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01/21/2006:

"Nimmo: Phantom Osama Groomed"

After a long and suspicious hiatus, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced with new threats against the Great Satan. Naturally, as with previous visages of Osama—the fat Osama, the Osama who does not look like previous Osamas, the nose job Osama, etc.—the latest incarnation of Osama was vetted by the CIA, the spook agency responsible for promoting the original Osama’s illustrious career, that is before he died of kidney failure in December, 2001. "In the tape, bin Laden said he was directing his message to the American people after polls showed that 'an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq but (Bush) opposed that desire,’" reports al-Jazeera.

In short, if you’re against the Straussian neocon invasion and occupation of Iraq, you obviously agree with Osama bin Laden Goldstein, the one-time central character in America’s corporate media-driven two minute hate session (Osama was subsequently replaced by another, more ominous and vicious Emmanuel Goldstein-like character, who is also dead, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi). Bush long ago declared Osama irrelevant (even though he is the central villain-patsy of nine eleven) but the Straussian neocons may want to bring him back, not so much for nostalgia purposes as the fact Bush needs an Arab caitiff now that he is down on his luck and poll numbers).
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"Goldstein" is the all-purpose 'bad guy' in Orwell's 1984, used as a psy-ops tool to keep people in fear.


whatreallyhappened from 2001:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.

With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? [New York Times. July 11, 2002]

Peter Bergen: Bin Laden has aged 'enormously'
This is a man who was clearly not well. I mean, as you see from these pictures here, he's really, by December [2001] he's looking pretty terrible.

But by December, of course, that tape that was aired then, he's barely moving the left side of his body. So he's clearly got diabetes. He has low blood pressure. He's got a wound in his foot. He's apparently got dialysis ... for kidney problems. [CNN]