October surprise -- Bin Laden Dead?

[MarkG]

syncopants? are they made from some kind of new material? can you sync your pda as you wear them?

[Dr Strangelove]

Maybe the CIA is hoping to get him to use his cell phone so they can locate him.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Oerdin


funerals are ok but technically cemetaries are protected places according to the GC.

Show me where they signed/followed the GC.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Musharraf was just here in Dallas speaking at a Highland Park High School function. He promised he was after the terrorists.

A few weeks ago there was a "leak" made by Pakistanis that Bush admin was angry at Musharraf and had pressured him to stop supporting terrorism, and that this had been fairly succesful.

Now we have a "leak" made by Saudis that Osama Bin Laden has been killed.

Just in time for elections. Sigh, if the American electorate will fall for this again... "Perhaps the administration isn't insulting our intelligence. Perhaps we, as a collective, just are that dumb."

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
... if we capture him and put him on trial then he just gets an even bigger stage to speak to the Muslim world ...

I bet Zacarious Moussai is going to enjoy the spotlight he had for the next 50 or so years, locked away in that Colorado Supermax prison. He wanted to die, thought he was going to die, but then he got life in solitary confinement.

God, that'd be the perfect sentence for Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants. Bastards can sit and rot in prison for the rest of their natural lives, deprived of most human contact, most natural light and good food.

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[DanS]

And here's a strange report from the BBC. An AQ operative killed in Basra.

Why on Earth would he be in Basra? Is Afghanistan/Pakistan really that hot? Was he making connections in Iraq?

Senior militant 'killed in Iraq'
By Jim Muir
BBC News, Baghdad

iraq map
British forces have killed a senior al-Qaeda fugitive in a raid on a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, security sources say.

Officials named the dead man as Omar Farouq, a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia.

Farouq was captured in Indonesia in 2002 but escaped from a US military prison in Afghanistan last year.

Security sources say he was hiding in Basra and al-Qaeda was not known to be actively operating in the area.

A British military spokesman said forces came under fire and that the man they were trying to detain was killed in the exchange.

He said there was apparently nobody else in the building, so there were no further casualties, either among the British troops or anybody else.

The British military said only that they believed the wanted man belonged to a terrorist group, but security sources in Basra later named the dead man as Omar Farouq.

They said he was a significant figure in the international al-Qaeda movement.

Prison escape

Born in Kuwait of Iraqi parents, Farouq is believed to have joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and trained in Afghanistan.

He became a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia and he is believed to have been planning a series of bomb attacks on US embassies there when he was arrested in Indonesia in 2002.

To the considerable embarrassment of the Americans, he and three others escaped from the US military prison at Bagram airbase in Kabul last year.

He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it.

But he was tracked to Basra. Security sources say he was simply hiding out there and that his presence did not mean there was an active international al-Qaeda cell operating in the Basra area.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DanS
And here's a strange report from the BBC. An AQ operative killed in Basra.

Why on Earth would he be in Basra? Is Afghanistan/Pakistan really that hot? Was he making connections in Iraq?

Er. something about the central front of the global war?

[Gatekeeper]

Yep. Iraq became *the* central front in the Global War on Terrorism (TM, Republican Party, 2001) when President Bush made it so in March 2003. Before that, Afghanistan held that esteemed title.

What's going on in Afghanistan nowadays? Heck, I can't even find it on the map anymore. That must mean things are going swell there.

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