Flashback:
– No US Sailor Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Burial: Associated Press FOIA
– President Bush Rejects Taliban Offer To Surrender Osama Bin Laden (The Independent – 15 October 2001)
Related info:
– Joe Biden Now Blamed In Navy SEAL Team Six Deaths
More info down below.
– Bin Laden burial pictures will stay secret (Washington Post, May 21, 2013):
Photos of American military personnel burying Osama bin Laden at sea will remain classified, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the government in finding that the release of postmortem images of the al-Qaeda leader could cause “exceptionally grave harm” to Americans.
Judicial Watch, a conservative-leaning group, had been pressing the Defense Department and the CIA to release at least a subset of 59 photos of bin Laden after he was killed in a May 2011 raid on his compound in Pakistan.
In a 14-page opinion, the three-judge panel wrote that it was persuaded by testimony submitted by national security officials who had reviewed the photos and said that images displaying the bullet wound that killed bin Laden were “quite graphic” and “gruesome.”
Attorneys for Judicial Watch had argued that other seemingly innocuous images that depict a dignified burial at sea were unlikely to cause any damage to U.S. national security. But the court said these weren’t just any photos but “an extraordinary set of images” of U.S. military personnel burying the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“It is undisputed that the government is withholding the images not to shield wrongdoing or avoid embarrassment, but rather to prevent the killing of Americans and violence against American interests,” according to the opinion from Judges Merrick B. Garland, Judith W. Rogers and Harry T. Edwards.
The court made specific reference to other instances in which national security officials said similar disclosures had incited anti-American violence. The officials pointed to uproars over an erroneous magazine report that U.S. troops had desecrated the Koran and the publication of a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, government agencies are exempt from disclosing records in the interest of national defense or foreign policy. Judicial Watch argued that such exemptions are too vague, but courts have generally deferred to the executive branch when it comes to classified information.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the group’s attorneys are considering an appeal.
“The courts need to stop rubber-stamping this administration’s improper secrecy,” Fitton said in a statement. “There is no provision of the Freedom of Information Act that allows documents to be kept secret because their release might offend our terrorist enemies.”
The group had also challenged the process the government used to mark the photos as classified. Although the court acknowledged that it did not have enough information from the CIA to determine whether the agency had followed its own guidelines, the judges deferred to testimony from the head of the agency’s National Clandestine Service, who said he had personally reviewed the images and approved the top-secret label.
More on Osama Bin Laden:
– Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The Osama bin Laden Myth
– No US Sailor Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Burial: Associated Press FOIA
– Former CIA Agent: Osama Bin Laden Died Of Natural Causes In 2006
– Benazir Bhutto Confirms that Osama Bin Laden is Dead
– Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh: Bhutto was killed on Cheney’s orders:
The US death unit killed Bhutto because she had told Al-Jazeera TV about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, Hersh said.
– Special Ops Con, Imaginary Warfare And Non-Existent Enemies (Veterans Today)
– ‘GLADIO, THE LIVING PROOF THERE IS NO AL-QAEDA, NO WAR ON TERROR’ – ‘GLADIO Is AL-QAEDA’ (Veterans Today)
All of this is a bad joke!
– White House Refuses To Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos
– US Navy Seal Commander, Who Killed Osama Bin Laden, Commits ‘Apparent Suicide’ In Afghanistan
– Obama on 60 Minutes: ‘We Could Not Say Definitively That Bin Laden Was There’
– Burning The Evidence: New Footage Of Osama Bin Laden’s Compound On Fire (VIDEO)
– President Obama Will Not Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos
– Clueless Teenagers Flood Search Engines To Ask: ‘Who Is Osama Bin Laden?’
– Paul Craig Roberts: Osama Bin Laden’s Useful Death
– Paul Craig Roberts: Osama bin Laden’s Second Death
– White House Revises Account Of Bin Laden’s Final Moments: Gun Battle Never Happened
– MSM fail: Osama Bin Laden Corpse Photo Is FAKE – Absolute Proof!
– Officials: Osama Bin Laden Body To Be ‘Buried At Sea’ (No Autopsy, No DNA Tests, No Forensics?)
– Official: Bin Laden buried at sea (AP):
WASHINGTON – A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea.
After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world’s most wanted terrorist would have been difficult, the official said. So the U.S. decided to bury him at sea.
If you (still) believe the official story, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.