham, to his great shock and surprise, that Bush was pulling forces out of Afghanistan and sending them to Iraq.
Senator Bob Graham writes:
At that point, General Franks asked for an additional word with me in his office. When I walked in, he closed the door. Looking troubled, he said, "Senator, we are not engaged in a war in Afghanistan."
"Excuse me?" I asked.
"Military and intelligence personnel are being redeployed to prepare for an action in Iraq," he continued. "The Predators are being relocated. What we are doing is a manhunt. We have wrapped ourselves too much in trailing Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. We're better at being a meat ax than finding a needle in a haystack. That's not our mission, and that's not what we are trained or prepared to do."
It took me a second to digest what he had told me. General Franks's mission in Afghanistan--which, as a good soldier, he was loyally carrying out--was being downgraded from a war to a manhunt. What's more, the most important tools for a manhunt, the Predators, had been redeployed to Iraq at the moment they were most needed in Afghanistan.
I was stunned. This was the first time I had been informed that the decision to go to war with Iraq had not only been made but was being implemented, to the substantial disadvantage of the war in Afghanistan.
Franks continued, "We can finish this job in Afghanistan if we are allowed to do so. And there is a set of terrorist targets after Afghanistan. My first priority would be Somalia--there is no effective government to control the large number of terrorist cells. Next, I would go to Yemen. Its president is willing to help in the war on terrorism, but has no capabilities to do so. Iraq is a special case. Our intelligence there is very unsatisfactory. Some Europeans know more than we on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction..."
General Franks wasn't complaining; he was making a statement of fact. but the fact was damning. Here, General Franks, a four-star general and the commander of CENTCOM, was laying out for me how he would fight a true war on terrorism. Instead, his men and resources were being moved to Iraq, where he felt that our intelligence was shoddy. This admission was coming almost fourteen months before the beginning of combat operations in Iraq, and only five months after the commencement of combat in Afghanistan.
The more I thought about it, the more furious I became. Victory against al-Qaeda was in our grasp, and we were releasing the pressure. The redeployments were a tangible statement that not only did we not have the military or intelligence capability to simultaneously win an ongoing war in Afghanistan and take on Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but also that someone in the White House had put Saddam Hussein ahead of Osama bin Laden.
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Senator Bob Graham in
Intelligence Matters, Chapter 12, pp. 122-128, published September 7, 2004.
ABC News: Is White House Blocking Search for Bin Laden?, June 30, 2008
Someone in the White House should be arrested, impeached, convicted and sent to the Hague for prosecution of war crimes.
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