After BIRTHERS doubting Obama's citizenship,now DEATHERS doubt Osama's death

When Osama bin Laden was killed earlier this week,US officials said DNA testing and facial recognition software proved they had got their man.

However, the lack of actual documentation released to the public (so far), and the fact he was buried at sea so quickly, has predictably seen an explosion of conspiracy theories dreamt up by doubters, or ‘deathers’ – as they’ve have now been dubbed. Here are just a few of them.

SOURCE: Yahoo! News

Osama bin Laden conspiracy theories

1. He must be still alive because there’s no proof

The lack of photos, videos and other evidence, plus inconsistencies in accounts of the raid that killed him, apparently shows the US government made the whole thing up.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid is one doubter. He released a statement to journalists saying: “This news is only coming from one side, from Obama’s office, and America has not shown any evidence or proof to support this claim.” Iranian State television also declared: "the mystery [of his death] has increased”.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in the Iraq war, also disputed the news on Facebook. She said: "I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself - they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead - why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea? This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent - just put your flags away and THINK!"

Naturally, several other Facebook pages made by skeptics have been set up, while searches for "osama bin laden not dead," "osama bin laden still alive" and "bin laden not dead" on Yahoo! spiked off the charts on Monday.

Our figures show most of the searchers of "bin laden conspiracy" were from the US states of Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Indiana and New Jersey.

2. He’s already dead

Ever since the September 11 attacks there have been numerous reports of bin Laden’s death. Back in 2001 Fox News reported he’d died of lung complications in Tora Bora. In 2005 Senator Harry Reid suggested bin Laden was killed in the Pakistan earthquake, while in 2007 Benazir Bhutto said the al-Qaeda boss was murdered by Pakistani militant Omar Sheikh.

Conspiracy theorists reckon official news of his death was kept from the public to continue justifying the war on terror, with the US government periodically releasing fake videos of the terror leader to keep the world convinced. The theory is that because the powers that be didn’t need bin Laden as a terrorist ‘boogieman’ anymore, they finally announced his death.

3. He was taken alive

Controversial Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck is famous for his conspiracy theories and gave a couple of suggestions about bin Laden’s death on his radio show. Firstly, he speculated that Obama ‘ghosted out’ the al-Qaeda leader - which means the Navy SEALs made it look like he was killed when actually he was taken alive, presumably to be interrogated.

4. He knew about a nuclear bomb

Beck’s other theory was that bin Laden was captured to stop him revealing the location of al-Qaeda’s nuclear bomb. This is reference to WikiLeaks documents that show US security officials briefed other countries on the possibility the terror group had a dirty bomb. Beck didn’t explain why the US government would do this.

5. He’s been ‘on ice’ for years

Another controversial US radio host Alex Jones said the US concocted the story to justify a security crackdown. He reckons bin Laden was killed back in 2002 and his body has been “literally frozen” to be rolled out at a later date.

6. He was given up by Pakistan

Website Maggie’s Farm quotes ‘speculation’ (though they don’t name sources) that, contrary to the reports the US acted alone, Pakistan actually knew all all about Osama’s location and offered up the al-Qaeda leader as a “sweetener” to speed US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

7. He was killed as a pretext for war in Pakistan

David Icke doesn’t agree though. No round-up of conspiracy theories would be complete without a contribution from Icke, who has written extensively about the event on his website. One of his theories is that the killing was fabricated to give the US a reason to actually invade Pakistan because they were harbouring the terror chief. War with China, he suggests, then Russia, will follow. Let’s hope he’s wrong.

8. He was killed to revive Obama’s poll ratings

Barack Obama’s presidency has been a difficult one. Universal healthcare, the budget deficit, high unemployment and fuel costs have resulted in low poll ratings and defeat for the Democrats at last year’s mid-terms, when the Republicans took the House of Representatives.

What better way then, some bloggers have argued, to get those poll ratings up than by suddenly killing America’s most wanted man? Writing on a Tea Party website, one conspiracy theorist said: "Don't you think Obama needs something to assure his re-election?"

9. He was killed to trump Trump

There’s no love lost between Donald Trump and Obama, with the property tycoon reviving the issue of the president’s birth certificate last week. Obama responded by first mocking Trump at the White House correspondents’ annual dinner. Then, when the time came for the bin Laden announcement, ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ had to be interrupted on NBC. The host? Donald Trump.

10. His killing was delayed for the Royal Wedding

The close proximity of the Royal Wedding and the death of bin Laden inevitably means some conspiracy theorists have linked the two events.

Firstly, a security expert told The Daily Express that the reason Wills and Kate postponed their honeymoon - possibly to Jordan – was because they had a tip-off on Friday about the upcoming events in Pakistan.

There’s also been speculation that the White House, who could have killed bin Laden on Friday, delayed pulling the trigger for two days in order for the two events not to clash.

11. His date of death is spooky

Osama bin Laden’s death was announced exactly eight years after George W Bush made his now infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ announcement. Even spookier, it happened 66 years and 6 hours after the world learned about the death of Hitler. That’s 666.

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With the death of Osama bin Laden Barack Obama trumps 2012 opponents – for now anyway

Ed Pilkington

guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 10.52 BST

How sweet it was on Saturday night for Barack Obama to be able to take to the stage at the White House correspondents dinner in Washington and mock his nemesis Donald Trump for having embraced the birther conspiracy that the president scotched only last week with the production of his birth certificate.

That was nothing compared with the sweetness of the moment that came 24 hours later when Obama took to the national stage, announcing from the East Wing of the White House that he had successfully ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden.

That address, delivered sombrely but with evident relish by Obama, will almost certainly dash any remaining hopes on Trump's part that his wife Melania will be choosing new curtains for the White House in 2013. It may also sweep away the aspirations of several other potential Republican candidates hoping to limit Obama to one term.

Rarely has an incumbent president been handed such a gift in the runup to an election year. As the huge crowd that assembled outside the White House testified, "getting Osama" is grounds for national jubilation, free from party affiliation.

Obama was at pains in his announcement to emphasise the personal role he had played as commander-in-chief. He underlined that he had ordered the CIA to make the killing or capture of Bin Laden its top priority, that he had met repeatedly with the national security team when the al-Qaida leader's whereabouts had become known, and that it was "at my direction" that the operation to assassinate him was launched.

The accent on his firmness in the face of the terrorist threat is unlikely, in the case of Bin Laden, to displease even the most liberal of Democratic voters who have grown increasingly despondent about the president's refusal to break with the central features of George Bush's "war on terror", such as the maintenance of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. It is likely to play very well with independent voters upon whom his re-election depends.

In his wording, it was clear that Obama was seeking to put to rest the comparison with Jimmy Carter, the last Democrat to be thrown out of the White House after just one term, that has dogged his presidency.

Obama stressed that none of the US special forces had been harmed in the operation to kill Bin Laden, an allusion to Carter's disastrous attempt in 1980 to rescue the Iranian hostages that cost American lives.

Obama will be hoping that the feelgood fallout from the news of Bin Laden's death will lead to a bounce in his popularity ratings that have remained worryingly low for many months. In the latest Rasmussen poll, 49% of voters said they disapproved of his leadership, 37% strongly, although that was before this weekend's events in Pakistan.

On the other hand, the polls show consistently that the top priority for voters is no longer national security – that has waned as a preoccupation almost 10 years after 9/11 – but the economy.

With petrol prices at a historic high, and unemployment still at 9.2%, Obama will know that even the death of Bin Laden will not secure him a second term unless the economy improves.

At least, for now, he has the pleasure of watching his opponents squirm. The announcement saw Republican 2012 hopefuls reaching for the superlatives, including Mitt Romney who called the news "a great victory for lovers of freedom and justice everywhere".

The gloves won't stay off for long, but for now Obama can enjoy being on top.

SOURCE: The Guardian

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Donald Trump Lies About Investigators and Obama's Birth Certificate

Opinion by Jerome McCollom

(8 Hours Ago) in Society

President Obama, in far beyond what he is legally required to do, released his long-form birth certifiate from the state of Hawaii. He had already released the short-form certificate, the one that Hawaii gives to those born there, and which was already good enough to get issued a U.S. passport.

Who takes credit, well Donald Trump. See, Trump wants attention, and he says he is going to run for the presidency, and to do so he is trying to attract birther support. Well, Trump had stated before Obama released the long form in an interview with Meredith Vieira.

DONALD TRUMP:

" …You are not allowed to be a President if you are not born in this country. He may not have been born in this country, and I tell you what: three weeks ago I thought he was born in this country — right now I have some real doubts. I have people that actually have been studying it, and they cannot believe what they’re finding."

MEREDITH VIEIRA:

"You have people now, down there, searching, I mean in Hawaii?"

DONALD TRUMP:

"Absolutely. Absolutely, and they cannot believe what they’re finding."

When George Stephanopoulos asked him about these supposed investigators, after Obama's release of the original birth certificate, The Donald responded, "That’s none of your business right now.”

What?! The Donald runs for the presidency by saying he has investigators who "cannot believe what they are finding', and now that isn't a concern? Who are these incompetent investigators on Trump's payroll? Because he sure needs to say you're fired to them, if anyone. Look at the ego on a man who gets angry that anyone dare question or point out that either he has incompetents/liars on his payroll or that he was lying himsef. Actually, it is pretty clear that Trump lied about this.

Or, maybe he was just believing the blather of one of those birthers writing books attacking Obama as a non-citizen, the Jerome Corsis and Joseph Farahs of the birther movement The Donald is actually taking credit for his absurd crusade to get Obama to release a certificate that wasn't necessary to prove he was a citizen, because Obama already released the short form version that the state of Hawaii releases to everyone. We don't need an energy solution in America, we need just to power our electronics and lights from the hot air that is Donald Trump.

SOURCE: Opposing Views

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Donald Trump Shows Up at White House Correspondents Dinner, Is Booed on Arrival

Donald Trump -- star of NBC's birther movement "Celebrity Apprentice" -- decided to show his hair, er, face at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday.

Trump, who began the week taking credit for the White House's decision to release President Obama's birth certificate, was promptly booed on arrival.

Trump arrived on the red carpet at Washington’s Hilton Hotel with his wife, Melania, shortly at 7:00 p.m. (ET). After giving a brief interview with a group of several of media outlets, Trump -- who was invited to the event as a guest of the Washington Post -- walked away to a chorus of audible boos from the media members on the press line. (And it wasn't because they wanted to hear Trump talk more.)

Trump's entrance briefly took the spotlight away from the other celebrity arrivals, including Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, David Arquette, Elizabeth Banks, Erin Andrews, Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Piven and at least one of the Wayans Brothers.

Obama and his wife are scheduled to arrive at the 8 p.m. (ET).

I didn't see New Yorker editor David Remnick -- who earlier this week called Trump a "race-baiting, irrepressible jackass" [4] -- but Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm and the Coen Brothers were among the guests invited to sit alongside him at the magazine's table.

There was some question whether Trump would attend the dinner at all -- though not because of the "birther" controversy. Trump was also scheduled to attend the wedding of fellow real estate mogul (and noted Obama hater) Steve Wynn in Las Vegas on Saturday, and delivered an expletive-filled speech [5] there on Thursday.

Guessing there may be more than a few of those muttered at tonight's so-called "nerd prom" -- and plenty of firesworks in store.

SOURCE:The Wrap Media

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Obama Aamua Kuwakabili Wanahoji Uraia Wake,Aonyesha Cheti cha Kuzaliwa

Hatimaye Rais Barack Obama wa Marekani ameamua kuweka hadharani cheti chake cha kuzaliwa baada ya kuandamwa muda mrefu na wapinzani wake wanaomtuhumu kuwa si mzaliwa wa nchi hiyo.

Kasi ya mashambulizi dhidi ya Obama ilishika moto baada ya mfanyabiashara tajiri anayetarajiwa kuwania nafasi ya Urais wa nchi hiyo kwenye uchaguzi mkuu hapo mwakani,Donald Trump,kuungana na kundi la wahafidhina wanaodadisi u-Marekani wa Obama.Kundi hilo linalojulikana kama Birthers,limekuwa likipiga kelele kwa nguvu kuwa Obama ni Mkenya na si Mmarekani,madai ambayo Rais huyo aliyapuuza kwa muda mrefu lakini hatimaye amaeamua kuyakabili.

Akiongea na waandishi wa habari leo asubuhi,Obama alitanabaisha kuwa "ana mambo ya msingi zaidi ya kushughulikia kuliko upuuzi huo (kuhusu uhalisi wa uraia wake)".

"Hatutoweza kufanikiwa iwapo tutayumbishwa,hatuwezi kufanikiwa iwapo tutatumia muda wetu kuchafuana...kama tunazua tu mambo na kujifanya kuwa ukweli ni uongo,hatutoweza kutatua matatizo yetu kama tutawaendekeza wazushi",alisema Obama ambaye alizaliwa Agosti 4 mwaka 1961 huko Honolulu,Hawaii kwa baba Mkenya na Mama Mmarekani Mweupe.

Hata hivyo,dakika chache baada ya cheti hicho cha kuzaliwa kuwekwa hadharani,Trump aliendeleza mashambulizi yake kwa Obama akidai cheti hicho-ambacho bado anakitilia mashaka-kisingwekwa hadharani bila mashambulizi yake kwa Rais huyo.Kadhalika,kundi la Birther limeendelea kuonyesha wasiwasi wake huko baadhi ya wanakundi wakidai cheti hicho ni cha kufoji.

Lakini pengine kwa kugundua kuwa suala la uraia wa Obama halina msingi,Trump alisharukia ajenda nyingine akihoji elimu ya Rais huyo.Tajiri huyo mpenda sifa anamtuhumu Obama kuwa alikuwa "mwanafunzi kilaza" (asiyejimudu kitaaluma) na hakustahili kujiunga na Vyuo Vikuu vye hadhi na heshima kubwa (Ivy League) vya Columbia na Shule ya Sheria ya Harvard.

“Inakuwaje mwanafunzi mbovu anakwenda Columbia kisha Harvard?"Trump alimuuliza mwandishi wa habari wa Associated Press. “Natafakari kuhusu suala hili,na kwa hakika nitalichunguza.Atuonyeshe rekodi zake.” Aliendelea kudai, "kuna maswali kadhaa ambayo hayajajibiwa kuhusu rais wetu".

Baadhi ya wachambuzi wa mambo wanadai kuwa inawezekana Tump ana sukumwa na hisia za ubaguzi wa rangi katika mashambulizi yake dhidi ya Obama,huku kebehi zake dhidi ya elimu ya Obama zikitafsiriwa kama "watu weusi hawastahili kwenda vyuo bora nchi Marekani.

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