Dozens of Al Qaeda Surrender Near Where Afghan Commander Claims to Have Found Bin Laden's Cave

FOXNEWS ^ | Saturday, December 15, 2001

[JohnHuang2]

TORA BORA, Afghanistan

[JohnHuang2]

The 'True Believers'

Despite the optimism in the media on Thursday that Osama Bin Laden had likely slipped into neighboring Pakistan, the growing empirical evidence suggests the sanguinesness was premature.

Data gleaned from U.S. surveillance drones and enemy radio and satellite communications intercepts strongly indicate the terror mastermind is still ensconced inside the cave complex of Tora Bora. In fact, Saturday's Washington Times reports that Special Operations ground forces reportedly overheard Bin Laden's characteristic voice over Walkie-Talkie radio, issuing orders to the hundreds of Saudi, Chechen and Pakistani terrorists battling the anti-Taliban Eastern Alliance in the rugged mountains of the region.

On Thursday, a bulletin posted on the Christian Science Monitor website purported to show the world's most wanted fugitive had already fled to Pakistan. The "report", based on dubious sources, has since been thoroughly discredited.

While nothing is etched in stone, U.S. commanders are growing increasingly confident that the clock is ticking on Bin Laden, the diabolical monster responsible for the most deadly act of domestic terrorism ever perpetrated on American soil.

The mounting evidence apparently has not dissuaded the 'true believers' in the least, however. William Arkin, "senior" military "analyst" for MSNBC (and perennial pessimist), last night boldly predicted on Hardball that Osama Bin Laden will never be captured. Michael Griffin, author of Reaping the Whirlwind, also appearing on Hardball, lightly dismissed the bombing over Tora Bora as a waste of time, since -- according to him -- Bin Laden had long ago skipped to Kandahar.

Gee, if only our CIA and military heeded the vastly superior intelligence collection and analytical prowess of Arkin and Griffin, why, Osama would long ago have been nabbed.

</sarcasm>

The powerful urge the media feels to pooh-pooh the chances of Bin Laden's capture assumes an almost religious-like fervor. It stems from their delusional fixation to that aura, that image, that inscrutable mystique they themselves have cultivated around Osama Bin Laden -- the "legend" in their own minds. Essentially, the media kooks are enthralled and enchanted by a myth of their own making.

In their fantasies, Bin Laden is bigger than life itself, immune from armies, from bullets, from bombs, from Gatling guns. Their make-believe world can not countenance Bin Laden being tricked or outmaneuvered by the "enemy".

And if -- IF -- by chance fate should catch up with him, still he dies the death of a "martyr"; in their eyes, he remains 'unbowed and undefeated' -- at all times, firmly in control of his "destiny". From whence the flurry of OBL "suicide" stories came, none of them confirmed.

To the sickos in the media, whether he lives or he dies in the end, he's still the victor.

Hyperbole, you say?

I say, stay tuned.

My two cents..
"JohnHuang2"

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

Personally, I don't think any of them should be taken alive. They will only be out on the lose again and do the same thing. Remember Mike Spann.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, John! I say time to drop the BIG one now!:

[JohnHuang2]

Agree with you 1000%.

[JohnHuang2]

You mean, an underground nuclear test? ;^)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Chama. That's my fav :) Nice pic.

[MeekOneGOP]

Personally, I don't think any of them should be taken alive. They will only be out on the lose again and do the same thing. Remember Mike Spann.

Yes, and since you brought it up. . .

CIA officer Mike Spann, in this undated family photo, is the first American known to be killed in combat in Afghanistan. Johnny ``Mike'' Spann, 32, who entered the Marine Corps and then joined the CIA in June 1999, was killed in action during a prison riot at Mazar-e-Sharif. His body was recovered Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 the CIA said, without providing details on the circumstances of Spann's death. (AP Photo/Family Photo via the CIA)

[MeekOneGOP]

You mean, an underground nuclear test? ;^)

LOL! Yeah. In this case, let's call it Roachbusters! !

[MinuteGal]

The immature presstitutes have romantic Scarlet Pimpernel fantasies in their heads about Bin Laden. "He's here, he's there, he's everywhere, that damned elusive Pimpernel".

Hey, that would make a great Mark Twain-like novel, "The Press Pimps and the Pimpernel".

Leni

[JohnHuang2]

Yeah. In this case, let's call it Roachbusters! !

Heck yeah! Why not? hehe

[JohnHuang2]

hehehe - excellent! =^)

[eureka!]

"Despite the optimism in the media on Thursday that Osama Bin Laden had likely slipped into neighboring Pakistan"

LOL, sadly. It's just that ratings thing, isn't it? They can't really wish W to fail that bad, can they? /sarcasm

[JohnHuang2]

Hey, good morning to ya, my friend - great to see ya =^)

They can't really wish W to fail that bad, can they?

Nah! Of course not ;^)

[aristeides]

According to the Times of India, the terrorists who attacked the Indian Parliament were planning to take hostages, including members of an international delegation. I think the chances are high this would have been meant to exercise pressure for allowing bin Laden and his confederates to escape. That's the kind of terrorist incident we can expect as long as bin Laden and his people are alive.

Remember, 9/11 occurred a day before 9/12, when the defendants in the embassy bombing trial were scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Lower Manhattan, six blocks from the WTC.

[JohnHuang2]

I think the chances are high this would have been meant to exercise pressure for allowing bin Laden and his confederates to escape. That's the kind of terrorist incident we can expect as long as bin Laden and his people are alive.

Good thinking.

[eureka!]

You too, good sir. Just passing through today--go a heckuva list of honeydo's to tend to. Have a great weekend...

[JohnHuang2]

You have yourself a great weekend, too, my friend.

[Golden Eagle]

You mean, an underground nuclear test? ;^)

Looks like a prime location to me! Merry Christmas Osama, don't say we never gave you nothing.

[JohnHuang2]

Merry Christmas Osama, don't say we never gave you nothing.

LOL!

[angkor]

That's the kind of terrorist incident we can expect as long as bin Laden and his people are alive.

They'd better be looking at the U.N., since DC has become an armed military camp. They wouldn't make it off curbside before being taken out.