- I am incredulous!
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- I'll say one thing: this US Special Forces operation
deserves a standing ovation for immaculate execution. Except that some details do get
confusing.
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- Maybe I'm just slow, but truly, viewing the still
pictures of the compound where Osama was shot to death that are being
aired on local TV here, I am left spell-bound by many odd contradictions.
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- First, the wall that encircled the compound, which was
blasted through to allow entry to the US attackers, showed a humble
charpoy next to a water geyser and a few odd household items stacked right
next to the opening. Not a hair out of place, so to speak. It
was all a little too orderly for my lawyerly taste. Wouldn't
something have been damaged or knocked over at least?
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- Second, the room where the crucial "fire
fight" took place causing deaths of Osama, his wife and some others
(but no American), showed what were seemingly very humble lodgings.
My own servant's room is posh in comparison . There
are no bullet holes, or marks of bullets ricocheting off the walls,
and there's no sign of damaged glass from the good-sized windows
on one wall. The bed sheets on the two charpoys are so neat as to do
a hotel maid proud. There's just over 250 ml of blood on the
floor between the two charpoys. It looks to me as though, rather
than a fire fight, Osama & Co. were simply sitting ducks for a
hunting party! Wait, that's not all. The glass in the window
is see-through. How odd! Anyone could have looked in and seen
the world's most wanted man once night fell, and remember,
it's an open area.
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- The downed helicopter, miraculously, disgorged its
crew like magic. Presto! All unharmed by the crash! Yet oddly,
the three neighbors of Osama who rushed to the scene to help, and
who would have been witnesses to what actually happened, all have gone
missing and never returned home.
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- And hey, where are the other dead bodies? There were
some, no? And why the rush, rush, rush to dump Osama in the ocean?
Why not share the evidence to put a stop of rumor mongers? At least
show the corpus delicti to someone objective...
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- For the rest of this article by YASMEEN ALI in ThisCantBeHappening!,
the new independent online alternative newspaper, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/593
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