[Windsong]

As a sidenote, I don't even think Usama is alive. I suspect the Navy SEALS or Green Berets (take your pick) probably found him and tortured him to death.

[Mom_Grandmother]

kattraks just posted an article that is connected to this one, I highly recommend that interested FReepers check it out.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/702993/posts

Arabic news bared

Washington Times | 6/20/02 | Sean Salai

Posted on 6/20/02 12:34 AM Pacific by kattracks

At the H Street home of the Middle East Media Research Institute

EXCERPTS:

(MEMRI), five linguists can create a media stir simply by translating, accurately, Arabic-language news stories on their black Dell computers. From its nine-room office, which looks more like the corporate headquarters of a small Saudi oil company, MEMRI distributes, via e-mail and fax, translations of comments about America in mainstream Arabic-language newspapers and in speeches by Muslim leaders. U.S. officials say the translated texts sometimes are unnerving.

Ninety-nine U.S. senators cited MEMRI translations in an April 25 letter to President Bush. "We are concerned about the vitriolic, hateful and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has been circulating throughout much of the Arab media," they said. "That many of these statements originated in the state-controlled media of presumed allies is all the more troubling."

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As a sidenote, I don't even think Usama is alive. I suspect the Navy SEALS or Green Berets (take your pick) probably found him and tortured him to death.

I think he died like a coward trembling in a cave somewhere. He was a wispy man who, like his army, probably withered under pressure. Word has it that many of his loyal body guards have been spotted in various different venues leading to speculation that if Sparky was still alive, they'd be helping him wipe in the morning or whatever was required like a good servant.