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2009-12-07 India-Pakistan

US to launch new effort to capture Osama: Jones

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Posted by Steve White 2009-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 ION WORLD NEWS > TALIBAN WARLORDS: OSAMA HAS LEFT PAKISTAN FOR AFGHANISTAN, due to pressures from PAK Army Waziristan offensive???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-12-07 01:55|| na]">[na] 2009-12-07 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Osama is dead. He's probably been dead for years.

Its pretty clear he's not sitting in his office answering the phone and giving decisive direction and leadership. And Zawahiri ( 'ol Bumpy ) is not exactly prominent either. I expect they are scared to death if they fart too loud we will say hello.

No morning issue of the NYT and a picture of Binny waving at the camera pointing at today's date.

Binny's dead. Zawahiri knows that Zarquawi is the future. And they are on foot listening at night and knowing its gonna be a big surprise and there wont be any warning.

Remember the King Philip's War in the 1670's (?). Philip died shot to pieces in a mudhole and we cut his head off and put it in a bucket of brandy. And people have forgotten because it was a long time ago. But someday even today will also be a "long time ago".

Osama is dead. This war will go on for another 17 years and there will be Black Rain and darkness as the Tanks move up on the Moslem population centers while staggering refugees fill the ditches by the hundreds of thousands carrying their dying away from the burning cities.

No? Even Obama will be a long time ago. Right up there with the Roadmap and the Peace Plan.

If you want to put flowers on Zarquawi's grave where are you gonna go to do it.? Saddam's grave, where? Get the picture, I know you get the smell.

have some Brandy.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-12-07 04:56|| 2009-12-07 04:56|| Front Page Top

#3 General Jones, please direct your attention at Secretary Gates recent [YESTERDAY] statement to ABC News:

THE United States does not know where al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is and has lacked reliable information on his whereabouts for years, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News, December 06, 2009 6:41PM .

Meanwhile the real threats to our freedom roam cluelessly about the Beltway. Thank you General Jones for the....latest ~~uncordinated attempts at administration deflection~~ intelligence updates.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-07 05:36|| 2009-12-07 05:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Besoeker is exactly right. Without Gates statement yesterday Jones would not have said anything about Osama. This is nothing more than damage control.

Posted by NCMike 2009-12-07 06:17|| 2009-12-07 06:17|| Front Page Top

#5 cut his head off and put it in a bucket of brandy

Terrible waste of brandy, even bad brandy. Must be some other liquid one could use (IIRC they used to use urine to tan leather...)

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-07 07:56|| 2009-12-07 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenmore,

My late FIL indulged in the likes of E&J and Fleischmann's and in fact bequeathed a couple of bottles that still sit below my bar.

Although, I always break it out and pour him a shot (usually on the ground) on his birthday and holidays.

Not that there's anything wrong with this brandy. damn 1.5 litre bottles!

NO really...........no really, how many?!?

No really.I mean howd he drink this stuff???!!!!!

Really

Posted by Everday a Wildcat! (KSU) 2009-12-07 09:26|| 2009-12-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect that they're hoping capturing Bin Laden will let them off the hook as far as the long term task of stabilizing Afghanistan is concerned.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-07 10:32|| 2009-12-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Binny may or may not be dead, but the mission is not accomplished.

Jeremiah 16:
However, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when men will no longer say, As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt, but they will say, As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them. For I will restore them to the land I gave their forefathers.
But now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks. My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes. I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land.

Isaiah 14:
"I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

But you are brought down to the grave,to the depths of the pit.Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home? All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb. But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people.
The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers;they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.

I will rise up against them, declares the LORD Almighty. I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants, declares the LORD. I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland;I will sweep her with the broom of destruction, declares the LORD Almighty.

Posted by Danielle 2009-12-07 10:41|| 2009-12-07 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 US to launch new effort to capture Osama

Sounds like somebody is in dire need of a distraction.

Posted by gorb 2009-12-07 21:19|| 2009-12-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

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