Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive

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[Zuben Elgenubi]

Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive

AP - 44 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden vowed never to be captured alive and said the U.S. military had become as "barbaric" as Saddam Hussein in an audiotape reposted on a militant Islamic Web site after first being broadcast last month.

In the tape posted to the Web site Monday, bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil. The tape was initially broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel.

[Herakles]

"Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive"

OBL; kill yourself now; why wait? At least if you do it now you won't suffer the indignity of having your disgusting ass dragged out of a cave and put on display by a group of America's finest. Anyhow, aren't you concern about getting your fair share of 72 virgins that you having been promising all the other stupids that believe what you say!

[sandbar]

Not mention, as with Saddamn, he would have a podium to spout his garbage and rally the troops so to speak.

[Unkosified]

Who is Jim?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Remember McCoy? "He's dead, Jim"

[FriendDownUnder]

Hasn't this been posted at least once already?

[DeaconRed]

Dead works OK for me.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Yes, as ASA Vet reminded me earlier on this thread, Right Here.

I did a check and didn't get a hit so since my post from Yahoo originally stated "44 minutes ago", I thought it would be safe to post. Almost put it in "Breaking News"!

[LilDarlin]

And there's a problem with this statement????

I don't get it....

[ASA Vet]

these terrorists don't have a right to a trial

With what crime could Elvis Bin Laden be charged? And what court admissible evidence could be presented to support that charge?

[Niuhuru]

Considering his crimes, they might even be virgins. Far from it I'm sure. :)

[Americanexpat]

He wasn't a soldier, he was an Iraqi who had fled to the states and then worked as an inter peter fro the Army.

[right right]

Good, hope he doesn't get captured, be a waste of food to feed the pig. Ideally he will be struck by lightening while making a tape.

[Unkosified]

LOL! Gotcha. :)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Good. Let's make him dead - dead as a doornail.

[ASA Vet]

That would explain the chin growth.

[sarasota]

I think the term "barbaric" (if it was translated accurately) quite possibly means the manner in which he was captured. Cowardly, without honor.

[Americanexpat]

I read an article about this guy a year or so ago, pretty good. He wanted to kill Saddam because of relatives he lost to Saddams governemt.

[SevenMinusOne]

I am quite sure OBL has been dead for YEARS. I am mystified as to why the only words we hear from the government every time an OBL statement is released is to confirm that it very probably IS him and he very probably IS alive.....somewhere. If he were alive, there is NO reason he wouldn't show his face on a videotape the way he did in 2001-2. EVENTUALLY we will find out WHEN he died , and it will turn out TO HAVE BEEN sometime soon after the last videotaped statement we were privy to. EVen if he was so sick and physically compromised for the last few years that he didn't want to appear in a weakened state on film, I am sure some Islamic makeup artist/special effects expert would have come forward to offer his or her services. If I were in charge of this, I would issue a statement like the following. " OBL, if you are alive , show your face, not just your voice. Show us yourself on film, with PROOF that it is YOU, and not a LOOKALIKE, and give us proof as to WHEN the footage was shot, by holding a newspaper, say, the New York Times, bearing the date the film was shot. Refer to a current event SPECIFICALLY, but above all, SHOW YOUR FACE AND FORM the way you did before."

Wrong on all accounts - First off UBL was never one to put out numerous video tapes (this is simply a myth, just like the kidney disease myth that was debunked by OGAs back in the late 90's).

The reality is the first few "videos" of UBL that made their way to the media after Sept 11th....were not "released" by UBL....but were "recovered" during U.S. military Ops.....(and then released).

Furhtermore UBL is much more concerned with staying alive then with putting out propaganda videos....Nor should one speculate that all video's or audios released by him have made their way to his intended destination???.....Some may have been "intercepted" shall we say...along the way.

UBL is very much alive and being hunted by brave warriors risking their lives 24/7. Everyone from the CIC to the members of these Teams are aware of this fact. Just as Zawahiri, M. Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani,Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and a half dozen other HVTs remain alive in this region of hte world...so does UBL.

Understand...UBL is eking out a survival in (most likely) Pakistan's North West Frontier Province - We are talking approximately 40,000 + square miles of the most rugged terrain on earth.

Also understand the Afghan / Pakistan border stretches 1,500 miles—roughly the distance from Washington, D.C., to Denver (just to get an idea of the size we are talking).

Throughout the NW Frontier & the Tribal Areas Pashtun tribes are completely in control. A group of warlords who are autonomous from any centralized Gov't - Pakistan troops (Gov't troops) haven't controlled these areas in over a century -

Again the terrain in this region of the world is some of the most brutal on earth -Making any sustained operations a complete nightmare. Let alone having to conduct any of these Ops in the black (as much as possible).

With that said, we are slowly encircling these HVT's....few survive 06 (IMO).

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Wow, that would be an interesting take. I did not even consider it.