The latest "investigative" reportage
of Seymour Hersh about US President Barack Obama's version of Osama Bin
Laden's assassination in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad has
raised more questions than answers. Washington's official version of
OBL's liquidation was reminiscent of the cover-up story about the arrest
of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein years ago.
Later, the US narrative was contradicted. Whether true or otherwise,
both high profile events fuel scepticism about the stories the world's
sole superpower tries to sell to the world. Both journalists and the
general public remain hungry for credible accounts of such episodes.
Like Saddam's arrest, Washington opted to mislead and misinform
the world about the circumstances relating to OBL's eventual
elimination through a clandestine marine operation. Ironically, many
established journalists get lured into creating fiction or reporting
hearsay as the "inside story".
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Taking advantage of the absence of a credible account, overly
ambitious journalists blend heavy doses of their own imagination with
anonymous sources.
