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A recent NY Times article reported that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY is moving to drop all charges against Osama Bin Laden! The article says that the idea is to have this done "quietly". Why now, and why is this being done quietly? INN obtained a copy of the court docket and several actual case documents, thanks to Barbara Honegger. Here is the eye-opener. Among a list of numerous cases from 1998 through 2009, including many which are sealed, there isn't even one case against Bin Laden for 9/11! This supports the research revealing that the FBI's "Most Wanted" site does not connect Bin Laden with 9/11. When asked, the FBI agent by the name of Rex Tomb replied that this was because they had no hard evidence against him.

The attachments in respective order include: The CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE FOR BIN LADEN, BIN LADEN INDICTMENT. Download the court documents for yourself. Notice how many cases were mysteriously sealed. Click this link for the court documents I.N.N. Docs ( )

From the memory hole, within a few months of 9/11 the U.S. Government demanded that the Taliban capture Bin Laden and turn him over to U.S. authorities for prosecution. The Taliban agreed to do so if the U.S. provided proof of his guilt. This proof was never produced.

Also, it's worth recalling the Aug. 6th memo that was hand delivered to Bush while on his month-long vacation in Crawford, TX, implied Bin Laden was preparing an imminent attack, yet Bush took no action. According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, "the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11." According to a Benazir Bhutto interview on Nov. 2, 2007 by David Frost, Bin Laden was killed by Omar Shiekh. Why hasn't this been widely broadcast?

What are we to conclude? The mainstream media, and most of the alternative media, is again mounting a massive disinformation campaign with lies of omission and blatant discrepancies. As former Reagan economics official Paul Craig Roberts said last week, it’s as if the government knows it can tell obvious lies and get away with it. Therefore, they don't even attempt to be credible. Within 12 hours of the reported killing of Bin Laden there was DNA proof of his identity? But he was buried at sea and there were no photos? Bin Laden had kidney disease. How did he survive in this compound for 5-6 years? Where was the dialysis equipment and who administered the treatments?

Even more to the point, why isn't anyone asking how could Bin Laden could orchestrate a stand-down by the U.S. air defense throughout the northeast as well as the Pentagon, the most advanced military establishment on the planet? How could Bin Laden suspend the laws of physics which is what was required for steel-framed buildings to disintegrate and collapse at virtual free-fall speed into their own footprint due to office fires? How could Bin Laden cause WTC7 which wasn't hit by a plane to collapse at free fall speed into its own footprint 8 hours after the attacks? Why would 25 Navy Seals shoot an unarmed man when his testimony before a court would supposedly have been overwhelming proof that he really did orchestrate 9/11 as he supposedly admitted to? No doubt, the last thing the U.S. would have wanted was an objective legal process where proof of Bin Laden's guilt was too high a hurdle.

If the anthrax attacks which occurred right after 9/11 were traced to a U.S. military installation at Ft. Dietrick, MD, why hasn’t there been a  serious probe of our military and intelligence agencies for the worst attack on U.S. soil? How can anybody be convicted without a trial? Why after 10 years are there so many compelling questions? Aren't we defined by the level of truth and the thoroughness of justice we demand?

One thing we can conclude with certainty, we either make the effort to get informed based on a wide array of information from alternative sources, or we'll have our perceptions shaped by the state-sponsored media spin machine.

For more analysis, here are two worthwhile articles:

Obama's "Big Lie": White House Propaganda and the “Death” of Osama bin Laden

http://bit.ly/mugLV7

Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died in 2001

http://bit.ly/jV9ZSr

GORDON DUFF: YEARS OF DECEIT: US OPENLY ACCEPTS BIN LADEN LONG DEAD (Veterans Today)

http://bit.ly/8xnUHD

The night is bathed in red light. Al-Jazeera's camera shows people milling around brandishing sticks, stones, and whatever blunt objects they can find, “drunk with fatigue” as Wilfred Owen might put it.  The iconic bust of KFC's mascot, the good'ol boy colonel, looms ominously in the background of Tahrir Square. The fast-food place must have been abandoned days ago.

A rabid Jackal in a black tie refuses to lift his fat ass out of his pharaoh's thrown. Egyptians flood their streets while hoodlums, some in uniform, others indicating their allegiance to the law with id cards tucked in the pockets of their civilian costume, intimidate them and take advantage of the absence of authority to discredit the uprising by looting. The eyes of the world are on you Egypt, your demands echo in the hearts of all oppressed people.

Only a fat deranged jackal in a black tie does not see you, does not hear you. He hears only the reverberations of your chants against his walls, walls of torture prisons, of the blockade on Gaza he's been bribed to support, the walls on which his presidential palace is built. On the tv (not state tv, of course), insulated in his tomb, he sees only your faces, not your hearts. Mubarak the crown jewel of US empire in the Middle East.

Perhaps the Canis aureus doesn't even watch tv. Perhaps his vice president/intelligence chief, and evil twin of Jacques Clouseau whispers in his ear, “there's over a million in Tahrir square, chanting “Down Mubarak.”  But I doubt Omar Suleiman can decipher what Obama meant by the ambiguous dribble about orderly transition that came out of his mouth this week. For that Mubarak would have to turn to Noam Chomsky who put it bluntly, “Obama, very carefully, said nothing.”

Possibly Obama was more direct in his private phone chat with the autocrat, but we'll have to wait on Wikileaks to tell us that, that is unless Assange isn't in an electric bathtub or on his way to Guantanamo as I write this.

For all the US rhetoric about democracy, what has the US government done? Looking at two fledgling states America's hands have been molding, any self respecting Afghan or Iraqi must have to resist the urge to vomit every time a US official mentions the word democracy. Without widespread corruption, brutality and US backing neither Nuri al-Malik or Hamid Karzai would last a week in power. The word Karzai all over the Islamic world has become interchangeable with corruption. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch reported this week Iraqi 'security' forces were actually torturing detainees within the US's blessed sanctuary in the hell hole that is Baghdad, the green-zone.

The gag reflex must also percolate in Yemenite, Jordanian, Saudi and Algerian throats and the guts of all true seekers of democracy at the stark contrast between the US's democratic babble and what its war and oil politics have wrought on the world. The US wasn't so hyper -concerned for democracy as it gave Mubarak that sixty billion in military aid over the years. The argument that the US was using Mubarak to combat extremism in the region is obscene when you look at Mubarak's human rights record. If that’s not extreme I don't know what is. Autocracy or democracy what matters to the US is that foreign governments are managed by elites with US business and military interests at heart.

Obama might be beating round the Bush, but the Egyptian people couldn't be making themselves clearer. After thirty years of dictatorship, they want democracy. A democracy that addresses the wide spread economic inequality that has crippled the nation. They want Mubarak out now. Never mind your orderly transition. There is no turning back. As one demonstrator put it, either Mubarak steps down or “I disappear behind the sun.”

Switching channels from Al-Jazeera to an aged Harry Potter on meth, named Glenn Beck is like watching the tv set go from Jekyll to Hyde. Beck's been sent into a tizzy over the 'riots' in Egypt. He is not alone. Despite the networks sycophantic coverage of the Bush agenda which claimed to want to spread democracy throughout the world, the second Egyptians stood up and demanded their rights Fox News wet themselves. One Fox commentator warns what is happening in Egypt could one day happen in the US of... of...(pardon me, while I wipe a sugary tear from my eye) of A. Well, is it possible?  Are we, as Beck would have it, clasping for normalcy, while the end of the republic looms?

America is marked by poverty, at least fifty million people struggle with it, high unemployment particularly among the youth, and is ruled by millionaires who have plunged this country into a recession with the laws they drafted. Sound familiar? These factors sparked the uprising in Egypt, the revolt that toppled Tunisia's dictator, and are threatening regimes across the mid-east and north Africa. But things aren't just going down over there, you better believe trade union militants in countries hit by the economic crisis (which is the entire world) are watching the uprising in Egypt like Ray Charles’ back up singers going “uh-huh, uh-huh, the right stuff.”

On a nearly daily basis, while standing outside INN on my cigarette break, I give directions to people looking for the welfare office. I can see them coming, they wear a look of bewilderment on their faces, and usually clutch a piece of paper, glancing from  the sheet in their hands to the addresses hung on the buildings down Walker street.  The doorknob of our building has been stolen twice since Christmas time.  Presumably to resell it to new customers hoping to keep thieves out. Only someone impoverished would commit such a petty crime.

In January's Harpers, Thomas Frank asserts that despite all America's talk of liberty, we are a nation of servants who have bent over backwards for the rich. He writes, we have?spent the past thirty years doing everything?we could to transfer the wealth of the nation into the bank accounts of the affluent, to send them?victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us.”

Frank recommends a twenty-four hour refusal to fawn. “Let doormen do their jobs without smiling. Let waiters at suburban restaurants leave their flare at home....” A well meaning but petty call for protest, indicating the impoverishment of the American left. Based on the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, I think we in the land of liberty can do a little better.

Thinking peoples dedicated to social change in the US ought to avoid the stance third-worldist academics in the West took during the 1980's that went something like, the revolution is happening over there in Latin America, here everything is normal. The notion that people in the US are bought off with i-phones doesn't hold up when you look at the way Egyptians have used technology to mobilize their revolution. Nobody helps anybody by allowing themselves to be reigned over, whether it is by a jackel in a black tie or by a coterie of well connected businessmen who call themselves lawmakers. What better way to show solidarity with the people of Egypt than to organize in our communities against unemployment, austerity and militarism. While it might provoke urine to spew from bladders at Fox, the Egyptian uprising illustrates to the world that there is power in the people. We are far swifter agents for change than those in the government would like us to believe.

Mass demonstrations and a general strike, when the day comes that the populace is sufficiently galvanized, could go a long way in creating a democracy that addresses the needs and demands of the people, instead of sending them behind the sun to the welfare office.

The other evening I attended a Q and A session with recipients of the  George Polk Awards in journalism. The heavy hitters included Michael Hastings, whose Rolling Stone cover story led to General McChrystal’s firing.
Then there was Dana Priest of the Washington Post who was honored for her series on secrecy in America. She was asked how she’d been able to identify the hundreds of secret government and private organizations. She admitted she’d had to agree not to include certain information officials deemed would compromise national security. Up to this point, Ms. Priest’s syntax was lean and journalistic. Her language became noticeably woollier when rationalizing her deal-making. Then, in an aside, she mentioned she didn’t believe in conspiracy theories.
When I woke up the next morning, the perfect question popped into my head, the one that had eluded me at question time the night before. With, I hope, approval from Bill Murray, I’d like to propose my own Groundhog Day scenario. If I may, I’d like to flash back to the night before, as I step up to the mic.
“Ms. Priest, as an investigative reporter, I assume you follow any information you uncover, wherever it leads. How does this square with your earlier statement that you don’t believe in conspiracy theories? In other words, how can you justify an opinion about something you haven’t investigated?”
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the alleged mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other alleged co-conspirators will be tried in military court.  
It’s a virtual certainty—no, let me rephrase that, a slam-dunk—the mainstream media will trot out the government’s tattered version of events. We’ll be told, yet again, three Saudis who’d barely mastered hedge-hopping Cessnas became instantly familiar with the highly sophisticated controls of passenger jet aircraft and pulled off feats of flying which professional pilots have stated they’d have been hard pressed to pull off themselves.
Meanwhile, the 9/11 Truth Community’s campaign for a real investigation into 9/11 will be sneered at by mainstream media as a lost cause by “conspiracy theorists.”
What really happened on 9/11 is without question the biggest story of the century. In the meantime, Ms. Priest, here’s a homework assignment: read “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distractions” and “9/11 Contradictions: an Open Letter to Congress and the Press,” both by David Ray Griffin. It could inspire you to investigate that story.