[LTCJ]

Wondered when the press was going to pick up on this.

[Servant of the Nine]

During WWII, when Japan was sending baloons carrying bombs across the Pacific on the Jet stream, The US Geological Survey identified the beach in Japan which suplied the balast sand on a dud bomb. The US Army Air Corps was then able to bomb and destroy the baloon making facilities located there.

Once the interpretation of the colors as recorded by videotape is sorted out, they will identify Osama's location.

So9

[FReethesheeples]

Bumpity.

[gumbo]

I thought those rocks looked kinda fake.

[r9etb]

It reminds me of an old B. Kliban cartoon, where this little old lady is in a park by the pond, holding out a saturday night special. The caption: "Never give a gun to ducks."

Osama was a fool, no doubt about it -- he has indeed given a gun to the ducks.

[Dirk McQuickly]

Why is this being made public? I would think that valuable information should be kept secret -- like telling our enemies not to stand in front of distinctive rock formations which may reveal where they are hiding.

[Lazamataz]

LETS.... uh..... ROCK!

[Hatteras]

Why in the heck did this geologist tell the press what he told the State Department? And why did the press tell us what he told them?

They need to start locking some of these people up. The charge? Treason

[Dog Gone]

When we're done, Afghanistan won't have rock formations. It will be the world's biggest gravel pit.

[lds23]

TV GUIDE Tonight: Osama bin Laden on "Before they were rock"

[eFudd]

Unless bin Laden was using a background props, it had not occurred to him or his group that these geological formations would be useful in locating bin Laden.

Whoever released the information that the government was asking geologist and that the info was useful into the press is guilty of aiding the enemy.

[shezza]

My arm-chair National Security Advisor theory is that Osama filmed his diatribe either just before or perhaps the day of Sept. 11, and hasn't been near those particular rocks for a month or more. His statement that America was tasting fear from north to south, from east to west (paraphrase) indicated to me that he might have thought the other planned attacks (the ones thwarted by the FAA grounding all planes immediately) on additional targets would have already taken place by the time this video was to air. Were not the Sears Tower, a site in Atlanta, a site in San Francisco (Trans America Building or whatever) and a couple of others on the list? That's pretty much north, south, east, west. Weren't there more than a dozen other flights in which Arab pilots were seated as "guests" in the cockpit jumpseat, but those flights were grounded?

He also used the word "TODAY"--as in "today America is experiencing the fear" that his people lived with all the time, blah blah blah. I took that literally. Today, as though he intended the video to be aired Sept. 11 when the Yankee cowboys were to fly overhead and retaliate immediately.

Some reports had him slipping out of the country, maybe to Japan or even China, PRIOR to Sept. 11, although it was probably the rumor mill that generated those. More likely is Pakistan or Iraq or Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda was expecting BIG retaliation REAL fast, and Osama himself was probably long gone before the second tower even came down.

I don't think he's in Afghanistan at all, and I don't think analyzing those rocks will provide a clue to anything but where he HAD been at one time. But hey, if it gives someone something to do other than wring hands about anthrax, let the geologists go ahead and focus their attention on solving that particular question.

[Skooz]

Sorry...I can't resist:

[wjeanw]

In Yossef Bodansky's book on Bin Laden, the "caves" are specially excavated manmade bunkers, not natural ones. Bin Laden used his family's construction company's resources (heavy equipment) and began building these hideouts a decade ago. There are also bunkers which the CIA helped to make during the Afghanistan War.

[wjeanw]

In Yossef Bodansky's book on Bin Laden, the "caves" are specially excavated manmade bunkers, not natural ones. Bin Laden used his family's construction company's resources (heavy equipment) and began building these hideouts a decade ago. There are also bunkers which the CIA helped to make during the Afghanistan War.

[caddie]

Thank you, nitwit scientists, for revealing yet another fact by which we were tracking this d*ckweed.

Your intellects are truly great and wonderful; you are a national resource.

Thanks again!

[TKEman]

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I didn't consider the rock formations clear enough to do that. Even if they are, rock formations can extend for hundreds of miles. Helpful, but you can't pin his global position using this info.