Osama 'not important anymore'

Herald Sun ^ | 16 January 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

The capture of OBL would cut through the morale of his terrorists everywhere.

[Casloy]

Would it change anything if he were captured?

Of course it would, but the real question is can we morally not try and capture him?

[Cicero]

Robert Fisk should go back and get the Arabs to beat him up again. It seems to make him feel good.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"FUGITIVE al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has "ceased to be important," with the movement he created posing a far greater threat, respected British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has said."

Robert Fisk is all you need to know to write this off.

[Torie]

Osama will become important again if he if verifiably offed, at home and abroad.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"To look for bin Laden now is as useful as detaining nuclear scientists after the creation of the atomic bomb," Fisk, who has interviewed the Saudi-born terror mastermind three times, said.


Fisk sounds like a demented old fool. Nuclear scientists would create a nuclear bomb.

[sono]

He's Dead, Jim.

[skr]

Perhaps Osama has simply ceased to be.

[cripplecreek]

I'm somebody now!

[theFIRMbss]

>The capture of OBL would cut through the morale of his terrorists everywhere

Why do people think
the bad guys are different
from us? If some nut

assassinated
Bush, would that "hurt" our morale,
or make us madder?

Even if bad guys
took out Bush and his whole team
it would just make us

fight even harder
and it would make dissenters
like the Democrats

even come on board.
I think it's very foolish
to think terrorists

build their resistance
around this or that person.
We don't. Why should they?

[Sir Gawain]

respected British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk

Respected by terrorists maybe.

[Aussie Dasher]

He mightn't be on this earth. He may well be burning in Hell as we speak.

Nobody ever "ceases to exist".

[theFIRMbss]

>Perhaps Osama has simply ceased to be

I've found his sandal!
Maybe this means Osama
has been taken up!

[Theresawithanh]

I think Fisk is a gigantic blowhard, but I would have to agree that Osama, whom I personally think is worm food, isn't as important to Al Quaeda now.

[garyhope]

Anything fruitcake, masochist Fisk says is a joke.

[wagglebee]

The capture of OBL would cut through the morale of his terrorists everywhere.

You are 100% correct, and it would also offset doubts that the left tries to instill in the public about whether or not the war on terrorism is worth fighting.

[theFIRMbss]

>Nobody ever "ceases to exist"

"Enoch walked with God;
then he was no more, because
God took him away."

[oxcart]

"Bin Laden has ceased to be important."

Well he sure was not important to the Clintoons!

[Aussie Dasher]

"God took him away"

If he'd ceased to exist, God couldn't have taken him anywhere...

[R. Scott]

He may not be running and financing the show anymore, but he should still fry (not lethal Injection!) for past crimes. It would also be nice to have the scene posted on Al Jezera.