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Bin Laden was a US prisoner before being killed: Ahmadinejad
2011-05-16
[Dawn] Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden
... who sleeps with the fishes...
was a prisoner in US custody for "sometime" before he was killed by the American military, Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
That's true. Dick Cheney had him stashed in his basement. Sometimes he'd have his evil minions chain him to a waterboard, stick a tee up his nostril, and practice his golf swing. I know it's true because somebody told me.
"I have exact information that bin Laden was held by the American military for sometime... until the day they killed him he was a prisoner held by them," the hardline president said in a live interview on Iranian state television. "Please pay attention. This is important. He was held by them for sometime. They made him sick and while he was sick they killed him," Ahmadinejad added.
Then we flew a secret mission to Abbottabad, dumped his body at a safehouse, bumped off one of his kids, scared three or four of his wives so bad one of them calved on the spot, and then left...
Those who believe this ought to think carefully about doing anything to make us think they might be against us -- we're mean!
He accused US President Barack B.O. Obama for announcing the Al Qaeda leader's death for "political gain."

"What the US president has done is for domestic political gain. In other words, they killed him for Mr Obama's election and now they are seeking to replace him with someone else," Ahmadinejad said without elaborating.

Bin Laden was rubbed out on May 2 in a US commando raid on a heavily fortified compound near Islamabad, Pakistain.

On May 4, Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi too had cast doubt on bin Laden's death, saying there were "ambiguities" over the way he was killed.

The Americans said they threw his body in the sea. "Why did they not allowed an independent expert to examine the body to say if it was bin Laden or not?" Vahidi said.

Shia Iran has always considered Al Qaeda as a Sunni ultra-radical and anti-Shia threat to its security.

Ahmadinejad further said that Tehran is "ready for a dialogue" with the world powers on the nuclear issue and hopes that future meetings will yield results.

"The best solution is cooperation," Ahmadinejad insisted in the interview on state television. "We hope that in future meetings (with world powers) if they occur, we get faster results." He criticised the West's muted reaction to the letter sent by Iran in early May to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton proposing resumption of talks over Tehran's nuclear issue.

A spokeswoman for Ashton earlier this week said that Iran's letter "does not contain anything new and does not seem to justify a further meeting"between the six world powers and Iran.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany represented by Ashton are engaged in a dialogue with Iran over the latter's controversial nuclear programme which the world powers suspect is masking a weapons drive.

Iran denies the charge.

"I was surprised to hear that Ashton has taken such a position. We have stated our readiness for a dialogue in various fields based on mutual respect, within the framework of international laws and in a spirit of cooperation,"Ahmadinejad said Sunday.

"Maybe Ashton expects that we have to accept her position when we have a dialogue. But then this is not a dialogue, this is a diktat."An attempt to resume nuclear talks between the two groups in December and in January ended in a failure, with both sides sticking to their positions.

While the world powers want to focus on the Iranian nuclear programme, Tehran wants to expand the discussions to issues such as global security, global nuclear disarmament, the possession of nuclear weapons by Israel and the right of all countries to civilian nuclear cooperation.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Dinnerjacket is under a spell.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-05-16 18:41  

#5  There's a lesson in there for you, Short Round.
Posted by: Spot   2011-05-16 07:58  

#4  OH! I almost forgot (not really) what about Che Guevara?

He WAS held in another room while the Federales and the CIA discussed what to do with him. Che seemed to think he was just too important to just kill outright.

But that Bolivian Captain who came into the room with the pistol had a "look" in his eye and the Havana Special fell out of Che's mouth when the Captain emptied five rounds into Che's chest and throat until the .45 cal slide clicked back on an empty mag.

And Osama was in his underwear. I wonder how surprised he was? I mean, he did hear the shooting downstairs, and he knew he didnt have ANY security staff to speak of....and no one mentions any cash stashed around the "mansion", do they. He sure wasnt going to bribe his way out.

And then the door opened.....all business and maybe count to two.
Posted by: de Medici3489   2011-05-16 06:04  

#3  This is how Legends are born. Zapata is still out there, not to mention the 13th Imam. There may even be a song about it.

I kinda like the idea that we had Osama for years and we gave him to Dick Cheney as a golf tee. But then, I am like that.

But a simple story is the best story...and also probably the true story. Always go with the simplest explanation. Make it simple...then shoot them. yeah.
Posted by: de Medici3489   2011-05-16 05:55  

#2  See also WORLD NEWS > BIN LADEN DEATH WELCOME BUT [is]NO SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS. Not sad, but also not glad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-05-16 02:36  

#1  AHMADINEJAD > claims the US made OSAMA "sick" while a prisoner + then after he became so then had Osama killed.

IN MY OWN WAY, I CAN RELATE, iff only in principle.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-05-16 02:34  

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