OP-ED: The Real Osama bin Laden by Sean Osborne

From Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs, NEIN - I am quite grateful that Michael Scheuer is no longer leading the CIA’s 'Alec Station' group in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Scheuer's most recent article entitled Analysis of Osama bin Laden's September 7 Video Statement amounts to a nearly irrelevant analysis in my assessment. Readers of this website will know that this is not the first time I have taken Michael Scheuer to task. In the first paragraph alone Scheuer makes errors even a novice intelligence analyst would have recognized in just viewing just the first three minutes of the video.

It is abundantly clear to this analyst that the specific intent of the producers of this Osama bin Laden video is to present the same image of Osama as existed prior to September 11, 2001. Osama’s attire is even the exact same clothing worn in many photo-ops and video productions done well prior to September 11, 2001. View the pre-9/11 Osama imagery HERE and HERE and HERE.

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