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UPI: Bin Laden Might Be Captured Soon
UnitesStates.com ^
| Nov. 13, 2001
| UPI Wire
Posted on 11/13/2001 10:37:57 AM PST by Dirk McQuickly
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To: Silly
Yikes, may I never make you angry!
To: 1stFreedom
You're as sick as he is, First Freedom! Ugghhh.
To: one_particular_harbour
#51 - I suggested this same treatment of the terrorist we are trying to "interrogate" to no avail. Perhaps a week in the general population of cons will make him talk?
To: sphinx
Dersh would represent him pro bono.
To: Dirk McQuickly
"But such events show that the Taliban were not popular anywhere. People were just afraid of them." Note to the media for the next war.
To: TheDon
I like the press conference on the White House grounds with President Bush addressing the nation, and world, saying "This is what we do to our enemies." while the camera zooms out showing the heads of Laden and Omar on pikes with the White House in the background.I may take heat for this, but I think it nonetheless important to say.
If OBL is captured alive, the civilized and correct way to treat him is to put him on trial, with the Nuremberg trials as precedent. It should be done in an Islamic country, perhaps Saudi Arabia, but with international judges. The trial should establish beyond a doubt that acts of terrorism are evil, that they do not come under the definition of "acts of war", and their punishment is that of a murderer. Doing this openly will shore up the public relations problems that are dogging the U.S. effort to establish our legitimate grievances.
And when the trial is over, then the convicted murderer is executed publically in accordance to Islamic law for murderers: sword to the neck. And such a death is not rewarded with eternity in the warrior's paradise.
To: golas
I say use Bin Laden's skull as a candy dish. You could serve:
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:30:15 AM PST
by
Silly
Comment #108 Removed by Moderator
To: Dirk McQuickly
They fear that angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured." And this is bad...how?? These two clowns need to be ejected from the land of the living ASAP. NA forces are more than capable of handing these men a strong dose of the swift justice they deserve in their own special way. God forbid OBL and/or Omar are captured by U.S. forces and some military attorney is called in. What a circus that would produce.
To: one_particular_harbour
We cannot hold bin Laden or Omar in our prisons and/or put them on trial. The threat of additional attacks and/or attempts to bargain for their release would follow putting additional thousands of Americans at risk.
There are several ways mentioned on this thread to kill them, I can live with any of them. My preference, however, is to have our special forces put a single bullet in their heads in such a way so that positive identification can be made by Saddam when he receives the pickle jar containing same.
To: Taxman
No, no, no!
Not on a pike!
Hung from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to welcome visitors to New York Harbor for a few hundred years, to remind all arriving to our shores what happens when you f*ck with us.
OK?
To: RoughDobermann
"I don't want him captured; I want him dead." Ditto. Both of them.
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:33:58 AM PST
by
blam
To: Dirk McQuickly
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." I hate to admit this; but, I'm rooting for the opposition forces. Dead is better for this guy; he will only become a focal point if left alive and brought over to the U.S. for trial.
To: stanz
He's a martyr either way, dead or alive. Alive, it invites hostage taking and further terrorism. Dead, further terrorism, hostage taking and the media circus of the ages. Let's not have another OJ field day for the Cochrans and Dershowitz's.
One .308 from an anonymous and invisible special forces sniper. I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers.
To: Jim Noble
"Hung from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to welcome visitors to New York Harbor. Not a bad idea. Dehydrate him and enclose him in see though plastic, huh?
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:37:34 AM PST
by
blam
To: Daus
Capture and imprisonment will only invite attacks on ourselves. Exactly. Many terrorist attacks of the last few decades involved kidnappings, etc., in order to free imprisoned or detained comrades.
Death, preferrably at the hands of native Afghanis is the best outcome.
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:38:16 AM PST
by
LisaFab
To: Dirk McQuickly
Let's hope this talk of "fear" by U.S. Intelligence officials for the lives of Omar and Bin Laden is just touchy-feely spin to satisfy apron-string holders on the Left. Both men should be shot on sight, no questions asked.
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:38:53 AM PST
by
beckett
To: Dirk McQuickly
"Mr. President, we are sorry to report that we captured that Son of A B----, ... er Osama Bin Laden, and while we were transporting him back to the United States, he was pushed, ... er fell overboard. While we were hiding, ... er searching for a lifejacket, the Bas----, ... er Mr. Bin Laden was lost and presumed drowned. For a while we were able to keep a rope, which was around his neck, ... er waist on him, but the sharks were swimming faster than our vessel, and somehow managed to get in a few bites, before the rope was let go, ... er broke. We expect to get the ship back up to full speed within the hour. We rejoice in, ... er regret the incident, but would like to add that our goons, ... er lawyers were able to beat the crap out of, ... er question him, and we do have a signed confession. Mysteriously, all of the other high ranking Taliban and Al Queda members that we captured received the same sentence, ... er jumped in to save their esteemed leader. It was an awesome, ... er awful sight to see. We expect to arrive back in Norfolk some time next week."
To: Campion
The afghans have a game like rugby that is played on horseback and usually uses a dead goat. Called Bushkashi. Maybe the NA could be persuaded to use Bin Laden's dismembered body instead.
"And Abu races down the field with Bin Laden across the saddle...OOOh, Rashid smashes into him and tries to seize the Bin ball but just rips off the head instead!"
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:39:14 AM PST
by
Vauss
To: Marysecretary
You don't think he'd talk do you? Nope. You'd have quite a time getting anything from Usama. He'd welcome becoming a martyr for his faith and his cause. He ain't talkin'. As far as you or I or the rest of the world would know...he's dead.
You're only a "martyr" if others know you are not talking. No one will ever know and no one will ever hear from OBL again.
Now, that doesn't mean we can't actually keep him for as long as it takes to extract the information we need.
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posted on
11/13/2001 11:43:00 AM PST
by
MarketR
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