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2004-03-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Ol_Dirty_American 2004-03-18 8:16:20 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ODA - heard that too...

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-18 8:35:14 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:35:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The old spook says nothing, smiles a cheshire cat smile and disappears...

Posted by OldSpook 2004-3-18 8:43:46 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:43:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 #3 : Here's the one-up.Kondracke reports as a rumor that UBL is cornered with the other maggot alzawahiri(5 pm,FNC)

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-18 8:46:44 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:46:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 : Here's the one-up.Kondracke reports as a rumor that UBL is cornered with the other maggot alzawahiri(5 pm,FNC)

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-18 8:47:05 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:47:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ahh,whoops...

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-18 8:48:12 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:48:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Coppers! You'll never take me ali-glurg."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-3-18 8:50:40 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-3-18 8:50:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting that the rumors started flying so shortly after daybreak....2012 hrs EST.

Posted by floatinginspace 2004-3-18 8:55:41 PM|| 2004-3-18 8:55:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "These are the headlines, now the rumours behind the news."

Howl of the Wolf News (Firesign Theater Album: Don't Crush that Dwarf, Just Hand Me the Pliers)

I hope we get those rat bastards. Would be a good pick-me-up after Spain. We got to get Biker Omar, too. And do not forget Hek. Knock off the leaders and the followers will walk around like ants who lost their trail.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-3-18 9:00:29 PM|| 2004-3-18 9:00:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "...the followers will walk around like ants who lost their trail."

I find it useful and personally vindicating to crush those too...but hey, that's just me

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-18 9:14:52 PM|| 2004-3-18 9:14:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 OldSpook... hmmmm do you have something you wanna share? ;)

If this is true it's unfortunate that we couldn't get the bastard alive... but at least we'll get the intel that he has stored in computers, files etc... and maybe some of the guys they captured will have more info on future plans and bin ladens location.

Btw, is it just me or do you have the feeling that their about to crack down on ol binny too?

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-18 9:19:10 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-3-18 9:19:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I am not at liberty to confirm or deny anything. Just that the news reportage is... amusing, and sometimes I wonder how they come up with some of this.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-3-18 9:28:05 PM|| 2004-3-18 9:28:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, c'mon OldSpook, don't be a tease. We're all friends here (well, I guess the last few days prove that's not quite true, but anyway). We don't want to know how you know, just what you know.

Posted by sludj 2004-3-18 9:29:02 PM|| 2004-3-18 9:29:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 ... hums a tune... ...tiny bubbles...

Posted by OldSpook 2004-3-18 10:15:52 PM|| 2004-3-18 10:15:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 ah, come on OS, you can't say...I know something but I'm not going to tell you...it's sooo mean.

1. He's "dead" but he's really being interrogated
2. It's too early for anything - the sun just came up..
3. They got him at night..
4. He was interrogated for the last 3 months and now we'll "find" him in a rat hole.
5. You know they got Binny boy

how about a HINT from anonymous sources....just a little iddy biddy one

puleeeeesseeeee :-)

Posted by B 2004-3-18 10:51:08 PM|| 2004-3-18 10:51:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Agree about Biker and Hek. Just do them in and be done with it.

Posted by B 2004-3-18 10:53:20 PM|| 2004-3-18 10:53:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Old Spook, Good ON YA! As an escapee of the insane asylum 213, I understand what you CANNOT say/do/hint at, and I'm with you. I DID call a friend who works funny shifts in a copper-lined room full of funky-looking equipment, but he couldn't say much - too much partying going on... (G)

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-18 10:54:11 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-18 10:54:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 John Loftus, a former intelligence guy who sued Sami al-Arian and is suing the Saudi royal family on behalf of the 9/11 families, says the whole thing is a Pakistani hoax and there's just a few Chechens and Uzbeks holed up there. He adds that it's a show for Powell and an attempt to justify the US decision to make Pakistan an major military ally.

Posted by Tibor 2004-3-18 10:54:29 PM|| 2004-3-18 10:54:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Hamid Mir, on Greta's show, says there are about 600 Bad Guys holed up. Some have escaped toward Afghanistan. I hope there's somebody waiting to meet them there.

Posted by Fred 2004-3-18 11:01:20 PM|| 2004-3-18 11:01:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Old Patriot, why? Is it someone's birthday?

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-18 11:04:57 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-3-18 11:04:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 /sarcasm

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-18 11:05:45 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-3-18 11:05:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 I heard that they got like 9000 turbans and a bigass Juche-powered Mecha that they borrowed from the Norks, and that Ayman took the shape of... a giant roc and that Osama took the form of... a bucket of water. And then they are going to effect a miraculous escape that involves a '78 Pontiac Firebird and a fast-moving train.

/sarcasm

Show me the cooling, bullet-ridden carcasses, please.

Posted by BH 2004-3-18 11:27:06 PM|| 2004-3-18 11:27:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 LOL @ BH. Can the corpses be bloating too, or do the bullet holes allow the gases to escape?

Posted by Seafarious 2004-3-18 11:50:42 PM|| 2004-3-18 11:50:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 this sounds like all around good news to me. What we are hearing and the grave look on the CNN correspondent's faces give me good reason to be optimistic!!

Party on, it's been a long hard fight.

Posted by B 2004-3-19 8:11:04 AM|| 2004-3-19 8:11:04 AM|| Front Page Top

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