A former U.S. official has lambasted President Barack Obama's story that a Navy SEALs team had killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011, claiming that the al-Qaeda leader had died ten years earlier in December 2001 from renal failure and other health concerns.

To date, not a single shred of evidence has backed the Obama administration's claims, according to an article titled "Another Fake Bin Laden Story" by Paul Craig Roberts, a former U.S. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary. Roberts insists the fake story is propaganda intended to show Obama in a more favorable light and subvert any challenges for a nomination for a second term.

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Maintaining that bin Laden died of renal failure in 2001, Roberts referred to obituaries of bin Laden that appeared in various media, including Fox News.

There was no dialysis machine found in Abbottabad, where the SEALs had supposedly killed him a decade after his obituary appeared. Besides, no one could have survived such a health condition for so long, Roberts said.

He added that none of ship's crew - from where the White House claimed officials had buried bin Laden's remains at sea - had witnessed any such burial, regardless of the constant monitoring typically conducted aboard a ship of that size.

Moreover, the White House changed its story twice in the first 24 hours since the alleged raid, Roberts said.

The claim that the government had been watching the action streamed directly from the SEALs camera helmets was ditched in spite of a previously-released photo showing U.S. officials watching the action intently in front of a screen.

In Roberts' article, witness accounts taken by various Pakistani media suggested that the sole helicopter that had landed in bin Laden's compound had blown up on takeoff. There had been no survivors.

Additionally, BBC interviews of residents in the area, including those beside the alleged compound, claimed they knew who lived there and that it wasn't bin Laden.

In August 2011, 30 U.S. military personnel were killed in eastern Afghanistan after rebels shot down their helicopter. At the time, media reports claimed 25 of the 30 dead were Navy SEALs from the same team that conducted the May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden.

Roberts posits the notion that the mysterious deaths of the Navy SEALs team allegedly responsible for killing bin Laden were carried out by the U.S. government to tie up loose ends.

"The reason the SEALs team was prevented from talking is that no member of the team was on the alleged mission," Roberts wrote, adding that anyone who believes a thing the government says is "gullible" beyond words.

Meanwhile, Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claims to have killed bin Laden, said it doesn't matter if people believe him or not, CNN relayed.

But the fact that classified intel has been publicized raises the question of credibility and goes against an unspoken military rule of not seeking attention for one's service.

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