{"id":2236,"date":"2015-05-12T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2015-05-12T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:22:21","slug":"the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"The Killing of Osama bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama\u2019s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan\u2019s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration\u2019s account. The White House\u2019s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida\u2019s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n10\/seymour-m-hersh\/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden\">Seymour M. Hersh \u00b7 The Killing of Osama bin Laden \u00b7 LRB 21 May 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many if not most elements of that situation are probably so highly classified only historians far into the future will ever truly know how that raid came to be.\u00a0 If ISI were involved I can understand why they wouldn&#8217;t want to be named and why a good public\u00a0 cover story as to how it all went down was necessary to protect sources and techniques.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t believe everything you read in the newspaper or especially these Intertubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama\u2019s first term, and a major factor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}