Posted on 05/01/2003 7:11:52 AM PDT by ewing
I agree with you. The Huge Manatee got OBL some time ago.
If Osama is captured and put on trial, watch for kidnappings, terrorist bombings, etc. in order to free him or pressure the West. You can bet that the Left will mobilize it's Useful Idiots and Hollywood, et al would jump on the bandwagon.
Better that he "was shot while attempting to escape" or just quietly has a 9MM heart attack.
But, but, but, we were focused on Iraq for most of 2002 and the democrats insisted we couldn't pay attention to Al Qaida at the same time! I mean, jeez, we all know the US military can't do two things at once! What's going on here?
This is the one part of the report that I take seriously since it cites a State Department report and not the World Tribune's "sources".
It is amazing to see the difference in management style and accomplishment between an Arkansas law school graduate and a Texan with an Ivy League MBA. One was focused on BS appearances and empty rhetoric, the other on seamless coordination of national security assets.
Ain't that the truth...........
As fun as it would be to see him in chains before a military tribunal, I think you're absolutely right.
DJ Musharraf: Bin Laden May Be Hiding Along Afghan Border 2003-05-01
ISLAMABAD (AP)--Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the rocky stronghold of Pakistan's Islamic hardliners close to the Afghan border, President Pervez Musharraf said in remarks Thursday.
In an interview with a London-based television channel, Musharraf insisted Pakistani forces are doing all they can to track bin Laden down. But he said if the al-Qaida chief was part of a small al-Qaida cell "he can hide anywhere."
"They may be hiding in our tribal areas, but I cannot say with certainty," Musharraf told satellite channel ARY Gold. "Our army is operating there. We have asked tribesmen to tell us if they know anything. The tribesmen have said they will do it."
U.S. and Pakistani officials suspect that bin Laden and many of his top lieutenants survived U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and may have found refuge in Pakistan's ultraconservative tribal belt.
Islamabad insists it is determined to root out terrorists, and this week arrested a Yemeni suspected in both the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as well as the deadly bombing in 2000 of the U.S. destroyer Cole.
But the federal government has only limited control in its fiercely autonomous tribal regions.
The border areas were a staging post for Islamic militants who defeated Afghanistan's Communist rulers in 1982 and for the later Taliban regime, which gave refuge to al-Qaida until their ouster in late 2001. And Islamic hardliners made big gains in the region in October elections.
But Musharraf has shrugged off their opposition to make Pakistan a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, detaining some 450 fugitive al-Qaida and Taliban members, including several top figures.
"We have arrested most of the al-Qaida people," he said in the interview, which was recorded Thursday in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "They were handed over to America because their own governments were not prepared to take them back."
The U.S. also has urged Pakistan to clamp down on Pakistan-based militants fighting in Kashmir, the Himalayan region that Pakistan has contested with India for more than 50 years, and negotiate a settlement.
Musharraf said that an announcement by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee last month that he was ready for new talks on Kashmir was a "good omen."
Pakistan's prime minister, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, this week telephoned Vajpayee to say he was ready to travel to New Delhi or welcome the Indian premier to Islamabad.
"It's a good start. We have always favored talks," he said.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires - 01-05-03 1524GMT
Yeah, but it was only the date. <|:)~
If OBL were captured, it would flash around the world in every news outlet in a matter of minutes after capture. The fact it's only some unknown rag that is reporting this means, simply, he hasn't been captured.
I was not taken in at all. I can't help it if your reading comprehension sucks and you can't decipher the concept of 'imagine'.
Here is what I wrote that led to your over reacting uninstigated slamming of me....
Imagine if W could announce after making a carrier landing on the Lincoln that we had won the war in Iraq AND got Binny?! What will the Rats talk about in their upcoming debates?! LOL
Where in my statement did I state I believe the capture of OBL had in fact happened?
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