When Bush proclaimed that the US would withdraw from the war if BinLaden was handed over for $25M, it implied that Bush knew Bin Laden had already been killed.
When the “American Taliban fighter, John Walker Lindh”, was captured in late 2001, it cemented the fact that infiltration of the Taliban would be possible by Americans, and that Bin Laden could be monitored closely, so that the huge strike in Afghanistan could wipe him out.
We saw a tape of Bin Laden a week after 9/11 talking about the WTC attacks.
However, notice that since then, we have never seen a video tape of Bin Laden that proves he has been alive anytime after the initial WTC attack and his follow up video.
The Islamofacists would love nothing better than to taunt the US with recent video images of Bin Laden proving that he’s alive.
But they can’t.
“Osama Bin Laden is not in Pakistan he is dead says Taliban leader.”
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