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Al-Qa'eda chief betrayed by bin Laden's friend
The Daily Telegraph ^
| March 5, 2003
| Philip Smucker
Posted on 03/04/2003 5:44:03 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: IncPen
as well as a masterful way for the USGov't to get out of paying the snitch reward ;-)
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posted on
03/04/2003 7:35:24 PM PST
by
DontMessWithMyCountry
(It's serious business being an American in America these days.)
To: MadIvan
bttt
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posted on
03/04/2003 7:39:11 PM PST
by
The Wizard
(Demonrats are enemies of America)
To: MadIvan
I hope and pray this is disinformation ... this guy is one of THEM who fought with them at Tora Bora and giving him blood money stinks to high heaven.
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posted on
03/04/2003 7:47:30 PM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberate Iraq!!)
To: Cautor
Bump! Seems the "brave" camel-humpers can't take what they dish out to women, children, and other innocents. Hey boys, they're coming to take you away.Yep, all their boasting about martyrdom, blah, blah, blah... They're REAL tough when it comes to slitting the throats of stewardesses but sure do give up quickly when the FBI/CIA knocks on their door. I heard a rumor the France is considering giving Bin-Al-Shibh, Khaled, and Abdel-Rahman honorary citizenships.
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posted on
03/04/2003 7:47:42 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: AF68
These Sand Nazi...lol, I love it.
To: MadIvan
Pakistani officials said that, under duress, he had divulged information hehehehehe
To: MadIvan
bump
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:00:05 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: IncPen
How would we benefit from the world thinking Osama's alive if he's really dead?
I think bin Laden's spiritual advisor these days has horns and a pointy tail...
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:03:35 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: IncPen
How would we benefit from the world thinking Osama's alive if he's really dead?
I think bin Laden's spiritual advisor these days has horns and a pointy tail...
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:03:36 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: MadIvan
[Pakistani officials said that, under duress, he had divulged information about the head of al-Qa'eda's military committee, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with whom he had been hiding.]
I for one hope they refused all requests to re-attach his gonads.
To: GOPJ
How would we benefit from the world thinking Osama's alive if he's really dead? I can think of a hundred reasons, but here's a good one: If word got out that Osama was dead, the dumbocrats would say the war on terror job was done, and we should stop this costly and meaningless war.
Within three years we'd all be speaking Farsi.
Here's another: It's probably true that many of his own followers don't know his fate. The more the CIA gins up and sends out fake messages, the more traffic they foster among his followers and the better chance we have of catching them. Also, we don't have to guess what the heirarchy is as long as some think he may return (would you as a lowly follower want to usurp him?)
Osama's very alive until he's better dead, then he will be much better dead. Which may be never.
Trust me on this.
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posted on
03/05/2003 3:45:15 AM PST
by
IncPen
To: IncPen
Your answer shows great insight. The Osama story line does work for us, but why did you chose "farsi" as the language we'd be speaking?(It was an example, but did your thoughts go beyond that?)
By the way, I believe Iran would be a more formidable enemy than Iraq or any of the other middle eastern countries.
"Within three years we'd all be speaking Farsi".
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posted on
03/05/2003 8:52:59 AM PST
by
GOPJ
To: cajungirl
What does that mean, being a sheik? I always thought it was a brand of condom!
To: GOPJ
Farsi, schmarsi.
It's all the same in the end: Islamists have a single goal of eliminating the West. Farsi was the first language that popped into my head. They won't rest until we submit to them
I thought of another bin Laden related thing...
If he's alive and we get him, then what? Try him? Where do we keep him? Which network gets to interview him first? What if H!llary just wants us to understand him? How do we stop THAT line of insanity?
Or, if he's dead, where do we bury him? How do we prevent the place from becoming a shrine? How do we prevent his remains from being stolen? What profit is there in it if we make him a martyr?
Like Hitler, history will best remember us if we have the good sense to leave future generations wondering (with a wink, no less), "What ever happened to that bin Laden fella?".
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posted on
03/05/2003 9:03:52 AM PST
by
IncPen
To: IncPen
Oh yeah, one more thing.
When you want to know the real reason for the war on Iraq (after the obvious ones), take a look at a map
You'll see why we aren't getting much support in the Arab world. From Iraq we'd have a two-front vantage on pretty much any scumbag country in the region.
And that's a beautiful thing.
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posted on
03/05/2003 9:48:49 AM PST
by
IncPen
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