US 'impatience' in Bin Laden hunt

[varun]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4111524.stm

Nearly four years after the 11 September attacks, there are signs that the US is beginning to grow impatient at the lack of progress in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden - and particularly over the sensitive issue of Pakistan's co-operation in the search for the al-Qaeda leader.

Last week the outgoing US ambassador to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, said he believed that neither Taleban leader Mullah Omar nor Bin Laden were in Afghanistan.

Although he was careful not to say explicitly that he thought they were in Pakistan, he came as close to saying it as is possible without offending diplomatic sensibilities.

In a later interview with an Afghan TV station Mr Khalilzad asked how it was possible for a Pakistani TV crew to find and interview a top Taleban commander when the Pakistani intelligence services did not know where he was...

[DrDebug]

1. But what if he is dead?

Osama bin Laden:
A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government

Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December <2001> and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.

With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?

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Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633

News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago

A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.



http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Except we've seen him on tape since then

And he was referring to current events.

[DrDebug]

3. There's a link about that as well

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

Is the 2004 Bin Laden
Video Tape A Fraud?

Close (closer than the last phony) but no cigar. Note the shape of the cheeks and the width of the nose.

His arms and hands are in view and appear uninjured, whereas it was reported that the real Osama's left arm was severely injured at Tora Bora.



Bin Laden's last video appearance was late in 2001. How come he hasn't aged? Why isn't his beard now totally grey - that's what generally happens over time.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html

US casts doubt on bin Laden's latest message
By Toby Harnden in Washington
(Filed: 28/12/2001)

OSAMA BIN LADEN heaped praise on 'the 19 students who shook the American empire' in the September 11 attacks in a chilling video shown in full last night by an Arab television station.

The recording was dismissed by the Bush administration yesterday as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead.

In the full version of the latest tape of the Saudi exile broadcast by the satellite channel al-Jazeera in Qatar, bin Laden called on Muslims to "concentrate on hitting the US economy with every available means" in the hope that "if their economy is finished they will become too busy to enslave oppressed people".

But several inconsistencies undermined claims that the video was shot around Dec 11 or that bin Laden had escaped from the Tora Bora cave complex to Pakistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/28/wbin28.xml

[politicaholic]

4. "Weekend at Osama's" - let the hilarity and crazy antics begin!

:party:

[MadisonProgressive]

5. I heard he is being protected by Iran

:sarcasm: