[xJones]

Personally, I have a big "I was wrong," because I was certain OBL was dead at Tora Bora. But Ijaz is pretty bright, and very well connected.

Um, me too. The old bugger has been awfully quiet for someone who always loved to grandstand on videos. We were promised by al-Queda leaders that OBL would speak last July 4th, but that was another non-event. At this point, I wouldn't take a bet if OBL is dead or alive.

[piasa]

Until proven otherwise, I will continue to celebrate December 17 as Osama's Death Day.

Begin with a rack of BBQ ribs. Pork, of course.

Serve them on a table decorated with scattered daisy petals to remind everyone of all those daisy cutters.

After dinner, serve Devil's food cake all around...on behalf of the old devil.

You get the idea.

As for this letter being in "his style" ... anyone can assemble a screed his style by using his other screeds as dark inspiration.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Geetings xJones, FReepers, et al:

We'll eat crow together. No matter what happens, GWB wins!

No body, no martyr. There is probably more OBL DNA in the backyard bird bath from condensation nuclei, than OBL DNA left in Tora Bora.

However, just portraying OBL as alive further degrades his legacy, given his cowardly retreat from Tora Bora.

Never the less, if OBL is alive, and a pretty slim likelihood for an untreated hemodialysis dependent person; capturing OBL alive would be on the level of catching OBL eating a roast pork sandwich.

And I’ll eat that crow with Tobasco Sauce.

[Dialup Llama]

>Um, me too. The old bugger has been awfully quiet for someone who always loved to grandstand on videos.

So lets say OBL doesn't want his ugly face shown. Why doesn't he make a quality tape with clear, direct and unambiguous references to current events? He's dead. However, I don't understand the disinformation goal in this speculation that his capture is near.

[Ann Archy]

Maybe we haven't seen OBL because he looks Totally Different!!! The Belushi looking guy we captured didn't look ANYTHING like what he Used to look like! I thought OBL was dead also, until I saw Shiek Belushi.

[steve-b]

The old bugger has been awfully quiet for someone who always loved to grandstand on videos.

Yeah, his desire to spotlight his continued defiance of the Great Satan (both for his own ego and for the recruitment and morale advantages to al-Qaeda) are such as to make Bill Clinton look like Howard Hughes.