UPI: Bin Laden Might Be Captured Soon

UnitesStates.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2001 | UPI Wire

[Dirk McQuickly]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The United States is closed to achieving its objective in Afghanistan: capturing suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and others responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said Tuesday.

Reports from Afghanistan recount lightening victories for the Northern Alliance, which had captured more than 40 percent of Afghanistan by Tuesday afternoon and were now moving toward the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

"The fall of Kabul earlier Tuesday has sealed the fate of bin Laden and his protector, Mullah Omar, the so-called supreme leader of the Taliban," said a western diplomatic source in Islamabad.

"We will not be surprised if there is an uprising in Kandahar soon and people capture bin Laden and Mullah Omar and hand them over to the opposition forces," he said.

According to that source, U.S. intelligence officials in Afghanistan are now working with the opposition forces and Pashtun rebels in southern parts of the country to ensure that "the two fugitives are caught alive. They fear that angry opposition forces or others may kill them as soon as they are captured."

Hopes for a rapid collapse of the Taliban in Kandahar increased after an uprising against the militant group in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Most Afghan experts expected the opposition forces to face some resistance in Jalalabad as it is a Pashtun city and most Taliban rulers are also Pashtuns.

"But such events show that the Taliban were not popular anywhere. People were just afraid of them. Now that the process has started, it will be difficult for the Taliban to prevent similar uprising even in Kandahar. We expect Kandahar to fall soon," Western diplomatic sources in Islamabad said.

[bigdog]

Proper execution for OBL et al?

The "hog feast" scene in Hannibal comes to mind.

[Silly]

Oooooh, pretty!

[stanz]

I think he's going to deny us that pleasure. He said he won't allow himself to be taken alive.

[Teacher317]

picture #2, please! His body can go to the hog-farms, but that shot is PERFECT!

[rob777]

"I don't want him to die. Then, he would become a martyr for Islam. "



Not if he is killed by Moslems, whom he claims to be fighting for.

[veronica]

Dershowitz is drooling at the thought of "torture".

Oh yes please.

Some nice torture for Osama before he dies.

How about we make him 'call his family on his cell phone and tell them he is going to die' as his henchmen did to the people on the planes on 9-11.

Then some physical torture would be nice too.

[Theresa]

Osama had the NA's heroic general Massoud killed right before 9/11. Did you see Massoud's picture on the windows of the troop transporsts? He's their twin towers. The NA might just love to find and kill Osama. (And collect that reward too.)

[AlGone2001]

The United States is closed to achieving its objective in Afghanistan: capturing suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and others responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said Tuesday.

Who says that these are all of our objectives? I think that this is liberal spin to pressure President Bush to stop the war on terrorism.

[elhombrelibre]

The point is Dershowitz wants to prove there is someone as disgusting as he is. Let's not give him that chance. Kill Bin ASAP.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The Mussolini treatment would be nice.

My thoughts, precisely. And hang a pork loin from the same lamp post.

[PPCLI]

The people who are now the NA were the ones who gave Najibullah (sp?) the treatment after the Soviet puppets fell.

I feel good about leaving Bin Laden to them. (and let's not forget the satanic Egyptian doctor/deputy.) This is a time when "Diversity is our Strength" sounds just right. Other cultures can be a wonderful thing.

[madison46]

Kill Bin Laden....but he's not all I want...I want Bin Laden's 'inner circle' just as badly...and I want them dead with their heads posted on a pike.

[Mat_Helm]

NORTHERN ALLIANCE COMMANDER COMMUNICATION:
I'M SHOCKED THAT BIN LADEN WAS FOUND DEAD.....WE ARE FILLING OUT THE REPORT NOW AND DO NOT KNOW WETHER TO WRITE SUICIDE OR SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE!

[Lee'sGhost]

Ok,k,k,k,k,k. . .(ala Joe Peschi). I got it. Capture him and make him work on a prison farm for the rest of his life, mucking pig stys!

[irish_lad]

I want the bastard dead after we torture him to extract information. Then we place his head on a stake at the site of the former WTC with an inscription, "This is what happens to people who f*ck with the United States."

[gulfcoast6]

Ummm, you are saying grave yard dead?

[Illbay]

I don't care about Mullah Omar; he's fair game for the N.A.; but I would like Osama ALIVE. We need to MAKE SURE that it's him, make sure that he's seen on global news networks in a one of those darling bright orange jumpers.

[alphadog]

How about nailing his b@lls to a tree stump, and pushing him backwards...for starters.

[cardinal4]

Bring him to NYC and charge him at the state level,a couple of hours in Attica or Elmira will loosen his tongue,if he still has one after they put his scrawny terrorist ass in tha main pop.Then bring him out and "extract"every bit of info he has,and then toss him back to the animals that dwell in our state prisons.

[cardinal4]

Okay,thats good enough for me.