UPI: Bin Laden Might Be Captured Soon

UnitesStates.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2001 | UPI Wire

[Dirk McQuickly]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The United States is closed to achieving its objective in Afghanistan: capturing suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and others responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said Tuesday.

Reports from Afghanistan recount lightening victories for the Northern Alliance, which had captured more than 40 percent of Afghanistan by Tuesday afternoon and were now moving toward the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

"The fall of Kabul earlier Tuesday has sealed the fate of bin Laden and his protector, Mullah Omar, the so-called supreme leader of the Taliban," said a western diplomatic source in Islamabad.

"We will not be surprised if there is an uprising in Kandahar soon and people capture bin Laden and Mullah Omar and hand them over to the opposition forces," he said.

According to that source, U.S. intelligence officials in Afghanistan are now working with the opposition forces and Pashtun rebels in southern parts of the country to ensure that "the two fugitives are caught alive. They fear that angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured."

Hopes for a rapid collapse of the Taliban in Kandahar increased after an uprising against the militant group in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Most Afghan experts expected the opposition forces to face some resistance in Jalalabad as it is a Pashtun city and most Taliban rulers are also Pashtuns.

"But such events show that the Taliban were not popular anywhere. People were just afraid of them. Now that the process has started, it will be difficult for the Taliban to prevent similar uprising even in Kandahar. We expect Kandahar to fall soon," Western diplomatic sources in Islamabad said.

[RoughDobermann]

I don't want him captured; I want him dead.

[Silly]

Happy, happy, happy!

[The Vast Right Wing]

Memo to Citizens of Khandahar: We don't want them Dead or Alive, We want them DEAD.

[Pokey78]

Dershowitz is drooling at the thought of "capture". I prefer a firing squad.

[mlo]

Silly had some creative plans for him.

[Redcloak]

...angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured."

One can only hope.

[MarketR]

No No No...we want him alive!

Then, we'll make him dead after we have wrung every drop of information he has about his network of scum.

[stanz]

I don't want him to die. Then, he would become a martyr for Islam. I want him to languish forever in an American jail far from horses, goats and weapons and his 4 wives.

[TroutStalker]

According to that source, U.S. intelligence officials in Afghanistan are now working with the opposition forces and Pashtun rebels in southern parts of the country to ensure that "the two fugitives are caught alive. They fear that angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured."

Kill him, don't capture him, or there will be hostage taking to demand his release. Once dead, always dead. Send him to his 72 virgins.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Mussolini treatment would be nice.

[wideawake]

It's OK if you capture him alive, you Afghan rebels you!!!

Just make sure he's not alive anymore when we swing by to pick him up!

[Yankee]

Only liberal idiots believe that he will be captured(or that we want him captured).

Wanted DEAD or REALLY DEAD!

[lavaroise]

They fear that angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured."

Why don't we start by fearing terrorism.

[skeeter]

Me too.

The heck with the "or alive" part. I wanna see our special forces boys in a rugby scrum over Osama's disembodied head.

[2Jedismom]

From what I understand, OBL said he wouldn't be captured alive. So I look forward to them hauling him out of his cave, self inflicted gunshot wound and all.

[Weimdog]

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! On Al-Jezeera preferably.

[Silly]

Silly: I say we capture him, THEN we kill him!

Biker: I saw we stomp him! Then we tattoo him!! Then we hang him!! And then we kill him!!!

Pee-Wee bin Laden: "I say we let him go!"

All bikers: No!

[niki]

Let his Muslim brothers kill him, than he won't be a martyr.

[Hostage]

How about letting the NYC Fire Department give him a tour of their facilities?