60 Minutes Presents: Killing bin Laden

WNU Editor: I posted this 60 Minutes video a few months ago .... so this is just a repeat .... and it is still captivating.

Osama Bin Laden's Former Bodyguard: Bin Laden 'Blew Himself Up With Suicide Belt After Navy SEAL Shot Him In The Thigh'

Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah, former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Osama Bin laden's bodyguard. Gulf News

Osama Bin Laden 'Blew Himself Up With Suicide Belt After Navy SEAL Shot Him In The Thigh' Claims Terror Leader's Former Bodyguard -- Daily Mail

* Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah said he'd not wanted to 'give himself up to US'
* He accused President Barack Obama of lying in his account of victory
* Claimed Bin Laden always wore explosive belt in last ten years of his life

Osama Bin Laden was not shot dead by Navy SEALs but instead blew himself up with a suicide belt, the terror leader's former bodyguard has claimed.

In a claim that counters previous reports, Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah said that the al-Qaeda chief triggered his explosive belt when U.S. Special Forces broke into his compound, killed two of his guards and shot him in the thigh as part of 'Operation Geronimo'.

Speaking in an interview, Abdul Fattah conceded he had not been present at the time of Bin Laden's death but instead was told 'what had happened' from one of the terror leader's relatives.

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Update: Egyptian jihadist leader: Bin Laden blew himself up to avoid capture -- Gulf News

My Comment: At least he is not making the claim that Osama Bin laden is alive.

U.S. Court Ruling: Bin Laden's Death Photos Can Remain Secret

U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and Vice President Joe Biden (L), along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. REUTERS/White House/Pete Souza/Handout

Court Rules Bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.

The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group.

Judicial Watch sued for photographs and video from the May 2011 raid in which U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after more than a decade of searching.

The organization's lawsuit relied on the Freedom of Information Act, a 1966 law that guarantees public access to some government documents.

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More News On Yesterday's US Court Ruling That Bin Laden's Death Photos Can Stay Secret

Court: US Can Keep Bin Laden Photos Under Wraps -- ABC News/AP
Bin Laden Corpse Photos Can Be Kept Secret, Court Rules -- Bloomberg
Bin Laden burial pictures will stay secret -- Washington Post
U.S. appeals court says no to release of bin Laden death photos -- UPI
Osama's Bin Laden's Death Photos Will Be Kept Secret for Your Own Good -- Atlantic Wire
Appeals court won't release Osama Bin Laden photos -- Politico
Government Keeping Grisly Bin Laden Death Photos Close to Its Chest -- Vanity Fair

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped The CIA Get Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum And Abandoned By The U.S. Government

Dr. Shakil Afridi

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Get Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum In U.S., Report Reveals -- FOX News

The jailed doctor who helped the U.S. track down Usama bin Laden was convicted by a tribal court on bogus charges, according to a classified Pakistani government report.

Portions of the voluminous 357-page Abbottobad Commission Report, which has yet to be made public and were obtained exclusively by Fox News, acknowledge Dr. Shakil Afridi’s conviction last year by a government-sponsored Jirga has undermined Pakistan’s credibility. The report calls for Afridi to be given a new trial.

The report also claims Afridi joined the CIA search for Bin Laden five years ago, while he was staying in the U.S. with a cousin. According to the report, Afridi applied for asylum after a terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, stepped up its operations in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.

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My Comment: I am lost for words on this case. This is a man who deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But after all the promises from the White House and other senior government officials that they will help the man who helped the CIA to find Bin laden .... the truth is now known .... he was abandoned by those in Washington who were always saying publicly that they will help him. And today .... this hero .... is rotting in a Pakistani prison.