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"He supports an International Criminal Court, which could arrest and imprison Americans"

Hum... I don't really think Annan is wrong on this one. Why American citizen and soldiers should be above international law? Just look at those assh..les who blasted a dozen Canadians against a hold requested from the AWAC command. If we want to remain respected and credible, let's show our force when necessary (such as in Irak, but also elsewhere) but with honor. Otherwise, we would turn into an imperialist country of the worst kind.

Your theory is quite right: remember Ata and his "Hamburg cell"? Most of 9/11 highjackers spent quite some time in this great city of drugs and honkies (great for fundmentalists, by the way...) Heil Germany! Just like Bush (father) should have finished the job in 1991 (as Gen. Schartzkopf suggested) and remove Saddam, the Allies should have remove Germany from the surface of the planet in 1945 and share its land among winners.

No apologies to people that suggest "we" may be the bad guys who "plant" evidence to foster a case against the "good" Islamist Mohamed Atta that gave his life for his Jihad against Americans. Poor little Mohamed who is falsely accused by his wallet... After all, we all know that no Islamist, no Muslim, no Saudi, were on board of those 4 planes that lost a few screws the same day at or about the same time.

Our so friendly Pakistani allies...

Who cares? Why don't you leave this country and immigrate to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Irak, Yemen and other places were there is no conspiracy against the USA. And send your family to Tchechenia for a few weeks. People like you stink.

"Last week the U.S. stepped up its air attacks, sending 100 warplanes to bomb Iraq

"Uh...guys...hate to tell you this...

"We didn't.

How could we do? we have only one Air Force plane: Air Force One. And we love the people of Irak.

No women in this picture? Are muslims misogynists? I guess they love women so much that they spare them from martyrdom.

"Bin Laden may indeed be dead, but this article sheds no substantial light."

Yes, but it makes me feel a little bit better on this 9-11 Remembrance, until we "Daisy Cut" more islamic cowards in Irak in the coming days or weeks.

I like this one! don't forget to hold your nose too!

"... first boznia...then..."
...Germany
...France
...UK
...USA
In their dream, because they're gonna get what they deserve within week(s). Let's "jihad" them in return, those cowards that lie and hide their ugly faces.

On our way to Irak next week, let's drop a few Daisy Cutters on this liar and his Saudi royal family. Just to have the pleasure to later deny we did it. And have our boys glass Mecca on the way back. They wanted their Jihad, let them have it all.

Hey you revisionist assh.le: Didn't you hear about the "Jihad" against the world of "infidels", e.g. non-muslims like us?

They celebrate 9-11, but the cowards they are (and the stupid you are) deny it. No balls. Islam is Evil and their Mahomet was the personification of Satan. So, pick your side!

Yeah, something about pigs smell.

Get them all expelled!

I have seen those reports on the very day of September 11, 2001! You know, if you just look around in these anti-non-muslim countries (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, Iran and Irak of course), you get the same joy every day every time there is something bad that happened to some American.

Islam has declared Jihad against us several times, publicly, but this coward member of the Islamic society in the USA would deny it. I bet that he and his Middle-Eastern friends and other Pacific Rim muslims (Philipins, Indonesia, etc.) would deny that Osama Bin Laden ever existed. Mr. Bush, please, fumigate those bast.rds from our homeland. And why not drop, "by mistake and with our deep apologies for pressing the wrong button", one of those daisy cutters on the Mecca, to make sure they get the message that we too can have our "jihad" against them: this is called self-defense. The Japs got the message loud and clear in 1945. Should we reiterate to be respected?

Osama is dead
by Average Jeff • Monday September 09, 2002 at 03:57 PM

Osama died.

World News

September 09, 2002

Slip of tongue in interview 'betrays secret that bin Laden is dead'
By Dominic Kennedy

A SLIP of the tongue by one of Osama bin Laden’s top henchmen seems to have betrayed al-Qaeda’s most potent secret: its charismatic leader is dead.

The blunder was made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has confessed to being the operational mastermind behind the September 11 attacks. He made his mistake while disclosing many of the secrets behind the atrocities, which were plotted in Kandahar, the religious extremist Taleban movement’s Afghan spiritual home.

The target of the fourth, thwarted hijack attack in Washington was Congress, not the White House; the original plan was to crash aircraft into atomic power stations; and the plotters used simple codes to keep in touch by internet, he disclosed.

Mr Mohammed was speaking in a propaganda exercise organised by al-Qaeda in time for the first anniversary of September 11.

A television journalist from al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television station that has previously broadcast exclusive footage of bin Laden, was blindfolded and taken to meet two al-Qaeda chiefs.

During two days of interviews, Mr Mohammed referred to bin Laden, who has not been seen since the fall of Afghanistan’s Taleban regime, in the past tense. The reporter Yosri Fouda, London bureau chief for al-Jazeera, concluded that bin Laden is now likely to be dead.

The journalist was taken to the Pakistan city of Karachi, driven five miles into the countryside, blindfolded, then brought to a clandestine rendezvous on the fourth floor of a sparsely furnished flat. He believes that it was in Karachi.

There he met Mr Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a former flatmate of Mohamed Atta, the hijack ringleader. Mr bin al-Shibh is a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, when 17 sailors were killed in the port city of Aden in Yemen in October 2000. He described himself as head of al-Qaeda’s military committee.

The two men spoke of September 11 as “Holy Tuesday”. They described the attacks using the Arabic word ghazwah, which means a raid against enemies of the Prophet, Mr Fouda wrote in The Sunday Times.

It had taken 2½ years to plan the attacks, the men disclosed. Al-Qaeda’s military committee had decided there must be a “martyrdom operation” inside America.

Nuclear targets were the first choice, but they were ruled out for now, Mr Mohammed said.

The hijackers were recruited from al-Qaeda’s “Department of Martyrs”, which still has scores of volunteers for future suicide attacks, the men claimed.

Atta, an al-Qaeda sleeper agent studying town planning in Hamburg since 1992, was chosen as a pilot and Nawaf al-Hazemi as his second-in-command. Mr bin al-Shibh wanted to be the twentieth hijacker. He applied for a visa for flight training three times, but was turned down on security grounds.

Questions are likely to be asked over whether alarm bells should have sounded in the United States over such a suspicious individual being so keen to go to America to learn to fly.

The leading hijackers were summoned to Kandahar for a shura or council meeting. Four advance reconnaissance units were sent to America.

The chosen pilots enrolled in US flight schools. Meanwhile, young Saudi volunteers were picked to act as “muscle” in the hijacking of the aircraft. “They knew it was a martyrdom operation, but did not know the details,” Mr Mohammed said.

As investigators have long suspected, the plotters did use the internet to communicate, the men confirmed. Using a chatroom, Atta sent messages in German from America, posing as a student, to “Jenny”, his fictitious girlfriend. The real recipient was Mr bin al-Shibh.

In al-Qaeda’s code the World Trade Centre was “the faculty of town planning” (Atta hated skyscrapers, preferring traditional Islamic architecture), the Pentagon was “the faculty of fine arts” and Congress was the “faculty of law”. In a final telephone call Atta told Mr bin al-Shibh the chosen date for the attacks.

“Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down”, he said, meaning 11/9. The news reached bin Laden on September 6, giving him only five days’ warning of the horrors.

Mr Mohammed’s slip of the tongue about bin Laden’s demise was a serious lapse. Throughout their discussions with the reporter, al-Qaeda operatives persistently sought to suggest that their leader was still alive, well and keenly following events.

One intermediary told the journalist that bin Laden remained an avid viewer of al-Jazeera, so much so that “whatever he misses, he gets on tape”.

Al-Qaeda’s decision to bring a reporter from al-Jazeera to meet two of bin Laden’s generals rather than the man himself adds to the impression that their leader may be no more. The satellite channel has previously been trusted with interviewing bin Laden in person, in 1997 and 1998. Mr Fouda was also suspicious when al-Qaeda failed to send him videotapes of the interviews, as promised, although audiotapes did arrive.

“I am driven to the interpretation that something is wrong with the upper reaches of al-Qaeda — some sort of disruption. I now believe it is more than likely bin Laden is dead,” he said.

Dam right! Why don't we boycott boarding a plane when a tan head shows up?