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Obama Change now includes Osama death story

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Human Rights Examiner

The Obama administration is having to change its bin Laden death story, but some, including a veteran diplomat, doubt the new story will be the change Americans will believe in. Late Tuesday, Barack Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, admitted that John Brennan's previous version of the murder of Bin Laden story was untrue.

Will new murder story be believed?

Between the US counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, not telling the truth about this bin Laden death and the UN human rights head demanding from the US details of the bin Laden death, the official story is being changed.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay wants "precise facts surrounding his killing" made public to ensure it adhered to international law.

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"The White House suggested that pictures of bin Laden’s body were too 'gruesome' to be made public due to risk of them being 'inflammatory," reported Gordon Rayner and Toby Harnden in Washington for the Telegraph.

"The about-turn left the US open to accusations of a cover-up."

Human rights workers expressed their belief that the Bin Laden death announcement was cover-up propaganda, more of the same 911 cover-up that the nation has faced almost ten years.

Another change related to the most recent of Osama bin Laden's death accounts might be President Obama forced to change his "strategy for ending the near decade-long Afghan war, including keeping tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan at least until 2014, according to some Western experts and officials," reported McClatchy Newspapers.

Obama's strategy, repeatedly stated "in every major statement that the president or his lieutenants make on the war" as McClatchy highlights, "is that the massive U.S. troop presence is required to stop the Taliban from retaking power in Afghanistan, which could allow al-Qaida to use the country again as a sanctuary from which to attack the United States."
 
"But bin Laden's death on Sunday in a U.S. commando raid on a compound in northeastern Pakistan dealt a huge blow to al-Qaida that will almost certainly fuel domestic opposition to the war, some officials and experts said."
 
The bin Laden threat after 911, rapidly followed by enacting the USA PATRIOT ACT that removed many rights, left many citizens more fearful of US "security measures" than al-Qaida. Fear of being targeted for speaking is an American reality that intensified under the Obama administration.
 
A US veteran diplomat asked to remain anonymous in order to speak freely and then told Jonathan Landay reporting for McClatchy, "With al-Qaida taken down a big notch, how are we going to sell what we are doing?" 
 
Veterans are not the only ones questioning what other Obama changes will be needed now to sell war and weapons to the public, specifically, "What will the US do next to continue taking largest part of taxpayer's money for the petrochemical-military-industrial complex?"
 
Polls show that over 60% of Americans oppose today's war.
Can Obama change the Osama bin Laden death story so it will be believable this time?
Can Obama change the Osama bin Laden death story so it will be believable this time?
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Deborah Dupre' holds American and Australian science and education graduate degrees plus thirty years human rights, environmental and peace activism; led Aboriginal Pacific Islander and Australian research; holds pivotal role in FUEL; co-founded America's Green Team, FUEL; lectures on Ancient...

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