A NATO helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan has reportedly killed 31 U.S. troops (including at least 21 Navy SEALs) and seven Afghan soldiers, the highest number of American casualties recorded in a single incident in the decade-long war. A NATO official in Brussells told NBC News the helicopter involved was a twin-rotor Chinook used for transport. The chopper crashed in the Savd Abad district of Wardak province, west of the capital Kabul.
The Associated Press reported Saturday that most of the U.S. servicemen killed were from SEAL Team Six, the same elite unit that killed Osama bin Laden. Two unnamed U.S. officials have said that none of those who died in the crash appeared to have participated in the bin Laden raid, although they were from the same unit that carried out that mission. It is plausible that they were on another high priority target mission.
NATO confirmed the crash happened overnight and that there "was enemy activity in the area." But it said it was still investigating the cause and conducting a recovery operation at the site. It did not release details. A senior U.S. administration official in Washington, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the aircraft was apparently shot down by insurgents. The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in Wardak late Friday. It said wreckage of the craft was strewn at the scene.
One of the standard features of a cover-up is the "removal" of any witnesses or collaborators who might reveal the truth. There is no way to prove if these Team Six SEALs were involved with the bin Laden operation or not. If it was a cover up they would say it wasn't them, just different members of the same team. That is an easy way to brush off any question. It would be good to take them out of the picture if they had details confirming that the operation to get bin Laden was not as stated. There already is a conspiracy theory that they actually didn't get bin Laden but somebody else. The feed cutting out may be completely false because it would show no bin Laden. There are many holes in the official story. Part of a cover-up of taking out your own is a convenient scapegoat, i.e. insurgents. They could easily be disguised special forces, or hired locals. The Taliban spokesman could be a invented claim to confirm the NATO/US story of insurgents taking out the helicopter. They rarely ever say it was anything but mechanical difficulties until after a Taliban claim of responsibility. It is odd how quickly the military said it was.
Some experts have claimed that bin Laden was indeed dead years ago. Pretending he was still alive was useful for the war on terror, as is a story of killing him instead of his dying of natural causes. It would prevent the much cherished goal of getting bin Laden dead or alive. As early as 2000 intelligence said that bin Laden needed dialysis every three days and that it would be an issue generating electricity in a mountain hideout or running from place to place. The US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan governments have all stated they believe he died from being unable to get treatment for his kidney problems after the attacks on Tora Bora in 2001.
In 2000 he was said to have ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to the base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Renal dialysis, talking about hemoanalysis, is something that is reserved for patients in end-stage renal failure. That means their kidneys have completely shut down. The most common cause of that would be something like diabetes and extended hypertension. Besides a machine and electricity, they would require clean water and sterile setting because infection is a huge risk.. Without all of those things it's unlikely that you would survive beyond several days to a week at the most.
A video from December 27th 2001, supposedly of bin Laden, shows a man who is clearly not well and barely moving his left side of his body. CNN claimed that means he had diabetes. They were clearly given the information because it is impossible to say that just from video. Intelligence sources were said to know. CNN also said he had low blood pressure, a foot injury, and kidney problems requiring dialysis. A story from the Guardian in November 2001 tells how he was often reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim he was suffering from hepatitis C and could only be expected to live two years.
Diabetes can cause diabetic nephropathy, the main illness requiring renal dialysis. Hepatitis C is sometimes associated with diabetes. There is also something called diabetic foot which increases skin ulcer rates and infection, and sometimes necrosis. Diabetes tends to alter lung function which leads to an increase in susceptibility to respiratory infections, pneumonia, an influenza. So it does appear true that bin Laden had chronic kidney disease caused by diabetes.
According to Fox news December 26, 2001 the Pakistan Observer cited a Taliban member who was at the funeral that said bin Laden died a peaceful death due to a lung complication. Other sources in Pakistan and Afghanistan also said he died in December 2001 and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. There was a funeral article in an Egyptian newspaper December 26, 2001 of his death and funeral ten days earlier on Sunday December 16, 2001. Israeli intelligence also confirmed the news and said that anything after would be fake. US officials had said in 2002 that they hadn't heard anything from him since around December 2001. Shortly after that statement there was supposedly activity and recordings. The technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory to fake a person's voice has existed since early 1999, at least publicly. Interestingly in articles from 2009 December 16, 2001 was used as his escape from Tora Bora. They said that bin Laden and his bodyguards walked out unmolested and disappeared into Pakistan's tribal area.
Many sources have reported that two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent. Bin Laden is reported to have arrived in Dubai on July 4 from Quetta in Pakistan with his own personal doctor, nurse and four bodyguards, to be treated in the urology department. He apparently underwent kidney surgery and treatment. Kidney transplant surgery takes 3 to 4 hours with a usual hospital stay of about a week. It requires regular follow-ups and taking of immunosuppressants to help prevent rejection. They weaken your immune system which can lead to infections.
While there he was visited by several members of his family and Saudi personalities, and the CIA. The American hospital in Dubai emphatically denied that Bin Laden was a patient there. Washington last night also denied the story.
The CIA chief was seen in the elevator, on his way to see Bin Laden, and later, it is alleged, boasted to friends about his contact. He was recalled to Washington soon afterwards. Intelligence sources say that another CIA agent was also present; and that Bin Laden was also visited by Prince Turki al Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence, who had long had links with the Taliban, and Bin Laden. Soon afterwards Turki resigned.
Private planes owned by rich princes in the Gulf fly frequently between Quetta and the Emirates, often on luxurious "hunting trips" in territories sympathetic to Bin Laden. Other sources confirm that these hunting trips have provided opportunities for Saudi contacts with the Taliban and terrorists, since they first began in 1994.
In 2002 CBS reported that bin Laden reportedly underwent kidney dialysis at a Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi on September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11. The report stated that the regular urology staff was replaced by a secret team. It also stated that he suffered from numerous ailments including back and stomach problems. A hospital employee says that the man she saw was bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden may have been dealing with diabetes for years, eventually getting chronic kidney disease as a result. He visited hospitals for treatment and got himself a dialysis machine for home treatments in his base in Kandahar. He might have received a kidney transplant in July 2001 or simply treatment. September 10 he was either receiving a follow-up or treatment. There were US/NATO and Russian plans made to attack the Taliban possibly a year before 9/11, as well as the Taliban warning about a large attack coming. If bin Laden was aware that he would have to run he may have gotten a transplant because he knew he couldn't get dialysis in Tora Bora. Although some say he had a large advanced complex with electricity and water. Most of the evidence seems that the complex was rather simple and he died in December 2001 from either lack of dialysis or a lung complication while still recovering from surgery.
The story we are to believe of him escaping to the Pakistani tribal areas would be highly unlikely as survivable. Apparently, although he was very sick, he was able to survive, suggesting he did have a transplant. Eventually making it south from the tribal areas in 2003 living in a small northern village with his family for over two years. Moving to the mansion in Abbottabad in 2005. The Pakistani government says they were monitoring his movements in cooperation with US intelligence services. That he was killed by Navy SEALs although there are many holes in the story, no evidence, and a video of the man who doesn't resemble bin Laden. No evidence to ever come. There is lots of evidence though that he died not long after 9/11.
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