{"id":23174,"date":"2011-05-02T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23174"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:22:52","slug":"duff-i-knew-bin-laden-was-dead-but-now-im-skeptical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23174","title":{"rendered":"Duff: I knew bin Laden was dead, but now I&#8217;m skeptical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2011\/05\/01\/president-obama-announces-bin-laden-still-dead\/\">Gordon Duff <\/a>come down on both sides of an issue before, but this is probably the most breath &#8211; taking. While the hunt for bin Laden was an ongoing process, Duff claimed for years he was already dead, but now with confirmed reports that bin Laden is dead, Duff doubts it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As to reports made today and the President\u2019s speech, we are highly skeptical.  Issues of \u201ctiming,\u201d citing the release of Obama\u2019s birth certificate and the crushing of top contender Donald Trump could be seen as sources for doubt but coincidence and circumstance can go either way, any way or no way at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How he has a readership is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2011\/05\/01\/breaking-obl-death-means-nuclear-hellstorm-vows-ksm\/\">&#8220;CPT&#8221; Eric May<\/a> is predictably warning of nuclear strikes by al Qaeda as a result of the death of bin Laden;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. claims of a successful military operation that killed Osama bin Laden (OBL) come on the heels of a story out of Guantanamo Bay, according to which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) said that Al-Qaeda is prepared to launch a \u201cnuclear hellstorm\u201d against the United States and United Kingdom in the event that OBL was killed or captured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As if al Qaeda would restrain themselves in using weapons of mass destruction against us until bin Laden was killed.<\/p>\n<p>How anyone with a functional brain cell can be fans of these two mega-hacks is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve watched Gordon Duff come down on both sides of an issue before, but this is &hellip; <a title=\"Duff: I knew bin Laden was dead, but now I&#8217;m skeptical\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23174\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duff: I knew bin Laden was dead, but now I&#8217;m skeptical<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}