You Say “Mansion,” I Say “Pig Sty”: Video of Osama bin Laden’s Filthy Pakistan Home, Thousands of Muslims Protest Death of Their Fallen Leader
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 7, 2011
Glorious Flashback: Drudge Report headline, May 1, 2011 - 'Bin Laden Dead; USA Has Body'
New footage has been released showing the world the inside of al Qaeda’s Islamic madman and mass murderer Osama bin Laden’s mansion… er, compound… er, filth-encrusted pig sty in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Word is that Team Obama knew for months about bin Laden’s location.
Bin Laden’s Muslim supporters are swarming the area where their leader was taken out by our awesome Navy SEALs, even though Pres. Obama declared unconvincingly this week that bin Laden “was not a Muslim leader.” Thousands in Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Istanbul, and elsewhere are flocking to protests across the globe to decry his just-desserts death — Islamic riots broke out in London.
But, Osama bin Laden’s “not a Muslim leader.”
[Insert nervous laugh track here.]
Pakistan: Islamic protest against death of Osama bin Laden, one of hundreds, perhaps thousands of Muslim protests around the world for their fallen madman leader
They also want bin Laden’s home preserved “for sake of history,” reported by Pakistan’s Dawn.com.
Does that include the garbage?
New footage emerges of bin Laden compound
H/t to Mcnorman’s Weblog for the video.
Reported by Mail Online, Obsessed with his own image of evil: White House releases home movies of Bin Laden watching himself on the news:
Extraordinary home videos taken from Osama Bin Laden’s hideout show the terrorist leader watching news coverage of himself on television.
The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after Bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters this afternoon by intelligence officials.
The five movies offer the first public glimpse at Bin Laden’s life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan.
The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the U.S. to paint Bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters.
The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world – even from the confines of the compound.
The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world’s most wanted terrorist this week.
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One of the movies shows Bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in grey, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control.
He flipped back and forth between what appears to be live news coverage of himself. The old, small television was perched on top of a desk with a large tangle of electrical wires running to a nearby control box.
In another, he has apparently dyed and neatly trimmed his beard for the filming of a propaganda video.
The video, which the U.S. released without sound, was titled Message To The American People and was believed to be filed some time last autumn, a senior CIA official told reporters today.
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Strewn with rubbish and with paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from initial claims the compound was a sophisticated $1million hideaway.
The ramshackle structure resembles a building site and the pictures of the outside show steel rods protruding from the roof, suggesting it may have been incomplete.
Of course, some damage would have been caused during the American Navy Seal mission to capture the 9/11 mastermind, but the footage is still very revealing.
It was released today on the Al Jazeera English website and gives a shaky tour of what appears to be the inside of the main house, a few outbuildings and a small fruitless orchard.
The stash is part of a wealth of information collected during the U.S. raid that killed Bin Laden and four others last week.
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But the U.S. is bracing itself for retaliation following Bin Laden’s death, with the Taliban in Afghanistan warning that the killing of the al Qaeda leader would only boost morale of insurgents battling the U.S. and its Nato allies.
Al Qaeda itself vowed revenge, confirming Bin Laden’s death for the first time but issuing a chilling warning that Americans’ ‘happiness will turn to sadness’.
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The raid on Bin Laden’s compound deep inside the Pakistan border has further eroded already strained relations between Washington and Islamabad, and angry Pakistani officials have said they want the U.S. to reduce its military presence in their country.
The Pakistani army, while acknowledging it failed to find Bin Laden, said it would review cooperation with the U.S. if there is another similar attack.
Pakistani officials have denied sheltering Bin Laden, and they have criticised the U.S. operation as a violation of their country’s sovereignty.
Some fabulous dark humor on the “mansion” at Diary of a Mad Conservative — check it out.
UK Riots: Muslim protesters clashed with police outside American Embassy in London following leader Osama bin Laden's death, May 2011
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