Impossible. It was my understanding that Osama and Obama were one and the same. So if Osama was killed, who was that negotiating debt ceilings with Oboner?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:29 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Birth of another conspiracy theory or well-founded skepticism? > > > http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/08/04/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down/ > -----------------------------snip > On Monday, August 1, the New Yorker ran a piece by Nicholas Schmidle, > a young freelance journalist, which proffered a breathtakingly > detailed account of the Bin Laden Take-down in May of 2011. [...] The > account was deeply detailed. He described how the commander of the > team, whom he called James “sat on the floor, squeezed among ten other > SEALs, Ahmed [the translator], and Cairo [the malimois]. [...] All of > this makes for a gripping read. Too gripping I thought to myself. As > it turned out, there is one very serious problem with Mr. Schmidle’s > account: Schmidle never met any of the SEALs involved, as reported > (with great tact and restraint) by Paul Farhi on August 3. > > One may ask at first blush why a feel-good story about the Bin Laden > raid is problematic or even merits sustained critique. From an > American point of view, the story reads like the film script Schmidle > may well aspire to write. It confirms all that we wanted to know about > the raid and the bravado of our SEALS. The shooter, who finally > killed Bin Laden, even managed to mutter “For God and Country” in the > femtoseconds that his synapses took to pull the trigger, according to > Schmidle. > > However, there are implications that go well beyond Mr. Schmidle’s > limits of journalism integrity and his own personal aggrandizement and > professional aspirations. > > First, many Muslims across the world fundamentally doubt the events of > the Bin Laden raid. Some believe Bin Laden is still alive. Others > believe he died long ago. Others believe that the events of May 2 were > staged to allow the Obama administration to make an exit from > Afghanistan. As Mr. Schmidle’s is the first (and so far only) account > of the drama, these problems cast a pale of doubt upon the events that > transpired that evening. > > [...] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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