Report: Bin Laden Predicts 'Martyrdom' in New Tape [A new videotape!?!]

Reuters ^ | 12 February 2003 | Reuters

[Petronski]

Hoax? I don't know. I read elsewhere that Bill Press called it a 'videotape.'

[finnman69]

He's selling it? Something stinks.

[Chi-townChief]

In other words, they'll toss Binnie's already-dead body somewhere and blow it up.

[VaBthang4]

More drivel.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evidently they scraped up enough of his remains to lace them into a batch of C4.

[My2Cents]

I think the Islamofascists have finally realized that with Bin Laden already blown to bits in Tora Bora, they have no "martyr". So they need to manufacture one.

[Numbers Guy]

Khan said the new Ansaar tape also claims a war on Iraq is a precursor to an invasion of Saudi Arabia.

Shhhh!!!! We're trying to keep this quiet, Osama . . .

[monkeyshine]

$20,000? They could get a lot more if they sold it on Ebay.

[RummyChick]

I could see Osama wanting to go out in some big way...it would have to be a spectacular attack. Like something taking out the President or nuking some city.

[concerned about politics]

In other words, they'll toss Binnie's already-dead body somewhere and blow it up.

That's what I was thinking as I read the article. They want a new live leader. The Bin Ladin thing is starting to work in our favor.

[RayBob]

He's already dead. This is their way of dealing with the "if he's alive, why no videos of him holding up today's NYT or USA Today" queries. Next big explosion, they say OBL did the deed and died as a martyr.

[blam]

$20,000? Geez...I have one for just $10,000.

[ZinGirl]

"Indeed surely this year will I lead my steed and hurl it, and my soul, at one of the targets ... and I become a martyr," Imran Khan, who runs Ansaar in the Midlands city of Birmingham, translated the tape as saying.

perhaps we should get a 2nd opinion on this translation? however, it would be interesting to see Osama "hurling" his steed AND his soul. What is 'soul-hurling', anyway? Will he be hurling his steed's soul?

[kinghorse]

For my next act I will pull a fatwah out of my azz.

[concerned about politics]

Next big explosion, they say OBL did the deed and died as a martyr.

I'd demand to have the "remains" tested - like how old are these dry bones?

[gg188]

this year will I lead my steed and hurl it, and my soul, at one of the targets

Sounds more like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers'. Maybe the beginning of a rap song by Dr. Evil...

I will lead my steed and become a martyr
Hurl it, unfurl it, the world's greatest farter...

Or something like that.

[Hatteras]

"Indeed surely this year will I lead my steed and hurl it, and my soul, at one of the targets ... and I become a martyr,..."

Maybe he was one of the four ME-looking fellas that bought a few bags of fertilizer and copper wire from a Lowe's Store outside of Raleigh last week?...

Hmmmm....

[ARCADIA]

I could see Osama wanting to go out in some big way...it would have to be a spectacular attack.

Maybe Osama died in Tora Bora and they have been using some sort of impersonator or impersonator technology to create the audio tapes. They'll want to kill their "Osama" off before the ruse is discovered. So they report him martyred sometime this year. That way American doesn't credit for the kill.

This tape may just be "foreshadowing."

[JennysCool]

Indeed surely this year will I lead my steed and hurl it, and my soul, at one of the targets ... and I become a martyr

Promises, promises.