From the killing of bin Laden to the evacuation of Afghanistan, why is the US government still secretive about these mysteries？

　　Ten years ago, on the evening of May 1, 2011, then US President Barack Obama officially announced that bin Laden had been killed by the US military. That night, the whole nation was boiling. American public opinion believes that since the moment a Boeing 767 plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8: 46 am on September 11th, 2001, Americans have made a great progress in the war on terrorism that lasted for nearly 10 years.

　　△ On the evening of May 1, 2011, then US President Barack Obama announced at the White House that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed by the US military.

　　Ten years have passed since bin Laden was killed, and various versions of the account of bin Laden’s death have appeared. From the non-fiction works of the New Yorker in paper media to Hunting Bin Laden in Hollywood, the official heroic narrative of the United States is all evident. However, with the advancement of investigation and textual research by all parties, it seems that the death of bin Laden is not as stated in the official discourse of the US government. The New York Times mentioned it together with the "Bay of Pigs Incident" and "Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction" and became a secret kept secret by the US government. ……

　　July 7, 2005 London "July 7" bombing.

　　Compared with the official narrative of the United States, Hollywood seems to prefer to link the death of bin Laden with international counter-terrorism. The London bombing on July 7, 2005 has also become a symbol of Al Qaeda’s infiltration into Europe and its terrorist activities in Europe.

　　△ On July 7, 2005, a terrorist bomb attack occurred in London, England. In the morning, three subways and a bus in London were detonated by bombs carried by terrorists.

　　On July 7, 2005, around 8:49 am, it was the morning rush hour in London. On this Tuesday morning, as usual, Jeff Porter was running an early train in London’s subway cab painted with iconic red and blue paint.

　　"When I was drawing in at Edgewell Road Station," Jeff Porter said, "there was a train coming from the opposite direction. Just as the other side met my front, I saw a dazzling yellow light from the other end of the oncoming train."

　　Then, the cab glass in front of Jeff broke, and dust and smoke scattered. Only then did Jeff realize that the train had exploded.

　　△ On July 7, 2005, Al Qaeda carried out terrorist bomb attacks on several traffic lines in London.

　　On the ground that day, there was an explosion against the bus at the same time. At almost the same time, four terrorists detonated bombs in four different bus facilities in London. According to the statistics of British police, the explosion killed 52 people and injured more than 700 people.

　　△ Video of Al-Qaida Statement released by Al Jazeera in September 2005

　　Two months after the terrorist attack in London on July 7, Al Jazeera broadcast a video, which confirmed the identities of the four terrorists — — A member of Al Qaeda. This video has been reviewed by the British police and intelligence agencies, and the identity and criminal process of the four terrorists have been clarified. In the tape, a terrorist declaration that mentioned "bin Laden" also touched the hearts of Americans on the other side of the Atlantic.

　　In June 2009, the "old plan" of the new president in Washington

　　Since the "9.11 terrorist attacks", then-US President George W. Bush has promoted anti-terrorism as his ruling focus. In addition to waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, intelligence organizations in the United States, Britain, Israel and other countries have further strengthened information sharing in international counter-terrorism intelligence because of "9.11".

　　△ "The Record of Killing Bin Laden" published by The New Yorker on August 1, 2011 — — The Night in Abbottabad describes the details of the US military’s action to kill bin Laden, but many of the details are quite different from the arguments of all parties.

　　Time came in June 2009, and four months after Obama took office as president, Leon Panetta, then director of the CIA, introduced to Obama the action plan to track down the leader of Al Qaeda since George W. Bush took office. According to The New Yorker’s Record of Killing Bin Laden — — A Night in Abbottabad, Leon Panetta knew at that time that the new president would definitely support his plan.

　　△ In October 2008, US presidential candidates barack obama and John Romney held a presidential campaign debate at Belmont University in Nashville.

　　Because one month before the 2008 US presidential election, when Obama, then a senator from Illinois, was debating with John McCain, also a presidential candidate, at Belmont University in Nashville, he answered the question about whether to hunt down bin Laden:

　　"If we see bin Laden and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to kill him, then we must take action. We will kill bin Laden and smash ‘ Base ’ Organization. "

　　Sure enough, as a supplement to Leon Panetta’s plan to search for bin Laden, Obama stepped up the use of drones for investigation.

　　△ According to the statistics of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a third-party news investigation agency, from 2010 to 2020, the drone bombing launched by the United States has caused about 8,858 to 16,901 deaths, including about 910 to 220 civilians and about 283 to 454 children.

　　In addition to inheriting the search for bin Laden by former President George W. Bush, the Guantanamo prison, which was used to hold terrorists during the Bush era, also played a key role in the future killing of bin Laden.

　　Message from Guantanamo prison in August 2010

　　Guantanamo prison, located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Before 2002, the prison was basically used to accommodate Cuban and Haitian refugees who tried to sneak into the United States by sea. After the "September 11" incident in 2001, it was changed to a prison for accepting and interrogating terrorists. Restricted by the US Constitution, it is impossible to torture suspects in the United States.

　　△ The movie "Hunting Bin Laden" restored the scene in which the CIA waterboarded the detainees.

　　At Guantanamo Bay, because the US considers terrorists to be "illegal combatants", they do not enjoy any rights stipulated in the Geneva Convention, and American personnel can interrogate detainees in various ways. Since the opening of Guantanamo prison, various reports about torture by American intelligence personnel have been flowing out.

　　△ CIA documents show that the United States has secret interrogation and detention centers in many countries around the world. A secret document of the CIA shows that there is a detention center code-named "Black Field".

　　According to the documents from the CIA, in addition to Guantanamo prison, the United States has set up secret interrogation and detention centers in many countries and regions around the world for anti-terrorism operations. One of the secret interrogation bases, known as the "black field", first leaked news about bin Laden’s messenger in 2002.

　　△ The Week quoted Jose Rodriguez, the chief operating officer of CIA, as saying that the messenger of bin Laden was a Kuwaiti.

　　Abu Ahmed Kuwait — — Bin Laden’s Messenger — — The name that the CIA has been searching for has been confirmed in Guantanamo and the interrogation base set up by the CIA in Pakistan. Until August 2010, Leon Panetta, then director of the CIA, personally confirmed the whereabouts of the messenger in Peshawar, Pakistan.

　　In May 2011, the cement compound in Abbottabad

　　Through the information obtained in various interrogation bases before, the US intelligence department has strengthened the monitoring of the cell phone signal of bin Laden’s messenger. In August 2010, the CIA tracked a white SUV from Peshawar, Pakistan to Abbottabad, north of the capital Islamabad. In the detailed account, a white rhinoceros is painted on the spare tire cover hanging from the rear of the SUV.

　　△ Structural Diagram of Cement Compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan

　　According to documents disclosed by the CIA, the SUV stopped outside a compound with a three-story building with a concrete fence and barbed wire about 5.5 meters high. There is no telephone or internet connection in this compound. The observation report of the CIA for several days shows that the residents of this compound don’t even throw garbage, but burn it centrally in the hospital. Through outdoor drying clothes, the CIA judged that there were three households in the building, but only two of them went in and out of the compound every day.

　　At the end of October, 2010, then US President Barack Obama, based on the investigation report submitted by then CIA Director Leon Panetta, made him start to cooperate with all parties to design a military action plan for the compound. From the end of October 2010, the action plan was designed and officially implemented on May 1, 2011. In half a year, in order to ensure the smooth operation of killing bin Laden, the US military rebuilt a concrete wall compound for training in the forest of North Carolina. However, the action report disclosed by the United States shows that there was a huge flaw in the initial helicopter carrying the US airborne compound.

　　△ Schematic diagram of the American Black Hawk helicopter that nearly crashed when the tail of the helicopter hit the concrete wall during the operation.

　　At about 4: 00 am local time on May 1, 2011, the first Black Hawk helicopter that was supposed to hover in the compound and be delivered to the US military by ropes, just arrived at the compound, and the rotor at the tail scraped the concrete wall. In order to prevent the helicopter from rolling over, the pilot inserted the nose straight into the ground and landed in the compound in a near-crash way. After witnessing this situation, the pilot of another helicopter immediately gave up the plan of hovering on the roof and landed outside the courtyard wall.

　　△ Satellite image of cement compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan

　　The accident that the Black Hawk helicopter fell to the ground disturbed the people around it, making the planned surprise attack meaningless. In the end, according to the report of the US military, this military operation successfully killed bin Laden. The body was wrapped in a white shroud, put into a bag and finally thrown into the sea.

　　2015 US Media Survey: Another "Saving Private Lynch"

　　As for the actions of the US military in the building, the US side has various versions. One of the most dramatic is that the US military said that bin Laden pushed his wife in front of him as a human shield. Another version is that after discovering bin Laden, the US military was resisted by bin Laden, and finally bin Laden was killed in the crossfire.

　　△ The New York Times published an investigation and analysis report on the mystery of bin Laden’s death in October 2015, "Do we really know the death of bin Laden? 》

　　However, after these news quickly spread around the world, the White House and the military corrected their statements one after another. On the evening of May 2, 2011, Jay Carney, the then White House spokesman, made an erratum to the details of the previous action of hunting bin Laden. First, he said that he did not carry weapons when he died, and then clarified that he did not use his wife as a human shield. The White House said that the difference from the details released the day before was due to "too much information and too hasty preparation".

　　In the analysis and investigation conducted by The New York Times and the London Review of Books in 2015, there were discrepancies in the details of bin Laden’s death, from the very beginning when various sources obtained the information of the so-called "bin Laden Messenger" to the final burial of bin Laden’s body at sea.

　　△ On May 21, 2015, the London Review of Books published a survey of bin Laden’s death by Seymour M. Hersh, a well-known investigative journalist, and pointed out that there were a lot of flaws in the explanation of relevant events by the US government.

　　The United States carried out a massive military operation in the form of almost crashing a helicopter. The news disclosed by the media showed that bin Laden had a fierce resistance, but the official information was inconsistent, and it was difficult to confirm what actions bin Laden took in the final stage. It was obvious that there was a chance to capture bin Laden alive, but the US military directly killed him. The White House and the military’s contradictory statements on the details of the operation and the final handling of bin Laden’s body at sea ….. all these make the death of bin Laden foggy.

　　△ According to The New York Times’s report on May 4th, 2011, Obama’s personal support rate rose from 46% last month to 57% after then US President Barack Obama announced the successful killing of bin Laden.

　　But no matter which version, the American troops in the story are portrayed as a group of dead men who have gone and never returned. Such narrative methods and routines make people familiar with the history of American journalism inevitably not think of Lynch, the "heroine" deliberately created by the American government during the Iraq war.

　　△ jessica lynch, an American female soldier, was ambushed and captured while serving in Iraq in March 2003. The American government deliberately portrayed Lynch’s story as a "fighting hero who refused to surrender". After investigation by many American media, it was found that all the stories about jessica lynch were untrue stories made up by the US military.

　　The 20-year trauma of Afghanistan War in 2021

　　On May 1, 2011, then US President Barack Obama announced that it has been 10 years since the United States successfully killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. According to a statistic from Brown University, as of mid-April this year, at least 47,245 Afghan civilians have been killed in the war since 2001. The war also killed 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers.

　　△ Washington post reported on April 30, 2021 that former US President Barack Obama explained the significance of the hunt for bin Laden.

　　Ten years later, in 2021, Obama, who had left the presidency, appeared again to explain the significance of the action of hunting bin Laden.

　　Unlike 10 years ago, Obama no longer needs to face the test of a second term. In the face of his decision to continue the war in Afghanistan and kill bin Laden when he was in power ten years ago, Obama seems to remember those American soldiers who died in Afghanistan. However, the fact is that the war in Afghanistan since 2001 has caused 2,442 American soldiers to be killed, 20,666 injured and more than 3,800 American security contractors killed.

　　When the United States continues to face downward economic pressure and domestic public opinion is increasingly opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both former President Trump and current President Biden threatened to let the US troops leave Afghanistan in the 2020 general election. It was not until April 29th this year that the White House confirmed that American troops had begun to leave Afghanistan, and the war in Afghanistan, which lasted from 2001 to the present, came to an end with American troops leaving Afghanistan.

　　However, Obama seems to have forgotten that on January 22, 2009, the third day after he took over as president, Guantanamo prison, which had requested to be closed as soon as possible, still holds more than 40 people.

　　Producer: Lu Yi

　　Producer Zhao Xinyu?

　　Editor-in-Chief: Cui Yi

　　Editor Jin Lvcheng