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Saddam's lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano: "I met OBL in Baghdad in 1998"
FHM - UK January 2005 | 12/27/05 | Perdogg

Posted on 12/27/2004 5:26:53 PM PST by Perdogg

Giovanni Di Stefano, in an interview with FHM (UK) magazine says the following:

Q: "Didn't you once meet Bin Laden?"

A: "Yes, In Baghdad in 1998. He was a nobody back then and I didn't take much notice. He was educated, had very soft skin and shook my hand like a woman. He inspired a lot of the Mujahideen in Kosovo to do some pretty horrific things to the Serbs.

My friend Arkan [the late Serbian warlord] said to me once, "Why didn't you kill him?"

I probably would have done if I'd known who he was."


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: balkans; binladen; distefano; govwatch; humor; iraq; obl; saddamtrial; terrorwar; waronterror; wtcattacks
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1 posted on 12/27/2004 5:26:53 PM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Why no link?


2 posted on 12/27/2004 5:27:53 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: Perdogg; joan; Destro

Balkans Bump!


3 posted on 12/27/2004 5:28:39 PM PST by F-117A
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To: F-117A

OBL-Saddam bump!


4 posted on 12/27/2004 5:35:52 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Perdogg
had very soft skin and shook my hand like a woman.

OK, I now think we shouldn't kill Osama and just release him into general prison population LOL!

5 posted on 12/27/2004 5:36:33 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
shook my hand like a woman

Must not have man hands...
6 posted on 12/27/2004 5:43:22 PM PST by The Teen Conservative
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To: Perdogg

Has met UBL, was supposedly Arkan's business partner, and he knows Bill Clinton. What's not to love.


7 posted on 12/27/2004 5:44:00 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: Perdogg

Link?


8 posted on 12/27/2004 5:48:48 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: Perdogg
Arkan was this guy's "friend"?

This alone causes me to view anything Giovanni Di Stefano has to say with great trepidation. Arkan was a murderer whose victims may be counted in the tens of thousands in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo; in addition to the fact that he masterminded robberies and other crimes, sometimes quite violent in nature, in Western Europe.

I could put up a host of links, but here are three:

The Individuals Involved in the Ethnic Cleansing of Bijeljina

Arkan's Death Frustrates Officials Seeking War Crimes Testimony

Balkan War Criminals: The Most Wanted (see #3)
9 posted on 12/27/2004 5:52:36 PM PST by StJacques
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To: Perdogg
Michael Riconosciuto & Ted Gunderson's 1986 Meeting with 'Tim Osman' (Osama bin Laden)
10 posted on 12/27/2004 6:01:15 PM PST by NWO Slave
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To: BCrago66

The interview is not online only in a magazine.


11 posted on 12/27/2004 6:43:13 PM PST by Perdogg (Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
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To: lancer

Not in the online edition. Only in paper version.


12 posted on 12/27/2004 6:43:48 PM PST by Perdogg (Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
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To: Peach
Q: "Didn't you once meet Bin Laden?"

A: "Yes, In Baghdad in 1998. He was a nobody back then and I didn't take much notice. He was educated, had very soft skin and shook my hand like a woman. He inspired a lot of the Mujahideen in Kosovo to do some pretty horrific things to the Serbs.

Ping a rooni

(the womanish handshake of Osama is mere cherry on top)

13 posted on 12/27/2004 7:01:28 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Perdogg

Terrible things to the Serbs...the Serbs got the bummest rap of them all.


14 posted on 12/27/2004 7:02:36 PM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: Perdogg

What is "FHM"? I see you said this is an off-line source.

Thanks.


15 posted on 12/27/2004 7:02:54 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Perdogg
I was unaware that ANYBODY ever read the articles in FHM.


16 posted on 12/27/2004 7:05:03 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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To: cyncooper

I just read that article and laughed about the soft hands. I wouldn't have quite called OBL a "nobody" in 1998 as this person does but that's just me. LOL


17 posted on 12/27/2004 7:05:40 PM PST by Peach
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Oh, FHM is THAT kind of magazine...like Maxim?

LOL

Well!


18 posted on 12/27/2004 7:06:51 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Peach

That's what I thought...the attempt to plead "I didn't know who he was" is most telling.

Most telling, indeed.


19 posted on 12/27/2004 7:07:50 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: cyncooper

Hell, I thought the only interviews they published has questions like, "are those real or implants?"


20 posted on 12/27/2004 7:11:21 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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