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Terror Networks
Binny sez he'll croak as a martyr in new tape
2003-02-14
A British-based Islamic news agency said Thursday it has a new audio recording of Osama Bin Laden in which he predicts he will die as "a martyr" this year in an attack against his enemies.
"All us good Muslims should. Uhh... You go first."
The al-Ansaar news agency said that the 53-minute tape was allegedly recorded this month and acquired from a seller who advertised over the Internet.
Y'know, I should probably advertise the nekkid pictures of him I have on e-Bay. I could use the big dollars. Y'see, Binny and Madonna and Michael Jackson and this circus midget... Uh. Never mind. You'll have to bid.
Imran Khan, who runs the Birmingham-based agency al-Ansaar, said he translated the tape, describing it as poetic with several verses from the Quran. "In this final year I hurl myself and my steed with my soul at the enemy. Indeed on my demise I will become a martyr," the al-Qaeda leader purportedly says. "I pray my demise isn’t on a coffin bearing green mantles. I wish my demise to be in the eagle's belly."
"Y'see, I've actually been dead for the past year and a half, but all these Islamonutz can't admit it. But it's gettin' pretty hard to keep up the pretense, since if they publish a picture of me it, like, 'Night of the Not-Living Dead,' if y'know what I mean. Who's gonna pay any attention to a smear of carbon? So several of my body parts are bragged up to be on the way out in a blaze of glory and then somebody else can take over. I don't really care who it is, 'cuz I'm dead and in Paradise. It's a lot hotter here in Paradise than I thought it would be, but me and ol' Heinrich Himmler have a lotta laffs together..."
Khan said experts contacted by al-Ansaar believed the "eagle" referred to the US and the quote revealed bin Laden's wish to end his life in a final act of terrorism.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4  Interesting comparison of the Mahdi and Osama is to be found at http://www.kkrva.se/eng/rsawspj/016/stjernsward.shtml
Posted by: Tresho   2003-02-14 19:34:13  

#3  Thanks, Frank. You saved me some typing.
Posted by: Fred   2003-02-14 17:22:01  

#2  He's Dead. He's Dead and we know he's dead. It suits our purposes to pretend that hes still alive. The second that he shows up dead, the left will shout from the rooftops that the war is over and we can all go home.

As long as their is doubt that hes alive, we can use that to open doors into other countries. We need to go into Iraq, Iran, Syria and several parts of Africa. Expect "Osama" to show up in each of them, but the man is dead in some cave in tora bora, and we know it.

Osama is a liability to the people he created, His being alive serves no one but us. The most recent tape about his coming "Martydom" is an attempt by what is left of al-queada to get rid of him publically, so we and our forces will get distracted by the "he's dead so we can all go home now".

He made a mistake, His organization, previously unmolested has now gotten the unwanted attention of the west. Outside of our military, behind the scenes our CIA and other intelligence agencies are working with bounty hunters and paying bribes to less-than-savory individuals who have nothing to do but hunt this mans organization down.

Slowly but surely, the swamp is getting drained and rather than generate support for his movement, the Arabic world is warming to the US. he will go down in history as an even less effective revolutuionary than the "Mad Mahdi" That General Gordon of Khartoum took on.

Posted by: Frank Martin   2003-02-14 16:57:19  

#1  Fred, what makes you so confident that he's dead? I actually think he's still alive, probably in Kashmir, if not in Yemen or Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: RW   2003-02-14 16:07:18  

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