maybe i'm conspiratorial brained and wrong but as i remember it bin laden had health issues for years and was reported as dead in the early 2000s at one point which i guess everybody just said was bullshit and then obama claimed to kill bin laden in like 2011 or whatever and they released a photoshopped image of his dead body which was confirmed as a photoshopped image of a palestinian iirc merged with some other image of bin laden (i remember seeing the source images) and then they threw his body off a boat and nobody ever saw it again. this is mostly off memory but that's what i remember happening when i cared to pay attention and i'm just highly suspicious that seal team 6 or whatever even did it. but i dont have a better story to offer in it's place so who knows. just all seemed crazy sus. maybe i'll have to look into it again.

edit: didn't see until now that @TankieTanuki posted a link to an article about this. finally, confirmation i'm not going crazy!

ok i'm reading the articles (it references a whole other one) but i also just remembered another thing about this which is wasn't it the seal team 6 raid where they had that photo with hillary and obama in the war room or whatever with hillary covering her mouth? and wasn't that proven to be staged or whatever? and then if i remember correctly, the cameras on the headsets of seal team 6 went out before they entered the compound and there's no footage of them killing bin laden, but that was supposed to be what hillary was watching in awe. anyway, again, just remembering this shit but does anybody else remember this? am i on point here or off base? gotta finish these articles but now i have a flood of questions coming back about this shit lol.

edit: oh yeah!!! then they made a movie about it!! what the fuck!