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Bin Laden died of natural causes: Former CIA agent
2012-05-20
[Iran Press TV] A former agent of the CIA has revealed that al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who no longer exists...
has died of natural causes five years before the US announced his death.

In an interview with Russia's Channel One, Berkan Yashar, who is also a Turkish politician, said the US has not killed the al-Qaeda leader.

"In September of 1992, I was in Chechnya, that's when I first met the man whose name was Bin Laden. This meeting took place in a two-story house in the city of Grozny; on the top floor was a family of Gamsakhurdia, the Georgian president, who then was kicked out of his country. We met on the bottom floor; Osama lived in the same building," Yashar said.

According to the former CIA agent, he personally knew Bin Laden's three Chechen bodyguards, who had protected him until his death and witnessed his death on June 26, 2006.

"Even if the entire world believed, I could not possibly believe it," Yashar said. "I personally know the Chechens who protected him, they are Sami, Mahmood, and Ayub, and they were with him until the very end."

"Only three Chechens buried him, according to his will" in the mountains on the Pakistain-Afghan border, he said.

Yashar added that the CIA kidnapped one of the bodyguards, Sami, before the announced killing of Bin Laden last year.

He says the bodyguard disclosed to the US the exact place of burial in the mountains.

"There was no assault. I know the American operations from the inside: they find the grave, dig out bin Laden and tell everyone about this. They need to show how technologically the security services worked, how each step was controlled, and then present it as a great victory to show that taxpayers are not paying taxes for nothing," he said.

Washington announced on May 2, 2011 that Bin Laden was killed by US forces in his compound in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
, Pakistain.

The lack of transparency over bin Laden's death has cast further doubt over the announcement.
Posted by:Fred

#10  The Cerebral and his face. Or what's left of it.
Posted by: Charles   2012-05-20 20:42  

#9  not if the Cerebral is on the wall behind him :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2012-05-20 17:01  

#8  Frank - I think it's more accurate to say that in the end it's always Cerebral Hypoxia.
Posted by: JonC   2012-05-20 16:52  

#7  More reason to have kept the body.

I heard he was stuffed and is currently being used as a hat rack in the Seal Team 6 rec room.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-05-20 16:02  

#6  In the end, it's always heart failure
Posted by: Frank G   2012-05-20 15:15  

#5  Is a legend better than a Martyr? More reason to have kept the body.

Maybe we did. Certainly, at least some clippings, for forensic purposes.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-05-20 14:28  

#4  If Yashar was a CIA spy, why wasn't he wacked by the Iranian geniuses?

Wouldn't such an admission end his career as a Turkish politician?

Maybe the rest of the story is equally ... questionable.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-05-20 14:08  

#3  well, lessee...lead (Pb) is a naturally occurring element...therefore, acute lead poisoning resulting from brief exposure to one or more of these should count as "Natural Causes."
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2012-05-20 13:15  

#2  It starts with the Yanks didn't kill him, and ends with he was never killed. Is a legend better than a Martyr? More reason to have kept the body.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-05-20 13:05  

#1  It is only natural to die after being riddled with bullets.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-05-20 00:41  

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