Randi just bet $13,000+ dollars that the October Surprise will be finding/

[gateley]

getting bin Laden.

[DS1]

1. Damn, I hope that's not a year's pay

[Radical Activist]

2. Didn't she say that four years ago?

I know a lot of people did. Yawn. :boring:

Can we stop shaking in our boots about what the other side is doing and stay busy ourselves?

[gateley]

6. Don't know. I've got her show streaming just posted what she said.

I'm hardly shaking in my boots, but thanks for the condescending advice.

[malaise]

3. That's what Pakistan is all about

I said this two years ago - they'll dig him from his grave and claim to have killed him.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. If he's in a grave, he's been there since 2002

They can't produce a 6 year dead rotten corpse, because that would call into question how much BULLSHIT this so called "War on Terra" really is.

I believe Osama's dead (as Benazir Bhutto said he was) but he's being well preserved in a freezer somewhere. Pakistan's a possibility. At least that way when they bring the thawed out Osamacicle home, they won't be completely lying when they say they found him in Pakistan.

[protect our future]

13. Osamacicle? LOL!!!! n/t

[malaise]

14. Well some people believe the video they've been seeing

They'll kill some tall skinny man with a beard and call him Osama. He's not in a freezer - no Muslim would tolerate that. He's been dead and buried for years. It's one big joke to these goons.

[Ghost in the Machine]

19. Actually, he's been dead since December 2001

Fox News: "Bin Laden Already Dead"

Wednesday, December 26, 2001

Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.

"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.

Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

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The Death of bin Ladenism
By AMIR TAHERI
Published: July 11, 2002

Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December 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?

Even if he is still in the world, bin Ladenism has left for good. Mr. bin Laden was the public face of a brand of politics that committed suicide in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, killing thousands of innocent people in the process.

What were the key elements of that politics?

The first was a cynical misinterpretation of Islam that began decades ago with such anti-Western ideologues as Maulana Maudoodi of Pakistan and Sayyid Qutb of Egypt. Although Mr. Maudoodi and Mr. Qutb were not serious thinkers, they could at least offer a coherent ideology based on a narrow reading of Islamic texts. Their ideas about Western barbarism and Muslim revival, distilled down to bin Ladenism, became mere slogans designed to incite zealots to murder.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EFDE1230F932A25754C0A9649C8B63

[skip fox]

4. How 'bout the "discovery" of Obama's Muslim love child?

We should get ready for the worst of fabrications as well.

[ramapo]

5. That's the obvious choice

How come Bush didn't use it in '04 when he really need it?

He hates McCain, why would he do it now except to have "closure". Hell, I'd wait until Christmas...you know a present for all Amurikans.

Truthfully, I'd think they'd kill Bin Laden today if they could.

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. Bush stole '04 quite handily without it, so I'd say he DIDN'T really

need it then.

And that kept Osama alive for another 4 years.

This time out I think McPalin DOES need it to give the republicans a boost in the polls.

[jillan]

7. Wondering if the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee would get word

from his advisors if this is going on?

[Cleita]

8. Of course it is.

My thoughts on this matter. If bin Ladin is alive, he is being kept in confinement somewhere in Saudi Arabia to be brought out at the auspicious time. However, I believe he's been dead for a long time and is being kept on ice until it's time to put his body on display as fresh kill with an appropriately fabricated story to accompany him. The Bush administration knows the truth and the Saudis are complicit, as it is to their advantage to have a McCain administration.

[global1]

9. After I Heard Keith O's Special Comment Last Night I Thought That This Is......

exactly what will happen: Bin Laden will either be found dead, killed in a predator missile attack in Pakistan or caught in October. However it happens - credit will be given to McCain and KO will have to eat his words. Fox will run and rerun KO's Special Comment and do him in as well.

[arcadian]

Of course, they have to wrap up Bush's legacy in a nice big bow.

Even if they don't find him, THEY'LL FIND HIM.

[scheming daemons]

10. That's what they said in 2004 too.... I think he's unfindable... i.e. already dead.

But the Bushies need him to exist, in order to scare the populace.

[soleft]

11. Well, apparently they've been trying -

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11policy.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1221102034-SZGL7R3ozCSKpbEYNuRCww&oref=slogin

[RoccoR5955]

15. It wouldn't be the first time Randi lost money!

Personally, I think an attack is on the way, along with Martial Law, and cancellation of the election, until they damn well please. But hey, I've been wrong too!

[dbonds]

17. Since I believe OBL has been dead a while...

* has to 'kill' him before the end of his term or face the next President telling everyone the truth. So it works out to have that as an Oct Surprise. They don't have to have the real OBL body, just one they claim is him. OBL was probably never anything more than a money man and figure head in the first place.

[SmokingJacket]

18. They'll just find some skinny guy that looks like him.

It's certainly on their radar now. The set-up stories about Pakistan and Osama are already in the papers.

Do you guys remember some of the dead bodies they paraded during the early part of the war? They looked like they were wearing stage make-up. I could never figure what that was all about.

[Sebastian Doyle]

23. You mean like the bodies that were supposedly Saddam's kids?

I'm still doubtful that the crazy looking old geezer that they "found in a spider hole" and eventually supposedly lynched was the real Saddam. Never thought it looked like him.

[aquart]

20. Who will care?

[pitohui]

21. or someone who is willing to say he's bin laden EOM

,m

[nc4bo]

22. Here's all it will take to get OBL. I'm sick and tired of the lies. nt

[Liberal In Texas]

24. She did say IF there is an October Surprise, that will be it. n/t

[treestar]

25. We say this every election

2006. 2004. Those were the only years it would have been useful. If they did it now, how could they get credit to McSame?

[aikoaiko]

26. I'll take a $20 piece of that. I say no Osama in 2008