Website sorry for bin Laden dead report

Reuters | September 11, 2002

[Space Wrangler]

The author, who said he was an eyewitness to a U.S. raid in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in December, said the man killed then was Osama al-Adani, while bin Laden survived.

Oh did I say Osama bin Laden??? Oops, sorry, I meant Osama al-Adani!!! I'm always getting those two mixed up you know!! My fault people. Osama's fine. Really. But even if I weren't wrong and Osama bin Laden DID get ripped to shreds by a dasiy cutter, we should still continue on...yadayadayadayadayada

[steve-b]

Oh, puh-leeze. Osama's ego makes Clinton look like St. Francis of Assisi. There's no way he would have refrained from circulating a new video with proof that he's still alive if he were able to do so.

[walkingdead]

Has anyone else thought that this OBL dead junk was maybe a signal to activate some sleeper cell?

[The Great Satan]

I guess it was a trial balloon.

[Trailer Trash]

"And Osmondo al-Donni was last seen in the hills of Utah."

From a ranch in Bly, to the hills of Utah. I'd hate to be one of these guys during mule deer season.

Nowhere on earth at any time are there more sharp shooters dialed in to drive nails at 100 yards.

[Smile-n-Win]

Has anyone else thought that this OBL dead junk was maybe a signal to activate some sleeper cell?

Here's a hypothesis that seems to cover the facts we have so far: The report was a signal for a U.S.-based cell to do something with the nuclear material delivered on that Liberian-registered ship. When "the author" got word that the ship had been stopped, he issued the retraction to 1) tell the cell to forget it; 2) keep Osama's myth alive.

Of course, another fitting hypothesis is that the report was simply a glitch by an overzealous al-Qaeda content provider, who wanted to remind the world on this anniversary that they would continue their jihad, and in his excitement forgot the fact that we're not supposed to know Osama is dead.