OBL's Latest Message

[DanS]

Says only 18 people died at Tora Bora (6% of 300). I guess the Taliban fared a little worse in other battles.

Credible?

He's also much more specific in this letter. He advises Iraqis to build camouflaged trenches--even though we know that trenches were death traps in Gulf War I.

Good advice?

A transcript...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58869-2003Feb11.html

Of course, we get a lot of the infidel blah.

[DuncanK]

blah blah blah Kill the Great Satan blah blah blah

[Sava]

Proclaiming Iraq to be his ally? Sounds like he wants war in Iraq.

[Gangerolf]

Proclaiming Iraq to be his ally? Sounds like he wants war in Iraq.

yep. kind of interesting how Powell didn't question the authencity of the tape

[KrazyHorse]

Actually, he supposedly told the Iraqis to rise up and overthrow their false, impotent secular government on the tape too.

[DanS]

Frogger: Actually, that's a transript of the tape that I linked.

[Velociryx]

My bet: Our boys captures OBL in Afghanistan, shipped him to Hollywierd, where they convinced him to make a little speech.

Gives the US administration more ammunition to push PatAct2 through, and gives them their "missing link" which demonstrates an OBL-Iraq link (thus providing, theoretically, sufficient proof to get a UN go-ahead vote for the war).



-=Vel=-
(Wag the Dog)

[KrazyHorse]

Didn't read it. Got that secondhand from somewhere (note "apparently").

At first I thought your link wasn't working but then I realised they want statistical info before they let you in. Back in a bit.

[KrazyHorse]

First thing I found was:

And it doesn't harm in these conditions the interest of Muslims to agree with those of the socialists in fighting against the crusaders, even though we believe the socialists are infidels. For the socialists and the rulers have lost their legitimacy a long time ago, and the socialists are infidels regardless of where they are, whether in Baghdad or in Aden (ph).

Where the the "socialists in Baghdad" are an obvious reference to the Ba'ath

[monkspider]

camoflauged trenches might just be crazy enough to work actually.

[Ned]

Frogger, but he concludes that an alliance with Saddam is justified. He references an alliance between Islam and the Persians against the Romans.

"And this fighting about to take place resembles the fight with the Romans earlier and the collusion of interest doesn't harm, for the Muslims' fight against the Romans was due to the collusion of the interests with the Persians. "

[KrazyHorse]

Nope. Infrared and downwards radar would show them as bright as day.

[Dinner]

As I recall bull dozers work wonders for filling in trenches and as an added bonus you don't have to worry about burial details for all the Iraqis who refuse to come out of their trenches.

[Sava]

Ned... Persians? Islam? Romans? Aren't they all like hundreds of years apart?

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Gangerolf


yep. kind of interesting how Powell didn't question the authencity of the tape

Yes he did