Coming up on the eight year anniversary of the largest single terrorist attack on American soil, Osama bin Laden remains close to the headlines, as the Obama Administration uses the specter of the reclusive leader’s al-Qaeda organization as the primary justification for continuing its war in Afghanistan.
But as for bin Laden himself, he hasn’t been heard from since June, and apart from a vague promise of a “present” for Muslims coming at some point during Ramadan, there appears to be no sign of him.
Eight years of war in Afghanistan have left the US no closer to capturing him, and officials continue to speculate that he is in Pakistan, though they appear to have no clue exactly where he might be found, and indeed most of the US drone attacks are targeting Paksitan’s own domestic insurgency rather than foreign militants.
Bin Laden and his organization appear quite capable of launching attacks, and to the extent that perception remains he will likely continue to loom large in foreign policy discussions. At the same time, it seems that nearly a decade of American warfare focused at least ostensibly around him has done little good, and created many new problems across the world.
I hope people are realizing that this is one of the most classic tales in human history.
Who is really on who's side of what?
Osama Bin Laden was a CIA asset during operations in Afghanistan against the USSR. The fact that the Bush family has strong ties to the Bin Laden family is a matter of public record. Now let's play connect the dots. There are radical factions of Islam trying to convert nations into Islamic states, but is Bin Laden actually one of these radicals or was he simply a poster figure used to symbolize all these small, leaderless factions? They do have leadership, but not a single leader, it's a honey-comb structure. So Bin Laden became a symbolic head of the radical islamic movement for the sake of those who wanted to mobilize their armies against radical Islam.
What I'm saying is that Osama Bin Laden isn't really the leader of radical Islam, the CIA employed him (willingly) as a symbolic figure head because they believed that the public would respond with support only if they could see a single human figure as it's leader. No one wants to send their armies out to play whack-a-mole against a honey-comb type organization that can lose a part of it's structure and remain in tact, so it had to be sold with the Bin Laden figure head.
Bin Laden is a covert operative working for the CIA as a symbolic figure head of Al-Quaeda for the sake of selling the war against terrorism to the American people. That's why he will never be caught.
Think about it, more troops were sent to Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11 than troops sent to Afghanistan where Bin Laden was supposedly hiding. Why? Tactical blunder? I don't think so.
Bin Laden been dead for several years now.
s'right… but no matter how many times this is pointed out, people act shocked at the idea. The clue that this idea is finally getting traction though, is the mainstream media seem to be less and less "ra!-ra!" about reporting every successive video coming out as they descend into crude fakery…
Who writes and approves this Been Lydone's garbage at Antiwar? It's bad enough we have USa media lying to us daily.
Yaa,an easy fix for the
"So You Think You Can Dance" mentality of U.S. T.V. watching VOTERS. Which Bin Laden do Ya Mean??? The CIA Bin Laden or the Bush Family Friend Ben Laden…?????
My government, The United States of America, should totally support the efforts of our brave military, and initiate a scorch earth policy of combat. Do Not allow another of our soldiers or our allies to die! Break out the death machine and initiate a scorch earth policy. Give the same mercy the terrorist give America and American citizens and catarize the citizens of Afghanistan, Pakastan, Iran, and Iraq, and Saudi Arabia as callateral damage. Draw THE LINE and MEAN–NO MORE! This far and NO FARTHER!!