Hersh on Osama
May 03, 2016  12:43
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As the world commemorates Osama Bin Laden's capture five years ago, the world's best known investigative reporter Seymour Hersh on the untold story of Osama killing.


Hersh's most recent break threatens to blur the boundary between investigative reporting and conspiracy theory. The story, published last May in the London Review of Books, alleges that Pakistan caught Osama bin Laden years ago and then kept him under house arrest in Abbottabad. Eventually, Hersh writes, a walk-in leaked bin Laden's whereabouts to the CIA. The SEAL raid that killed bin Laden was military theater, staged in cooperation with the Pakistani government. Read
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