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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Obviously the downed heli wasn't included in the scripted press release and they've had to make changes to their story on the fly. The same probably goes for UBL's death, real, staged or otherwise. Basically, the way it's all happened has created fertile ground for dozens of conspiracy theories - where's the body for example? "The photos showing his death have been doctored", etc...
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Of course there is some level of conspiracy (in fact, secrecy) and, in France, we call that "raison d'état". In 1998, I was finishing my bachelor in modern history at the American University of Paris. We were prosecuting Papon (for his action during ww2) and Miterrand had just declared that the archives would be made available to the public. It was true but for 5% of them. As a good historian, my teacher asked for access to these 5% (after all, the French president had just said that free access will be given to them). On the next day, he received a call from the minister of interior affairs asking him not to try to go any further or he would be thrown out of the country.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Realistically only those few dozen people on the ground at the time truely know what really happened, and they're extremely unlikely to be speaking up any time soon.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Personally I believe they toasted his arse, as to lie about it now (for propaganda purposes) runs the risk of serious egg on face latter on. It's not beyond the realms of possibility though that they've smuggled his still breathing body off to a deep dark hole somewhere for interrogation. Same ultimate result though - his body feeding the fishes five minutes after his usefulness is at an end.
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Then, they would have executed his wife or americans are the most stupid people on the planet (and you know I doubt it).
