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Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? ~ CBS reporters from Karachi - London
CBS ^
| Sept. 23, 2006
| Farhan Bokhari in Karachi - Sheila MacVicar in London.
Posted on 09/23/2006 12:04:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A French newspaper, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, leaked an intelligence report that says Saudi agents believe Osama bin Laden is dead. (AP)
"Does this mean, he is acutely ill, dying or has in fact died? There is no credible answer to that question. Unless there is a body, how can anyone say for sure that bin Laden is dead?"
Arab diplomat
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Osama bin Laden's health has deteriorated in the past year, forcing him to curtail his movements, according to Arab diplomats in Pakistan who routinely track reports of his movements.
A senior source with an intelligence service friendly to the United States told CBS News that Saudi Intelligence has collected what it considers to be "very credible information" that bin Laden has been very seriously ill, and that the Saudi services are now suggesting, though not confirming, that they "have a pretty high certainty" that he is dead.
The source added that if he has died as a result of typhoid fever, which comes from exposure to contaminated water and food, it would confirm reports that he has been hiding in a remote area, under very harsh conditions with limited access to medical care.
While Pakistani officials and diplomats stationed in the country on Saturday did not confirm a report in a French regional newspaper that claimed the world's most wanted terrorist had died of typhoid earlier this month, some spoke of reports in the past year suggesting that bin Laden's health had rapidly deteriorated, prompting speculation over his remaining life expectancy.
Time Magazine also reported that bin Laden "has become seriously ill and may have already died" from a "water-borne illness."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; obl
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
with GPS and all, perhaps we can identify the grave, open it, and see who's in there! Maybe thats the real reason why that funeral gathering wasn't fired upon ... we wanted to preserve the evidence
To: Mr. Silverback
Anthrax from a sheepskin would be appropriate.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:07:21 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: RightWhale
Not typhus................trichinosis
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:07:28 PM PDT
by
Cyman
To: RightWhale
I suspect OBL died on or about 15 Dec '01 of pneumonia..
I'm baffled by the persistent claims around here that OBL died back in 2001. Come on, guys, OBL was making new videos as late as '04.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363306/
To: JCEccles
Yes and I hear Farrakhan is very ill also.
I just don't know how much good news a person is to consume in one brief day.
I'll not believe it until you show me the proof, that is OBL's head on a platter.
The guards around him who are sworn to protect him will never allow any proof of an OBL death.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:19:16 PM PDT
by
buck61
To: Sacajaweau
Except you know he wouldn't be getting it from the skin...
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:21:49 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("Now they will know better than to fight a martial arts master who is also made of gelatin!")
To: irishjuggler
Miracle of the electronics age. Frank Sinatra is still making music videos, duets with whoever is still alive now.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:27:13 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: shankbear
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wanna see a body. Otherwise, no believe their reports. French or A-rab.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:35:46 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(The DNC - Marxist Party of America for Socialists, Commies, and Homosexuals!)
To: operation clinton cleanup
Parts of his body were. They dug it up in the yard of some compound in Russia. The jaw bone was in Russian archives. I saw a story on History Channel regarding the actual jaw bone being verified that it was Hitler's. The Russians moved his body several times. Once out into a forest and then moved it to this compound.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:37:44 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(The DNC - Marxist Party of America for Socialists, Commies, and Homosexuals!)
To: RetiredArmy
To: RightWhale
I love technology....:)
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:47:46 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.........)
To: Mr. Silverback
Whitney Houston's looking better these days. Osama must not have a lot of access to his 24 wives; each one must have a CIA guy behind the potted plants. I say we dress Whitney in a skintight burqa, give her a donkey, and let her parade the streets of mountainous Pakistani villages.
"Ai-i- yai!!!" [sounds Arabic already -- will get him all homesick] "...will always love you-u-u!!"
73
posted on
09/23/2006 1:48:02 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: RetiredArmy
If Bin Laden were to die, I doubt any of his followers would make his body available for Western examination. If he is dead, we may never know (or care) for sure.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I suspect Bert done 'im in.
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:50:57 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.........)
To: RetiredArmy
To: RightWhale
OBL's condition is unchanged from 15 Dec '01. So those videos just prior to the 2004 election(or perhaps that one a few weeks back) were CIA agitprop?
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:54:19 PM PDT
by
Malsua
To: RightWhale
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posted on
09/23/2006 1:55:24 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Osama Bin Laden About to Attack the U.S., Says Terrorism Expert
9/22/2006 12:09:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Dr. Hugh Cort, 205-213-5621 or 205-313-1786
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Republican presidential candidate Dr. Hugh Cort:
I work with Dr. Paul Williams, the source for the September 7th World Net Daily article "Al-Qaeda Warns Muslims: Time to get out of U.S.; Afghan terror commander hints at big attack on NY, Washington." He is in touch with Hamid Mir; the Fox News Middle East expert who has interviewed bin Laden three times. Hamid Mir did the interview with Abu Dawood, the top Al Qaeda man in Afghanistan, who said all the Muslims need to leave America, especially New York and Washington, because Osama is soon going to attack with his "American Hiroshima" plan where he blows up 7 to 10 American cities with suitcase nukes.
Abu Dawood also told Hamid Mir that bin Laden will come out with a new audiotape in the next 10 days or sooner. Dr. Williams can provide media with the transcript of this interview. (NOTE: Contact Dr. Cort at 205-213-5621 between 2 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time, or leave a message at 205-313-1786 for more information).
Dr. Williams and I have located Adnan Shukrijumah, who the FBI calls "the next Mohammed Atta", who is the leader of bin Laden's "American Hiroshima" attacks, in Canada. We met with Canadian intelligence for five hours. They were very helpful. However the FBI has not been helpful. Google the name Ciro Vitolo. We have much more info that is not on the internet. We have also discovered what we believe could be the nerve center for bin Laden's "American Hiroshima" attacks. Hamid Mir, who has never been wrong to our knowledge, says bin Laden has already smuggled suitcase nukes through the Mexican border into the U.S. and is soon going to blow up 7 to 10 American cities.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's number two man, said in his latest audiotape, essentially "We have warned you repeatedly, we have offered you a truce, we have asked you to convert to Islam, so now we have satisfied all the requirements (of Muslim law or "Honor Code" where you must warn your enemy, and offer him one last chance for a truce and to convert, before you strike him) and now we are justified in attacking you. Your government has hidden from you the full extent of the devastation that is coming. The days are pregnant with events that are about to be born."
In his audiotape of Jan. 19, bin Laden offered America a truce, then said "The only reason we have not attacked you yet is not because of your security precautions. It is simply because we are not quite through with the preparations. The minute the preparations are through, you will feel the attacks in your own homes."
Christianne Amanpour in the CNN special on bin Laden that aired a few weeks ago, "In the Footsteps of Bin Laden" made the point that before 9/11 bin Laden got a fatwa saying it was okay to kill civilians. Then he did 9/11. Now, she pointed out, he has gotten a fatwa, or religious order, saying it is OK to kill 10 million Americans with nuclear weapons. Guess what is going to happen next?
These attacks, which Khalid Sheik Mohammed said will be "a nuclear hell storm on America", are coming soon, perhaps as early as this Saturday, when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts.
So what can we do at this late date?
The FBI needs to search every mosque in our major cities, but in surprise raids, because, apparently, according to an internet posting by the English Muslim convert Rakan Ben Williams, the bombers have a "failsafe plan" where if one of them gets caught the others are to immediately detonate their nukes.
And we must quickly catch Shukrijumah and his fellow terrorists in Canada before they blow up 7 to 10 American cities (just contact Dr. Paul Williams and myself and we will lead you to them). It is our only chance.
Also, everyone needs to immediately go to the website
http://www.ki4u.com where they can order potassium iodide (KI) pills to avoid thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear attack, and on that website they can read the ten-page article "How to Survive a Nuclear Attack" -- stay inside your house for three days, after which the radiation decreases to one hundredth of its initial strength, and then it is safe to go outside for short trips, and after 2 weeks you can go out all the time. But if you go outside in the first three days, even just for ten minutes, you will receive a fatal dose of radiation and slowly bleed to death internally over 2-3 weeks. Remember, many more people died from radiation poisoning after Hiroshima than died in the initial blast.
Please help me and Dr. Paul Williams stop these horrible attacks. Please get us some press coverage and some help from our Congressmen and Senators and FBI and CIA and NSA before it's too late.
God bless you, and God bless America!
P.S. Watch for Osama's new audiotape, coming out in a few days.
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Visit
http://www.stopdoomsday.com and
http://www.cortforpresident.com for futher information.
http://www.usnewswire.com/ http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72986
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posted on
09/23/2006 2:07:42 PM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: RightWhale
And is there any credible analysis of the '04 tape indicating that it was a fake?
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