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U.S. Troops Focus on Border's Caves to Seek bin Laden
The New York Times ^
| 08/28/2002
| IAN FISHER with JOHN F. BURNS
Posted on 08/27/2002 7:51:14 PM PDT by Pokey78
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posted on
08/27/2002 7:51:14 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
The first thing that caught me was the NYT using the words "Mr. bin Laden". How polite!
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posted on
08/27/2002 7:52:47 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
If we find Bin Ladin, does that mean we get all our freedoms back?
To: Pokey78
After months of frustration, American commanders appear to have concluded that Osama bin Laden is probably still alive and moving between mountain hideouts somewhere on a 250-mile stretch of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No. The first sentence couldn't have been phrased like this:
"After months of widespread, successfull achievements in Afghanistan the world thought nearly impossible, American commanders continue the search for the icing on the cake."
**Times. pffftttt... Pure HorseHillary!
To: Pokey78
Well you don't expect them to use their in-house name, "Our Beloved Leader, the Right Honorable bin Laden", do you?
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posted on
08/27/2002 8:01:39 PM PDT
by
Leisler
To: Pokey78
If they find him, let's hope they find his rotting corpse with rats crawling in and out of his eye sockets.
To: Pokey78
"Mr. bin Laden" is doing the bone dance with Mr. Satan a.k.a. Allah.
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posted on
08/27/2002 8:10:35 PM PDT
by
AF68
To: Pokey78
The NYT is funny like that. Back in the 1970s, they ran a profile on the rock singer Meat Loaf, referring to him as "Mr. Loaf" throughout the article. Such rigid formality makes them look ridiculous at times.
To: Commander8
I wonder what his skull would bring on Ebay? I don't know if they have a category called 'pig hide scrapers'.
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posted on
08/27/2002 8:32:13 PM PDT
by
Northpaw
To: Pokey78
The first thing that caught me was the NYT using the words "Mr. bin Laden". How polite! Well, certainly they agree with his motivation -- America bad, everyone else good. In fact, he succeded in acting out their inner-most desires in a way that they could only dream about. Bring it all down, man. To them, he is a Mensch.
To: Pokey78; All
NO way
was the United States of America going to deal with the international circus and the mega-martyrhood one "prisoner" that Bin Laden would have caused.
He's a done deal -- we can all be sure his bones are a now mere bag-o'-shells after his dead body was tossed in a Cuisinart months ago....
Of course we have retained an x-ray, dental records and a bit of DNA as the only "proof" of his demise...
To: Pokey78
Look, the guy needs kidney dialysis - can he really hang on for this long in an obscure mountain cave? Maybe a Freeper knows.
Maybe Sy Hersh is ghostwriting for the Gray Lady after his embarassments at the New Yorker...
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posted on
08/27/2002 10:03:49 PM PDT
by
PianoMan
To: Pokey78
"After months of frustration, American commanders appear to have concluded that Osama bin Laden is probably still alive and moving between mountain hideouts somewhere on a 250-mile stretch of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan." Quite unlikely. Try searching either Iran, Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia.
"But after the battle, no trace of the Qaeda leaders was found. United States military spokesmen said some Qaeda men appeared to have slipped through mountain passes toward Pakistan."
Gee .. no kidding. And whatever happened to the brave Mullah Omar? Do you think Bin Laden and gang could be hiding out with him? Is the military still searching for Mullah Omar?
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posted on
08/27/2002 10:22:40 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Pokey78
"He's dead Jim."
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posted on
08/27/2002 10:41:12 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: Pokey78
God Bless Our Troops.
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:22:18 PM PDT
by
GVnana
To: Pokey78
They will probably run into him in Iraq.
To: Darth Sidious
NO....
Though we are winning our war on terror, there remain many evil doers who would oppose our way of life.
We must continue to make the "hard sacrifices necessary" to smoke them out and get them running... running but never eradicated entirely of course.....
That way we can keep a close watch over every thing every body does... heh heh.. and don't mess with texas!
To: Robert_Paulson2
You're right, of course. Osama bin Laden is the "Emmanuel Goldstein" of the present administration.
To: Pokey78
History Will Remember
September 11th, 2001
To: Darth Sidious
If we find Bin Ladin, does that mean we get all our freedoms back? We started loosing our freedoms long before 9/11. We would have to go all the way back to before Wilson was President and the “progressive” (read socialist / nationalist) movement began IMO.
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