(Caveat: Unconfirmed) China News Service and Yomiuri Report Osama and Omar Were Assassinated

Zhonghawa Shinwen and Yomiuri Shimbun ^ | 24 October 2001 | China News Service (from Reporter Sugiyama of Yomiuri in Beijing)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Strong Caveat: This is the first and only such report that appeared several hours ago, off of Chinese and Japanese news wires, and is unconfirmed. Therefore it is just an advisory that such a report has been filed. Merits considerable skepticism while checking its validity.

Report by China News Service quoting Japanese source in Tokyo per the following (translated by AIT from Chinese from the site at: http://www.chinanews.com.cn/2001-10-24/26/133210.html/ in Chinese, and http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/05/20011024id36.htm in Japanese):

"Chinese News Service Reports: Osama bin Laden Killed?"

Filed by Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Yomiuri Shimbun Reporter based in Beijing.

Based on Japanese sources in Tokyo, news report (s) has been received that on October 16th, both the leader of Taliban Afghanistan Omar and the leader of AlQaida, Osama bin Laden, were both shot and killed in Afghanistan, by elements within their ranks. However at this time no other news sources have confirmed the assassinations.

The CNS news report stated that it is reported that Omar and Bin Laden had returned to one of the underground Taliban bases near Kandahar in the south, at approximately 11 a.m. local time in Afghanistan on 16 October. As the two and others were entering the underground base, it was reported an ally fired upon his (Omar's) back from the rear. The report is that Omar was hit in the upper torso, and bin Laden was hit once in the chest and once in the upper left shoulder area. Both expired at that location.

The report goes on to say that accompanying bin Laden were one of his sons and this son's wife, who were also hit with gunfire in the chest, waist and shoulder areas, and they too have reported suffered fatal wounds from this attack. The second eldest son of Omar also suffered a gunshot wound to the right side of his lower torso, and escaped the shooting, but expired on the following day." End of Text

[Terrorista Nada]

Come on... this story would never remain covered up from Oct. 16th until Oct. 24th. It's a lie.

Besides, I have a news story that says Usama is in a hideout in China proteced by uniformed armed guards (Pakistani with M16s).

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa01024.html

[steve-b]

Their heads on pikes please.

...as a reminder to the next ten generations that some bargains come with too high a price.

[Terrorista Nada]

[Revolting cat!]

Thank you for the report. What I find interesting is the amount of detail in it. False reports of this sort are typically sketchy, no? Disinformation too, prefers rumour mongering...

[steve-b]

Bodies with fingerprints & teeth intact; or no dice.

IIRC, we have tissue samples from bin Laden's mother, so we can do a DNA test. As long as we get enough to insure that the person it came from is dead, the mDNA matches, and it couldn't be a sibling, he's IDd.

[txrangerette]

More "wild speculation"...Delta Force, dressed as Taliban or terrorists, wiped out those guarding the hideout, waited for Osama, Omar et al to show up, blasted them & gave the bodies to the CIA. We have them. We have a plan how, when etc. to use this. Story could be an enemy plant to explain away their deaths at our hand. Orrrrr...A plant by us for some purpose?????

[GoreFreeTN]

Just think, if he is dead, who is CNN going to interview. One of the many doubles? CNN will try real hard to make us believe it really is bin Laden. It really, really is bin laden. Poor CNN, just lost there chance to over take Fox as most watched cable news. CNN will be the only ones mad if this is true.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Even more excellent in that Vir's wish was granted!

[Terrorista Nada]

"what encoding, language, font are you using? For some systems, FR will not maintain the original text."

The same as the source article, lol.

[Constitution Day]

When I read stories like this, I feel the need to call in "the authority".

Regards,
CD

[copycat]

Eight Days ago? The only reason "friendlies" would knock off Osama and Omar would be to stop the US bombing and possibly save their own necks.

If someone had knocked off Osama and Omar to stop US bombing and end the attacks, why wouldn't they make the information public?

[atafak]

Much of the Taleban's communication abilities within Afghanistan have been destroyed. Rumors that bin Laden and his one eyed buddy, putt-putt, are dead will be hard for the Taleban to combat. I like the touch of his be killed by his own men.

[Grut]

Either it is true, partially true or it is false ...

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is probably also wrong. Such is the paucity of human imagination." - Grut's Improved Sherlock Holmes

[A Citizen Reporter]

"and it couldn't be a sibling"

Ah, there's the rub. Aren't there 54 siblings? How many are male?

[beckett]

Has a certain air of legitimacy to it, which is encouraging. But of course it means nothing until a body is presented.

Also, Zawahiri has to go too. In fact, unless we get Zawahiri, al-Quaeda is still completely open for business.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Posted too quick there. There aren't 54 children of his mother! DOH!

[copycat]

Hello and Goodbye?

[Don Joe]

"The same as the source article, lol"

See if you can paste it into Notepad, then copy from Notepad. That will generally strip away any non-ASCII attributes (presuming it's legible in Notepad).

[Osinski]

Always love reading your posts.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Secret Agent Man! ROTFLOL!