‘Destroy immediately’: Top US commander ordered Bin Laden photos purge
Source: thedailysheeple.com
Eleven days after the 2011 US elite forces raid that resulted in the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the head of US special operations ordered the destruction of all photos of the corpse or for them to be given to the CIA, new evidence shows.
The disclosure was revealed Monday in an email obtained and released by non-profit legal group Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The heavily-redacted email was sent by Admiral William McRaven, head of US Special Operations Command, to subordinate officers on May 13, 2011, instructing them that any remaining photos of Bin Laden’s body must be destroyed or handed over to the CIA. Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011 at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by the special operations team commonly known as Seal Team Six during Operation Neptune Spear.In the email, addressed to “Gentlemen,” McRaven wrote, “One particular item that I want to emphasize is photos; particularly UBLs [Usama Bin Laden, as US military referred to him] remains. At this point – all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them destroy them immediately or get them to the [redacted].”
The order to purge the photos came 11 days after the conservative government transparency organization Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the Defense Department seeking “all photographs and/or video recordings of Usama Bin Laden taken during and/or after the U.S. military operation in Pakistan on or about May 1, 2011.”
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Red Ice Comment: This, once again, is only pertinent if the photos were legitimate. There’s limited evidence to prove that Osama Bin Laden was killed that day in 2011, and more reasons to suggest he wasn’t. The story that alleged photos taken during the raid were too extreme, graphic, or inflammatory to be shown to the public, and were thus destroyed, is simply an attempt (again without proof) to create myth that not only was he there, but he was killed dramatically by American heroes, and he was responsible for 9/11.
If the Admiral William McRaven ordered the “concealment, removal, or mutilation generally” of government records then by all means charge him under federal law. Otherwise, unless they can produce actual proof of Osama Bin Laden dying that day none of us has reason to believe it.
