Barack Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama, is facing added scrutiny tonight, as the initial White House version of how terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed, has been changed numerous times and drastically so, by officials in his camp. The initial story from the White House was Osama Bin Laden was the subject of a Navy Seal raid, conducted live on military cameras, he exchanged gunfire with U.S. forces in his home, using an AK47 rifle, whilst holding his teenage wife as a human shield, leading to her death and his as well.
The story has since been changed to state, 25 minutes of footage from the raid is missing, due to the camera going black, Bin Laden was unarmed when killed, his wife was not used as a human shield, she was only shot in the leg, not killed and is of age (but was underage when they wed a decade ago and he was in his mid-forties).
Obama and his cabinet in the White House
Another component of this story the U.S. government has changed is the long held belief that Bin Laden experienced renal failure and needed dialysis as a result. This week the White House stated that story is not true, in spite of the fact the Bush Administration and CIA perpetuated it, along with others.
However, a decade ago, Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, stated during a well publicized interview with CNN that "bin Laden had probably died of kidney failure, and that he'd taken two dialysis machines into Afghanistan with him" (Osama bin Laden Health Rumors: Fact or Fiction?).
Osama Bin Laden (center)
These serious inconsistencies are of concern to many, who have taken to the internet to complain. What really happened regarding Bin Laden. President Obama should release the death photo his administration initially promised they would, but reneged on at the last minute. Obama should not want such ambiguity surrounding his presidency, as it sows the seeds of doubt, which will not help him at the polls in 2012.
Side Bar: many writers are getting frustrated with this story, as the source is the White House and people feel like they are being played for fools, in constantly having to update, amend and correct items they were led to believe are completely accurate.
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