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2005-04-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Debka - Islamic Website Says Osama is Dead

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Posted by legolas 2005-04-29 6:39:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 This is only so thay can say later, that he's come back from the dead. Unless we find and kill him before they can claim that.

Posted by plainslow 2005-04-29 9:09:37 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:09:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Authentic and Islamic? Well who are we to doubt such unimpeachable sources...

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-29 9:25:43 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:25:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Kinda like " I like both kinds of music, country and western".

Posted by plainslow 2005-04-29 9:27:54 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:27:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Last time Osama showed his face he was hiding his legs. I suspected then that he was badly injured in the lower part of his body. We haven't seen that camera-lover since. He may very well be dead by now. Eaten by gangrene? or beheaded by Zarqawi.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-04-29 9:31:31 AM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-04-29 9:31:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If true then Jabba the Hut Moore, Ward Churchill et al would be devastated. However there is hope. Perhaps they will gain some comfort from the websites recommendations.

"Where are the lamenters? Where are those who throw themselves from the tops of towers and skyscrapers?"

Posted by Bill Nelson 2005-04-29 9:33:18 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:33:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Pen of Jihad Warriors

Hmmmm....

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-29 9:33:36 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:33:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought we had e-mails on Zarqawi's computer from OBL. Maybe this just happened. Maybe Z-man was getting medical updates. Does he have a Durable Power of Attorney for Osama? Maybe they wanted to avoid a Schiavo situation.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-29 9:39:41 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:39:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 As with all vampires we need to make sure.
Wooden stake through the heart?
Light?
Cross or Icon?
Holy Water?

Only with all four can one be sure.
BTW... check if his body shows up in a mirror.

Posted by 3dc 2005-04-29 9:54:48 AM|| 2005-04-29 9:54:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this real dead or Haitian dead?

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-29 10:01:18 AM|| 2005-04-29 10:01:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 in which leader announces end of al Qaeda truce in Europe.

So we know at least one faction's [unsurprising] intention. With all the arrests lately, though, they'll have at least some difficulty realizing their ambition.

As for OBL, if he isn't really, most sincerely dead, this feels like a signal that he wants to retire from the hurly burly that is terrorist life. I don't think anyone would bother to behead him, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to add a few strings of garlic and some pickled pig's feet to the grave goods, and plant some nice, bright toadstools on the overturned soil.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-29 10:38:41 AM|| 2005-04-29 10:38:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 If he knew he was dying it would make sense of his annointing Zarqawi in the last 6 months or so.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-04-29 11:18:26 AM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-04-29 11:18:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Sounds like a nice story but I ain't buying it. The jihaadi site business is competative and they are always putting out wild shite to get attention. One would expect a large and organized PR blitz by AQ on the happy day OBL kicks the bucket. OBL's final instructions for losers would have to be aired immediately and the fabricated stories of the last days in combat, dying of longstanding combat wounds, and how his carcass didn't rot and stink after death (jihaadi stories always seem to have some fantastic lie about that sort of thing) would be publicized widely.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-29 2:37:19 PM|| 2005-04-29 2:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 #9 Is this real dead or Haitian dead?

He is as alive as Arafat, recovering in a Paris hospital.

Posted by Quackster D 2005-04-29 2:53:11 PM|| 2005-04-29 2:53:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do - go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Posted by BH 2005-04-29 3:40:19 PM|| 2005-04-29 3:40:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I for one believe it! Yay! This day has finally come! Celebration tonite!

Posted by Angating Flomong7173 2005-04-29 5:08:33 PM|| 2005-04-29 5:08:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Angating the Party Person is right! Huzza! Cheap likker for all!

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-29 5:21:20 PM|| 2005-04-29 5:21:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 maybe he just smells dead

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-29 5:53:08 PM|| 2005-04-29 5:53:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I don't know. I would think that making a disinformation campaign saying that Binny was dead would put Al Q on the defensive. Kinda shake them up, increase chatter, maybe make mistakes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-29 10:52:43 PM|| 2005-04-29 10:52:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 The man I fought with against the Soviets in Afghanistan is well-educated, dedicated and wily -I won't believe it until I touch his dead body!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-04-29 11:00:02 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-04-29 11:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 JM - you fought with Bin Ladin?

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-29 11:14:04 PM|| 2005-04-29 11:14:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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