Maybe parrot-dead?
Osama Bin Laden is not in Pakistan he is dead says Taliban leaderSerious complications to the lungs? I can only hope he coughed up a lung - literally.A top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has rejected reports that al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, and other leaders are hiding in his region.
"The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, are not in our territory," he said in an interview broadcast by a satellite television network.
Funeral prayers have been said for Osama bin Laden over the years with one reported by a Pakistani news organisation, and another in an Egyptian newspaper as far back as December 2001.
This report quoted an official of the Taliban saying that he had suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.
For quite a while now I've thought he was dead. There was the occasional video after 9/11, and then a few tapes... but when you consider how cheap recording equipment is, and video equipment - he should have been yakking up a storm, getting new videos to incite the faithful out on a weekly basis.
Instead, after ToraBora the were a few videotapes that could have been filmed at any time. And occasional scratchy (I understand) cassette tapes. Heck, take a few recordings of his speeches, convert them to WAV files, and cut&paste snippets into a new speech - it wouldn't be hard at all, and probably what was done.
So - Is Obama dead? Or just pinin' for the fjords?
J.
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The AJC reprinted a 'Los Angeles Times' editorial today that read, in part:
'Is there truly nothing newsworthy in the mastermind of the murder of nearly 3,000 American civilians having no difficulty providing well-timed spin to counter the messages Bush tried to deliver to the Middle East?
Or have we collectively grown so numb after years of failure in the so-called global war on terror that we have accepted that bin Laden cannot be found? We delude ourselves if we believe that bin Laden's survival doesn't matter...'
Will the 'Times' take it all back, maybe even decide that the past seven years have been something besides abject failure, if it turns out that OBL has been feeding scorpions in some collapsed cave for most of that time?
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Posted by RNB | May 27, 2008 10:56 PM
Posted on May 27, 2008 22:56