Paul Craig Roberts is at it again, spreading outrageous conspiracy theories as he desperately tries to portray the Navy SEALs’ daring raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound as a story full of lies.   
Roberts source? A “sensational and explosive TV report” by the official Pakistani News Agency, which, of course, is linked to a government that failed to detect Osama for several years and failed to detect U.S.military helicopters in their air space for several hours.
Roberts, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, breathlessly writes that Pakistani TV secured an interview with an eyewitness to the U.S. “attack” on the “alleged” compound of Osama bin Laden. The eyewitness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded.
Of the three helicopters, “there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he (the helicopter) was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.” The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. “We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing.”
Of course, no other person in the neighborhood saw any of this. In fact, no one reported seeing anything remotely like the gruesome scene that this witness described.
Roberts, as you may expect, accepts the story in its entirety.
Writing on on a 9/11 “truthers” web site, the conspiracy theorist said this:
“I always wondered how a helicopter could crash, as the White House reported, without at least producing injuries. Yet, in the original White House story, the SEALs not only survived a 40-minute firefight with al-Qaida — ‘the most highly trained, most dangerous, most vicious killers on the planet’ — without a scratch, but also survived a helicopter crash without a scratch.
“If the (Pakistani) interview is not a hoax and the translation is correct, we now know the answer to the unasked question: Why was there no White House ceremony with President Obama pinning medals all over the heroic SEALs who tracked down and executed Public Enemy No.1?” 
Why? Because, you clown, the SEALs are special forces that work very hard at keeping their identities and their missions secret. How did you miss that part of the story, Mr. Roberts, and when will you stop trying to tarnish the commando’s successful operation?

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