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2002-11-14 Terror Networks

US Confirms Bin Laden Is Alive - No Kidding!

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-11-14 10:56 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I for one would like to encourage him to talk as much as he can as often as he can. Everytime he opens his yap, we get more valuable information about where he is. We also get a nice reminder that the jobs not done yet. My biggest fear about OBL is that we will find his rotting maggot infested carcass and 20 seconds afterwards the 'hue and cry' of the lefties will be "the war is over, back to the domestic agenda!"

Personally, I still think he's dead. This recording is of such low quality that they could not even tell how the sound was recorded, either over the phone or over the internet. It sounds like a paste up job to me. Notice how they dont have low quality video tape, but they always have low quality audio, guess which is easier to fake.

Posted by Frank Martin 2002-11-14 11:34:43|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-11-14 11:34:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree with the sentiment that he is still dead. I do think he is perhaps just as valuable alive to the anti-terror coalition as he is to al qaeda et al.

I heard an interview last night with an Egyptian professor of Islamic Studies who had actually interviewed Bin Laden. He stated that he was very suspicious due to the choice of words. For instance, since when did Bush become the "pharaoh" of the century? Also, as the professor above points out regarding the reference to Rumsfeld as "Butcher of Vietnam", why would Bin Laden identify w. Vietnamese, as they are infidels in his eyes just as much as the US?

Of course, these could be geographical code words to his followers, but despite what CIA analysts say, the rhetorical style does not match (at least after translation).

Posted by Anonymous 2002-11-14 11:53:23|| 2002-11-14 11:53:23|| Front Page Top

#3 The (NPR) interview mentioned above was with Mamoun Fandy, an Egyptian political scientist and expert on Islamic fundamentalists and can be heard here if interested:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20021113.atc.03.ram

Posted by Anonymous 2002-11-14 12:53:47|| 2002-11-14 12:53:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I posted earlier on another site - same subject my theory which is the inverse: he is alive in the CIA/DOD/POTUS mind only in order to keep the fire lit. You need a bulls-eye or as the poster above said - game over! I agree - the lefties and idiotarians would use his death as the end of it all and start beating the drums of distraction.

Posted by Jack 2002-11-15 05:21:39|| 2002-11-15 05:21:39|| Front Page Top

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