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Posted: 1/13/2006 10:14:58 PM EDT
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Not many 6'5 Arabs so not hard to I.d. but noone has seen a body.
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Thats right! ded'na mo-fro bro!!! |
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If he were still alive today he'd be holding up a newspaper and the arab world would be gloating about how the Great Satan cannot catch one little man.
He's in tiny little pieces in some cave. -Gator |
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On a side note..
If he is dead then what? I know we don't pull out till we kill EVERYONE one those bastards but what happens if he is confirmed dead D.N.A. and everything? |
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Yup.
He's been takin a dirt nap in some blown out cave in Afganistan for years now. If he were alive you know that fucker woulda proven it already. |
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I think he's still alive and planning his next course of action.
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Takes a hero supertroop like me to do the job, if youre not military you wouldnt understand. |
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No he is very much alive and a threat, It's a shame that we still haven't got the guy.
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Wasn't there a video last year before the election where he talked about Bush vs. Kerry? |
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IF he were dead then he would be a martyr to the cause and we would be hearing about it. IT is best to keep him running from cave to cave, effectively neutering him than either killing him or imprisoning him.
I so want to force feed him pork rinds though... |
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He's assumed room temp. If that fuckstain was still kickin' we'd have heard some vague threat about our imminent destruction in the past year.
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If he's alive, he is probably in Pakistan, our "ally" in the region, where we can't get to him.
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IMHO, he's alive but has been overshadowed by the shitstorm he's helped to create. It's more useful to the terror brokers to keep him as a figurehead but marginalized. His days of pulling the strings are past...
My $0.02 |
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I'll believe he's dead when there is some kind of conformation.
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He's alive. In all likelyhood in poor health due to kidney problems.
If he were dead the jihadi websites would have lit up with martyr proclimations. |
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Unless they Jihadi websites don't know either.
I say he's probably dead. We'd have heard from him. |
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Thinkng the same I heard this same perspective from Peter Bergen, author of "The Osama Bin Ladin I know" But with the death of the #3 man - who was #1 operations planner -, and now # 2 (story w/video), this thing is looking very good indeed. These two scores were a few hundred miles apart- FWIW Awesome job men!! |
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For a long time I thought he was suffering a real bad case of freezer burn with us mopping up under the guise that he was still alive. The thing that makes me wonder is the video where he mentioned Bush and Kerry-hard to can that for later release given the timetables involved. OTOH, I don't speak Arabic so I'm left trusting other people to translate his vids for me.
Dave |
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He is alive. But he is wounded (shrapnel) and/or sick (kidney, other). He doesn't want to make videos looking like he is on death's doorstep, wheezing and whispering, or with the left side of his body not working. Second, he was the guy that others would go to to get approval and funding for their plans. He would hook groups up to other individuals or groups to make the whole thing happen. Now he is severly limiting the people he meets with, because any one could turn him in, or be followed, or be captured and interrogated to reveal his presence. So his effectiveness is extreemly limited. If he was dead they would martyr him, and there have been some autenticated audios since Tora bora.
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"... If he was dead they would martyr him, and there have been some autenticated audios since Tora bora."
tora bora? what about the video he made just before the last election? |
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If he was dead, Al-Quaeda and other terrorists groups would be using him to promote their cause- as a martyr.
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He is dead but the uncertainty about it will keep him from being a martyr. I can see by the posts in this thread that the plan is working just fine.
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Every video since Tora Bora has a voice that is supposedly OBL dubbed over the top of what looks to be stock "Osama footage."
The footage shown could have been recorded at any time. The vioce, may or may not be him... I think the dude is dead. He was a total media whore before Tora Bora. |
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I haven't heard any thing from him(as in tapes) but I'm not going to assume yet that he took an earth nap.
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Thought he was dead until that last tape came out
One thing is for sure, he doesn't ever want to get caught |
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