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.
But, as far as you I or the world will ever know, he shot himself in the head before capture. As any good coward would do. No martyr, no trial, no more Osama...on to Bahgdad and the next problem on the list.
Agreed. But it'd actually be great if his body was discovered in an extremely compromising, incriminating situation. One that would discredit him with all of the fundamentalist Muslims who'd want to make him out to be some kind of martyr.
DTH
PS: I hear Osama has a secret gay lover...
PS: I hear Osama has a secret gay lover...
Probably not believable enough...now a sheep..hmmmm!
The United way is paying legal defence for the others, from donations to the WTC relief fund !!!! No joke.
GROSS-OUT ALERT. DON'T READ THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE GETTING GROSSED OUT...
Capture bin Laden and his 10-year-old son alive. Film this, and everything that follows, to show to his disciples back home:
1. First, force bin Laden to cook large amounts of pork, and then force-feed his son this pork over a period of two days.
2. Next, force bin Laden to kill his own son with a box-cutter to the neck. Before the son dies, someone will explain to him that his dad is a monster and lied to him, and this is all a punishment.
3. Then, bin Laden must string up his son, and drain and drink the blood.
4. Remember that bin Laden is reported to be a vegetarian: He then must carve out his son's stomach and intestines, now plump with pork, fry these organs up and EAT THEM. Tape his mouth shut so he can't vomit it up.
5. Then torture him for a year, allowing only enough healing to ensure he does not die.
BIN LADEN'S LAST 24 HOURS ON EARTH
6. His last meal will be his own unwashed sexual organs, cut off and fed to him raw by women.
7. After this meal, throw him out of an airplane and tape record his screams. But save him with a parachute or bungee cord so he does not die.
8. Lastly, bury bin Laden alive, forcing him to listen to his own tape-recorded screams of pain.
Who said this story won't have a happy ending?
Not being,
It'd be all the rage in the West Bank and Gaza...
Love the word "might".
This is news?
Once Osama has been pumped dry (even if we force him to talk), then stuff a ham sandwich down his mouth and leave his corpse in a ditch somewhere.
I suspect this is bad journalism, but hope the story line becomes reality.
LOL!
Wouldn't that be hilarious to actually send his head, in a box, to Saddam? Kinda like the dead horse in "The Godfather!"
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