The Bin Laden Conspiracies
There is a pretty broad range of what, exactly, happened on May 1st, 2011, and loads of speculation as to whether or not Osama Bin Laden was even killed on that fateful day. Theorists can't seem to agree, however, on what conspiracy they're spending all of their time on. Conspiracies range from the insane and impossible to the less crazy, but still not quite sensible. Because I struggled to find just one Osama Bin Laden conspiracy to research, I picked a few of my favorites, and included them all here.
Obama = Osama?One of the more outrageous Bin Laden conspiracies is the one that claims Obama and Bin Laden are actually the same person. In the seven years between Bin Laden's alleged attack on the World Trade Center and the 2008 presidential election, theorists say he underwent plastic surgery and snuck into the United States to run for president as Barack Obama.
A video found on youtube explains the apparent evidence of the claim. The man narrating the video is from a site called Anti-Matter Radio.com. He analyzes the palms, eye shape, and bone structure of each man, claiming them to be so similar that the only reasonable explanation is that they are the same person. They use ridiculous claims that Obama's eyebrows are thicker than Bin Laden's because he had four years of letting them grow in, and that his eyes are more bright because he had years of recuperation in the United States to make them appear more energetic. On further investigation, there appear to be quite a few videos and groups that believe this. They use photoshop to point out similarities between the two men's physical appearances, and even go so far as to photoshop a photo of Obama's eyes over Bin Laden's, to prove that they are the same (they aren't). |
Radio host Alex Jones discusses his own belief in the theory that Bin Laden (as well as four other terrorists) are still alive, in an interview.
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A Chance at Reelection?Another less-radical-but-still-out-there conspiracy is the one that says the Obama Administration made up Bin Laden's death to improve his chances at reelection in 2012. (There are also groups that believe Bin Laden died years earlier, but Obama withheld the information until 2011 to boost his ratings as president. These seem very similar in nature and so I am including them here.)
Article after article has made claims of this nature. The men who have come forward on public television to rant and rave about this are actually a bit surprising. It can be expected that some more radical groups would make this jump, but a few are made by men who could be considered respectable in their careers. Some of the men who have made comments on television about this conspiracy include former New Jersey Superior Court judge Andrew Napolitano, and former General Electric CEO Jack Welsh. Napolitano has said that Bin Laden's death was actually a murder committed to "save Obama's lousy presidency" (Napolitano). Welsh takes his claims to the extreme, saying in an interview with BNN that he believed the event was 'probably' staged. He also makes claims that, if George W. Bush couldn't locate Osama in the eight years he spent trying, it was outrageous to think that Obama could do it in three. And, finally, that he thought that Bin Laden's death happening a year before Obama's chance for reelection was a bit too convenient for his liking. He said all of this, along with the side note that he didn't have a bit of evidence, just a "gut feeling". If that doesn't say all that there is to say about this conspiracy, then I don't know what does. |