Al Qaeda Confirms Osama Bin Laden is Dead: Promises More Violence

Al Qaeda confirmed that Osama Bin Laden is dead. How dead is unknown. He could have been dead years ago for all we know considering his poor health, and Obama still isn't going to produce evidence of the kill.

Let's not forget Osama Bin Laden's rise was at the courtesy of the CIA to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan, and once the Russians were beat, Al Qaeda was formed. That is an interesting spin to consider with Al Qaeda's sudden compliance to declare Osama dead. Or maybe they are harboring him and allowing Obama to have his day. These are all things you have to consider based on the White House deciding to dump Osama's body out to see immediately and then backing out of their promises to show the pictures to the American people.

From the conservative Human Events:

In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know.

Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating withdrawal its forces from Afghanistan, whence it had invaded in 1979. The Saudi magnate, Osama bin Laden, and Abdullah Azzam, the charismatic Palestinian co-founder of Hamas, birthed al Qaeda from the Services Bureau (Mektab al-Khidmat) the pair had set up in the mid-1980s to promote the so-called “Arab Afghans”-- Muslims from around the world (but mostly from Arab nations) who flocked to Afghanistan to fight in the jihad.

Among Afghan tribal leaders, the closest ally of bin Laden and his burgeoning al Qaeda network was Gilbuddin Hekmatyar. This was of no small significance. Hekmatyar, an Islamic fundamentalist, was the most virulently anti-American of the Afghans and the one closest to the Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI), which the CIA was using as its cut-out to support the mujahideen. He was also the top recipient of the CIA’s largesse, reeling in about 20% of the $3 billion-plus in funding and materiel the agency poured into the jihad. That support was matched dollar-for-dollar by our friends the Saudis, who dealt directly with the Arab Afghans and were bin Laden’s chief benefactor.

In short, the CIA helped create al Qaeda. It opened its checkbook but blindly relied on the ISI, which was (and is) rife with Sunni fundamentalist sympathizers. The agency’s effort, as AEI scholar Michael Ledeen has observed, lacked any “engagement and follow-through” with the jihadist networks being created -- taking no steps, even after the Soviets vacated, to dismantle them, penetrate them, “or at least remove the most dangerous weapons, like Stinger missiles.”

None the less, Al Qaeda is confirming Osama is dead. Take it for what its worth. They are also calling for a violent uprising in Pakistan to overthrow the government. In a statement, the new leader of Al Qaeda promised death to Americans.

Bin Laden’s blood “is too valuable to us and to every Muslim to let it go in vain,” said a statement attributed to al-Qaeda, dated May 3 and posted on websites that have carried confirmed jihadist statements in the past.

“We will continue to hunt the Americans and their operatives inside and outside their country,” the group said. “Soon we will turn their joy into sadness, and mix their tears with their blood.”