Is Osama bin Laden Dead?

Jerusalem Post / The First Post ^ | August 18, 2007 | Robert Fox

[FreeAtlanta]

I agree.

It has benefited all sides to say he is alive; Those of us who want to crush fanatical islam could use him as a rally point, the left and their terrorist allies could use him to say Bush is a failure for getting him.

[Sue Perkick]

Maybe they think it would be worse to make him a martyr. It’s almost a lose/lose situation. If we can’t find one man we look incompetent. If we kill him we have martyred a muslim hero who must be avenged. It’s worse than Joey Buttafuco in Celebrity Boxing.

[loreldan]

He’s dead, and has been for a few years. If it was officially anounced his “martyrdom” would be used for new recruits for al Qaeda and breathe new life into that terror organization. Right now they are only capable of small attacks - mainly in Iraq. We’re letting them die on the vine.

[Armedanddangerous]

He’s just like the friday the 13th guy..

[rineaux]

Seanrobins you started this thread, so what is the count of freepers who think he is alive or dead?

IMO, he is dead.

[Southack]

Did you post the wrong date on your article? Chirac isn’t President of crap any longer.

[Southack]

This article has the incorrect date. It was FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 23, 2006.

[rineaux]

just like the friday the 13th guy..

JASON. LOL. You nailed it.

[do the dhue]

I don't know. I am not an expert. I am glad I am not an expert too.

X is an unknown quantity

And a spurt is a drip under pressure

[redstateconfidential]

Indeed!

[seanrobins]

I agree. The one thing that the death/non-death/death again, is that bin Laden’s body temperature has been long irrelevant - except in a symbolic sense - to the war on terror. The WOT will go on if/whether/when bin Laden is disassembled into native atomic particles.

I know the Left - when convenient - drags out the “why hasn’t Bush gotten bin Laden yet” refrain. There isn’t a Freeper alive who doesn’t understand that the Left will say: (1) If bin Laden is alive == “Why hasn’t Bush caught him yet, it sooooooo terribly important to get bin Laden,” and (2) If bin Laden is dead == “Bin Laden is irrelevant.”

[ASA Vet]

[avacado]

"... according to a highly classified intelligence brief given to the King of Saudi Arabia and President Chirac this week, ..."

Errrr... Chirac is not President this "week." This seems like an old recycled article.

[ASA Vet]

Pineapples?

[Jaysun]

Pineapples?

What?

[awakened]

Love the analogy! :)

[ANGGAPO]

Why are our borders wide open while we are at war ? ? ?

Because we don’t have smart people in Congress.

[MCH]

The death of bin Laden, if it is confirmed, will be cloaked in the propaganda of martyrdom, mourning and revenge. It could also trigger a major rethink of such notions as "Global War on Terror", which is long overdue. It will be a blow to the sloganising of the neo-conservatives - and their notion of the "clash of civilisations" - and to the high-flown rhetoric of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.

It is likely to mean not so much "back to basics" in tackling terrorism, but back to the practicalities of how to deal with terrorists in the real world.

And... the article ends with the trademark liberal emotional, illogical and irrational rant.

[crazyshrink]

Here is definitive proof he is dead and in Islamoheaven (72 virgins).

http://www.girlsandcorpses.com/backissues_01.html

[blasater1960]

"Castro’s dead, too."

So is Fransico Franco