Obama blatantly lying on Bin Laden and terrorism: Scholar

An American academic, political commentator and scholar says former US President Barack Obama is “either wildly detached from reality or lying through his teeth,” while talking about Osama bin Laden and terrorism.

Dr. Kevin Barrett made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a speech made by Obama at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit — an annual meeting of business tycoons, world leaders and Nobel laureates — in New Delhi.

Speaking at the event, the former US president said Pakistan did not know the whereabouts of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, and that Washington does not distinguish between terrorist groups which target India and those that target the United States.

“Obviously every government does take a primary interest in so-called terrorist groups that target it. The term terrorist though is very confusing and Obama may have been playing with the lack of clarity in that term. The true meaning of terrorism is 'intentionally targeting civilians,'” Dr. Barrett said.  

“And Obama, of course, is here with people from India who view the liberation struggle in Kashmir as terrorism, and it is not. The Kashmiri liberation forces are primarily non-violent just like in Palestine, but to the extent that they do target India, they target Indian soldiers in Kashmir, and that is their right under international law,” he stated.

“The Indian government, especially the extremist element, has partnered with the elements of the US and Israeli Deep State in trying to smear the Kashmiri liberation struggle by creating false flag terrorism in India in which civilians are slaughtered,” he noted.

“And Obama of course was going with the official version of the Mumbai attacks when he said the US was just as interested in prosecuting the attackers of the 2008 Mumbai slaughter as India was. But those attacks have been proven to be a false flag by the elements of the Indian government itself in partnership with the United States,” the analyst said.

“Elias Davidsson has a 800-page book about this. The title of that book is The Betrayal of India: [A Close Look at the 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks], and it absolutely needs to be read – the 800 pages of documentation proving beyond any doubt that this was a false flag,” he observed.

‘Bin Laden likely died in Afghanistan in 2001’

Commenting on the issue of Bin Laden, Dr. Kevin, who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003, said this whole issue was an elaborate charade and that the al-Qaeda leader died in December 2001 in Afghanistan, not in May 2011 in Pakistan.

Obama will never tell the truth “about Bin Laden,” the scholar said.

When asked whether the Pakistani government knew that Bin Laden was kept under house arrest right next door to its military headquarters in Abbottabad, Obama said that "we had no evidence that Pakistan was aware of his presence — that is something that we looked at."

“Quite nonsense,” Dr. Barrett said. “According to Seymour Hersh, the Pakistani government had Bin Laden under house arrest since 2006. The United States government had to have known about it, (leaders) including Obama would have known about it, if that’s true.”

“And, we don’t know whether Hersh is right or wrong. It is also quite conceivable that that (Hersh’s version) is a cover story, and Osama actually died in 2001, according to reports in Egyptian and Pakistani newspapers,” he stated.

“But in any case Obama is obviously telling official lies even though he is now out of office—just as Trump is continuing to lie while he is in office. The United States’ leadership is a bunch of psychopathic liars, and we need a revolution,” noted Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11.

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 in property and infrastructure damage.

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.

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