[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by atafak

[proud American in Canada]

Wow, that's great news... counting the days! :)

[He Rides A White Horse]

"My feeling is that that is to say we will obtain information which enables us to find it, or more probably, with the collapse of the talibans in the south, somebody will give it, perhaps a local head who knows where it is", continued the minister.

I have that feeling as well.

[ConservativeyetHotChick]

Damnit! I don't want Bin Laden captured/arrested! I want him smoked out of his hole and brought to justice!!! Justice = death! No capture!

[Fearless Flyers]

Hopefully they will close in on him so doesn't have room to move, and then let the Northern Alliance go in and take him out, or better yet the women of RAWA.

I don't think he would last long in those circumstances and if a Muslim force took his miserable life they would have a hard time martyring him.

[veronica]

Osama's head on a platter by New Year's would be a lovely gift to the world from the USA.

And I get the feeling we are close to nabbing him.

I wonder why he thought he could murder 5000+ Americans and get away with it. What gave him the misguided idea that he could take on the most powerful, the most determined, the grittiest country in the world? Some people think we are soft because we are so free, so open, and so generous.

How wrong they are.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Time to PRAY!

[aristeides]

Ben Laden cerné dans une petite zone du sud-est de l'Afghanistan (presse)

dimanche 18 novembre 2001 - 12h36 GMT

LONDRES, 18 nov (AFP) - Les forces spéciales britanniques et américaines ont cerné Oussama ben Laden dans une zone de quelque 80 km2 dans le sud-est de l'Afghanistan et ne sont qu'"à quelques heures" de lui, selon le Sunday Times et le Sunday Telegraph qui citent des sources du ministère de la Défense.

Des informations "très intéressantes" qui ont été recueillies pourraient mener à l'arrestation de ben Laden "dans les jours à venir", selon une source haut placée du ministère de la Défense citée par le Sunday Telegraph.

Des commandos ont été acheminés par hélicoptère dans cette zone proche de Kandahar, le fief des talibans, pour empêcher ben Laden de se réfugier au Pakistan, selon le Sunday Times qui cite également des sources du ministère.

Selon ces sources, le terroriste présumé d'origine saoudienne serait "statique" quelque part au sud-est de Kandahar. "Pour une série de raisons, nous sommes persuadés qu'il n'a pas pu aller loin", a affirmé un responsable du ministère cité par le Sunday Times.

Oussama ben Laden se trouve toujours en Afghanistan, dans la province de Kandahar (sud), a affirmé dimanche à l'AFP Younis Qanooni, l'un des responsables de l'Alliance du nord.

"Selon mes informations, ben Laden est encore à Maruf", localité située à environ 130 kilomètres à l'est de la ville de Kandahar, a dit le ministre de l'Intérieur de l'Alliance.

"Le plan a toujours été de réduire l'espace de ben Laden", a déclaré le ministre britannique à la Défense, Geoff Hoon. "L'espace dans lequel il opère est maintenant très limité", a-t-il ajouté cité par le Sunday Times.

"Il a toujours bougé mais sa capacité à le faire est de plus en plus réduite", a estimé M. Hoon cité par le Sunday Telegraph.

"Mon sentiment est que soit nous obtiendrons des informations qui nous permettent de le trouver, ou plus vraisemblablement, avec l'effondrement des talibans dans le sud, quelqu'un le donnera, peut-être un chef local qui sait où il se trouve", a poursuivi le ministre.

Samedi soir, le représentant des talibans au Pakistan a démenti des informations indiquant que ben Laden avait quitté l'Afghanistan avec ses femmes et ses enfants.

Oussama ben Laden "est en Afghanistan mais je ne sais pas s'il est sur notre territoire ou dans la zone contrôlée par l'Alliance du Nord", a déclaré Saleem Zaeef.

[Pharmboy]

Things aren't quite the way Binny planned, eh? He assumed that we would strike back large and hard after 9-11 which would coalesce the Muslim world against us in jihad. Dubya and Co. handled things beautifully and now Binny is twisting in the wind. All we need is an Eva Braun for the final Goetterdammerung.

[rebdov]

Do not under any circumstances allow OBL to live. I don't want to hear Johnny the Cracker saying: if the turban don't fit, you gotta acquit.

I can just see in my mind's eye all the war correspondents taking daily tallies of every alleged atrocity of the N Alliance against the Taliban and Al-Qeda. I can see them checking Osama's body for every wound. And then they will be rushing, filing charges against the US in Belgium and the Hague for war crimes committed with the tacit approval of the President and the American people. Since we are more powerful than Israel, we will be able to afford to ignore the crazies, but I am certain that the charges will be laid against us. I hope that we will use them as the final provocation to wrest our sovereignty from the clutches of the UN one worlders and to prosecute our war needs where we see fit. Anyone doubt that the charges are coming?

[Windshark]

We need to get Loreena Bobbit in a veil.....

A fitting end without the refitting.

[michaelje]

I can only hope this is legit.

[American in Israel]

Give Hasbeen Laden a sex change and drop he/she off in the nearist repressive Islamic dictatorship. Tell the world he is dead.

[marshmallow]

My preference would be for us to find where he is and then collapse the entrance to his caves with one of those bunker busters. This would bury him alive. He would then be free to contemplate his approaching encounter with Allah at his leisure.

After a suitable time has elapsed , we go in and dig out the corpse, bring it back to the Arizona desert, where we stake it out on the ground in a star shape and let the buzzards have at it.

[Ol' Sparky]

Kill him, don't arrest him....

[LibKill]

Way to go Special Forces!

Now, feed his butt to some pigs but be sure to bring us his head. It will look well on a pike at ground zero.

[ClayHellion]

I also hope the first one of our folks who sees OBL blasts him into eternity. I shudder to think of what will happen if he is arrested in languishes in prison waiting on a trial. Hostages, more terror attacks, etc. trying to force his release.

[vrwconspiracist]

I hope our guys (and the NA, whom I hope gets credit for OBL's demise during an attempted capture) are polishing their ammo with pork fat.

[Slyfox]

What to do with Osama? After the trial, whatever the outcome, women wearing burqas
should have the right to inflict a little justice with whatever instrument they so desire.

[AquariusStar22]

Checkmate!

We got the b@st@ard cornered.

I wonder what the Islamic expression for a "dead duck" is?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Dear Osama:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking a slave in a fit of rage in your home cave
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in a bunker
Making press taps all in vain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find
Special forces have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun...

apologies to pink floyd, and everyone else, I couldn't resist...