[zarf]

more speculation.....he's actually working for Hormel making "Potted Meat Product".

[Sungirl]

Why are you posting this as a thread?

[HiJinx]

Interesting concept. After reading the infamous last line, one is led to believe that even if Osama Bin Laden is alive he doesn't exist. Gives pause for thought...

[stanz]

It makes sense.......

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great post. I agree osammy is no longer with us and his passing is marked by the date I picked in the poll, April 16, 2002. Sabertooth needs to pay up.

[RightWhale]

There was the statement by the man who buried OBL back in Dec, and Musharraf's opinion sometime in Jan that indicate OBL had expired by Dec 15, possibly a little earlier. Of pneumonia brought on by the stress of an existing ailment, the need to keep moving, and the unhealthy air inside of caves in Afghanistan.

[John Jamieson]

Why do you state your opinion as if it were fact? A lot of that on FR.

[Hugin]

The fact that no one tried to camouflage or hide the background indicates that the people who sent the tape to the Al Jazeera TV station knew that the rocks and the mountains could disclose the location, but it did not matter anymore.

It looked like a blue screen job to me. But I agree with the premise, which I have been saying for months.

[Redcloak]

Bin Laden didn't show his face to the world for the last 41/2 months.

Another reason not to show his face: It's shaved and hiding under a burqa.

[Robert357]

Thank you for the reference to the LA Times article, which we can't copy in full for our accademic review and education. I checked out the LA Times article and found it interesting, especially, "When I saw the excerpts from the so-called "new" Bin Laden tape broadcast Monday, I knew that Bin Laden didn't exist anymore. This was a desperate move to somehow fuel the hopes of his disciples that their leader is still alive."

As the author says this is just common sense. The author of the piece obviously examined the tape closely as he then goes on to say..."One portion of the tape likely shows a pre-December Bin Laden. His beard in the latest tape is darker than it was in a late December tape, and his skin looks much healthier. The grass is too green to represent a post-icy winter growth."

In thinking about this, I found his arguments pretty convincing, especially later on in the article, when he indicated that Bin Laden, if alive and in a safe location, would have made some kind of tape with a current newspaper to prove to his followers and to the Americans that he was more powerful than the US military forces tracking him down.

Yes, I too suspect that Bin Laden is being eaten by worms as we speak. I hope he died a horrible death. I visited ground zero in NYC on Veterans day last year after I spent some time in St Pat's Church. I will never get the vision out of my mind of those people in the Twin Towers jumping out of windows to their death. I want the U.S. military to show the Al-Quada no mercy.

[Icthus]

You are all wrong.........I saw him last month in Hollywood!

He won Best Actor for "The Invisible Man"

[John Jamieson]

Sorry Tumbleweed, I missed that it was from LAT. Me bad, sorry. LAT to blame.

[linn37]

Ollie North says usama is worm food.

[texlok]

I think he's been dead for a while, otherwise a new tape would have popped up - his supporters have been losing faith in him (not these recycled tapes that have turned up in the past couple of days that were made before and shortly after 9/11).

He looked sickly in the last real tape he made.

[colorado tanker]

I'm coming around to the "dead" view myself. This tape looks like a splice job intended to give the appearance to the faithful and to the West that Binny is still alive. If he really were, Al Jazeera would be playing fresh tape to whip everyone up. The remaining senior leadership must doubt they can hold the network together if they announce his "martyrdom."

Actually, the best evidence is that if you play the tape backwords at 33 1/3 rpm you can hear "Osama is dead."

[Pagey]

Why would ANYONE read the BIASED LA SLIMES?Spare yourself and don't go there.