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| Bin Laden in the view of a Cartoonist |
NEW YORK: It seems that Obama administration gives way to the conspiracy theories over Osama Bin Laden Death as it refuses to show proof and pictures of death as it is demanded by american citizens and World.
The Controversal killing and swift burial of Osama bin laden into the Arabian Sea in a weighted body bag, and more fuel to these controversies was provided by the US authorities’ which are
still reluctance to release pictures of his corpse.One hotly argued assertion is that bin Laden was in fact a CIA stooge, who had been dead for years, a fanciful figure that was used to justify America’s war in Afghanistan and Iraq, helped George Bush to be selected second time and even a very big source to keep united the ununited American Public.
That is a position shared by US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and other doubters from Indiana to Kabul.
“If you believe the newest death of OBL, you’re stupid,” Sheehan wrote on her Facebook page.
Sheehan, who set up an anti-war camp at President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch in 2005, disputes the facts given by the government, asking how the United States could get such fast DNA results, why the burial was hasty and why no video had been released.
And, she noted, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto claimed in 2007 that bin Laden was already dead.
Sheehan is not alone in posing such questions. Internet site Yahoo said searches for “Osama bin laden not dead,” “osama bin laden still alive” and “bin laden not dead” spiked off the charts on Monday.
Men were most likely to think he may be alive, Yahoo said, adding that searchers of “bin laden conspiracy” were mostly from Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Indiana and New Jersey.
In Iran, the semi-official Mehr news agency declared: “The death of Osama is a lie.”
Iranian state television news said by disposing of the body at sea, “the mystery (of his death) has increased.” Iranian media say the myth of bin Laden has been used to justify the US occupation of its neighbor, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s Taliban said in a statement posted on their website that talk of bin Laden’s death was “premature” and that the United States had not provided “convincing evidence.”
At New York’s “Ground Zero” where the twin towers once stood, some visitors pondered whether bin Laden’s death might be too good to be true.
“I just hope we really did get him. They buried him at sea.
Who knows what happened?” said project manager Sal Leto, 59. Retired teacher Joani Ellingson, 62, who was visiting from Minnesota, said: “It is part of the death culture that we want to see proof positive. We have a curiosity.”
At Pace University, political science professor David Caputo asked students if they doubted bin Laden was dead. Two thirds had at least a slim doubt, and 5 percent had a major doubt, he said.
Rosaleen Tallon, whose brother died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, said she was “dismayed” that bin Laden was buried so quickly.
“It has unfortunately opened this up to the possibility of conspiracy theories,” she said.
