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Report: U.S. Special Forces May Have Captured Osama Bin Laden [World Tribune, consider the source]
World Tribune Breaking News ^ | May 1. 2003 | special report staff

Posted on 05/01/2003 7:11:52 AM PDT by ewing

The London based Al Hayat daily reported Thursday that United States forces may have captured Osama Bin Laden.

The newspaper quoted Pakastani military sources as saying Osama Bin Laden could have been one of the Al Qaeda leaders siezed by the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldtribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bigone; elvisbinladin; osama; pakastani; report; specialops; thisisveyhugh
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To: martin_fierro
"TWO THUBS UP!"

LOL!
81 posted on 05/01/2003 9:40:17 AM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: headsonpikes
Yes, I think the Thubs reference needs to be added to the FReeper Malaprops Collection vey soon. <|:)~
82 posted on 05/01/2003 9:42:38 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: MattGarrett
Somehow, I think if this were true it would break on FOX.

Fred Barns did coyly suggest that the president may be keeping some surprise announcement to go with his speach from the carrier tonight.

83 posted on 05/01/2003 9:56:05 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom
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To: Grampa Dave
LOL! Great cartoon, Dave
84 posted on 05/01/2003 10:02:21 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Cuttnhorse
Mike needs to redo his cartoon and put OSammy Been Laid in the backseat of the car!


85 posted on 05/01/2003 10:08:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: katana
It is amazing to see the difference in management style and accomplishment between an Arkansas law school graduate and a Texan with an Ivy League MBA. One was focused on BS appearances and empty rhetoric, the other on seamless coordination of national security assets.

Actually, Bubba is an Ivy League product also. He attended Law School at Yale.

86 posted on 05/01/2003 10:31:20 AM PDT by Norman Arbuthnot
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To: redheadtoo
and will speak to the German people in 3 days...
87 posted on 05/01/2003 10:37:14 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: My2Cents
Don't forget Jimmy Hoffa.

Backup vocals.

88 posted on 05/01/2003 11:18:40 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: ewing; ASA Vet
Tools used by the Special Forces to make this capture:


89 posted on 05/01/2003 2:40:59 PM PDT by steve-b
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To: hapy
Several on FOX were talking today that Bush loves to have a surprise for his speeches. You don't suppose he's going to announce this capture ... won't the liberals be in a SNIT ... This would be just tooooooooo good ...!!!
90 posted on 05/01/2003 4:36:04 PM PDT by CyberAnt ( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
The figures I used included all attacks with AK47's and did not include molotov coctails, grenade or knife attacks or the figures would have been much higher. There were over 15 shooting attacks a day all year long, most days the levels reached 30. The Arabs like to shoot up cars on the highways as the Jews are going to work or taking thier kids to school as you can wipe out a whole family with little risk.
91 posted on 05/01/2003 10:10:36 PM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
If you do not want to count those incidents, why all the stir over the guy riding around with his buddy shooting up people from the trunk? After all, he did less sniping attacks in total then the Arabs do every day over here!

Funny how when the bullets are flying in your backyard it is so much more serious than when it is in the Jews backyard...

92 posted on 05/01/2003 10:13:24 PM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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To: American in Israel
If you count that sort of thing, then every carjacking and drug deal and home invasion in America gone bad is "terrorism". Where does crime end and terrorism begin? I don't know, but I don't think "terrorism" includes random killings, as most people think of it.

The Mohammad and Malvo incident would be equivalent to a couple of Palestinians being responsible for many killings. I'm sure there are some serial killers like that, and that is more akin to terrorism than your typical murders and attempted murders are. But not all Palestinian shootings (or Israeli shootings, to put the shoe on the other foot) are like that.

I think what strikes most people as terroristic incidents are the suicide bombings and mass shootings, including those occasional ones perpetrated by an Israeli, like Baruch Goldstein.

93 posted on 05/02/2003 4:55:24 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: freedomson
Bump for later reading.
94 posted on 05/02/2003 2:50:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Boycott Smuckers Jelly ! ! ! ! !)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
If you count that sort of thing, then every carjacking and drug deal and home invasion in America gone bad is "terrorism". Where does crime end and terrorism begin?

It is pretty simple. A carjacking is to steal the car, a drug deal is to buy drugs, but mines placed in public roads or setting up a machinegun pit to slaugher people driving down a highway is not a "crime" per se, as the motive is to kill someone at random to create fear in the general populace. We had, in the year discussed well over four THOUSAND such attempted killings. The only reason I responded to the thread is the obvious double standard the State Department is usings. Somehow, when terrorism is used against Jews, it is not terrorism, but when terrorism is used against anybody else it is. I do not know how direct you can get, setting up an ambush squad against some lady driving to school to deliver her kids, but some how, when it happens against Jews many times a day It is overlooked.

But the one case where you get a balistic Jew, it is never overlooked, and some how the 10,000 attacks in this intifadda alone is seen as a balance to the 1 whole attack by a nutcase. (Which by the way is quite a strange case as there are a lot of left-wing political groups involved in setting this one up).

For instance your comment on Jews shooting. Less incidents have happened in three years of this terrorism war than happen every single day over here by Arabs against Jews. But you like most of the rest fall right into the "cycle of violence" garbage. How can it be seen as a cycle when there are thousands of attacks every year by arabs and one or less a year by Jews?

Bias is a nice way to point out the clear agenda of the Pogram, something you are perhaps an unwitting part of. But the blood on you hands as you push this lie, still stains. At even a hundred to one perhaps you could be fooled, but at a thousand to one it is pretty obvious to anybody that this Middle East power struggle is simply the Arabs want to kill all the Jews and take all their land on their path to take all the world.

If you take the huge nation of Israel and place it in little bitty Arabia you end up with a whole match box in the middle of a football field. Seems pretty silly for Arabs to want to fight over half the matches, but for 15 nations, every one of them many times the size of Israel, it is all they talk about. Wiping out the Jews is their only goal in life.

By all means, ride in their wagon if you wish. All wagons lead to the Judgement day, but you might wish to start preparing your case now. I suspect it is going to be pretty hard to justify backing 22 police states with the worst historys on human rights in the world against the only free country in this quarter of the globe before God. I suspect He will not be amused. It is not like you have not been warned, He said he would set up Jerusalem as a stumbling block in the last days, and whoever would move it, He will cut in pieces.

Prepare to be sliced and diced dude.

95 posted on 05/03/2003 5:00:48 AM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

96 posted on 05/03/2003 5:02:09 AM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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To: American in Israel
Its amazing how things jump from discussing whether or not there are 3000 (or 4000) unrecorded incidents of terrorism in Israel (which I will take your word for, though I have no way of verifying it, and personally think it seems high) to wild accusations of being a fervent sympathizer of the drive of Arab governments and people to kill all Jews.

Where the hell did that come from?

My view, just so you are clear.

I am in favor of a crusade to wipe out Islam and all its governments from the earth. I agree with St. Bernard that killing a Muslim in a crusade is a Sacramental and a holy duty to God. I despise every single one of the Muslim governments. The only people living among the Muslims that I like are the Christian Arabs (Copts, Maronites, Assyrians, etc.).

However, I don't hate the Arabs (and Turks and Persians), I just don't like their majority religion. I'd love us to drop a bunker buster on the big black rock in Mecca, or see the Ultra-Orthodox blow up the Dome of the Rock. Elijah would not have hesitated.

But I also don't carry water for the Jews, inlcuding the Jews in Israel, even though they are in a mutual anatagonism towards the Muslim Arabs. I am and remain a Catholic, so the Jews will never be my allies in turning the world to the way I think it should be, unless they convert. Same as goes for the Arabs and Turks and Persians.

You apparently operate under the misapprehension that one must pick a side - pro Israel or pro Muslim. This misses the possibility that some of us might be against both groups and only pro Christian.

97 posted on 05/03/2003 2:40:32 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
3000 (or 4000) unrecorded incidents of terrorism in Israel (which I will take your word for, though I have no way of verifying it, and personally think it seems high)

Actualy it was documented by the Israeli Government. I forgot the figures exactly, but if I run across the report again I will forward it to you.

You and I have an excuse to not be exact, the State Department does not. They have Israel's figures on tap. They CHOSE to not include it.

98 posted on 05/04/2003 11:34:42 AM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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