{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Steve Sailer: iSteve: \"What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden\"", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/80143154855/", "html": "<a href=\"http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-pakistan-knew-about-bin-laden.html\">Steve Sailer: iSteve: \"What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden\"</a>\n<p>I guess conspiracy theories are Sailer&rsquo;s new hobbyhorse. Fair enough. People like the 9/11 truthers are kind of ridiculous, but after all, the <em>official</em> story of 9/11 was \u201cthis was a grand conspiracy organized by a reclusive mastermind hidden out in a secret mountain lair in the middle of nowhere\u201d.<br/><br/>Anyway, my personal conspiracy theory (geopolitical headcanon, if you will) is that Osama bin Laden was never killed; he was instead captured and taken to his own <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena#British_rule_.281815.E2.80.931821.29_and_Napoleon.27s_exile\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Helena</a> on one of the more obscure <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands\" target=\"_blank\">American Pacific islands</a>, where every morning (Islamic holy days excepted) a kindly interrogator comes in with mint tea and almonds, plays chess with him, and gently prods the former CIA asset to tell his story.<br/><br/>I have no evidence for this whatsoever; I believe it for the same reason anyone believes in conspiracy theories - the secret hope the world is actually being run by someone halfway competent.</p>"}