Bin Laden Fearfully Sneaks Out of Hiding

UMList ^ | 30Oct04 | SHZinser

[citadel84]

Leaving OBL alive is actually part of the strategy and a good idea. It is much more effective to attack the mid-level managers and take them out (as we have been doing). This cuts off the control from the top to the bottom so they must continually "pulse" the network to reestablish communications and thus identify the bottom layer.

Two If you take out the top some one from the mid level will rise to the top , there seems no shortage of this.

I like our strategy and it can win.

[cake_crumb]

Whether Binny's alive or dead, it's in the best interests of security to keep him alive, because otherwise the Kerry-ites will declare the entire world war won, call for a massive retreat, and invite more attacks

[xzins]

I've always really liked your idea here, C184.

With bin Laden as an excuse, we can pretty well go any place at any time to do any thing against any group of terrorists.

All we have to say is: "bin Laden sighting."

[xzins]

ping

[chuknospam]

I'm hoping that our web of intel agents & networks spread far & wide have been able to zero in on OBL after this latest tape. I'd love to see GWB put OBL's head on a platter before December.

[finnigan2]

I'm probably alone in thinking this, but I still believe he's dead Jim.
The video didn't convince me. If Robert Downey Junior can be made to look like the spitting image of Charlie Chaplin, then some Pakistani cave dweller in a fake beard can pass as Osama. But what really did it for me was the voice. It had been run through some sort of blender so it could not be matched to any of Osama's old voice tapes. He's still wallpaper paste in Tora Bora.

[xzins]

I agree about the tape and voice. The voice especially was seriously camouflaged. I've yet to see the tape, but if it's another grainy reject with the quality of a 1920's film, then someone needs to question bin Laden's bank account. I can get a video cam with excellent quality at Wal-Mart in the neighborhood of 2 hundred bucks.

[fightu4it]

Rudolph never had the forces hunting for him that are hunting for bin Laden.

[xzins]

I beg to differ....in the initial year he had every law enforcement agency, and the FBI combine in a yard by yard sweep of the entire mountain region.

In our own nation. Our own language. Our own police.

[7.62 x 51mm]

"...cowardly Kuslim scumbag..."

Muslim

[joesbucks]

Despite being on the run, OBL seemed well rested and tanned. His "studio" wasn't a backdrop of rocks, but rather something at least from a civilised area. Jeesh! I bet he's living in West Palm Beach somewhere.

[xzins]

If he's in West Palm, then maybe that's why the hurricane's came whipping through...:>)

He's a loser. Eventually, he's a goner.

[finnigan2]

"I've yet to see the tape, but if it's another grainy reject with the quality of a 1920's film, then someone needs to question bin Laden's bank account."

- I only saw about 15 seconds of the Osama tape but was struck by his lack of movement and the grainy quality of the picture. His lips barely moved behind his beard and the rest of him resembled a Weekend At Bernie's beach outing. After that initial impression, I was struck by the voice disguise.
My guess is that both Parties think it's a fake; the Dems can't say so because their position is that Osama's still alive and so that's all Bush's fault, while the Bush team stays silent because they see Osama's further video threats as voter friendly for them.

[texasbluebell]

I agree.

There's something not quite right in through the nose area, this is probably one of his doubles.

But it doesn't matter in the scheme of things, as long as his followers believe it to be him. He's a symbolic figure at this point.