Bin Laden Reportedly Back at Helm of al Qaeda

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | Aug 27,10:12 AM ET | Michael Georgy

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Bin Laden's bin dead.

Ya beat me to it.

[bandlength]

. . . living in france. . .

[pittsburgh gop guy]

This report is bogus!!!

"Bin Laden was in good health ...."

Uh - the guy needed to have dialysis and was not in good health before we started to rain daisycutters down on the Afghan countryside. He is dead in a cave somewhere - never to REALLY be heard from again.

And why the hell have al Quadea not done anything else in the past 11 months? I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and for sleeping cells to be activated. Not to say that they don't exist, but what the hell are they waiting for if they do? I hope that 9/11 was the only hurrah for these terrorists. And now, with bin Laden dead and their CCC structure destroyed, any potential terrorists will just go back to their normal lives and forget all the nonsense.

[Wm Bach]

any potential terrorists will just go back to their normal lives and forget all the nonsense.

They need to live out the rest of their short, miserable lives always looking over their shoulders, knowing that God demands justice, the U.S. veangance, and their islamaster, Satan, his due.

[justshutupandtakeit]

OBL is dead.

[SupplySider]

any potential terrorists will just go back to their normal lives

Back to the same old grind of terrorizing their women and having sex with boys.

[contessa machiaveli]

this is such BS, bin laden has about 5 wives, 20 kids, and hundreds of relatives living in saudi arabia. i can't believe intelligence sources or the saudi gov't isn't able to figure out if anyone has had contact with the monster.

[Allrightnow]

"OBL is dead."

I hope that you are right and I am wrong but cant seem to reconcile myself to the idea that just because we have not heard from him means that he is dead. This scumbag is sly and knows that every day he remains silent means a little less intensity in the hunt to find him. Just take a look at most of our responses to the article. We are writing the bastard off based solely on assumptions regarding his prior physical condition and what we can guess about his ego. If this were evidence at a trial it would be considered pretty thin.

This guy is not looking for direct confrontation with our military because he knows he is overmatched. He will look to undermine the security that supports our way of life and this may be best accomplished by waiting until our guard is down.

[MissAmericanPie]

I kinda assumed, given Ben Ladin's ego, that he would not be able to resist being before a camera this long. Of course having survived Daisy Cutters nipping at his heels he may have aquired a sudden shyness.

[patriot5186]

ha...elvis on stage, but osama has left the building...er, planet.

[Eva]

Yeah, Osama's Bin Laden to rest.

[Pagey]

IF he's alive, anywhere,he only escaped wearing a womans burka,and who would know who's under that anyway?It's just more mindless word drool from Anti-American Reuters.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

I agree with you. I'm mostly concerned by some comments from talking heads on TV. Several have said that their sources in Afghanistan have ALL said that in the last few weeks they have become totally convinced he's alive.
I don't want to say he's dead. I would hate for some attack to take place and then a few hours later be watching him on Al-Jazeera talking about it.

[LS]

Good. Now we now where to find the big bast**d.

[old-ager]

$1 billion from some West Coast telecom execs.

Sure. In stock, at year 2000 prices, right?

[Rome2000]

He would want to capitalize on this to appeal to the Arab street so he will probably delay any attacks until the United States moves on Iraq," said

Oh no, not the Arab street!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such ordinarily calm and decent folk, who knows what they will do to us if they are riled up!!!!!!

[Mitchell]

As long as we still continue "praising" Pakistan for their efforts in clamping down on Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden will remain alive.
It's so obvious he's in Pakistan it's not even funny.

Isn't it interesting that Pakistan appears to be under an umbrella of protection at least as great as that which has caused us to defer our attack on Iraq for so long? It's a wide umbrella.

[Terridan]

"No, Osama is alive and well in the United States!!!"

[Hugin]

The fact of the matter is that the US Military blew it! They had him cornered in Tora Bora and trusted the wrong guys to seal the border.

Don't forget we were heavily bombing the mountain passes he would have had to escape through with B52s. My presonal belief is he tried to escape and was blown to bits. In any case if he were alive he would have released a new video. This guy made several videos a year. What we have seen is midlevel AQ leaders promising he will send a tape for about 5 months now, but it never shows up. His own people have to have doubts about whether he is alive, and it has to be demoralizing. Our officials can't say he's dead since we can't prove it. As I said at the time we will be operating indefinately on the assumption that he is both dead and alive. We have to assume he is alive and keep looking, but we also have to assume he is dead and move on to the next objective.

[theophilusscribe]

"No, Osama is alive and well in the United States!!!"

Yeah . . . And he's . . .disguised as Tom Daschle!? You may be on to something!