Jury in and out on Osama

By: Anwer Kadri

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USA has made a lot of noise on Osama, being not only alive, but cocooned in Pakistan. The not so long ago, visit, by Clinton, to these shores, was on the same lines. The Pakistani public is absolutely fed up with the American government statements, and are widely interpreted as full of sound and fury signifying nothing and are in total negation of the ground realities and nothing to do with the way things really are. Pakistan has suffered tremendously in this War on Terror so what was expected of an ally in our hour of hardship was to try and make an effort to solve the issues being faced by Pakistan. One of the foremost is to stop India from violating the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

The world has not forgotten,the quiet disappearance of the US after making a deal with the Soviets on their withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. The statement of the US on the eve of their elopement from Vietnam said, “The solidarity and integrity of South Vietnam is the corner stone of the American foreign policy.” Still echoes in the ears of people who care to analyze. Someone very rightly said, to be America’s friend is dangerous but to be an ally; FATAL.

I would therefore hardly take Clinton seriously on her comments because she is as clueless now as she was when her Arkansas boy was in the White House. Therefore if she was clueless about her boy and his activities just next door it is hardly conceivable that she would have any concrete information about the CIA trained and planted Saudi Boy placed by them in the mountains   across the oceans thousands of miles away. The US it seems has no longer any diplomat of reasonable integrity with substance in their approach but what we have been seeing in the last two decades are material like Colin Powell  Rice and now  Clinton. Talking about the first two is a sheer waste of time because they were the echo of the voice of their master whose sanity is now being questioned even in his own Country. We shall come back to her somersault on her statement during her visit to India but for now let us examine the reality of Osama bin Laden hiding in Pakistan.

Only if she had done her homework on Osama bin Laden before she came here to talk about him on the television live, it could save her and the US a lot of embarrassment but embarrassment is the one thing which bothers Americans least as it comes daily from Chavez and Ahmedinejad as a three times daily dose. Let us review all that has been said by the West on Osama bin Laden.

1-    The information that Osama Bin Laden is dead, first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan  many years ago,the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? (New York Times, July 2002).

1. Bin Laden has often been reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim that he is suffering from Hepatitis C, and can expect to live for only two more years. According to Le Figaro, in 2000 he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to his base at Kandahar in Afghanistan( Guardian)
2. FBI: Bin Laden ‘probably’ dead; The US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is “probably” dead. [BBC]. The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published in the year [2001] by Osama bin Laden, and shows “he’s dying or he’s going to die soon.” [CNN]. 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 Osama alive or dead,” the source said. [Fox News].
3. The desire to revive Osama is only to justify the continuation of the War on Terrorism. Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Veteran News, USA,  in a recent article states,” Has the United States established exactly what its strategic interests are in the region? Oil is flowing freely as is heroin. Money is flowing into the region by the plane load and back out, into banks in Dubai, Tel Aviv and Switzerland. Is $500 billion a year being spent to defend Israel from invasion by, well, we aren’t sure? What is being spent to secure Israel, or empower Israeli recklessness, is nearly one third of America’s entire budget. Wouldn’t it simply be cheaper to give Israel the United States or do they own it already? “The continual embarrassment of watching Mrs. Clinton on her hunt for the missing Bin Laden, as though she has nothing else to castigate Pakistan for….
4. The West needs to review its arrogant policies followed in this part of the world. They need to answer some questions: what has been the ratio of suicide attempts since the invasion of Afghanistan?  How sharply have the terrorist attacks risen since then? How many US soldiers have actually been killed on ground as compared to the soldiers, civilians: women, old people and children from other side of the fence? At the end of the day, what political and military victory has USA achieved by attacking and invading Afghanistan? USA is once again contemplating reaching an understanding with the Taliban in Afghanistan. So what were these eight years all about? Gordon Duff was right after all.(Excerpt from Article from Yasmeen Ali: Osama: Dead or Alive?)
5. Clinton is clueless. Admiral Sirohey told me in an interview that both U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies confirmed his death in December of 2001. Sirohey referred to him as a “ghost” that the respective governments like to pull out once in awhile for convenience. Michael Hughes said.

The story is endless but  I do believe that Clinton is clueless about it because her puppet masters are smart people, please do not forget that they duped a four star General Colin Powell into issuing a statement in the UN about Iraq possessing WMDs and going ahead with their nuclear programme. The General however had integrity and he resigned on discovery .

It is strange that a lady in her position gets intoxicated by the exuberance of her own verbosity and she goes  on to threaten Pakistan that the there could be very serious consequences should there be another incident like the one at Times Square. My dear lady this warning should be referred to your almighty FBI CIA or NYPD who organized a silly childish false flag operation to pressurize Pakistan. In any case let this be clearly understood that Pakistan is not Iraq Afghanistan, Panama or any Banana Republic and if Pakistan were to withdraw its support to the US war effort it will not be long that the Americans and their Allies would be feeling the impossibility of the situation. If anything we have very little to lose ,my fair lady please drive this message home loud and clear because your planted stooges here are just a matter of minutes and not hours. Please try not to come to that otherwise you have another Reza Shah and Marcos marking time.

(The writer is a Consultant in fields of Security and Public Health Hygiene, Female Education and Crisis Management).