Bin Laden’s Death: Medvedev ‘questions’ US account
Russian President question Washington’s account of how al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by special US forces.
MOSCOW:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday appeared to question Washington’s account of how al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by special US forces in Pakistan this month. Medvedev turned to a reporter from state-run Channel One television, during a press briefing, and asked him about an interview the channel ran the previous evening with a man from Turkey who claimed to have been a former CIA agent. The Turkish man claimed Bin Laden had died of natural causes in 2006 and that the US Navy SEALs had simply found and opened the terror mastermind’s grave. “Today on the internet, I saw a piece of your interview with some citizen who told a very interesting story about Bin Laden. Is it true? No?” Medvedev asked without a hint of a smile. “According to him, yes,” the state television reporter responded. “In that case, that should make the Americans sit up,” Medvedev said.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2011.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday appeared to question Washington’s account of how al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by special US forces in Pakistan this month. Medvedev turned to a reporter from state-run Channel One television, during a press briefing, and asked him about an interview the channel ran the previous evening with a man from Turkey who claimed to have been a former CIA agent. The Turkish man claimed Bin Laden had died of natural causes in 2006 and that the US Navy SEALs had simply found and opened the terror mastermind’s grave. “Today on the internet, I saw a piece of your interview with some citizen who told a very interesting story about Bin Laden. Is it true? No?” Medvedev asked without a hint of a smile. “According to him, yes,” the state television reporter responded. “In that case, that should make the Americans sit up,” Medvedev said.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2011.