Posted on 08/21/2005 8:30:37 AM PDT by shield
One of the most frequently asked questions we get at To The Point is: Where’s Osama? Why haven’t we found and killed him?
We’ve gotten another flurry because of the recent claims that “mercs” or mercenaries, “professional soldiers for paramilitary corporations that attend the annual Soldier of Fortune convention in Las Vegas” know where he is – a hidden valley called Dir in northwest Pakistan.
I’ve known Col. Bob Brown, the publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine for almost 30 years. We almost got ourselves blown up together in Afghanistan with the Mujahaddin back in the 1980s. I told Bob about this claim and he laughed his head off.
“The last Soldier of Fortune convention we had was back in 2000,” he told me. “You should know, Wheeler, you were our keynote speaker! No one in the world is in touch with “mercs” more than me. They would have one simple word for these Elvis sightings of Osama: (expletive). The guy making this claim, Paul Williams, is an (expletive).” Bob doesn’t mince words.
The claim that OBL has been in Dir “since he escaped from Tora Bora in December 2001” is laughable. Williams has, of course, never been remotely close to the place. I’ve been all over the area, from Peshawar through Dir to Chitral in the Hindu Kush, and know it would be easy to get him if he’s there. He’s not in Dir.
Osama is in Iran.
I verified this once again at a lunch with some Pentagon friends yesterday (8/11). There is a reason why OBL’s whereabouts can’t be publicly acknowledged. It would necessitate military action against Iran. If the Mullahs have got him and won’t admit it and won’t give him up, the pressure for a military strike to kill or capture him would be irresistible.
The White House refuses to follow this course. It will not attack Iran. The country is a tinderbox, ready to blow with an anti-Mullah revolution. The Iranian people are amazingly pro-American right now. If the Mullahs hate America, that means they love America. A military attack could change that and fast. At least that’s the rationale.
This is also why GW won’t order an attack on Iran’s nuke facilities.
Not that the CIA is helping to organize or precipitate such a revolution, has the capacity to do so, and is doing anything beyond crossing its fingers and hoping. Nonetheless, you wanted to know what the deal is with Osama – and there it is. He’s safe and sound in eastern Iran, perhaps in the vicinity of the town of Mashad, but they move him around. And we’re not doing anything about it.
Bingo. An alive Elvis denies the rags and their RAT allies their martyr.
So what happens when Iran blackmails the US and/or Israel or nukes us, one of our ships, Israel? Do we still wait for the Iranians to rise up and overthrow the mullahs?
I'm happy to see his name again. The last time was several years before the breakup of the Soviet Union. In an interview I read, he predicted that event with uncanny accuracy, at a time when no one else was talking of it.
I am glad to hear that. But we will need many bunker busting bombs, too, as conventional bombs won't destroy the deep underground nuke facilities.
It's great he's got a web site and publishes very interesting info. ;o)
Just in case you think this is proof, remember that the same can be said of Al Gore. And we all know that he isn't alive.
He's driving a taxi in Montreal. He parks his cab at night in the old Expo's stadium parking lot.
I think i remember that members of his family fled Afghanistan to Iran a couple years ago. makes sense to join them..
LOL! Good point...:-)
No, No, No...
In the real world, he's been kidnapped by space aliens to live in their alien zoo. Currently, they only have one human exhibit, Elvis. The aliens are hoping that with the addition of Osama, that their will soon be a new crop of infant humans to 'wow' all the alien visitors to the zoo.
:-)
Tin Foil hat time.
" Bingo. An alive Elvis denies the rags and their RAT allies their martyr."
But I am one for believing he really is alive based on videos he had produced before and after the last presidential election. Good points where made elsewhere in this thread as the difficulties one would have trying to re-create his latest videos. At any rate, just read todays Michael Yon remarks at:
http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/
It sort of has a parallel contrast to the UBL issue in some respects. I do hope Michael does not overstep and end up no longer being welcomed by our guys in Mosul.
Hehehe- I hear that the ice-pick used to kill Trotsky might be up for sale.
Maybe. I think he's running a kabob restaurant in Arlington, VA.
I'm also thinking that he could be a cab driver in New York, DC, etc.
He'd fit in well doing that. No one would think to look for him.
I think he is probably dead. I also don't think we have located all of Al Quaeda's sleeper cells in the US. I heard early on in the WOT that Osama's death could be a signal to unleash hell on the infidels so I don't think we would announce his death until we are sure where all the sleeper cells are.
Poor logic like that will get you killed.
For instance, the enemy of the Bengal Tiger is the King Cobra. The enemy of Man is the King Cobra.
Now, applying the tired old logic that you reposted above, you'd be getting all friendly with that Bengal Tiger, who WILL EAT YOU!
I suspect they would get the word out were that the case.
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