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.

[mgstarr]

I agree with you - but I'd prefer to have his head on a pointed stick.
The psychological impact would be greater.

[sphinx]

Dershowitz is drooling at the thought of "capture".

Nah. Bush has frozen OBL's assets. He couldn't afford Dershowitz now.

[Leto]

There are jsut 2 fugitives I wsant all his assoicates dead. I thought there were about 2k AlQaeda terrorist in Afganistan.

[RoughDobermann]

RoughDobermann;" I say ya let me have him first!" (and, no, not what you're thinking!)

[Slyfox]

I want him to languish forever in an American jail far from horses, goats and weapons and his 4 wives.

Well, he can still have 'wives' in jail and not just the nutjobs who fall in love with him through letter correspondence. What I'd like to see is solitary confinement with absolutely no contact with other muslim prisoners. And no appeals before he gets what McVeigh got.

[kingh99]

Head on a pike.

This the radical muslims understand.

Head on a pike it is.

[MarketR]

Now don't get all crazy on me...

I want him delivered to us alive for a session with a little water, a battery charger and a few questions about his buddies in the US.

But, as far as you I or the world will ever know, he shot himself in the head before capture. As any good coward would do. No martyr, no trial, no more Osama...on to Bahgdad and the next problem on the list.

[d14truth]

Until I see 'proof positive' to the contrary, I am going by the unconfirmed reports of Osama's and Omar's October 16 departures to the netherworld at the hands of their Afghani 'friends'.

All the subsequent releases of statements and tapes have not given me any reason to believe otherwise.

[westnews]

Let's not kill him yet. Let's put him in a cage and tour him through America for everybody's delight. Just like the midevil days. Spittin on him, throwin rotten fruit. Then get him on Network T.V. -> FOX T.V. special - Who Wants to Execute a Terrorist?

[LibWhacker]

That's a good point. I just hope we do it him over there and not bring him back here to stand trial.

[ArGee]

I like the press conference on the White House grounds with President Bush addressing the nation, and world, saying "This is what we do to our enemies." while the camera zooms out showing the heads of Laden and Omar on pikes with the White House in the background.

You're kidding, right?????

The EPA would be in there to shut down the White House in a heartbeat. We can't have our President hamstrung like that.

Have him do it from his ranch in Crawford. Soak the heads in pigs blood first.

Shalom.

[connectthedots]

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."

This statement is merely for public consumption. The U.S. wants him dead. If Muslims execute him, after Muslims captured him, the Arab countries that privately support the U.S. will have all the 'cover' they need. It will also send a message to the rest of worlds terrorist leaders that they cannot hide and they cannot escape.

Do not be surprised if Saddam is next, or at least one of the terrorist leaders he finances and trains.

Bush will not stop with Osama Bin Laden.

[monocle]

I prefer "disappearance" since it avoids martyrdom and the roll of the dice in this country.

[kingh99]

We can dream can't we?

[Romulus]

Dershowitz is drooling at the thought of "capture".

Actually, so is Osama. He'd be the center of worldwide attention and the focus of terrorist stunts for years to come. Capture is the best possible career move he could make. I anticipate his early surrender to US armed forces (not the Northern Alliance).

[arete]

I don't even think that he is still in Afganistan. I believe that he has already secretly fled to either Somalia or is sitting with his friends in Saudi Arabia. Probably left a few loyal fanatics behind at the cave to put up a last stand before blowing it all up. That way, he gets to start all over again with the "come and get me coppers" routine.

Richard W.

[MarketR]

No trial!

Water, battery charger, lots of screaming and ANSWERS to who is in this country who should not be!

[CatoRenasci]

Head on a pike smeared in pig fat, body sewn into a pig's carcass, put into a cage and left to rot in the Afghan winter.

[lunatic12]

He should be taken dead, but he must be taken, to avoid rumours of his escape. Sealing him in some cave won't do.

Ideally, George W should display Osama's head to the infidel Washington press corp just as Perseus did with Medusa.

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