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'Bring me the head of Bin Laden'
BBC NEWS ^ | May 4, 2005

Posted on 07/06/2005 10:03:36 AM PDT by robowombat

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1 posted on 07/06/2005 10:03:36 AM PDT by robowombat
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"Capture Bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box on dry ice," he quoted Cofer Black as saying.
As for other leaders of Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan, Mr Black reportedly said: "I want their heads up on pikes."

I'm not seein' the downside here.

2 posted on 07/06/2005 10:07:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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He says he is surprised that the CIA has still not managed to track down Bin Laden after nearly four years.

You and me both.
3 posted on 07/06/2005 10:07:35 AM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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wow.. i think i LIKE that guy. "i want their heads up on pikes" can we vote HIM for pres? or at least get him secretary of defense, maybe director of INS.


4 posted on 07/06/2005 10:09:21 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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As for other leaders of Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan, Mr Black reportedly said: "I want their heads up on pikes."

Vlad the Impaler would be so proud.


5 posted on 07/06/2005 10:09:59 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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No surprise - they don't consider him an important target, for some strange reason.

Bring his head to NYC in a box, and put it on a pike in front of Ground Zero.


6 posted on 07/06/2005 10:10:48 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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you're not seein' the downside because there isn't one. My first thought on reading this article was, that's why we vote Republican. Can you imagine a Democrat (at least one in office now) issuing orders like this or even allowing them to be issued, much less carried out?
My only regret is that we haven't done it yet. I can't imagine why, and can only hope the damn thing is in a freezer somewhere.


7 posted on 07/06/2005 10:11:00 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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This just fails the plausibility test.

The CIA? Get their shiny loafers dusty?


8 posted on 07/06/2005 10:11:13 AM PDT by dsc
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Published: 2005/05/04 10:27:32 GMT

bring head Laden

9 posted on 07/06/2005 10:13:32 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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It's just too bad it hasn't been done yet.


10 posted on 07/06/2005 10:13:33 AM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall (stewed tomatoes are just plain gross)
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I think he's talking about the "BC" CIA. (Before Carter)

The New CIA can't seem to find a Mission they can sink thier
Teeth (??) into.


11 posted on 07/06/2005 10:15:55 AM PDT by Pompah
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This just fails the plausibility test.

Has the makings of a good yarn; with a proper re-write it could be a blockbuster.

Right, Chief! Where's the main dry ice store in Kabul?

12 posted on 07/06/2005 10:16:02 AM PDT by siunevada
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Oh geez, this is just such old, boring news. This story is now in its third incarnation in at least 18 months. I don't know what the media's angle is in continuing to dredge this up, if at some point they in their utter disconnect from normal people think Americans will become outraged over this or what. I think they need to learn to think like real Americans in deciding what's newsworthy. Americans are only going to agree with someone asking for that animal Bin Laden's head. NO ONE other than the leftist America haters in the media are going to find this outrage-worthy.


13 posted on 07/06/2005 10:16:56 AM PDT by MikeA
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They haven't been able to find The Holloway girl on a very small island and I heard someone say it is like finding a needle in a haystack so can you imagine finding someone in awhere there is a zillion caves!


14 posted on 07/06/2005 10:17:29 AM PDT by LYSandra
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"can you imagine finding someone in awhere there is a zillion caves"

In my opinion, it's not possible to bring back the head of bin Laden, on a platter or on a pike, because it was flattened along with the rest of him, during the siege of the cave complex at Tora Bora in late 2001. Requests for family DNA, all the buzz of activity, and then... nothing. Why it would be considered unhelpful to acknowledge this, I don't know. Room for a lot of speculation there.


15 posted on 07/06/2005 10:22:48 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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"..... kill him and bring his head back in a box on dry ice......."

And this is bad because.........?

Sounds like a plan to me.

16 posted on 07/06/2005 10:24:07 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!)
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His boss was my kind of guy. The only thing that I would add was to bury him with pigs after they cut off his head.
17 posted on 07/06/2005 10:28:18 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends.)
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I'm glad to hear they had the right idea. Unfortunately, they did not have the resources or sources to execute the orders.


18 posted on 07/06/2005 10:32:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Linguine Spined Republican Senators Will Lose Their Majority!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

It's not unusual for a dupliate post. Get a grip!


19 posted on 07/06/2005 10:43:24 AM PDT by Saigon68
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To: Brad Cloven

I think the point of the story was supposed to show that we aren't any better than the head choppers. You guys are missing the point. They(liberals) are more civilized than the conservatives. If you don't see a downside, well, you just aren't one of them.


20 posted on 07/06/2005 10:43:52 AM PDT by chuckles
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