Former CIA officials admit to making fake Bin Laden video

Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video
Military psy-ops took over operation after intelligence project failed to take off

Steve Watson - Prisonplanet.com - Tuesday, May 25th, 2010



Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence officers dressed up as Osama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the middle east.

The details are outlined in a Washington Post article by investigative reporter and former Army Intelligence case officer Jeff Stein.

Stein’s sources told him that during planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group considered creating a fake video of Saddam Hussein engaged in sexual acts with a teenage boy, then flooding Iraq with copies of the tape.

That idea, along with faking Iraqi news bulletins, never came to fruition according to the former CIA officials, because agreement on the projects could not be reached between the Iraq Group and CIA’s Office of Technical Services.

However, the two sources reveal that the agency did previously concoct at least one fake Bin Laden video:

The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,” he said.

The former officials told Stein that the project was taken over by the military after it ground to a halt:

The reality, the former officials said, was that the agency really didn’t have enough money and expertise to carry out the projects.

“The military took them over,” said one. “They had assets in psy-war down at Ft. Bragg,” at the army’s special warfare center.

This latest revelation bolsters evidence that the intelligence agencies, and perhaps more significantly, the military have been engaged in creating fake Bin Laden videos in the past.
As we have exhaustively documented, Intelcenter, the U.S. monitoring group that routinely releases Bin Laden video and audio, much of which have been proven to be either rehashed old footage or outright fakes, is an offshoot of IDEFENSE, a web security company that monitors intelligence from the middle east.

IDEFENSE is heavily populated by long serving ex military intelligence officials, such as senior military psy-op intelligence officer Jim Melnick, who served 16 years in the US army and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in psychological operations. Melnick has also worked directly for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Intelcenter notoriously released the “laughing hijackers” tape and claimed it was an Al-Qaeda video, despite the fact that the footage was obtained by a “security agency” at a 2000 Bin Laden speech.

IntelCenter was also caught adding its logo to a tape at the same time as Al-Qaeda’s so-called media arm As-Sahab added its logo, proving the two organizations were one and the same.

Could the CIA group of “dark skinned actors” have been behind the infamous December 2001 “Fat nosed” Bin Laden video, that was magically found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in?

The tape featured a fat Osama laughing and joking about how he’d carried out 9/11. The video was also mistranslated in order to manipulate viewer opinion and featured “Bin Laden” praising two of the hijackers, only he got their names wrong. This Osama also used the wrong hand to write with and wore gold rings, a practice totally in opposition to the Muslim faith.

Despite the fact that the man in the video looks nothing like Bin Laden, the CIA stood by it and declared it to be the official “9/11 confession video”.

The latest revelations also shed light on another past Bin Laden release – a tape in which he ludicrously declared himself in league with Saddam Hussein in the weeks before the invasion of Iraq.

The notion that the CIA project was taken over and drastically improved by the Pentagon at some point after 2003 jives with the improvement in quality of Bin Laden videos in later years. Most notably the video that was released immediately ahead of the 2004 election, and it’s digitally manipulated duplicate from 2007, in which Bin Laden appeared to have a dyed beard.

For a run down of some of the most notoriously dubious Bin Laden videos see the following article: New Bin Laden “Confession” Tape: Fake Like The Rest?

Americans not putting their trust in Prince Obama

Obama Approval Falls to New Low: 42%
Rasmussen - May 25, 2010

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends).

Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That is the lowest level of approval yet measured for this president. Fifty-six percent (56%) now disapprove of his performance. [...]

Government agents hired to push propaganda online

Via Prison Planet.com:

The next time you struggle to comprehend how someone could spend their time trolling the Internet in order to defend and downplay whatever government cover-up or abuse is in the news this week, consider the fact that they may be on a government payroll.

The Canadian government has been caught paying a media group to monitor online political discussion and respond to “misinformation,” in order words to spread state-sanctioned propaganda, in the latest scandal to hit the Harper administration.

“Under the pilot program the Harper government paid a media company $75,000 to monitor and respond to online postings about the east coast seal hunt,” reports News1130.

Obama said he'd be out of Iraq by now

It has been 16 months. Can we now admit that we were conned into believing in this slick politician who promised change? Put not your trust in princes. The state is morally (and financially) bankrupt. Look to a better kingdom, my friends.

The "War is Making You Poor" Act

When the government steals from Americans in order to kill people in other countries, it makes families poorer.

Republicans, do you really believe in small government and reducing the deficit? This is a test case to assess the sincerity of conservatives, Republicans and tea party advocates.

British matriarchal state takes the next step into your home

Reports the UK Daily Mail:

Parents of children under five are to get home checks to ensure they are keeping their youngsters safe.

Inspectors will check whether families have installed smoke alarms, stair gates, locks on medicine cupboards, windows and ovens, and fitted temperature controls to stop bath water getting too hot.

Guidelines for inspections have been drawn up on the instructions of the Department of Health in a bid to prevent injuries among under-15s in the home.

Rand Paul wins KY primary and speaks out against "green" economy

Rand Paul Savages Obama’s Catastrophic “Green Economy”
Victorious Senate candidate demands Obama stop attending climate summits as new leaked report details shocking economic impact of Spain’s “green economy”

Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet.com - Wednesday, May 19, 2010



After trouncing his neo-con opponent comprehensively in the Kentucky Senate primary, Rand Paul savaged the man-made global warming scam for what it truly represents – an attack on the middle class and the industrialized world, as he warned President Obama and his sycophants, “we’ve come to take our government back”.

“I have a message, a message from the Tea Party – a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words – we’ve come to take our government back,” stated Paul to rapturous applause, adding that he would take on the special interests in Washington who treat the federal government as their own personal ATM.

“What you have done and what we can do can transform America,” said Paul, candidly warning that America’s greatness hinges on saving the country.

Paul added that America could be saved from its debt crisis “that is devouring our country and I think could lead to chaos.”

The victorious candidate then savaged President Obama for apologizing to Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales for the industrial revolution.

Watch the clip below.



“These petty dictators say that to stop climate change it’s about ending capitalism, they are explicit, and the President by attending Copenhagen gives credibility and credence to these folks and he should not go,” said Paul.

After Paul had started attacking Obama’s “green” agenda, CNN quickly cut away from his victory speech and began to talk over him. Perhaps that’s because Paul is perhaps the first person to address the fundamental threat that the global warming scam poses to the free world during such a major victory speech. This marks a new watershed in how much the credibility of climate change alarmism has collapsed in the last six months alone.

Paul is right in citing Mugabe, Morales and Chavez as acolytes to the climate cause, but similar sentiments have been expressed far closer to home.

The agenda to use global warming fear mongering as a pretext to lower living standards in the west has openly been declared by top globalists over and over again – people like EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, who has called for a “post-industrial revolution” in which CO2 emissions are capped.

At the 2005 Bilderberg meeting sources inside the group told reporters Daniel Estulin and Jim Tucker, who have built up a credible reputation for accurately forecasting future events based on leaks from Bilderberg conferences, that the elite wanted to consolidate by bringing down the standard of living in the US and Europe, fearing that the middle class is out of control and has been granted too much credit which must be offset by a phase of consolidation.

Two years later we witnessed the beginning of the “credit crunch” which led to the massive economic turmoil of 2008 and 2009 which is now threatening to get even worse in 2010.

The move towards a “green economy” is integral to this agenda of a “post-industrial revolution” in which living standards in the west are drastically cut. Its impact is already being severely felt in Spain, where the unemployment rate is around 18 per cent as a result of 2.2 jobs being lost for every “green” job created.

A newly leaked internal document from Spain’s Zapatero administration outlines how Spain’s “green economy initiatives” have been a financial disaster. The report suggests that the real rate of job losses as a result of “green” policies is in actual fact worse than 2.2 jobs lost for every one gained.

“Today’s leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy,” reports Christopher Horner.

“Despite the soft-pedaling, the document reveals exactly why electricity rates “necessarily skyrocketed” in Spain, as did the public debt needed to underwrite the disaster. This internal assessment preceded the Zapatero administration’s recent acknowledgement that the “green economy” stunt must be abandoned, lest the experiment risk Spain becoming Greece.”

President Obama has made it a foundation of his economic and environmental policy that America moves towards a similar “green economy,” which would spell disaster for the fragile U.S. economy and potentially trigger a new great depression. The fact that Rand Paul has rightly highlighted this issue as a major concern, allied with the leaked Spanish report, should act as a crushing blow to efforts on behalf of internationalists to impose such tyranny on every western nation in the form of a carbon tax on the very substance humans exhale.

Hersh: U.S. troops executing Afghan prisoners

US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan, journalist says
David Edwards - Raw Story - May 12, 2010

The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan.

New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced plans for a military strike on Iran.

At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Hersh criticized President Barack Obama, and alleged that US forces are engaged in “battlefield executions.”

“I’ll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan,” Hersh said. “They’re being executed on the battlefield. It’s unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn’t necessarily get reported. Things don’t change."

“What they’ve done in the field now is, they tell the troops, you have to make a determination within a day or two or so whether or not the prisoners you have, the detainees, are Taliban,” Hersh added. “You must extract whatever tactical intelligence you can get, as opposed to strategic, long-range intelligence, immediately. And if you cannot conclude they’re Taliban, you must turn them free.

“What it means is, and I’ve been told this anecdotally by five or six different people, battlefield executions are taking place,” he continued. “Well, if they can’t prove they’re Taliban, bam. If we don’t do it ourselves, we turn them over to the nearby Afghan troops and by the time we walk three feet the bullets are flying. And that’s going on now.”

The video of Hersh was uploaded to Michael Moore’s YouTube account Tuesday.

Hersh has a long history as an investigative journalist and worked for many years at The New York Times. In 1969, he broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

This video is from YouTube, broadcast May 11, 2010.

Kagan: Suspects should be subjected to battlefiled law

The selection of Kagan for the Supreme Court proves yet another example of how Obama's war on terror operates by the same outrageous rules as did Bush's. In February of 2009 in an article entitled, "Obama’s War on Terror May Resemble Bush’s in Some Areas," the NYT reported,

During her confirmation hearing last week, Elena Kagan, the nominee for solicitor general, said that someone suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law — indefinite detention without a trial — even if he were captured in a place like the Philippines rather than in a physical battle zone.

"Suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda."

I'd love for Ms. Kagan to clarify her remarks, but for now, we can't help but assume that this could include Americans who give to a charity that turns out had connections with Al Qaeda. Such Americans would be detained indefinitely without a trial.

Kagan on freedom of speech

Paul Watson reports,

In a 1993 University of Chicago Law review article, Kagan wrote, “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation.”

“In a 1996 paper, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine,” Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government,” reports World Net Daily.

Kagan also argued as recently as September that corporations shouldn’t be allowed to engage in free speech, and that the government can censor things like newspaper editorials, as well as the political opinions of radio talk show hosts or television reporters.

Chief Justice John Roberts blasted Kagan’s argument at the time, reports Newsmax.

“The government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech. It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, posters, the Internet, and virtually any other medium that corporations and unions might find useful in expressing their views on matters of public concern,” he wrote. [...]

If Kagan is approved she is going to find an eager ally in White House information czar Cass Sunstein, who in a January 2008 white paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” called for the government to tax and outright censor political viewpoints it deemed
unsavory.

Obama's Supreme Court pick not a defender of free speech

Comrade Kagan
Lew Rockwell.com Blog - Lew Rockwell - May 11, 2010 03:00 PM



I actually heard Elena Kagan described as a “first amendment absolutist” on state radio. Well, here is the absolutist she: “Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs.” That is, free speech is fine, unless the regime doesn’t think so.

Military suicides reveal the reality of Satan's worldview

Not Meant to Fight

Brad Cole - God's Character.com - April 18, 2010

This week's Time Magazine lead article, "Is the U.S. Army Losing Its War on Suicide?" revealed a suprisingly high incidence of suicide in the US military.

"From the invasion of Afghanistan until last summer, the U.S. military had lost 761 soldiers in combat there. But a higher number in the service - 817 - had taken their own lives over the same period. The surge in suicides, which have risen five years in a row, has become a vexing problem for which the Army's highest levels of command have yet to find a solution despite depolying hundreds of mental-health experts and investing millions of dollars. And the elephant in the room in much of the formal discussion of the problem is the burden of repeated tours of combat duty on a soldier's battered psyche."

We usually associate things that are harmful to our bodies with ingested or inhaled substances. "Don't drink too much caffeine or you might get headaches." "Don't eat too much greasy food or you might get heart disease." "Don't smoke or you might get lung cancer."

Unfortunately, harmful things "ingested" with our minds are usually considered bad primarily because God doesn't like them. "Don't lust after other women because Jesus said that's bad." "Don't gossip because the Bible says so." "Don't desire your neighbor's house because that's one of the 10 commandments." And since we don't want to offend God (or perhaps since we want to get to heaven or avoid punishment), we avoid certain unhealthy activities. Rarely do we hear people say, "Don't lust, that will warp your character." "Don't gossip, that will destroy you from the inside." "Don't desire your neighbor's house, that will change you into a greedy person."

The very high suicide rate among soldiers in Afganistan highlights the fact that a warrior's mindset to fight and kill is intrinsically harmful. We were not designed by God for a life of combat. According to a leading army psychiatrist, "The suicide rate among soldiers who have deployed to [war zones] is higher than for soldiers who have never deployed." God's universe operates on the principle of love and service to others. Anything that is opposed to this principle of other-centered love is harmful, not because God must impose a penalty but because it is intrinsically destructive to our mind and spirit.

There are multiple complex factors that surround these suicides. The article states that soldiers who have been deployed multiple times are more likely to have "fractured relationships," "mental-health problems and marital problems" and that nearly 1 in 5 soldiers develop symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Researchers estimate that it takes three years to recover from the stress of one year of combat deployment.

What is it like to be trained for combat duty? "Shari Hall said of her husband Jeff that [his eyes revealed] "a very lost person" who "wasn't my husband anymore." "I don't know what that mission was, other than riding around and getting blown up and shot at."

According to an Air Force psychologist, "We train our warriors to use controlled violence and aggression, to suppress strong emotional reactions in the face of adversity, to tolerate physical and emotional pain and to overcome the fear of injury and death...these qualities are also associated with increased risk for suicide...Service members are, simply put, more capable of killing themselves by sheer consequence of their professional training."

In Jesus' kingdom, there is no military fighting or killing. “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:38). Jesus encourages us to love our enemies and to pray for them. “You have heard that it was said, 'Love your friends, hate your enemies.' But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:43-44). What about national enemies? The national enemy in Jesus' day were the Romans and it must have been quite offensive to many Jews to hear Jesus say, "If one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles" (Matthew 5:41).

This obviously opens up a number of questions about "just war theory" and pacifism, but we would encourage you to watch the video on the front page of the website for an excellent discussion. The point is that Jesus did not come merely to pay a price for our salvation. He came to show us a new way, one that is healing for our mind and spirit. Anything contrary to this is destructive.

Collapse of modern day "democratic" socialism on-going

Media double standard on Tea Parties vs. Immigration Rioters

Paul Watson makes a good point about the media's hatred for the Tea Parties:

Imagine the uproar if 200 Tea Party members had gone on a rampage through a downtown city, smashing windows, starting fires, and spraying graffiti everywhere, the corporate media would be all over it, and yet gangs of pro-illegal immigration demonstrators do this and much worse on a regular basis, with no national news coverage whatsoever.

“A large group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker’s and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said,” reports The Santa Cruz Sentinel.

An Associated Press report states that eighteen businesses were damaged as pro-immigrants rights activists engaged in violent riots, spraying graffiti, smashing windows, setting fire to shop fronts, and causing damage to a cost of up to $100,000 dollars.

“The damage that was caused was without purpose,” Capt. Steve Clark said. “It was senseless violence that victimized a community who cannot afford to be victimized in this manner. This did nothing to add credit to whatever they believed their cause was.” [...]

If Tea Partiers so much as dare to carry a vaguely inflammatory sign or shout at a lawmaker, they are nationally demonized by the corporate media as dangerous racist extremists and even domestic terrorists. And yet anarchists and pro-illegal immigrant demonstrators can run riot, engage in violence and cause monumental damage to private property and it barely even makes the news.

McCain: American citizen shouldn't have his legal rights

McCain: ‘Serious mistake’ if car bombing suspect was Mirandized
Michael O’Brien - The Hill - Tuesday, May 4, 2010

It would have been a serious mistake to have read the suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing his Miranda rights, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday.

McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a longtime leading Republican on national security issues, said he expected the suspect in the case could face charges that might warrant a death sentence if convicted.

“Obviously that would be a serious mistake…at least until we find out as much information we have,” McCain said during an appearance on “Imus in the Morning” when asked whether the suspect, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan.

“Don’t give this guy his Miranda rights until we find out what it’s all about,” McCain added.

Obama jokes about use of predator drones

The U.S. Presidency: One Monster Follows Another
Lew Rockwell.com Blog - David Kramer - May 4, 2010 08:23 PM

Do you remember when Dumbya made a joke about the Weapons of Mass Destruction—you know, the ones that were never in Iraq to begin with, but which he started a war over anyway that has killed thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians—at the 2004 White House Correspondents Dinner?

Now his successor to the office of Bankster Puppet-in-Chief, Obamanable, makes a joke about using predator drones—you know, like the ones he ordered to attack Pakistan which have murdered innocent, unarmed Pakistani civilians—to attack the Jonas Brothers if they “come on” to his daughters at the most recent White House Correspondents Dinner.

Republicans stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Americans to fund Planned Parenthood/abortions

The Republican Party and Planned Parenthood
Laurence Vance - Lew Rockwell.com Blog - April 28, 2010 06:28 PM

I have seen it reported in several places that Planned Parenthood, one of the world’s leading abortion providers, received government grants and contracts of $350 million for fiscal year 2007-2008 and $337 million for fiscal year 2006-2007. I verified this information for myself on the Planned Parenthood website. I also discovered that Planned Parenthood’s fiscal year ends on June 30. This means that Bush the Republican was the president during this time. But after doing a little digging, I also found out that Planned Parenthood received government grants and contracts of $305 million (34%) during fiscal year 2005-2006. During this time we not only had Bush the Republican president but also a Republican majority in Congress. Yet, Planned Parenthood was still funded. And we are supposed to take Republicans seriously when they complain that Obama isn’t likely to appoint an anti-abortion judge to the Supreme Court? Why wasn’t the Republican Party that concerned about abortion when clinics affiliated with Planned Parenthood performed 264,943 abortions in 2005?

This is “The Republican Party Is Not the Lesser of Two Evils, Example No. 5,396.” For example No. 5,395, see here.

Laurence Vance comments on prayer and the Pentagon

Christians Upset That They Can’t Pray at Criminal Murder Syndicate
Laurence Vance - Lew Rockwell.com Blog - April 28, 2010 08:38 PM

The one called the Pentagon.

From a Presidential Prayer Team Prayer Alert:

Associated Press reported earlier today that evangelist Franklin Graham’s invitation to speak at a Pentagon prayer service on the National Day of Prayer May 6 has been rescinded by the U.S. Army because of comments he made years ago about Islam. Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, in 2001 described Islam as “evil.” More recently, he has said he finds Islam offensive and wants Muslims to know that Jesus Christ died for their sins. The Associated Press report quoted Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins as saying Graham’s remarks were “not appropriate.”

First of all, Christians (and I am one) should be praying in their homes and churches for the Pentagon to focus only on defense and cease its offensive wars instead of wanting someone to pray at the Pentagon for anything. Christians should avoid the Pentagon like they avoid a brothel, an abortion clinic, or a strip club.

Second, if Christians want Muslims to know about Jesus then they should send missionaries to the Middle East instead of soldiers.

Obama: "Government is us"

Obama has responded to the libertarian claims about the nature of government:

President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as “inherently bad” and said their off-base line of attack
ignores the fact that in a democracy, “government is us.”

Obama used his commencement speech at the University of Michigan to respond to foes who portray government as oppressive and tyrannical.

Government is inherently bad. At best it's a necessary evil. It operates only through the use of violence, forcibly taking money from the productive and calling it taxation. Forcibly taking somebody's property is inherently bad.

"Government is us." Huh? So you and I and all our friends and family are killing thousands of innocents abroad? We all are constructing an oppressive police state? We are all the IRS? Get real. Those doing these things are an elite who run the show. The elite manufacture our consent by marginalizing dissent and distracting us with endless entertainment. Even if you don't accept the fact that government is inherently bad, it is clear that THIS particular government is bad and does not represent us.

In an ideal republic, yes, "we the people" are sovereign. But in America today popular sovereignty is just a theory. The republic has fallen. Let's realize the reality and stop pretending things are ok. Put not your trust in Prince Obama. Look not to a political solution, but to a better kingdom--the kingdom of God.

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