Lifted from the accompanying comments to satisfy yours truly, since I too am not the only skeptic that the CIA just up and killed al-Zawahiri. More likely he was already dead and they’re giving us the ‘waltz around the subject’ treatment.
As noted in the enthralling link from Cole Bunzel available at the very end of this piece – ‘Is Ayman al-Zawahiri Dead?‘ – It begins: ”In November 2020, reports emerged on social media and in the Pakistani press that Ayman al-Zawahiri had recently died of natural causes, possibly in Afghanistan”, an outstanding article that goes on to discuss the video released on March 12, 2021 titled “The Rohingya Are the Wound of the Entire Umma,” which shows al-Zawahiri speaking.
It’s noteworthy that the problem with the video is that he’s not the only (nor the main) speaker. It’s an unidentified narrator who introduces the subject and provides almost all of the commentary. In fact, al-Zawahiri doesn’t even appear in the video – you hear only his voice heard on six occasions. The article notes that it wasn’t normal for al-Zawahiri to play second fiddle to another speaker in any of his other videos. Mmmm.
Yet another problem with the video is the omission of the phrase “may God preserve him” from its usual place after al-Zawahiri’s name, since in jihadi media products, the words ‘may God preserve him’ usually follow the name of a speaker/author who is alive, whereas the words ‘may God have mercy on him’ usually follow the name of a speaker/author who is already dead.
The absence of either of these expressions is striking, particularly in the context of credible rumors of al-Zawahiri’s death. By contrast, the article notes, ‘may God preserve him’ followed al-Zawahiri’s name in his video from May 2020, and nearly all of his videos from 2019, when he more than likely was still alive. Mmmm.
Now it is claimed in various mainstream media that the September 11, 2021 video proved al-Zawahiri was alive at that time because he mentioned the US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and an al-Qaeda attack on Russian troops in Syria in January 2021. But as was noted by skeptics, al-Zawahiri’s mention of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could have been taped as early as February 2020 upon signing of the Doha Agreement since he doesn’t mention the Taliban’s victory when Biden’s military fled the country in disarray.
Sundance, Conservative Treehouse: ‘Biden Jumbled Word Salad Claiming U.S. Killed Ayman Al Zawahiri’ …
Everything about the supposed killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri is suspect, weird and fishy.
♦First, Al Zawahiri has been reported as killed or dead at least a half dozen times in the last 10 years; including by natural causes. ♦Second, Ayman Zawahiri was very old. Western citations put his age at 71 (born 1951), however, that is suspect (sounds like his younger brother’s age). ♦Third, the location of his reported killing in Kabul is odd. Zawahiri was known to avoid large populations, and even with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan the tribal conflicts with factions of the Taliban would have been an issue.
♦Fourth, somehow the Taliban waited until after the U.S. intelligence community leaked the strike to the media before they issued a statement condemning the drone attack. Since when does al-Qaeda wait 48+ hours to denounce hostile action in their territory? Coordinating and timed joint press releases between the White House and ‘Taliban‘ to western media outlets is seriously sketchy.
Fifth, absolutely no official outline from the Pentagon or White House on this “successful counterterrorism strike“? Despite a primetime presidential address, the White House has no announcement, no official statement, nothing, on their website. Additionally, Biden leads off saying the attack was on Saturday, the Taliban waited 48-hours to denounce a U.S. drone strike? Think about it. Doesn’t add up. More sketchy.
♦Sixth, and seemingly just an oddball addendum, Fox News breaks the story using Jennifer Griffin as lead reporter. As I noted several days ago, Griffin had been missing from Fox News since she went bonzo in March attacking Tucker Carlson over his cynicism of the official State Dept and Pentagon narrative in Ukraine.
May, June, July, nothing from pentagon deep state promoter Jenn Griffin at all. Then, suddenly, on the same day Griffin resurfaces, after months of nothing, there’s a major terrorism strike in Afghanistan, killing Zawahiri and she’s leading the coverage?…. With Brett Baier cheerleading? C’mon man. Sketchy, all of it. [-]
[+] … And yeah, somehow there was an unusual “DNS pointing issue” on the CTH servers, serendipitously timed with the Biden speech. The one site with a specific Al Zawhiri track and trace reference library to deconstruct the official narrative and identify the sketchy.
Lastly, about half the terroristic attribution Joe Biden made in his primetime speech is associated with the “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman, not Ayman Al Zawahiri.
I’m glad Zawahiri is dead; I was cool with him being gone from the earth the last six times we were told Zawahiri was dead. Get all those professional jihadists removed, good. However, that has nothing to do with the seriously sketchy background of this story. This is a pantomime playing out for public consumption, and the same strings visible on the Zelenskyy puppets are glowing on the shoulders of this deep state announcement.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious…. [end]
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Sooooo … Wondering minds would like to see some actual proof that the CIA just ‘offed’ al-Zawahiri. Why? Because the CIA and Biden administration are not to be trusted.
Closure to remember, this is CIA operations, an outfit which definitely isn’t in the business of telling the truth. More to the point, the CIA is in the business of making the news, even if it requires some people to get killed to make a point of it. This is also the CIA who has not once, but twice now refused to allow falsifications of DNA material from any terror leaders who were taken out. One has to be very skeptical as there would be no downside to providing it at least in limited open source settings for others to inspect. The CIA has refused to allow this. That reason IS ALSO CLASSIFIED.
So We the (90 million+) People are expected to just “take their word for it” which is totally insane. It’s definitely NOT the America that multimillions of American citizens identify with. The United States of America is exceptional because it can prove moral authority. That’s my America and anything less is just a two bit police state dressed up as a representative democracy in decline. God Bless my – and our – America
And on that note, time for today’s MAGA Pill – Warrior-president Donald John Trump doing his darnedest to fulfill his obligation to the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America – MAGA! KAG!
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- Sundance, Conservative Treehouse: Biden Jumbled Word Salad Claiming U.S. Killed Ayman Al Zawahiri
- See also Cole Bunzel, Jihadica: March 17 2021 – Is Ayman al-Zawahiri Dead?