Posted on 11/26/2001 10:11:50 AM PST by veronica
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (AP) - There's a lot of speculation about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. But an Afghan militia leader says the terror suspect may be hiding inside a 13,000-foot-high mountain.
Hazrat Ali says bin Laden, along with Taliban members and al-Qaida fighters, may all be hiding in what's known as Tora Bora. It's a man-made complex built in a mountain not far from the Pakistan border.
Ali, who used the complex when fighting the Soviets two decades ago, says he's "70-percent" sure bin Laden is there.
Ali says he believes bin Laden wants to stay close to the Pakistan border.
The Tora Bora complex, with a doorway that is hidden by pine trees, runs more than a thousand feet into the mountain. And it's said to feature such modern conveniences as electrical wiring and a ventilation system.
Aye, lassie... It's all yours!
I've gotten a wee bit tired o' the bad name the Moorish snakes 've been givin' the color green, meself.
I wonder if Osama would go to the obvious place. He has been dumb before, using a satellite phone and thinking it was secure.
Any underground hideaway will be more of a tomb than an escape. Look for the sleeper cells to unleash a bunch of attacks the moment Osama is captured or dead.
Then I would imagine bin Laden knows that too, but as you have noted he has been careless in the past.
Sure Osama would love to draw the US into a bloody land battle....if he could.
But he won't be there.
Hundreds of his toughest, most fanatical fighters, with millions of rounds of ammo and food for months, but not Osama. After we have blown up or incinerated all of his best cave fighters, we will be pressed to declare that Osama is among the dead inside.
This will make his glorious appearance in the Pakistan slums all the more inspiring to his flock.
If OBL is not already in a safe house in Pakistan, he is hidden in a ninth-tier unknown cave in an unexpected area with no more than ten personal bodyguards.
He's a very smart man, and he has thought all of this out on many levels.
Only a fool underestimates a man who destroyed the mightiest skyscrapers with boxcutter knives.
One does not "adhere" to "heterosexuality" it is, for normal men and women, just a component part of the normal state of being.
And there is probably no population on Earth with a higher ratio of shirt-lifting, mattress-munching, pillow-biting, little-boy-raping turd-burglers per capita than the muslem-Arab population of North Africa, Arabia and the Mid-East.
Sodomists are a dime a dozen there and it is very normal for men to walk about hand in hand and arm in arm and to be very physical with each other, including in public.
Arab men kiss one other as casually as the rest of the world's men shake hands.
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