"I knew Bin Laden's Chechen guards very well," Berkan Yashar, himself an ethnic Chechen, told the Russian TV station, Channel One. "Samy, Ayub and Mahmud were with him right to the end. I remember well this date as there were three sixes in it - June 26, 2006. Those three men, as well as two Muslims from London and two from the US saw Bin Laden dead. He was seriously ill before his death. He faded away to skin and bone. The three Chechens washed his body before burying it."
Yashar also said that on the eve of May 2, when President Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed, the Americans found only Bin Laden's grave near the Afghan-Pakistani border and staged an operation.
According to Yashar, US special forces started hunting Bin Laden's Chechen guards after Bin Laden's death was first announced at a conference in Washington in November 2008. The last of them, Samy, was taken by the American special forces a few days before Bin Laden was officially pronounced dead. Berkan Yashar believes Samy could have told them the exact place of burial.
Answering why he had decided to speak to the Russian channel, Berkan Yashar said that after all the recent developments he feared for his life.
As readers of this site may know there has been at least one other allegation from "someone who should know" that the recent Bin Laden killing was a hoax.
For some time now, Alex Jones has been quoting physician Steve R. Pieczenik, a former government consultant and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, that he knew from CIA sources that Bin Laden had Marfan Syndrome and could not have survived past the end of 2001.
Another talk show regular has been reporting that his CIA contacts told him that Bin Laden died in early 2002. Now this guy, also ex-CIA, tells us it was 2006.
So the CIA is sure he died of natural causes, but not sure when.
And we are also told that the CIA was instrumental in this latest Bin Laden "death."
So all that is clear to me, besides it being almost a sure bet that Bin Laden is by now really deceased, is that the CIA has been trying to control the "spin" on the Bin Laden story ever since they acquired him as an asset (Tim Osman) in 1986.
But the CIA is a kind of group dramatization of a psychopath - will tell any lie necessary to accomplish what it wants. So why should we count on any "facts" that cite the CIA as their source?
Seems to me they lost their credibility decades ago.