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2007-09-17 Terror Networks

'Zawahiri replaces Bin Laden as Al Qaeda chief'

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Article tells me that Osama is physically incapacitated albeit alive - What needs to be done/eval now is the role of Zawi versus Osama's younger [male?] heirs within AQ.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-17 00:34|| 2007-09-17 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 He's dead, Jim.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 00:36|| 2007-09-17 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 It doesn't MATTER!! They are both wanted 'Dead Or Alive' by "W", they are communicating by carrier pigeons and 'walkers', and no matter how far away from each other's rock they are, Actionable Intelligence will bring justice to them before they are brought to Justice. With positive proof of location, I believe "W" would dispatch either, whether surrounded by one or ten thousand men!

Posted by smn 2007-09-17 02:39|| 2007-09-17 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 smn, I am not sure that we would really be too keen to gather decomposing OBL.

I think that the "dead or alive" does not literaly mean that if he's dead, anyone wants him in that form. Say your ex-GF says "I want you dead!" I doubt it can be construed in any form that she wants you at her side after you die. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-17 02:56|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-09-17 02:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The Zawi I know is absolutely loyal to Osama Bin Laden - Osama's etal. sonny boyz, OTOH, is a questionable kettle of fish.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-17 04:16|| 2007-09-17 04:16|| Front Page Top

#6 He's got that Harry Potter scar thing, heh.?

Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-09-17 05:35|| 2007-09-17 05:35|| Front Page Top

#7 He's got that Harry Potter scar thing, heh.?

Cap'n, yew referring to Zawahiri's head-bangin' callus? For +99.99...% of this world's Muslims it's the ne plus ultra in extreme devotion and piousness. Many definitions of this physiological feature include the specific word, "stigma".

In ~~the real~~ [cough] my world it will become a preferred aiming point.

Psycho Sidebar: Please think about it. A huge number of us have known, worked with or met thousands of Muslims in our lives. I qualify in all three categories.

My hatred of Saddam was so great that back in the early 1990'swhile talking with some "Persian" (later revealed to be Iranian) men I met at a bus stopmy references to the straits of Basra made them ask me if I worked for the State Department.

As with a lot of you, it's taken me a while to adjust to Islam's threat. While I hadn't really looked for such an outward physical sign, neither had I seen it very often. The point is: How many of you have met Muslims who had prominent calluses on their foreheads? I'm a fairly observant person and yet really had not witnessed this phenomenon at all. Has anyone out there known a lot of Muslims with this particular wear spot?

In closing, I'm obliged to think that these zealots scrub their noggins into the ground whilst kneeling so as to obtain this particular facial feature. Sorta like tatts for bikers, including all the gangster-related similarities you can joke about.

I guess that's our new term for the day:

Forehead Callus = Muslim Tattoo: As in "He's got that Muslim Tattoo."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 07:39|| 2007-09-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Preferred headline: "Who died and left him boss?"

Posted by eLarson 2007-09-17 09:54|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-09-17 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Time to lop off the head of the snake.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-17 10:19|| 2007-09-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Twobyfour#4, the humiliation of being wanted "Dead or Alive" as required back in the ole west meant that even if the wanted had died or been killed, his body was required to be brought back to 'Authorities' for 'inspection'. This thought I'm sure is what haunts Osama, knowing that his teeth will someday be on display in the US, for all to gawk at!

Posted by smn 2007-09-17 13:55|| 2007-09-17 13:55|| Front Page Top

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