Posted on 09/22/2006 10:33:45 PM PDT by confrico
Sounds like a bunch very nervous teenagers and old men whistling as they get near a graveyard, walk by it and away from it.
Take it up with Urban Legends -- not me.
What's the translation for the newspaper?
Hrm - Weekend at Bin Laden's. Good point.
It'still unconfirmed.
Typhoid is a worse death than being shot or blown up. It means that he was probably living in really squalid conditions: no toilet paper, no washing of hands.
If he is really dead, his followers will try to make it seem heroic, but I can't think of a much worse, and less heroic way to go. He plotted, but he never actually faced armed Western infidels, and hid out like a rat. And then he got fed some food with fecal contamination. His intestines could have become perforated, so that he would die of peritonitis; or his spleen could have burst, so that he would die of internal bleeding. Or the simple fever may have taken him, after days of stupor alternating with delirium.
If we had captured him, we would have had to give him medical treatment, which would be a useless misallocation of scarce resources very much needed elsewhere in the Third World.
Maybe providence has been on our side in this case.
Will the French blame us for hounding this "cleric" to his death?
Typhoid, courtesy French special services. :')
"If you are hiding your sorry butt in a cave, it is harder to get treatment."
This wouldn't have happened if we had a single payer system. At least that is what Hillary will say.
That sounds great. Is there anything better than a BLT with fresh garden tomatos?
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