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Isn’t it that President Barack Obama has a skeleton in his cupboard?
A U.S. serviceman, who took part in Osama Bin Laden’s elimination on May 2, 2011, now intends to publish a book in which he will reveal somedetails of this operation.
However, the news aboutthe book’s possible release was met with great dissatisfaction by the U.S. authorities, both civil and military. The reason is that some details of Bin Laden’s elimination are still kept secret.
The Obama administration quickly took notice of the promise, or threat, by a former US special operations soldier who was in the room when Osama Bin Laden was killed to "set the record straight" in a first-hand and unvetted account of the mission to get the al-Qaida leader to be published just weeks before the presidential election.
Representatives of the Republican Party, of course, used this scandal as another chance to criticize their perpetual opponents, the Democrats. Republicans said that Democrats were trying to create a better image of themselves by reminding to the world once again that it was them, Democrats, who initiated the elimination of the world’s most dreadful terrorist.
The publisher, a subsidiary of Penguin, hassaid little about the book, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, other than thatthe author is a former member of Navy Seal Team Six who "was one of the first men through the door on the third floorof the terrorist leader's hideout and was present at his death".
It promises a "blow-by-blow narrative of the assault" beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended the author's life straight"through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden's death". Penguin said the account is "an essential piece of modern history".
But the book will land in the midst of an election inwhich Republicans, concerned that Bin Laden's death has neutralized attempts to paint Barack Obama as weak on national security,are accusing the presidentof overstating his role in the raid for political advantage.
No Easy Day is to be published under a pen name, Mark Owen. But Fox News said it has established the true identity of the author, naming him and saying he is a 36-year-old from Alaska who also took partin a Seal raid in 2009 that rescued the captain of an American merchant ship seized by Somali pirates. He retired from the military last year.
The book has been a closely held secret in the publishing world, and the announcement that it willbe released on September11, the 11th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on the US, caught the Pentagon and intelligenceservices off guard.
There are strong reasons to suppose that the author of the new book, who does not reveal his name but hides under a pseudonym, may repeat the fate of John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent, who isnow persecuted by the USauthorities after he has disclosed a shocking truthabout the methods of interrogation, which US special services sometimes apply.
John Kiriakou used to be aCIS agent and took part inmany operations, mainly in the Middle East.
In 2010, John Kiriakou published a book titled “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s Waron Terror”, in which he revealed even more abouttortures applied by the CIA to suspects in terrorism. The CIA has tried hard to prevent this book from being published. When it was published after all, the CIAinitiated a lawsuit againstJohn Kiriakou. His case is still being investigated. The man, who was once awarded with a Counterterrorism Service Medal, is now charged of endeavor on national security.
In this connection, the man who hides under the pseudonym of Mark Owenis also playing a very riskygame. Although no lawsuit has been issued against him so far, it may be issued any moment to punish the revealer of unwanted truth.
After all, President Obama’s administration has applied a law on espionage, which was adopted back in 1917 andwhich is still in force, 6 times within the time Mr. Obama has been in power. None of the previous U.S. administrations has applied this law so many times as the current one.
The book’s editors claim that its author, who writes under the pseudonym of Mark Owen, was one of the firstto rush into Bin Laden’s hiding-place several moments before the world’s greatest terrorist was killed, and who witnessed Bin Laden’s death with his own eyes.
Mark Owen has a long record of service in the U.S. special services. However, judging by several previous similar cases, this may not save him from persecutions. The US authorities have already showed several times how intolerant theymay be against those who try to disclose things that the authorities wouldprefer to keep secret, despite President Obama’smultiple words about the need for transparency of the government’s actions and freedom of speech.:->
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