Bin Laden in Pakistan, source claims

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 12, 2001 | Philip Smucker

[beckett]

Since it's impossible to tell if this is disinformation, the story is not really worth considering.

Within a few days Tora Bora will be pacified. If Bin Laden is still unaccounted for at that time, stories like this one will carry more weight.

[HardStarboard]

>>>This makes no sense. Why would Osama send his son back to risk getting killed?<<<

You are suprised that the mind of a Muslim/zelot/terrorist doesn't make sense to you? Its pretty simple - they want to kill us - all of us. Its a badge of pride, a feather in their cap - die for Allah and take a bunch of infidels with you. No suprise.

[calmseas]

[Diddle E. Squat]

I originally thought he would have escaped days ago, but in the last few days the US has said it believes he's there, citing all the phone activity in Tora Bora every time Daisy drops in. Could be some decoy using OBL's phones, but I assume the military is using some type of voice print analysis, thus I believe the military when it says(at least as of last night) that he's still around Tora Bora.

[Havisham]

I have noticed that each time Al Qaeda and Tora Bora are about to be routed an unattested story of Bin Laden's plastic surgery, or escape to Pakistan is floated by Al Jezeera/CNN. I consider it classic disinformation to rally the spirit of the Arab Street. I don't believe OBL didn't know the towers would collapse either. Satan always lies.

[MeekOneGOP]

Sabertooth this might well bring the pool back to a Paki pool.

Hey, Sabertooth! Now how come I figured I'd find YOUR name on this thread??? ;-)

[Whilom]

Who was the "Arabic-speaking reporter"? Not until we know that do we have any way of measuring credence of the claims. As long as we have no way to measure credence, prudent folks should discount the report.

[Smogger]

Haven't you people been following the news? It was on MSNBC all day yesterday.. Geesh The article below says that ALL the big guys are gone man. I posted it as breaking but for some reason the sidebar moderator removed it. I think we are only allowed to post good news. ;-)

Taliban, al-Qaida troops slip away

[Dr.Deth]

Jaffar had stayed in the village for one night, after his foot was blown off by a stray cluster bomb ... He was traveling ... four hours on foot

Can't come up with material like this on my own. Thanks guys.

[celtic gal]

could this just be disinformation to throw us off the path?

[Smogger]

could this just be disinformation to throw us off the path?

Disinformation? From the Pentagon?

[jrlc]

Disinformation. Sounds like pure B.S. The Communist Scientist Monitor reports that OBL has found WALDO and joined him in Mecca. Waldo was in Paris visiting with the Tourist Guy, when Chelsea got out of the Metro. They phoned Hillary who told them to get to Mecca where Mullah Ali Gor'ah was having his new beard examined to see if it is regulation length. Hillary said that after they got back from Tibet, Mullah Gor'ah, OBL, Waldo, the Tourist Guy and Chelsea were going to enroll in flight school where they were going to learn how "to fly like birds." Hillary doubted they would need to study much about landing or take-offs, "just soar like birds and look for buildings."

[MJY1288]

"What kind of a jerk sends his 19 year old son to face the Daisy Cutter in his place?"

A Terrorist with no regard for human life :-)

[return_fire]

Pakistan or Afghanistan, he's a dead man walking

[afraidfortherepublic]

...for some reason the sidebar moderator removed it

Could the reason be that your date of 11/12/2001 doesn't qualify it as *Breaking News*? I know you said it was a typo, but do you think the Moderator has time to read through an entire thread to find that out? Not everything that happens is a conspiracy.

[Jthro]

UBL will soon be dead if he is not already. His body may never be found. He will not be seen alive by the public anywhere.

We will hear stories linking to UBL sightings in the same way we hear about Elvis sightings at a Burger King in some obscure place. Or we will hear that he lives in South America someplace in the Amazon basin area.

[RoseofTexas]

Just one word....FFFFFFUU-------DGE!!

[Common Tator]

Let's face it, we have no idea at all where OBL may be.

The last thing we would do if we knew where he is is tell anyone in the media. I suspect we know a lot more than we are telling. How many weeks ago did the media tell us we were in a quagmire and the Taliban were certain to win? You apparently believe that because the media has been wrong on every point up to now, they are right this time. All of the media is guessing. They mostly guess wrong.

It is our goal to take out the terrorists. Our prime goal is not to take out the leaders, our prime goal is to take out the followers. Leaders of terrorists groups are easy to come by. What is hard is to get are followers. If we kill most of the followers, there won't be much left for "leaders" to lead.

But if we kill the leaders quickly the media and public opinion will demand we stop killing and come home. The followers would just get some new leaders, and we would be in danger again. So it is important to go on killing followers and letting Osama live until he is among the handful remaining... then we kill them.

If we could have killed Bin Laden the first day we would not have done it.

As the communists said, "When Lenin dies, he is replaced by Stalin who was worse then Lenin."

[BigTime]

Outstanding analysis.

[truth_seeker]

These guys are so smart they forgot to provide sanitary facilities inside their impregnable cave complex!

Totally consistent with their level of (un)civilization. In another article, it stated droppings on the cave or room floor, when found, indicated they did NOT go outside...just inside.