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Michael Ledeen: Toe Tag for Binny | |
2006-01-09 | |
A: And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time. B: In short, both demography and geopolitics make this an age of revolution, as President Bush seems to have understood. Rarely have there been so many opportunities for the advance of freedom, and rarely have the hard facts of life and death been so favorable to the spread of democratic revolution. | |
Posted by:Seafarious |
#13 Joseph, I think that they meant it symbolically. Why would someone enjoy looking at the fugly Osama been Laid [in grave]'s head? |
Posted by: twobyfour 2006-01-09 23:25 |
#12 No matter whether alive or dead I believe most Americans want closure as per those Terror leaders whom planned and executed 9-11 - send in SPECOPS to find and dig up Osama's corpus dilecti, and bring it back to the USA for full public exposure. Many Americans in the past wanted the Kaiser's head, Lenin and Stalin'd head, Tojo HItler and Mussolini's, etal. - why should Osama and the Burqua Boyz be "special"! |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-01-09 22:59 |
#11 This article sounds like convenient cover to me:
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Posted by: Tibor 2006-01-09 22:05 |
#10 If he's still alive there's a chance, however small, taht he may yet repent. If he's dead, he's too preoccupied with misery to be of any harm to us. |
Posted by: Korora 2006-01-09 19:49 |
#9 |
Posted by: Glomoper Cleath8438 2006-01-09 19:26 |
#8 A cat has 9 lives, how many does a cockroach have? |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-01-09 18:04 |
#7 He's Really Most Sincerely Dead? Link in case the pix is cut off... |
Posted by: BigEd 2006-01-09 18:01 |
#6 I seem to recall Ledeen falling for exaggerated stories of ballot tampering in Iranian and Iraqi elections. He also systematically overstates the potential threat to the regime of the student demonstrations that occasionally happen in Iran. I like the guy and agree with him regarding Iran, but suspect his sources -- understandably -- are feeding him self serving info sometimes and he's not great at filtering it out. So, though he's one of the 'good guys', I nominate him for a salt shaker picture on Rantburg. That said, the idea that Iran is harboring Al Queda is widely believed and this particular story may turn out to be true. |
Posted by: JAB 2006-01-09 17:43 |
#5 Gotta watch 'em the potassium. Gotta takem 'em your phos go too. |
Posted by: Elmaimble Spitle5035 2006-01-09 16:15 |
#4 Too bad we will have to wait until we take Iran to dig up his grave and see for sure! It would be the banner year, Binny and Arafat! I just get all funny inside thinking about it. |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-01-09 15:18 |
#3 So, he's dead again? |
Posted by: Iblis 2006-01-09 15:03 |
#2 From what I've read over that past few years, Ledeen's sources in Iran have a much better record for accuracy than all other media (I know that's not saying much). Keeping my fingers crossed... |
Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-01-09 14:22 |
#1 Thanks Seafarious, excellent news. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-01-09 14:04 |