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[quote=jsteele]What does everyone think of Seymour Hersh's article about the killing of Osama bin Laden:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

To sum up what he says, the story we have been told about the bin Laden raid is almost totally made up. In reality, the Pakistanis captures bin Laden in 2006 and were paid by the Saudis to keep him under house arrest. Then an ISI officer approached the CIA and offered to reveal bin Laden's location in exchange for the $25 million reward. The US then used a combination of carrots and sticks get Pakistani cooperation on the raid with the understanding that bin Laden would be killed. The original plan was to keep the attack secret and announce a week or so later that bin Laden had been killed in Afghanistan by a drone strike. But, the helicopter crash scuttled that plan. According to Hersh, there was no fire fight at the compound, the SEALS didn't expect the attack to be announced and mutilated bin Laden's body, there probably wasn't a burial at sea, and "enhanced interrogation" played no role in revealing bin Laden's location.

I have no idea whether Hersh is correct. He has a mixed track record on this sort of story. But, I can certainly see the story giving a certain amount of heartburn to both Obama-supporters and Obama opponents. 
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