I've been thinking about Bin laden

[Ed]

I wonder if he has not been captured and is being sweated in some quiet place in pakistan. It would certainly keep his followers off guard and it would probably add to the vaalue of the intelligence gotten from him. I wonder.

[Douglas]

I've Bin Laden about thinking.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Ed
I wonder if he has not been captured and is being sweated in some quiet place in pakistan. It would certainly keep his followers off guard and it would probably add to the vaalue of the intelligence gotten from him. I wonder.

I guess that you could say we "might have Ben", (which, of course, are the saddest words of tongue or pen.)

[shemp]

Originally posted by Tricky


I guess that you could say we "might have Ben", (which, of course, are the saddest words of tongue or pen.)

He is being held with his henchman, Hassan ben Sober.

[rikzilla]

Originally posted by shemp


He is being held with his henchman, Hassan ben Sober.

and his other henchmen, Hussa bin-Pharteen, and his cousin
I bin-Pharteen. There's also the nefarious Hashit M'Drawers, who it is said to have left skid marks at his last known attack. (Which was a "dirty" bomb) :eek:

[Ed]

Yuk. I was being (bin?) serious though.

[Galadriel]

He may be in Pakistan, but I doubt he's been captured. Dubya would be broadcasting it from the rooftops if Osama had been caught. Also, Saddam Hussein would be breathing easier, since Dubya would no longer be targeting him as the Great Muslim Boogeyman Since I Can't Get bin Laden.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Bin, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend will see
You've got a friend in me
(You've got a friend in me)

Bin, you're always running here and there
(Here and there)
You feel you're not wanted anywhere (anywhere)
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's something you should know
You've got a place to go
(You've got a place to go)

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
(I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we")

Bin, most people would turn you away
(Turn you away)
I don't listen to a word they say
(A word they say)
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Bin
(A friend)
Like Bin
(Like Bin)
Like Bin

[Brooklyn Dodger]

I believe he is either dead or our prisoner. If he is dead, we know where his body is. If he is our prisoner, he is being used to produce those tapes we recently released. The purpose of the tapes is to excite the Al Qaeda communications links, and thereby track down and kill the leadership.

[Sasha]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer
Bin, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend will see
You've got a friend in me
(You've got a friend in me)

Bin, you're always running here and there
(Here and there)
You feel you're not wanted anywhere (anywhere)
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's something you should know
You've got a place to go
(You've got a place to go)

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
(I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we")

Bin, most people would turn you away
(Turn you away)
I don't listen to a word they say
(A word they say)
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Bin
(A friend)
Like Bin
(Like Bin)
Like Bin

"Tear him up!"

[The Central Scrutinizer]

He is still alive. We don't have him.

[Brooklyn Dodger]

Khalid Sheik Mohammad was arrested today in Pakistan. He was the number three man in Al Qaeda. Do you still think the tapes were genuine?

[Jedi Knight]

I think Bin Ladin is in South America somewhere.

JK

[Oso]

Originally posted by Jedi Knight
I think Bin Ladin is in South America somewhere.

JK

with no beard and facial surgery. Why do you think he hasn't been making videos?

Anyway, the last thing we should do is catch Bin Laden. Once we catch him the pressure will be on to drop our pursuit of associated cells, even scumbags like Mullah Omar.

[Doctor X]

Khalid Sheik Mohammad was arrested today in Pakistan.

Eeeexxxxcel-LENT!

Release the hounds!

--J.D.

[Jedi Knight]

The CIA are scouring the earth for Al Qaida and Bin Ladin. If Bin Ladin goes to Mexico, there will be CIA covert soldiers hiding in taco sheds ready to put a cap in his @ss.

No, Bin Ladin isn't into tacos, but he is into areas that provide natural protection. That is why he hung out in eastern Afghanistan in Tora Bora, and why I think he is hanging out in South America.

JK

[Doctor X]

I thought for sure he was in Des Moines. . . .

--J.D.

[Brooklyn Dodger]

Well folks, I gave some reasons why I thought the recent bin Laden tapes were bogus, having been done instead by US intelligence:

1. They came to light at the perfect time so far as the US is concerned. Just before the war with Iraq is to begin. They lend themselves to the current US line.

2. They do fit fairly well, though not perfectly, with what the US might expect bin Laden to say. The second tape is apparently even clearer, and speaks of his pending martyrdom.

3. The previous tape that was released from bin Laden was analyzed by a laboratory in Switzerland. The lab said that it couldn't be sure, but it apppeared that the tape was probably a fraud.

4. The US has said it will not submit these tapes to the lab and the lab has said it will not analyze these tapes.

5. The US "miraculously" had a copy of the recent tapes, and their tranlations, even before the Al Jazeera News Service was aware it had them. I hope some of you are noticing a pattern here.

6. The new tapes exhort Al Qaeda and all muslims to fight the infidels and kill them, etc., which is about what you would expect. This is accompanied by what we are told is an unusual increase in terrorist communications traffic. We have raised the threat level to RED. We expect to be attacked, just as we expect to attack Iraq.

My conclusion: These two tapes, plus the last bin Laden tape, were produced by US intelligence sources. If these tapes were made by bin Laden himself, then that means he is a prisoner of the US. But we must know that he cannot surface to deny the tapes, which means that he's not our prisoner he must be dead, and we know he is. The purpose is not to provide a reason to go to war with Iraq, but to generate communications among Al Qaeda operatives, leading to their capture or death. I believe it is succeeding.

Now we find that a senior Al Qaeda leader, the number three man in the organization, has been captured in Pakistan. When I gave my theory I was roundly dismissed FOR NO REASON AT ALL!!! Now that we have seen what may well be the result of the CIA handiwork in the tapes, I wonder if anyone would like to tell me why my theory is so farfetched.