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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

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.


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To: Dirk McQuickly
He'll kill himself as the opposition forces get close. Then, his supporters will claim that the opposition did it.
21 posted on 11/13/2001 10:46:52 AM PST by BikerNYC
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To: Dirk McQuickly
I don't want him captured; I want him dead and his head paraded around on a pike!
22 posted on 11/13/2001 10:46:58 AM PST by Taxman
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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.

"That source" was a "diplomatic source..." rather than a military or intelligence source...

I highly doubt our people on the ground are pushing for capturing them alive...they just want them to be identifiable....

-penny

23 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:02 AM PST by Penny1
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To: Silly
LOL I have been thinking that all along but couldn't remember exactly how it went to post it!
24 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:16 AM PST by 2Jedismom
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To: The Vast Right Wing
But......but......he said he wouldn't be caught alive. HE PROMISED!!!!
25 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:30 AM PST by Howlin
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To: lavaroise
The ruthless execution of Osama at the hands of other MUSLIMS has some very interesting propaganda value. There's little chance he'll be seen as a martyr in the eyes of the rest of the Muslim world.
26 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:33 AM PST by Sangamon Kid
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To: RoughDobermann
"I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned down to the ground! I wanna go out in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!"

(Robert DeNiro, "The Untouchables")

27 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:35 AM PST by Politico2
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To: TroutStalker
Kill him, don't capture him, or there will be hostage taking to demand his release.

Precisely. You can't demand the release of a dead guy...

28 posted on 11/13/2001 10:47:37 AM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: Silly
Tequila!
29 posted on 11/13/2001 10:48:13 AM PST by jlogajan
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To: TroutStalker
Once dead, always dead. Send him to his 72 virgins.

His seventy-two, brown eyed, virgin goats ... right!?

30 posted on 11/13/2001 10:48:38 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: mlo
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.
31 posted on 11/13/2001 10:49:03 AM PST by TheDon
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To: skeeter
I wanna see our special forces boys in a rugby scrum over Osama's disembodied head.

What?!? That's Saddam's Christmas present you're talking about!! Boys, you put Osama's head back in the box where it belongs right now and come in for dinner.

32 posted on 11/13/2001 10:49:45 AM PST by Campion
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To: Dirk McQuickly
I dont want him alive!

Hang the ba$tard!

33 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:07 AM PST by Dog
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To: Dirk McQuickly
Those 2 cowards probably have cyanide tablets to swallow when they are close to getting captured. If Bin Laden really believed that dying a martyr's death would take him to Paradise, he would have been on one of the 9/11 airplanes, flying it himself.
34 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:08 AM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: Dirk McQuickly
Just a thought...

Kill the bastard with a bullet soaked in pig's blood and bury him with pig entrails as a "message" to other misguided Muslim terrorists.

BTW, this is not an original thought, I think Black Jack Pershing was the first to think of this.

35 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:08 AM PST by N. Theknow
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To: Silly
I thought I was the only one who remembered that classic scene! Hahahaha!
36 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:27 AM PST by akbar
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To: Sangamon Kid
The ruthless execution of Osama at the hands of other MUSLIMS has some very interesting propaganda value.

And really the only effective way to bring this to an end. Capture and imprisonment will only invite attacks on ourselves.

His Lieutenents OTOH should be spared and be made to talk.
37 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:27 AM PST by Daus
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To: Dirk McQuickly
I prefer 'capture' as opposed to killing the little slimeball.

Put him in a 2x3 cage, with a sign saying ... "Don't Feed The Monkey" and....

put him in our own 'St.Louis Zoo'.

I'd make special a trip every day to see him.

And feed him *pork* sandwiches.

38 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:36 AM PST by ST.LOUIE1
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To: Weimdog
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Even better, pluck out their beards and march them through Kandahar escorted by women in bikinis while eating pork ribs.

Shalom.

39 posted on 11/13/2001 10:50:45 AM PST by ArGee
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To: Dirk McQuickly
Wow, these people have pretty good crystal balls.
40 posted on 11/13/2001 10:51:04 AM PST by Don Myers
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