Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Is Reuters Sending A Message To Obama By Releasing a Death Scene Photo?


I think so:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.

The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.
None of the men looked like bin Laden. President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool, the White House said on Wednesday.
Based on the time-stamps on the pictures, the earliest one was dated May 2, 2:30 a.m., approximately an hour after the completion of the raid in which bin Laden was killed.
You know it's getting bad when even Reuters is sick of Obama's shit.

UPDATE FOR CLARIFICATION'S SAKE: The title of this post is not meant to insinuate I do not believe Osama Bin Laden is dead.

Instead, it is meant to insinuate that I think Reuters may have released this photograph of one of Bin Laden's guards?/sons? in order to tell Obama, "Hey, we have the photographs. They are going to get released one way or the other. Do you want to put them out there, or should we leak them?"


Get it?


I do not buy into this Bin Laden Trutherism. I don't know how to spell it out any more clearly than that. 


Sheesh.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm asking myself"Why would Obama give Al-qaida the ammo to doubt the story of Bin Laden's killing"?
The only answer i can come up with is that he wants Al-qaida alive and kicking ,perhaps he never wanted Osama Bin Laden dead?
But is using it for the upcoming elections ,all he needs now is a terrorist attack in the USA to be completely back where he was in 2008!

Epaminondas said...

I just can't buy into any level of politicizing this.

In war, sometimes the other side takes the initiative.

Something might happen.

It might happen to him or his family.

They are incompetent
Seals are competent. The job got done. This admin can't handle anything including success

Anonymous said...

First, I do not put it past the ISI to remove any weapons from the scene before allowing photographs. Second, I do not really care whether the SEALs took the weapons or the ISI took them. There is little doubt that they had weapons; and moreover, it is reasonable to believe that some or all of them would have been wearing suicide vests. These people are guilty merely by being with bin Laden.

We got bin Laden and copious amounts of intelligence. That is what matters to me.

cjk said...

This whole thing is just demonstrating how breathtakingly incompetent the Man-Child's administration truly is. It just goes on and on; unfu*kihng believable!
As far as this being a fraud,if they were going to fake something like this, they would have done it at a far more opportune time.

Pastorius said...

They probably would have concocted a more coherent story too.

Anonymous said...

"Hey, we have the photographs. They are going to get released one way or the other. Do you want to put them out there, or should we leak them?"

Obama doesn't give a monkey's scrotum about Reuters releasing photos of corpses DEVGRU cared about so little that they simply left them in bloody heaps. He cares about pictures of Osama's corpse getting out. If you could tell me how a Pakistani security officer who was at the compound an hour after bin Laden's body was airlifted out of there could have gotten hold of pictures of that, I'd like to hear it. The blackmail you're insinuating doesn't exist otherwise.

Pastorius said...

I'm not insinuating blackmail. I'm saying, Reuters is telling Obama, we have the photographs. Either you release them or we will.

What are you saying about a Pakistani security guard?

What makes you think these photos were taken by Pakistani military and not by American military?

Maybe you know something I don't.