Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A friend of Pakistan, an enemy of India and a lying villain.

Did Barack Obama lie about the killing of Osama bin Laden on 2 May, 2011, as Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer winning journalist has claimed in a book? He certainly had the motive. In 2008 people voted for him because it was politically correct to do so, even though no one had heard of him. He was up for reelection in 2012 and the death of bin Laden was a huge boost for him. Predictably, the White House has rejected the book by Hersh, saying that it was factually incorrect. Critics have pointed out that Hersh has quoted unreliable sources and his account is completely different from the account given by Navy Seals who carried out the attack. Pakistan's Army Chief, Ashafaq Kayani and ISI Chief, Shuja Pasha expressed surprise in phone calls, being monitored by US officials, although it is hard to believe that they would not speak on a secure line, and Saudi Arabia would hardly pay for the upkeep of the man who wanted to bring down the royal family. On the other hand, Hafiz Saeed, an anti-Indian terrorist, protected by the ISI, has claimed that Pasha definitely knew that bin Laden was hiding in that house. It is hard to imagine that the Pakistani army would not investigate a person living behind high walls in a garrison town like Abbottabad. US helicopters flew from Afghanistan and back without being challenged, when the sound of helicopters and explosions were on Twitter within seconds. Bin Laden was frail old man, living on an overdose of aphrodisiacs to satisfy his wives, especially the youngest one, Amal. Why was he not taken out alive? A trial in the US would have lasted for months and would have absolutely ensured that no one dared to challenge Obama. Unless the US had a pact with the Pakistanis to kill him so that he would not disclose that it was the ISI which had planned and financed the 9/11 attacks. Obama has certainly lied on other matters. The team brought back 10 hard drives, about 100 thumb drives and a dozen cellphones from bin Laden's house but their contents have been kept secret from the US public. Even the intelligence agencies have been given selected documents so that Obama could claim to have defeated the Al Qaeda, for his reelection. His friend, Susan Rice went on various television interviews after the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on 11 September, 2012, claiming that the attack was not pre-planned but was in response to a film on the prophet. The US continues to supply sophisticated weapons to Pakistan, knowing that they are used to kill Indians. Finally, though we will never know, Obama probably invited himself to the Republic Day functions in January where he must have threatened Modi into abandoning his bullet-for-bullet response against Pakistan. A danger to democracy, a protector of terrorists and a lying villain - that is who Obama is.

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