In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief.
Strain etched on his face, Barack Obama watched as the raid to kill Osama bin Laden played out on a television in front of him.
According to a new book, however, the President was not nearly that engaged – and was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before the operation began in earnest.
Only then did he down his clubs and return to the White House to watch what he later trumpeted as a great success of his presidency.
A new book claims the official account was riddled with errors
The claims are from Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL team commander, in a book called SEAL Target Geronimo.
He has spoken to several of the men who carried out the operation at Bin Laden’s mansion hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2.
Mr Pfarrer paints a very different picture to the official photo released at the time which shows Mr Obama and advisers huddled round a table in the White House situation room as footage was beamed from a drone 15,000ft above the al-Qaeda leader’s mansion.
Mr Pfarrer says the President’s role was largely inflated and suggests he stayed out on the golf course for so long so he could distance himself in case it went wrong. Mr Pfarrer writes: ‘If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow.’
He says the White House photographs did not show the moment that Bin Laden was killed, but the moment a helicopter went down, which happened after the shooting.
Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEAL Osama Bin Laden mission | Mail Online
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I don’t know who the Navy Seals “killed” in the Pakistan raid nearly a year ago, but it certainly was not Osama bin Laden, who, according to numerous news reports, died of complications from kidney failure in December 2001 (he was undergoing kidney dialysis at the time). Bin Laden was kept alive purposely for these many years as a bogeyman to scare the American public. Then when Obama needed a bounce in the polls, he and his enablers decided to stage a raid to kill the dead bin Laden again, a tricky achievement, indeed.
There’s a reason, we never saw bin Laden’s corpse. There’s a reason it was dumped at sea. There’s a reason he was not captured alive. He had been dead for nearly 10 years.
Three months after they killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan and cemented their place in military legend, the SEALs suffered a devastating loss when nearly two dozen of the elite troops were among 30 Americans who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan early Saturday.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/06/world/la-fg-afghanistan-chopper-20110807
They knew the truth and were killed .Troublesome witnesses?
Real or not, Obama will be beating his chest about bin Laden ad nauseum during the campaign.
There are worse possibilities about this guy, Be sure to play this video;
http://patriotupdate.com/22077/obama-changed-his-name-in-canada
and
http://www.infowars.com/arizona-law-hot-on-the-trail-of-obamas-documents/
It would be ilegaal to hire him to pick tomatoes.
Infowars, really? Pick any site, just not Infowars. That site is run by Alex Jones, who is a paranoid conspiracy theorist. SMH.