Posted on 10/25/2004 2:01:22 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Is Osama bin Laden alive or dead? And if Osama is alive, where is he?
"President Bush knows damn well that (bin Laden) has been dead for quite some time," said former Navy SEAL Matthew Heidt, echoing the sentiments of many in the special operations community.
"(Bin Laden) has not been heard from since Tora Bora despite developments in the Global War on Terror that make it unthinkable for him to remain silent," Heidt said in his web log, "Froggy Ruminations."
The last audiotape purportedly from bin Laden (but not authenticated) was issued on May 7th of this year. But Gregory Djerejian (Belgravia Dispatch), who shares Heidt's view, notes that the last video tapes from bin Laden were made public Oct. 19th and Sept. 11th, 2003. There was nothing on those videotapes which indicates when they were made, and they show a much healthier bin Laden than the gaunt fellow in the videotape released Dec. 26th, 2001, suggesting they were made before then.
JWR contributor Jack Kelly, a former Marine and Green Beret, was a deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration.
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