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Usama Bin Laden Is Living Comfortably in Iran
Fox News ^ | May 3, 2010 | Ed Barnes

Posted on 05/04/2010 5:58:43 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963

Edited on 05/04/2010 6:34:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Usama Bin Laden Is Living Comfortably in Iran, Documentary Asserts By Ed Barnes - FOXNews.com Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him... An Iranian who supplied falcon camps says he saw and met with Usama Bin Laden six times since 2003. His eyewitness accounts adds to a growing body of evidence that the world’s most wanted is living comfortably in Iran. Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him. His isolation is almost complete. Only a few trusted associates know where he is, and they visit rarely -- bringing food and news, but careful not to fall into a routine. There is no radio or other electronic device whose signal might be followed. He can’t go out in daytime for fear of satellites. It is a grim, lonely existence.

At least, that is the picture that has emerged of the life of the world’s most wanted man since he fled Tora Bora in 2001.

But a new and vastly different picture of the Al Qaeda leader's life has been emerging over the past few years. In this scenario, he wakes each morning in a comfortable bed inside a guarded compound north of Tehran. He is surrounded by his wife and a few children. He keeps a low profile, is allowed limited travel and, in exchange for silence, is given a comfortable life under the protection of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

The idea that Bin Laden is in Iran got a strong boost recently with the premiere of a documentary called “Feathered Cocaine.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; dnc4mullahs; elbaradei; elvisbinladen; iran; obama4mullahs; usama
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To: OldDeckHand
Fox News has always, for whatever reason, used that spelling of bin Laden’s first name.

Yes, since at least 9-11, Fox has used Usama. At one point, Fox also decided that all suicide bombers should be referred to as homicide bombers. The spelling has nothing to do with Zero.

21 posted on 05/04/2010 6:45:37 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: woodbutcher1963

The FBI should Put up 25 kg of 85% enriched uranium in lieu of $25 million dollar reward: http://bit.ly/dxUoS2


22 posted on 05/04/2010 6:55:59 AM PDT by SPC CHEESE
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To: b4its2late; ASA Vet
I love these threads.

5.56mm

23 posted on 05/04/2010 7:00:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: woodbutcher1963

If this were true and 0bama had any balls (which I know he doesn’t, but let’s imagine) he would send the CIA in and kill Osama’s ass. What could the Iranians do? Protest? Admit they were sheltering him?


24 posted on 05/04/2010 7:00:26 AM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Parrot said Bin Laden was renowned as an avid falconer who captured most of the falcons around Kandahar to raise funds to support his terror efforts.

Ah, the old 'birds for bullets' scheme.

25 posted on 05/04/2010 7:02:32 AM PDT by Sax
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To: OldDeckHand

FOX isn’t alone with the Usama spelling, so does the FBI: http://bit.ly/dxUoS2


26 posted on 05/04/2010 7:05:13 AM PDT by SPC CHEESE
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To: woodbutcher1963

I don’t buy it.

There’s no way you could keep something that big a secret for this long. Someone’s bound to talk.

He’s dead, Jim.


27 posted on 05/04/2010 7:05:54 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

This story is full of holes. First off, Iran would not necessarily keep it a secret if Osama had refuge there, in fact, he’s make an excellent bargaining chip during sanctions, or even F-16 parts. I guess that blows the “theory” he’s making audiocasettes because no background in Iran “looks like” Pakistan. Iran would at least secretly, want us to think he is there. You could put a blue bed sheet or whatever up anywhere and sit in front of it and talk on video. American left, he’s dead, get over it. Bush got him in Tora Bora.


28 posted on 05/04/2010 7:29:33 AM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: M Kehoe

Yep. Deader than a doornail and living in Iran. Same thing.


29 posted on 05/04/2010 7:30:04 AM PDT by b4its2late (It is easier to beg forgiveness than get permission.)
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To: Genoa

“Who do I believe now?”

Believe what the president of Iran when he threatens you:

AHMADINEJAD [Iran]: USA SHOULD BE PUNISHED FOR NUKE ‘THREATS’...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6423OK20100503
[China and Russia eager to hear him — US, England, and France walk out.]

If Obama is there, so much the better. Kick the tires and light the fires. [But one problem though, 0 is teleprompter-in-chief.]


30 posted on 05/04/2010 8:08:59 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We knew deep down it was this bad. Devour ugly truths with glee -- truth is our weapon.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I mean, uh, Osama ...


31 posted on 05/04/2010 8:09:40 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We knew deep down it was this bad. Devour ugly truths with glee -- truth is our weapon.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

bttt


32 posted on 05/04/2010 8:15:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: woodbutcher1963

This is what Yossef Bodansky claimed in his biography of Ben Laden.


33 posted on 05/04/2010 8:20:08 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: Marty62
So now it’s Usama?

Fox News has always spelled it that way. Even when the rest of the world calls him Osama, they persist in writing it as Usama.

I've always thought of it as their little contribution to political correctness.

34 posted on 05/04/2010 8:39:19 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I read right past it. LOL! An honest mistake.


35 posted on 05/04/2010 8:41:18 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Windflier

I’ve seen it spelled both ways too.
Just wondering what is the correct spelling.


36 posted on 05/04/2010 10:23:50 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Genoa

Follow the PROFIT Amigo!


37 posted on 05/04/2010 10:29:17 AM PDT by STD (islam a spiritual-legal-political Theocratic system of governance which is not to be questioned;)
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To: Marty62
I’ve seen it spelled both ways too. Just wondering what is the correct spelling.

For everyone except the politically correct Fox News, it will always be Osama.

38 posted on 05/04/2010 12:20:48 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Dead since 12/12/01!
39 posted on 05/04/2010 12:51:10 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: ASA Vet

Thank Ya , Thank Ya Vera Much


40 posted on 05/04/2010 1:53:36 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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