I'm waiting for AQ to get a picture of OBL and do the Clutch Cargo "talking lips" routine on him.
Posted on 09/11/2004 3:11:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 09/11/2004 3:19:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Karachi, Sept. 11 (NNN): Three years on from his outfit’s most deadly attacks as the world still hunts for the Saudi rebel, Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid has indicated that Al-Qaeda terror network kingpin Osama bin Laden may be dead.
Addressing Meet the Press at Karachi Press Club on the eve of third anniversary of September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, the minister, however, pointed out that around 200-300 foreign militants were hiding in Wana who are ‘master planners’ as they had got enough training in Afghanistan.
“We are not averse to dialogue but we would give bullet to bullet reply in Wana and Balochistan also,” Sheikh Rashid declared. “If we had not started operation in Wana, the US would have done this and think what would have happened then,” the minister asked.
He said that militants may go to other areas or cities but the forces would move there also as the government was determined to eliminate terrorism.
The minister hinted that the government was about to take ‘very important decisions’ regarding water, ties with India and terrorism.
“For bold decisions, bold man was imperative,” the minister said in an apparent reference to Gen. Pervez Musharraf, claiming that the 17th Amendment allows Gen. Pervez Musharraf to occupy the both offices of President and Chief of Army Staff simultaneously.
Widening Threat: Meanwhile, most analysts believe there is a danger in laying too much emphasis on al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden alone when the reality of growing terrorism is more complex - and perhaps more dangerous.
Undoubtedly that the core of al-Qaeda has been disrupted. It has lost its secure sanctuary and training camps in Afghanistan and is finding it harder to organise and communicate under pressure.
The core of hardened veterans has been hit hard in the past three years.
In his New York convention speech on September 2, 2004, President George Walker Bush declared that American strategy was succeeding and that "more than three-quarters of al-Qaeda's key members and associates have been detained or killed".
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Osama is still dead.
If we get enough inside people to cooperate, we could psychologically wear them down. No civilian casualties, dead soldiers or front-page "martyrs" for the inflammatory Arab Media. Sure, the "legacy" may live on, but it would get harder and harder for them to find someone to fill the just-emptied shoes of these fanatic losers.
Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid has indicated that Al-Qaeda terror network kingpin Osama bin Laden may be dead... "If we had not started operation in Wana, the US would have done this and think what would have happened then," the minister asked... The minister hinted that the government was about to take ‘very important decisions’ regarding water, ties with India and terrorism... most analysts believe there is a danger in laying too much emphasis on al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden alone when the reality of growing terrorism is more complex - and perhaps more dangerous....but not the "analysts" within the Demagogic Party.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
He probably met his 72 before the assault on Tora Bora. The Indian and Chinese press separately reported information that 2 of his guards had killed him and Omar and then died in the subsequent shootout. Each tape that has appeared since has been initially shown to be a fake (or one shot before the war) by our own government experts who have then shut up about it and subsequently spoken as if the tapes were real without actually saying that they are real. The press are the ones who have claimed government authentification and the government does not deny it-doesnt say anything.
The initial take on the tape was that it was of too poor a quality to authenticate. After that the government left it up to the press to make of it what they would. And they did. Bin laden alive sells more product for a far longer time than OBL dead. It is good for the Nertwork News.
Maybe in several very small zip-locs.
What say we market some shirts like this and make a million?
Could you superimpose a red star in the center of the cap, between the mouse ears?
He's not dead, he's in a cave typing memos about the President's ANG service.
LOL
He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords!
He's slab surfing. He's doing the lawn limbo. He's worm food.
I'm convinced we got him Dec 2001. 40 Jdam's to a single coodinate in mountains indicates an important target.
>>>"Bring us his head.">>>>
How about a grease spot? Would you settle for a grease spot?
I personally find it hard to believe that bin Laden would not do a verifiably contemporary video if he were able to do so. That leads me to believe he's incapacitated in some way.
Unfortunately, if he is dead, it's highly unlikely we'll ever find his body.
I'm waiting for AQ to get a picture of OBL and do the Clutch Cargo "talking lips" routine on him.
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