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Bin Laden was not terrorist mastermind, rather neocon patsy, American scholar says

American scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett: “Bin Laden was patsy, who was groomed to take the blame for the neoconservatives’ coup d'etat of September 11, 2001.”

An American scholar in Wisconsin says Osama bin Laden was not a terrorist mastermind, rather he was a patsy, a bogeyman for US neoconservatives groomed to take the blame for Washington’s false-flag operations.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV while commenting on investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent article on Bin Laden’s purported death in Pakistan four years ago.

In the 10,356-word article published by the London Review of Books on Sunday, Hersh wrote that high-level lying “remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no.”

The report claims that Pakistani military officers helped US helicopters enter the country and that a Pakistani security official led the American troops directly to Bin Laden without any resistance from guards.

American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh

Washington announced on May 2, 2011 that bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by US special forces and CIA operatives. He was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization that allegedly claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Dr. Barrett said that “whether you believe Seymour Hersh in his story of how the government has been lying to us in so many ways about this killing of Bin Laden, whether you believe people like Paul Craig Roberts who said that Bin Laden was almost certainly dead of kidney failure in December 2001 and was certainly not killed in Pakistan, or whether you believe the government's official story according to which they went in, killed Bin Laden and threw him in the ocean according to Islamic custom, it’s clear that Bin Laden was not a terrorist mastermind.”

“In fact, Bin Laden was patsy, who was groomed to take the blame for the neoconservatives’ coup d'etat of September 11, 2001,” he added.

“They needed to find someone to pin the crime on, after they blew up the World Trade Center, bombed the Pentagon and killed the people who were looking for the missing $2.3 trillion that were swindled from the Pentagon by Rabbi Dov Zakheim, the Comptroller of the Pentagon,” he noted.

The September 11 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

People covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center in New York City, on September 11, 2001.

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts have raised questions about the official account, saying it was a false-flag operation and that Bin Laden was just a bogeyman for the US military-industrial complex.

They believe that rogue elements within the US government orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.

Dr. Barrett said that US neoconservatives “had groomed Bin Laden for this for years after running US-organized terrorist attacks on US embassies in Africa, the USS Cole bombing, the false-flag attacks, organized by Ali Mohamed, a CIA agent and a US military man, who acknowledged that he did this.”

“Bin Laden had nothing to do with any of these big terrorist attacks. In fact, the US government had admitted that the FBI said that he was never wanted for 9/11,” he emphasized. “So he was a patsy, he was a bogeyman; he was not a terrorist mastermind.”

The damaged port side of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole after an attack blamed on the al-Qaeda terror network in the Yemeni port of Aden, October 12, 2000. (AFP photo)

“The story the government had fed us about killing him is a lie, whether it’s kind of lie that Seymour Hersh claims or whether it’s kind of lie that Paul Craig Roberts claims," Dr. Barrett noted.

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