Everything about the Bin Laden myth is fake, so why worry about illustrating his  “death” with another contrived hoax?

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 2, 2011

Killing Osama bin Laden is a pretty big deal.  You’d think that it would be in the interests of US forces to take a snapshot of  the elusive terror leader to milk the propaganda value of such a momentous turn  of events, and yet the corporate media has given us nothing but a years old fake  picture. This makes little sense, unless of course, somebody is trying to hide  something, namely the fact that Osama’s dead corpse has been on ice for the best  part of a decade.

According  to some reports, Bin Laden’s body has already been hastily “buried at sea,”  meaning that the comic book story of his dramatic killing is based solely on the  less than credible word of the U.S. government.

Of course, it’s probable that we’ll be treated to  seeing all the gory details in due course once Osama’s corpse has been properly  thawed and suitably presented for public consumption.

But the fake photo, which is still being used by  the likes of the Daily Mail and the London Telegraph even after it was proven to  be a contrived hoax that has been circulating on the Internet for years, fits  perfectly with everything surrounding the Bin Laden myth – the fake video tapes,  the fake audio tapes, the fake claim of responsibility for 9/11.

Everything about the Bin Laden myth that has been  rapaciously whipped up by the establishment over the last 10 years has been  fake, so why worry about putting out a fake photo and claiming it represents the  freshly dead remains of the world’s most wanted?

We don’t need MSNC to tell us, “We  think that bin Laden ‘death photo’ is a fake,” because we know it’s a fake.  It’s been knocking around on the web since before Obama even took office. Here  it is featured in a story released over a year ago. As Stokes Young  illustrates, the bloodied face of Bin Laden is an obviously contrived composite  image created from an image of Osama that dates back over 10 years.

But that didn’t stop TV news stations across the  Middle East, as well as major newspapers in Britain like the Daily Mail and the  London Telegraph, amongst a host of others, from passing the fraud off as  evidence of Bin Laden’s death.

Despite the fact that Bin Laden’s corpse has  almost undoubtedly been safely stored in a highly secure U.S. government morgue  since at least 2002, the political grist to be enjoyed by an administration that  has plummeted to the depths of unpopularity knows no bounds, which is why Obama  victoriously proclaimed Osama’s “death ” during a speech last night almost as if  the president himself had pulled the trigger.

The birther controversy and NATO’s indiscriminate  murder of children in their pursuit of Colonel Gaddafi will now be swept under  the rug and Obama can build his campaign for 2012 on the lie that he was the  president who finally brought the evil boogeyman to justice.

Never mind the fact that numerous public officials  went on the record to plainly state that Bin Laden has been dead for years and  that the announcement of his demise was being kept back until the most  politically expedient time.

As  Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones document, from FBI counterterrorism official Dale  Watson, to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, to Pakistani icon  Benazir Bhutto, to CFR members, to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, all  voiced publicly what the evidence clearly indicated, which is that Bin Laden  died in late 2001.

The  fact that a deluge of provably fake video and audio tapes were released by  an organization with  direct ties to the Pentagon in the years that followed illustrated how the  military-industrial complex was keen to prolong the Bin Laden boogeyman myth as  a backdrop against which to launch their takeover of the middle east under the  umbrella of the “war on terror”.

But don’t think for a minute that final  “confirmation” of Osama’s death will mean an end to the “war on terror” and U.S.  troops pulling out of Afghanistan, just as the capture of Saddam Hussein did  absolutely nothing to speed a U.S. exit out of Iraq.

If anything, the announcement of Osama’s death  will only lead to more warfare and bloodshed in the region. Whether genuine or  contrived, terrorist  retaliation plots are already in the works and when they are unleashed, the  establishment will point to them as a justification for more air strikes, more  invasions and more regime change plots disguised as humanitarian aid.

In life, Bin Laden’s propaganda value as an  Emmanuel Goldstein hate figure was immense, but in death his usefulness to the  US military-industrial complex will, for a time at least, only increase.