Bin Laden 'boxed in' by US soldiers

The Weekend Australian ^ | 22 February 2004 | The Sunday Mail (Qld)

[Izzy Dunne]

I can't wait for our Forces to bring this bastard in.

But Bush is just waiting until the right time to do that, for maximum political effect, dontcha know...
< /sarcasm>

[HighWheeler]

Osama bin Laden is Already Dead (since Ocotber 7, 2001)

[cake_crumb]

Really? D@MN. I was so hoping he was dead. If this isn't one of his lookalikes, let's pray he's killed in the action and that none of our forces are.

[Redcloak]

He took the picture.

[syriacus]

BBC News, about Quetta, two weeks after 9/11

Tuesday, 25 September, 2001, 23:46 GMT 00:46 UK The wild border town of Quetta

At least 10,000 Afghan refugees are waiting on the Afghan border near the Pakistani town of Quetta - a place which bristles with weapons and struggles with grinding poverty, writes BBC News Online's Daniel Lak. [snip]

Quetta is, and has been, a rough town. Its ethnic and tribal fault lines are often violent.

On the main Jinnah Avenue, Bata shoe shops and jewellers advertising Rolex watches sit alongside arms and ammunition dealers, each emporium of death replete with a contingent of turbaned tribesmen checking out the merchandise.
Quetta is awash with weapons [snip] Kandahar, just 200 km (125 miles) away over the Afghan border, . [snip]

Even so, a young man did confront me, wanting to know if I thought Osama Bin Laden was behind the World Trade Center bombings, and whether the US would provide proof of that. [snip]
A government official had told me earlier that Bin Laden had a following in Quetta: "He is very popular here." [snip]

Around the corner from the posh Serena Hotel, now overflowing with international media, is the local office of Al Rashid Trust, the charity whose bank accounts were frozen by President George W Bush for alleged links with Bin Laden.
A lurid sign hangs over the door, a painting of one hand gripping a sword, another with a Holy Koran.

[HEY4QDEMS]

The article goes on to say bin Laden's movements are continually monitored by a US National Security Agency satellite positioned over the land in which the wealthy Saudi is trapped.

Stationary orbit is around 26000 miles. There is no way ground images can be taken at that distance.

Recon satellites operate at a low orbit and therefore cannot "position" themselves over any area.

I'll wait until I hear this from a US news source before I give any weight to a story that only gives amunition to that fat slob Michael Moore.

[The Great RJ]

Capture of Osama (dead or alive)= Bush landslide

[My2Cents]

Thank you, Weekend Australian, for announcing it.

[frithguild]

It's Bush's fault.

[Paleo Conservative]

I'll be glad when he's boxed in one of these.

[kcar]

Just suspicious - since this has been reported - is this laying the predicate for either:

Bush let him slip away AGAIN!? (Maybe his connection with the Saudis), or...

He coulda had him anytime. Playing politics with security?

I don't trust anything during a presidential election year.

[My2Cents]

Four initials: MOAB

[COEXERJ145]

Drag him out, inform him of the crimes he of which he is guilty, execute him, and place his head on a pike as a warning to future terrorists.

[Mr_Slippery]

...if he is caught, the Democrats will say he wasn't much of a threat anymore because he was boxed in, and they will start pointing at North Korea as being the real danger to America.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Saddam... check. Osama... check. Ill...check please. :)

[Mr. Mojo]

if he is caught, the Democrats will say he wasn't much of a threat anymore because he was boxed in, and they will start pointing at North Korea as being the real danger to America.

It doesn't matter what they say -- they have pat responses for any eventuality. If we find Saddam's WMD they'll either suggest the administration had them (or knew where they were) all along and was merely waiting for the politically expedient opportunity to present them to the electorate, or they'll say that Saddam posed no threat to us even with those weapons and the loss off American lives wasn't worth the trouble (and cost) of the war. And they'll say that we willfully ignored other much hotter spots - like No. Korea, as you mentioned - just so that Dubya could take care of a personal vendetta on Saddam ......and to make an oil grab for Cheney's good buddies at Halliburton, of course.

In regard to bin Laden, the Rats will drone on and on about how we would've doubtlessly caught him a long time ago had the President devoted our resources to doing so (rather than concentrating solely on his revenge mission in Iraq).

Luckily most Americans won't buy their BS.

[Kaslin]

Already posted.

Where? I just did a search and didn't see another thread with the same title

[null and void]

A tyrant a year. That's all we ask...

[TexasCajun]

Catch him alive and shave his beard for his long waited perp-walk!
Then fry him in a US electric chair!
...sounds like good news.

[ServesURight]

Bin Laden 'surronded'

[Capt. Tom]

Osama bin Laden is Already Dead (since Ocotber 7, 2001)

That's not possible. Mansoor Ijaz's unimpeachable sources has seen him recently in Iran,

Both al-Qaida leaders are disguised, Ijaz said. Bin Laden, has shaved his head bald and is wearing a shorter beard that is dyed to make him look more like an Iranian cleric. He also has put on a considerable amount of weight.