[Pokey78]

Ping for the MSPL.

[martin_fierro]

Osama "BEEN" (past tense) Laden <|:)~

[dennisw]

bttttttttttttttt

[E. Pluribus Unum]

CAUSE AND EFFECT

[nina0113]

Osama (if he were alive, which he's not) could hold up a copy of the International Herald Tribune, which is available everywhere in Europe & I bet the rest of the world too, though maybe a few days late.

Steyn is right - we're keeping OBL 'alive' for political reasons.

He's in Iraq. Let's get him!

Oops, got away. He's in Iran. Let's get him!

Oops, got away. He's in ... (repeat as necessary)

[Aggie Mama]

My favorite. He's the best. I love the snide remarks about his penis size.

[Constitution Day]

Mark Steyn ping!

Yes, I did read your reply to me re: Steyn on the Mencken thread the other day.
I just got overwhelmed with other replies & have been busy working on the NC Chapter of FR.

I have read Steyn before, but will pay closer attention to him now.
(I always read Florence King first because her column is on the inside last page od National Review)

CD

[Colonel_Flagg]

failing to find a body with a very long beard and a very short penis, concluded that Osama had gotten away.

Perhaps the most .. er .. cutting Steyn line I've ever read.

[galt-jw]

good lord...what a interminable screed. talk about saying very little with a whole lot of words.

[aristeides]

or even Oklahoma City, which seems more and more likely to have had a radical Islamic component.

This thought is popping up in more and more mainstream publications.

[daviddennis]

Just for the record, I have a professional-quality video editing setup in my home. It's a major hobby of mine, and if you wanted to reproduce what I have in your home it would still cost under $10k - Canon XL1 3-chip camcorder, Apple G4 dual processor system, Final Cut Pro. Total with brand new equipment is about $9k.

It's capable of creating video virtually undistinguishable from what goes out on network TV; in fact, CNN uses the same camera I own for newsgathering in risky countries.

Their "Osama is not dead" quotes sound almost desperate now. If they could produce the man, they would have produced him by now as a reassurance. I tend to agree with Mark that the second string of Al Queda doesn't seem as capable as the first -- but even the first lucked out because we weren't seriously looking for them.

D

[Dog Gone]

Great column. Steyn is the best.

[SBprone]

"......al-Qa’eda’s operatives in Florida had been instructed to send anthrax to the American media and were boneheadedly literal enough simply to look up ‘American Media’ in the phone book, it being the name of the publishers of the National Enquirer. Similarly, instructed to attack American airlines, they attacked ‘American Airlines’. "

Are our Saudi adversaries really this stupid?

YES!

[IncPen]

Number Four, Abu Zubaydah, is in US custody;

I think it's very astute of Bush and Company to say every successful intelligence/investigatory coup is 'information gleaned from Zubaydah'.

It will certainly diminish Zubaydah and make the mullahs wonder what else the boy is saying.

Which is probably nothing, but it sure will unnerve them.

[Kay Soze]

We never found Hitler's body either!

It would be foolish to ever tell the "Islamofascists" that Osama is dead.

I beleive 6 Rangers killed him in some obscure cave and burned him to ashes.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Tacky writing style ... But very effective ideas.

I like it.

[NeoCaveman]

Nonetheless, he’s already stiff, he’s six feet under, he’s bin Laiden to rest, he’s in paradise being pleasured by those 72 virgins and wondering if they’re tittering about his shortcomings.

LOL. Steyn bump.

[Jim Scott]

Mark Steyn could have used an editor on this overlong piece but he has a good point; Osama bin Laden is dead. I believe that the Bush administration simply can't prove it and are not going to state as a fact what they cannot know for certain. I don't believe this is the 'Weekend at Bernies' scenario that Steyn and others have claimed. I do know that sooner or later, al-Qa'eda will have to convincingly produce Osama bin Laden and if they cannot, the game is over.

[The Wizard]

interesting point about the reassigning of body guards

[Kay Soze]

Futhermore I do agree with his "they're chosing not to look in Saudi" meaning Bush's are so VERY VERY close to the Saudi's that even if Saudi's cut up little babys at Christian day care centers it would go unpunished by Bush.