Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead… For the Ninth Time

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
May 2, 2011

When Obama pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead in a televised announcement heard round the world last night, he was at least the ninth major head of state or high-ranking government official to have done so.

Given Bin Laden’s documented kidney problems and consequent need for dialysis, government officials, heads of state and counterterrorism experts have repeatedly opined that Osama Bin Laden has in fact been dead for some time. These assertions are based on Bin Laden’s failing health in late 2001 and visible signs of his deteriorating condition, as well as actual reports of his death from the same time frame.

In July of 2001, Osama Bin Laden was flown to the American Hospital in Dubai for kidney treatment. According to French intelligence sources, he was there met by the local CIA attache. When the agent bragged about his encounter to friends later, he was promptly recalled to Washington.

On the eve of September 11, Osama Bin Laden was staying in a Pakistani military hospital under the watchful eye of Pakistan’s ISI, the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA with deep ties to the American intelligence community.



In October 2001, Bin Laden appeared in a videotape wearing army fatigues and Islamic headdress, looking visibly pale and gaunt. In December of 2001, another videotape was released, this time showing a seriously ill Bin Laden who was seemingly unable to move his left arm.

Then on December 26, 2001, Fox News reported on a Pakistan Observer story that the Afghan Taliban had officially pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead earlier that month. According to the report, he was buried less than 24 hours later in an unmarked grave in accordance with Wahabbist Sunni practices.

What followed was a string of pronouncements from officials affirming what was already obvious: supposedly living in caves and bunkers in the mountainous pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama would have been deprived of the dialysis equipment that he required to live.

On January 18, 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced quite bluntly: “I think now, frankly, he is dead.”

On July 17, 2002, the then-head of counterterrorism at the FBI, Dale Watson, told a conference of law enforcement officials that “I personally think he [Bin Laden] is probably not with us anymore,” before carefully adding that “I have no evidence to support that.”

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In October 2002, Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai told CNN that “I would come to believe that [Bin Laden] probably is dead.”

In November 2005, Senator Harry Reid revealed that he was told Osama may have died in the Pakistani earthquake of October that year.

In September 2006, French intelligence leaked a report suggesting Osama had died in Pakistan.

On November 2, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told Al-Jazeera’s David Frost that Omar Sheikh had killed Osama Bin Laden.

In March 2009, former US foreign intelligence officer and professor of international relations at Boston University Angelo Codevilla stated: “All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama Bin Laden.”

In May 2009, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari confirmed that his “counterparts in the American intelligence agencies” hadn’t heard anything from Bin Laden in seven years and confirmed “I don’t think he’s alive.”

Now in 2011, President Obama has added himself to the mix of people in positions of authority who have pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead. Some might charge that none of the previous reports had any credibility, but as it is now emerging that Osama’s body was buried at sea less than 12 hours after his death with no opportunity for any independent corroboration of his identity, the same question of credibility has to be leveled at this latest charge. To this point, the only evidence we have been provided that Osama Bin Laden was killed yesterday are some images on tv of a burning compound and the word of the man currently occupying the oval office.

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But given that an informed consensus has formed around the opinion that Bin Laden died long ago due to kidney failure, will the people of America hold their President to the highest standard in presenting evidence that the person killed was actually Osama Bin Laden, and that he actually died in the way described, or will this pronouncement go unquestioned like so many other deaths in the never ending war of terror?



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28 Responses to “Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead… For the Ninth Time”
Vic Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:05 am
NOw that the boogyman is dead can we move on in a more constructive manner and not persuing wars????? no of course not because it’s a never ending story this war machine.

They will come up with the ghost of who ever they need to maintain FEAR on you all.

Vic Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:06 am

If you have not figured out the scam yet, time you started too? no????

THE LAST STAND Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 8:00 am

How could we not know???? You remind us 200, 000 times a day. Your kidding!!!!right?

doberman21 Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 7:06 am

I think were new reports of Hitler sightings in South America.

The zionist owned media’s at it again…

doberman21 Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 7:49 am

I think this means we just killed another innocent civilian… to help the zionist run Obama PR campaign…& funny how it happened right after everyone figured out Bama waited 3 yrs to release a fake BC.

There must be something awfully good in Jerome Corsi’s book (already at the top of Amazon more than 2 wks before release)!

What’s next, Bama releases fake transcripts showing he didn’t apply for financial aid as a foreigner (though he was adopted by Soetoro, an Indonesian & had to give up his citizenship, just like mommy commie)?

I bet his fake transcripts actually show he was an examplary student, when his book DREAMS reveals he struggled to make D’s & F’s in high school… I guess he just started applying himself when studying Marxism in college under the tutelage of Kissinger!

I bet they’re also looking for a media blitz idea to discredit the contiual rumours BAMA’S GAY, can’t stay out of the bath houses, his marriage is a sham, his former lover at Trinity (who ended up murdered execution style w/a bullet in his brain) was a liar, along w/his mother & closest friends…& oh yeah, that press conference w/Larry Sinclair, Obama’s prostitute dalliance during the election (they smoked crack while “whitie” performed “services” on Bama, the soon to be Liar & Chief) never happened either…

Now if they can just make people forget Bama’s self admitted (in his autobiography DREAMS FROM MY FATHER) child mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, convicted pedophile, member of the Communist Party USA, & on the FBI’s most wanted list. Especially bothersom since Bama looks like his twin & we know Davis wrote a book about his child victims, one of which was likely Bama’s momma (yes, she was “close” friends w/Davis too, her name was one of his victims in the book, & she even allowed Davis to take nude pics of her while she was a minor… that Davis’ FRIENDS HAVE CONFIRMED WERE IN HIS APT.). Funny how Bama looks undeniabily like Davis’ twin & nothing like Bama Sr…

Just think, Bama’s mom was Davis’ victim, then Mama commie gives her son to Davis to “indoctrinate” into MARXISM, PEDOPHILIA & HOMOSEXUALTIY, so the cycle can be repeated… & of course, Papa Stanley was probably part of it too, according to Bama’s book DREAMS, since he was the one that facilitated the meetings…Eww, that’s too gross to imagine!

I think I know what Kissinger meant when he said Obama was “groomed” to become the leader of the New World Order…

Those clever zionists!

Charles Nunya Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:07 am
Just like a kitty cat, he used up his nine lives.

I personally feel much safer now that Osama has died nine times and been buried at sea. But remember, we must stay vigilant because fake terrorism exist everywhere and I didn’t have my rights cancelled for nothing.

And besides, maybe oil will drop now because the middle east is more stable.

Plague of Smiles Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:17 am
Death? What? That never stopped Bid Laden before?

worldtruthorg Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:17 am
its painfully easy to see that rich people are the real terrorists

ng Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:21 am
Everyday new fakes,
first, birth sertificate, now Osama,
so our Osama or Obama, who the fuck knows who he is,
can declare, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

nikoli Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:22 am
he has to be dead…

it is 10 years this year in september…. make it look good…

why did they wait until after the royal wedding…
maybe the royals would be attacked if the news came out befor.

anyway… very strange…. i stopped believeing the main media with WMDS…in IRAQ..

roberth70 Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:23 am
Yeah, why would the CIA kill a good thing? This icon of “terrorism” must have run it’s course of usefulness. But no one in history has served a cause better than old dead Ben Laden. So, the only question remains, what purpose is this staged event playing in the propaganda parade? Obama has just been handed a propaganda victory in his campaign for a second term. By his actions against Libya and the other dominoes he’s received a laurel to his headware. Now he must milk it for all it’s worth and milk it he will. Even in death Ben Laden will remain the best stooge the CIA/Mossad has ever thought-up. The joke is on the world and the jokester in the white house is now grinning from ear to ear.

ng Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:27 am
O, he is alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This fucker is in the White House

Matzo Man Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:27 am
The world’s most wanted man, and they claim to have killed him, yet there is no body.

How can that be?

Think about it… he wasn’t the reason we are in Afghanistan, they lied to you. If you trust these known liars then you trust the Warren Commission IN SPITE OF THE EVIDENCE presented before Congress about the FOUR gunshots…! THINK. STOP SUPPORTING THE DEATH MACHINE!!!

jimha Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:33 am

You are right. Buried at sea. What a laugh. Show us the body.

Maddog24t Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:46 am

Should they bring the body back for you to inspect it? You can guarentee pictures will come out…

Wrabbit2000 Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:32 am
Someone will just have to remind me the date and time of the other ‘eight’ times. Despite daily close following of this since 9/12/01, I can’t remember a single serious claim from any authority that mattered to claim Bin Laden was dead? It was far too serious a thing to claim and then get wrong…think about it. This time though…He’s dead.

It’s fitting that he be handled like so much trash at sea. They can photograph him, cut his heart out for a paperweight and throw the rest of his sorry ass over the rail. Hey, the fish need to eat too…even if this meal will be damned hard to digest.

Maddog24t Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:47 am

Come on Wrabbit…you know all those times when people were asked their personal opinions on if they thought UBL was alive or dead and some stated they thought he might be dead…or likely was dead, or possibly may be dead…those are the 9 times indicated…

Spin city…

roberth70 Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:49 am

Your post is ridiculous in suggesting Ben Laden was such a really bad guy. He was just another CIA/Mossad operative, one that got a good public relations agent from our Zionist filtered news media. The really bad guys that should be dumped into the sea of flotsam are now laughing their murdering asses off in Tel Aviv and New York. Your such a shill W-rabbi.

Wrabbit2000 Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 7:01 am

Roberth… No.. It isn’t ridiculous. I’m just not going to let the tin foil hat crowd ruin ONE DAMNED DAY in these endless years of war and hardship we are living and will have many more years of to come where we can actually feel a little good. However brief the feeling.

It’s a VERY rare thing there is anything to even feel remotely good about with regard to the wars, but for ONCE we have a purely GOOD event and just maybe….a way to tell Obama the war is over, GET OUR PEOPLE HOME. No……. Too many want to just press on the same ‘ol, same ‘ol and use this whole thing as one more tired excuse to feel like ‘we’ all know something the rest of the world doesn’t.. Shhh.. big secret here…and ..well.. bullshit, ya know? Just enjoy the day. The wars will still be there tomorrow, they really will.

THE LAST STAND Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 8:08 am

Good going Wrabbit. Hold your ground. The same people that call this spin are the same people that can’t prove a damned thing otherwise.

You are right about felling good for a day because the wars will be there tomorrow.

mississippiblackman Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:41 am
I just went to Huffo post to see what libs are thinking. And just like I thought they said it will put Obama back into office in 2012. Those loons have no ideal that he’s been dead for years.

THE LAST STAND Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 8:10 am

Wrong!!! Obamas’ still alive. He just gave a speech last night. Think about it!!!

simpleman1776 Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:46 am
SINCE WHEN DO WE HAVE ISLAMIC BURIALS FOR SUPPOSED CRIMINALS WE KILLED, WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!

simpleman1776 Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:47 am
THESE PEOPLE STOOP TO NEW LOWS EVERYDAY!

jameswaterwolf Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:53 am
Because a dead boogeyman is officially confirmed as dead by a loser president, Obama immediately becomes a shoe-in for another term? Pitiful.

mississippiblackman Reply:

May 2nd, 2011 at 6:57 am

Very pitiful in deed. Because the Obama zombies will believe anything this clown says.

Mcarr2rr Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 7:23 am
Obama is dead!?! Yea!!!
What? Osama??? Again??
Sigh, nevermind.

msminxy Says:

May 2nd, 2011 at 8:02 am
Last night as I watched CNN, a news reporter in front of the white house said ” The people are saying this will secure Obama’s re elect