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2007-09-09 India-Pakistan

How Osama bin Laden Escaped death 4 times after 9/11

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Posted by tipper 2007-09-09 13:16|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Article: Bin Laden was less popular in the Muslim world before 9/11, but he is more popular 6 years after.

No kidding. Killing 3000 Americans does have that effect on your popularity in the Muslim world. I'm sure he'll be even more popular if he manages to kill a few hundred thousand Americans in another attack.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-09-09 13:30|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-09-09 13:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Much of this narrative is probably legend; much of it is just standard anti-american talking points the the Islamists (and left wing Americans) use every day.

Posted by mhw 2007-09-09 13:41|| 2007-09-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#3 His real strength is bad US policies.

Here, the author's underlying bias shines through.

The world has become more unsafe after 9/11.

Especially so for Muslims. The author chooses to ignore how it is Islam that plays a pivotal role in making this world less safe. From all indications Islam will eventually provoke a convulsion that shall incinerate the entire MME (Muslim Middle East). After that, the world willonce againbecome a much safer place.

More Muslims have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than Americans killed on 9/11.

Here, too, the author neglects to note how it is other Muslims that have killed the vast majority of Iraqi Muslims.

The whole Muslim world is now burning in the raging fire of anti-Americanism, and Osama bin Laden is the only beneficiary of this situation.

Not so. The West has benefited immensely from Islam unmasking itself and finally making clear its malign intent. While we may be a bit slow to react, the end result will be every bit as devastating for Islam as WWII was for Germany and Japan. It is no fault of the West that Islam absolutely refuses to learn from history.

Any new 9/11-like attack may ignite an ultimate clash of civilizations. That's what Osama bin Laden wants.

Once the entire MME is glowing green glass, any surviving Muslims will learn to curse Osama's name. He will be the death of Islam and rightly so.

By issuing threats of U.S. troops entering Pakistan and by honoring people like Salman Rushdie they are only strengthening the hands of Osama bin Laden. The more hatred they create, the more power Osama bin Laden gains.

Bin Laden's "power" is but a fiction in the age of nuclear weapons. Neither do we "create" hatred. Islam's hatred of the West is automatic, no matter what we do.

He changed the world six years ago and he can again push the world towards a grand clash with another massive attack.

Only the most suicidal of idiots would relish this prospect.

All strong countries are ready to play into his hands through their policies, which bin Laden would say, create more and more hatred everyday.

The author neglects to recognize thatin a startling exception to the rulethere is genuine reciprocity in this case. The West is learning to hate Islam with equalif not much greatervigor. As a superpower with an abundance of nuclear weapons, this exposes Islam's constant antagonism for the abject lunacy it is. Muslims simply refuse to comprehendor willingly ignorethat such stupidity comes with a very steep price tag. They do so at their own extreme peril.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 14:04|| 2007-09-09 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The author neglects to recognize thatin a startling exception to the rulethere is genuine reciprocity in this case. The West is learning to hate Islam with equalif not much greatervigor.

Which is likely what Binny and his nihilistic ilk are wishing for.

Posted by Pappy 2007-09-09 14:11|| 2007-09-09 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure he'll be even more popular if he manages to kill a few hundred thousand Americans in another attack.

Such popularity would prove fleeting, at least on this orb.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-09 14:16|| 2007-09-09 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 No. bin Laden was expecting America to retreat and go cower in dark corner, leaving the field open to his vision of a caliphate. He didn't expect the US would be occupying the heart of muslim lands, even in this current soft, wet noodle version of occupation.

Posted by ed 2007-09-09 14:21|| 2007-09-09 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Which is likely what Binny and his nihilistic ilk are wishing for.

Somebody needs to tell them about being very careful what one wishes for.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 14:44|| 2007-09-09 14:44|| Front Page Top

#8 It must be diheartening for bin laden to resort to "leftist" talking points. For all his rhetoric about Crusaders, every provocation from burning Christian flags (Norway, Sweden, etc.) to bravely shooting nuns in the back, it has proved impossible for whatever is left of the Christian West to prop up his fantasy of himself as Saladin.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-09 17:23|| 2007-09-09 17:23|| Front Page Top

#9 He hasn't the genetic makeup for it - he's Arab and Salahdin was a Kurd. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2007-09-09 18:02|| 2007-09-09 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10 The Paki reporter is reachable at: hamid.mir@geo.tv

Sounds like he needs lots of pron in his mailbox....
calling ".com"

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-09 19:37|| 2007-09-09 19:37|| Front Page Top

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