Osama's Alive And Itching To Burn US - Report

IOL ^ | 7-30-2002

[Kenton]

If Osama sets loose a bunch of "sleepers" to commit more mayhem in the USA, I just have this feeling that the American public will completely loose patience with anything Islamic in America. Which is a fairly gentle way of saying something far more ominous, of course.

[Numbers Guy]

Let's see, one day after a story in a Saudi paper implying that bin Laden is dead, we get a response from Al Qaeda sources talking to the same paper.

I'm sure there are terrorist attacks in the works. I'm also sure there's a video of bin Laden. Of course it will be a video from 2001 cut and pasted to look more current, because he's toast.

[sam_paine]

What in the he!! does this article say????!!?!?!

1) OBL is alive and well and going to do something in August and be on TV.

2) OBL was seriously injured OR KILLED in the raids. So he may not do #1.

3) OBL's son is taking over, because of #2, and this proves OBL is alive?!?!

GEEZE!! WHICHIZZIT??? I'm sorry but this article is schizophrenic.

[Salgak]

In other words, the start of the North American Crusade. It won't be pretty for Muslims in America, ESPECIALLY unassimilated Muslims in America, if Osama strikes again. . .

[backhoe]

I just have this feeling that the American public will completely loose patience with anything Islamic in America.

All it will take is another 911-style large incidence, or a homicide bomber in a mall or daycare center, and The Religion of Peace(TM) will become "The Religion Torn to Pieces."

These Islamic fools and fanatics forget too easily what we did to that Thousand Year Reich...

[newcats]

Kinda like....He is either dead or alive.....in Afghanastan or some other country? But that wasn't schizophrenic?
Even if the goobermint had the body, they would never admit it. They need him (or his image) alive.

[T. P. Pole]

Did I miss his July 4th video? Was that from this same source?

[cajungirl]

those crazy arabs and their threats. I guess they never heard the story of the boy who called wolf. If this is posturing, my guess, they are on their way to being laughingstocks. If it is true and thereis an attack, they are on their way to being much worse toast than they imagine. Either way, they lose.

[Wondervixen]

Let 'em attack again & when Mecca is a parking lot before the sun comes up the next morning, I think they'll begin to see the big picture a little clearer.

[Salvey]

If Osama sets loose a bunch of "sleepers" to commit more mayhem in the USA, I just have this feeling that the American public will completely loose patience with anything Islamic in America. Which is a fairly gentle way of saying something far more ominous, of course.

That presupposes that the media will report such incidents accurately. My guess is that they'd describe such mayhem as "isolated incidents unconnected to any terror network, blah, blah."

[backhoe]

They provoke us at their own peril.

There is no nation on Earth slower to wrath than America, but there is also no nation more terrible when aroused.

We went from being an isolationist, largely agrarian country into the fiercest war machine ever seen after Pearl Harbor, and drove Hitler's Reich and Imperial Japan into smoking rubble in merely a few years.

You saw those miners? That's the "real" America- a little rough, a little gritty, but hard as a diamond inside and tough as Monel metal.

[backhoe]

when Mecca is a parking lot before the sun comes up

That's really what it comes down to, doesn't it?

We have to have that kind of iron in the soul to make, and keep, such a promise. I'm willing.

[Paulus Invictus]

More than Mecca, we have to be concerned about Saudi Arabia. They are the source of Bin Laden, after all, plus a majority of the suicide bombers. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and Arafat's Palestine also have to go bye bye if we are attacked again. Do we have the cojones? One wonders...

[DreamWeaver]

I just have this feeling that the American public will completely loose patience with anything Islamic in America. Which is a fairly gentle way of saying something far more ominous, of course.

Most likely that will be the case. Sad to say, but this was OBL's plan and desire, to turn this into an Anti Ilamic issue. We are, unfortunately fulfilling his dream and plan.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Asharq Al-Awsat

Perhaps this is Arabic for 'covering all the bases'. Or, more informally, "All your base are belong to us".

[blam]

"More than Mecca, we have to be concerned about Saudi Arabia. They are the source of Bin Laden, after all, plus a majority of the suicide bombers. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and Arafat's Palestine also have to go bye bye if we are attacked again. Do we have the cojones? One wonders...

This all should have already happened, IMO.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Sad to say, but this was OBL's plan and desire, to turn this into an Anti Ilamic issue. We are, unfortunately fulfilling his dream and plan.

I agree about the former not the latter IF we have the mettle to carry it out to its final conclusion.

[MJemison]

The Saudi's are not our friends. Mayhap we should send a large pointy object hurtling towards their continent, and turn it into glass.

[goldstategop]

Osama's been reported alive so many times it makes one's head spin. It doesn't jibe with a report that his son's taken over Al Qaeda. If he really were alive I don't think he'd cede control to any one. Count him down as stiff Binnie.