Bin Laden no longer exists: Here is why

Arab News (In English) ^ | 5 July 2002 | By Amir Taheri, Arab News Staff

[Maelstrom]

Osama bin Laden is dead.

I know because God told me so.

I even know how he died. He died in his bed, pissing blood, alone, in darkness (I think it was night).

Maelstrom

[First_Salute]

That quote sounds familiar.

Back when the Red Chinese jet fighter was shot down by our stealth EP-3 ...

Oh yeah, somebody here posted some insider comments by the Red Chinese, that they actually, behind Bubba's back, regarded him the very [3rd?] way:

"A joke going round the [military] circles until last year was that the only thing the Americans would do if attacked was to sue the attackers in court."

[First_Salute]

Bump - R22.

[usconservative]

I even know how he died. He died in his bed, pissing blood, alone, in darkness (I think it was night).

It wasn't night - his cave had been sealed during the bombing campaign.

[No Truce With Kings]

Yet there are a large number of people -- including freepers -- who still think these losers are ten-feet-tall, bulletproof, and capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

Bin Laden has been marginalized to insignificance, his organization has been reduced to using misfits like Padilla and the shoe bomber because they have clean passports, and much of the public believes we are losing the war.

Go figure.

[Adrastus]

I hope you are right. The only thing I would add to your scenario is the great scalding pain as his kidneys failed. This SOB needs to die, certainly, but with great attention to detail. Blu-82s are too fast for the likes of this vermin.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[section9]

Bin Laden has been marginalized to insignificance, his organization has been reduced to using misfits like Padilla and the shoe bomber because they have clean passports, and much of the public believes we are losing the war.

I have suspected that Bin Laden is dead for some time. However, Al-Zawahiri is most certainly alive, as is the Kuwaiti logistics operative whose name escapes me now.

The head is still on the snake. How and ever, the time will come when the AQ can hide Bin Laden's death no more. News of his death will not help morale in the outlying cell units.

Remember one last thing. Most AQ who went through the training camps were assigned to be infantrymen attached to Taliban brigades. The "Arab Afghans" were there to stiffen the resolve of the Talibani. Many of them died at the hands of the B-52 and the Daisy Cutter at places like Mazer-i-Sharif and Tora Bora.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[jdogbearhunter]

Well put.

BUMP

[general_re]

This is Arab News, and for the most part they got it right. I am going to lie down.

The feeling will pass - tomorrow is the final part of their five-part series entitled "Jews - Should We Kill Them All, or Merely Enslave Them?"

[harpseal]

From Roman times it has been true "Vis pacem,para bellum.">/I>

Percieved weekness causes war.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Mr. Thorne]

If you would have peace, be then prepared for war.

Appius Claudius
Rome

[harpseal]

As I remember my Latin
"Vis" = If you look for.
Pacem = Peace

I was not translating per se merely summarizing and concluding.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktyown

[Mr. Thorne]

And I was not correcting, merely adding on. That is to say, apparently more than one Roman statesman/general had similar thoughts...

Forgive the misunderstanding...

[phasma proeliator]

"One swallow does not make a summer, however. "

ROTFLMAO! Seriously!

[Stultis]

Amir Taheri, (if he is the same one) has also published a book, back in the 1980s, and writes articles on terrorism. He is a sort of Islamic conservative of the Fuard Ajami school.

Another article by Taheri from the Arab News:

TERRORISM: DOES ISLAM PROMOTE SUICIDE BOMBING?
Arab News - April 2002
Posted 14 May 2002 on RELIGIOSCOPE