Posted on 10/25/2004 2:01:22 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Is Osama bin Laden alive or dead? And if Osama is alive, where is he?
"President Bush knows damn well that (bin Laden) has been dead for quite some time," said former Navy SEAL Matthew Heidt, echoing the sentiments of many in the special operations community.
"(Bin Laden) has not been heard from since Tora Bora despite developments in the Global War on Terror that make it unthinkable for him to remain silent," Heidt said in his web log, "Froggy Ruminations."
The last audiotape purportedly from bin Laden (but not authenticated) was issued on May 7th of this year. But Gregory Djerejian (Belgravia Dispatch), who shares Heidt's view, notes that the last video tapes from bin Laden were made public Oct. 19th and Sept. 11th, 2003. There was nothing on those videotapes which indicates when they were made, and they show a much healthier bin Laden than the gaunt fellow in the videotape released Dec. 26th, 2001, suggesting they were made before then.
JWR contributor Jack Kelly, a former Marine and Green Beret, was a deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration.
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We'll need a reason to invade Northern Pakistan... Let's just assume he's alive on what intel we get from our agencies.. hehe.
And President Bush doesn't trumpet this because...?
And Al Qaeda doesn't play the bin Laden "martyr" card because...?
Doesn't add up.
... there's no proof.
And Al Qaeda doesn't play the bin Laden "martyr" card because...?
... they'd be admitting Osama got waxed with scarcely any US effort.
Because the media and the leftists in this country would declare the WOT over.
It seems that Bin Laden is either dead or scared to death. While I prefer the former, I can live with the latter.
Osama now owns a gas station in downtown Barstow, CA. I saw him there myself on Saturday, but he was reluctant to talk beyond asking for my money. Without his beard he looks just like every other Arab gas station owner in CA (that's most stations). Also, he had the effrontery to charge me $2.49 per gallon, thus enriching the Saudis even more so they can support more terrorism. If that wasn't him, he's DOA in Tora Bora.
If UBL is alive or dead, then that fact would be classified, wouldn't it? And this "former" SpecOps guy can't discuss it could he?
If he's divulging classified, he's compromising his fellow SpecOps guys on future ops, isn't he?
And if this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, then...
And if UBL is dead, why hasn't it been published as a war coup?
And if UBL is alive, and his whereabouts are known, then isn't that also classified?
And if UBL is alive and we don't know his location, should that ALSO not be classified?
You see the semantics that only a trial lawyer could understand?
He's sleeping with the desert fishes...
Wouldn't it be a great October surprise if later this week it was announced that Bin Laden died of kidney failure 2 years ago and they just confirmed it? It has been funny how in every debate Kerry brought up letting Bin Laden get away and Bush ignored it. Bush seems to know something he will not or cannot say.
I hope he is alive and turns out to be Bush's "October Suprise". It would drive the Democrats over the edge!
Because Bush will officially announce the proof within the next 7 days........
I hope he is alive and turns out to be Bush's "October Suprise". It would drive the Democrats over the edge!
bin Laden is a non person.
I've got to believe he's either dead or really sick. Bin Laden would have to make a video appearance before the election just to stick it to President Bush. He hasn't made an appearance in some time. The guy's got too big an ego to sit out this long.
He daid!
Kerry is on intelligence committee and gets briefings... whatever Bush knows, Kerry probably knows as well. He also knows what Bush cannot talk about, so this makes it easier to attack the President.
If he is truly doing that then he is a (to quote his wife) scumbag.
Our friend Musharuf, sp? in Pakistan will probably be the one to make the announcement before election day. why else would they be giving/broadcasting his location so close to the election, believing he's in China, etc...... To cover for what they already know.. He's Deaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.
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