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(Caveat: Unconfirmed) China News Service and Yomiuri Report Osama and Omar Were Assassinated
Zhonghawa Shinwen and Yomiuri Shimbun ^
| 24 October 2001
| China News Service (from Reporter Sugiyama of Yomiuri in Beijing)
Posted on 10/24/2001 1:07:52 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Strong Caveat: This is the first and only such report that appeared several hours ago, off of Chinese and Japanese news wires, and is unconfirmed. Therefore it is just an advisory that such a report has been filed. Merits considerable skepticism while checking its validity.
Report by China News Service quoting Japanese source in Tokyo per the following (translated by AIT from Chinese from the site at: http://www.chinanews.com.cn/2001-10-24/26/133210.html/ in Chinese, and http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/05/20011024id36.htm in Japanese):
"Chinese News Service Reports: Osama bin Laden Killed?"
Filed by Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Yomiuri Shimbun Reporter based in Beijing.
Based on Japanese sources in Tokyo, news report (s) has been received that on October 16th, both the leader of Taliban Afghanistan Omar and the leader of AlQaida, Osama bin Laden, were both shot and killed in Afghanistan, by elements within their ranks. However at this time no other news sources have confirmed the assassinations.
The CNS news report stated that it is reported that Omar and Bin Laden had returned to one of the underground Taliban bases near Kandahar in the south, at approximately 11 a.m. local time in Afghanistan on 16 October. As the two and others were entering the underground base, it was reported an ally fired upon his (Omar's) back from the rear. The report is that Omar was hit in the upper torso, and bin Laden was hit once in the chest and once in the upper left shoulder area. Both expired at that location.
The report goes on to say that accompanying bin Laden were one of his sons and this son's wife, who were also hit with gunfire in the chest, waist and shoulder areas, and they too have reported suffered fatal wounds from this attack. The second eldest son of Omar also suffered a gunshot wound to the right side of his lower torso, and escaped the shooting, but expired on the following day." End of Text
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To: antivenom
A great way to hide.....pretend you're dead....watch out for the finger of Red China in all this.
To: chemainus
My thought is why Yomiuri, a Japanese daily of respected stature, would run with this story.
To: AmericanInTokyo
In a related development, Chelsea Clinton narrowly averted death yet again! She has heard of Afghanistan, and could conceivably have decided to travel there, wandered into a cave, and died as the bullets flew!
Fortunately, she decided to go for a jog in Central Park, instead.
To: AmericanInTokyo
Anyone who thinks, including Bush, that this war on the West ends with Osama if a fool.
To: AmericanInTokyo
You report, we'll decide
Let's see the bodies, please(look, Im asking nicely)
To: okie_tech
Yes, but of course. There are many, many heads to this terrorist snake. And they all have to be stomped on with our ferocious steel tipped biker boots.
To: mystery-ak
heck, maybe that's what the journalist from Japan (Yanagita, not Iida Osamu) was up to when he was caught with a satellite phone and photographic equipment outside Kandahar the other day, and is in Taliban custody. Those guys fight like crazy to get the scoop. He might have been moving in to get photos of the carcass or something else. Speculating here, though.
To: mystery-ak
You know, that's one of the most irritating aspects of the current campaign against Osama. Not only do we not know where he is, we might not even be sure when we kill him.
We're either going to have to depend on the Defense Secretary to tell us Osama's been nailed or the Taliban itself. Ironically enough.
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:28:24 PM PDT
by
altayann
To: AmericanInTokyo; antivenom
They have reported many LOOK ALIKES of Usama....me thinks Osama and Omar are alive.Interesting. Thinking about those 9 coffins that were reported on in another thread, that were in a Pakistani morgue. There were reports that Osama had at least 9 doubles. Maybe they're just collecting all the doubles, and waiting to confirm if one is the real Osama.
To: AmericanInTokyo
DezinformatsiyaI'll believe it when I see his bloodied, severed head.
To: Constitution Day
Vir: I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut your head off and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favors come at too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:30:05 PM PDT
by
No.6
To: AmericanInTokyo
Wasn't there a report of a taped statement read (unusually) by Omar himself since October 16? I realize it could have been taped prior to then, but I also recollect it referred to events that took place since the 16th. News overload makes my memory unreliable on this point, however.
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:30:19 PM PDT
by
lambo
To: AmericanInTokyo
Bodies with fingerprints & teeth intact; or no dice.
33
posted on
10/24/2001 1:30:22 PM PDT
by
Landru
To: AmericanInTokyo
Your post #27 is a very keen observation! Thank you!!!
To: AmericanInTokyo
First, all these journalists are being paid by both sides to spread information/disinformation, no matter how "reputable" their employer. Next, such news would be used by the ultra-left wing, extreme liberal media to call for a cesation of the bombing. OBL, himself, may have written and paid for the report from this news service.
But, these guys dead are not what we want; we need no more Muslim martyrs. We want them "diappeared" and in the hands of experienced therapist/facilitators who can help them find their inner self and make them spill their guts. I'm thinking Israelis, maybe some senior Argentines or some former Pol Pot folks. You know, healers and helpers. We'll never know, but over the next 5-10 years, the Al-Qaeda murders will disapper ffrom view and fall into the hands of the Oprah-like helpers of some scret federal agency.
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:31:47 PM PDT
by
Tacis
To: AmericanInTokyo
If true, Afghan could have done it to bring to fruition the Osama is martyr scenario.
36
posted on
10/24/2001 1:31:47 PM PDT
by
yikes
To: AmericanInTokyo
This is just dumb towelyban disinformation. I have it from reliable sources that OBL set up a look alike over a year ago as a shaved, short-haired wealthy London socialite living like a prince. He has now swithched places with him and no one is the wiser.
Hey, it could happen.
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:32:20 PM PDT
by
mercy
To: AmericanInTokyo
If both leaders were killed by the U.S., would the Taliban would want to divert credit from those kills and claim that their own men turned on them? If the Taliban turned on them, would they want to claim that the U.S. did it? Not that they are that media savvy, but the spin on their deaths would be important. Were they martyred or were they massacred?
Or are they just floating this story so that they can escape to new lives somewhere else?
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posted on
10/24/2001 1:32:47 PM PDT
by
Southack
To: Petronski
"Trust but verify".
zdrasvichye y dosbidanye
To: Al B.
Or was it Austin Powers, baby......yeah!
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