Police State Kicks Into Overdrive On Dubious News of Osama Takedown

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 2, 2011

As expected, the unverified assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has led to increased police state activity in the United States.

On Monday, the NYPD flooded the city's subway system with additional cops. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "out of an abundance of caution," said it has added more police at airports, the George Washington Bridge and ground zero, according to NBC New York.

An influx of storm troopers were apparent to riders on the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in the nation's capitol. Transit police, along with other law enforcement in the area, have increased security "as a precautionary measure related to the death of bin Laden," according to Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein.

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray urged people in and around the nation's capital to "pay more attention than they normally do" and "just be vigilant at this stage."

Amtrak has dispatched canine teams and squads of officers trained to detect the presence of fumes left behind after someone passes through with an explosive device, the San Francisco Chronicle reports this morning.

In Los Angeles, police have begun increasing patrols of religious institutions and other potential terrorist targets, according to Politico. "We are somewhat concerned about any retaliation because of his [bin Laden's] death," Deputy Police Chief Mike Downing said on Sunday night.

The government insists the unverified assassination will increase terror attacks and it must redouble its efforts against al-Qaeda, the terror group named after the Mujahideen database.

Secretary of State Clinton declared that the "battle to stop al-Qaeda and its syndicate of terror" is not over and said the U.S. would continue to boost its counterterrorism cooperation with other nations, including Pakistan, USA Today reports.

Rep. Pete King, head of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on Monday that al-Qaeda will "try to avenge this death" and warned "we'll have to be on full alert."

In other words, the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and now Libya will continue while at home the threat of al-Qaeda retaliation will be used to expand Gestapo zones from airports to the streets and beyond.

If another false flag event is accomplished, the urgency to impose a police state and completely destroy the Bill of Rights and any remaining vestige of liberty will reach a fever pitch with throngs of blood-thirsty citizens calling hysterically for totalitarian rule in America.

Mainstream Media Blames Fake OBL Photo Used By Mainstream Media On "Conspiracy Theorists"

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 2, 2011

The London Guardian has suggested that the fake image used by several British mainstream media websites this morning on their front pages was the work of "conspiracy theorists" who claimed it was genuine.

The Guardian notes that the image was used by the Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites, who picked it up from an online news site. The image was removed by the newspapers after it became apparent that it was a fake that had been online for over two years.

"Since then, however, the image has been claimed as genuine on a number of conspiracy forums and used to substantiate claims that the terrorist responsible for the 9/11 bombings had been killed." Guardian writer Amelia Hill states.

Hill provides no link to the forums she is referring to, or the "conspiracy theorists" that suggested it was genuine.

The Guardian's live blog speculated whether the image was real when it was first used this morning, where as this website, Prisonplanet.com, the "conspiracy theorists", immediately reported it to be completely fake.

Indeed, after we reported it was fake, the news spread like wildfire on Twitter and led directly to the removal of the image by all the mainstream sources that had used it.

The image is a crude photoshop composite of two different images. The composite has been used in several articles over the past two years, the very purpose of many of which was to highlight the fact that multiple experts and credible figures were on record as believing Bin Laden to be already long dead.

This sorry saga once again demonstrates how the corporate dinosaur media has been completely surpassed by the alternative media and the new social media.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government says they have pictures of Bin Laden's body and are considering whether and when to release them. According to The Los Angeles Times:

During the operation, a photo of his face was transmitted to analysts, who confirmed the identification.

According to Pentagon officials, photos of Bin Laden's dead face do exist but those widely distributed on the Internet are fake. At some point, if only to convince die-hard Bin Laden followers, officials are expected to release a corpse photo, as has been done in the past when famous villains such as Che Guevara and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were killed or captured. Additionally, such special ops are typically videotaped by mini-helmet cams to document a sensitive mission and assist in debriefing and future training.