Bin Laden and Omar 'are very much alive'

Gulf Daily News (Bahrain Paper) ^ | September 28, 2002 | Staff

[stilts]

Osama bin Laden and the vanquished Taliban's spiritual leader Mullah Omar are alive and in Afghanistan, a man claiming to be a former Taliban diplomat told a clandestine Press conference here in Pakistan yesterday.

"Mullah Omar is alive and is inside Afghanistan. I met him 15 days back," said Naseer Ahmed Roohi, who introduced himself as the former first secretary of the Taliban's embassy in the UAE.

"Omar is also in touch with Osama bin Laden. Osama is neither dead nor has he come to Pakistan," he said.

"He's alive and in contact with Mullah Omar. He's inside Afghanistan, he never crossed the border (into Pakistan)."

Roohi was addressing half a dozen reporters who had been summoned by telephone to a private office in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, 25km from the Afghan border.

Photogra-phers were forbidden from attending, and journalists were asked not to identify the office.

Reporters at the private meeting, who were described as having had close relations with the Taliban, said Roohi was a senior official of the militia, whose five year rule was crushed late last year.

Roohi said he now belongs to a pro-Mullah Omar movement called Jamiat ul Shabab ul Muslimeen (party of young mujahideen).

[stilts]

Funny how we haven't heard Osama or Omar themselves make this claim.

[EggsAckley]

I guess they're building Quickie Marts in Afghanistan now.

[dighton]

[finnman69]

Osama and Omar are hiding inside Saddam's sphincter!

[bonesmccoy]

These "Osama is alive" reports are starting to sound like "I saw Elvis!"

[Spyder]

'E's pinin' for the fjords I tell ye.

[Drammach]

Neither one may make an appearance until another major operation has been undertaken and accomplished.

This is what I believe is happening.

Both, but esp. Osama Bin Laden are staying underground until they have a successful terrorist operation to announce or take credit for.
It's a matter of "bragging rights" then.
But until they have a successful strike, it is better to stay underground, and "keep 'em guessing".

[copycat]

Nonsense, e's nailed to the perch!

[Eva]

The last I heard, Osama was seen on horseback in December, ten minutes before we turned the whole area into dust.

[Senator Pardek]

Show me the monkey!!!

[Rocksalt]

You notice there has not been any Osama videos released lately. And you know he's not camera shy. He's dead,or laying real low.

[lavrenti]

Usuama is dead, dead, dead.

He was so much a political animal, he would have been available months ago.

His remains are yet to be found, but I am confident he's croaked.

[Senator Pardek]

I'm 99% sure he's dead. I was shocked at first - people with that kind of wealth let others do the dying.

Then I realized that he inherited it - a subhuman savage like that has no ability to create wealth.

[OrioleFan]

a man claiming to be a former Taliban diplomat

Al Gore???

[Rocksalt]

""Mullah Omar is alive and is inside Afghanistan. I met him 15 days back," said Naseer Ahmed Roohi, who introduced himself as the former first secretary of the Taliban's embassy in the UAE.

What's the matter,you don't trust this man's word? Like I would trust a snake in the grass!

[Norman Conquest]

Gee, I guess this proves Gore was right! How convenient.

[exhaustedmomma]

said Naseer Ahmed Roohi...
and I say Roohi is a reality naysayer

[JoeSixPack1]

If the taliban sez he's alive, ,, ,well, they never lie, so we should go kick their arses again.

And Again, And Again, And Again........

If they say we didn't get him, who are we to argue.

[IronJack]

Uh huh. And Elvis is running a bait shoppe on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Osama bin Laden is a worm buffet under a couple billion tons of Afghan hillside. Has been since last December. The One-eyed Jackass is still alive however, and living in a Toyota.

[IronJack]

"'E's not dead. 'E's ... pining ... for the fjords!"

"'E's not pining. 'E's bloody DEMISED!"