Why is Osama Bin Laden still alive?

“MarkO, how can one decide who to vote for when one believes myths created by extreme liberals.

Peter Bergen, a print and television journalist and adjunct professor who is a consultant for CNN and who is known for conducting the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997, stating on August 15, 2006, the following:

"The story about bin Laden and the CIA -- that the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden -- is simply a folk myth. There's no evidence of this. In fact, there are very few things that bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the U.S. government agree on. They all agree that they didn't have a relationship in the 1980s. And they wouldn't have needed to. Bin Laden had his own money, he was anti-American and he was operating secretly and independently."”

“Good to have you back, Prosecutor. It's like having our own personal Bill O'Reilly.”

“what about the taliban prosecuter?

did the us support the taliban during the 80's?

please help me get my facts straight. it's tough weeding through all the liberal media.”

“Thanks for the propaganda, Prosecutor!

I seriously doubt that anyone here buys your extreme right-wing hogwash.

The jig is up, dude!

Oh yeah, which industries are best to invest in to take advantage of war profiteering?”

“Thanks for the propaganda, Prosecutor!

I seriously doubt that anyone here buys your extreme right-wing hogwash.

The jig is up, dude!

Oh yeah, which industries are best to invest in to take advantage of war profiteering?
Ya know, they say "war is good for the economy".”

“Those 'Chacos' on his feet are a give away.”

“You have got to be kidding me. Peter Bergen is an outstanding journalist. I would believe his journalism a heck of a lot easier than your urban myths.

Why are you so obsessed with urban myths?”

“The fact that 4% of the earths population controls over 50% of the military might is urban myth?”

“Are you claiming that it might be?”

“[...]
Bureaucratic battles slowed down the hunt for bin Laden for the first two or three years, according to officials in several agencies, with both the Pentagon and the CIA accusing each other of withholding information. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's sense of territoriality has become legendary, according to these officials.

In early November 2002, for example, a CIA drone armed with a Hellfire missile killed a top al-Qaeda leader traveling through the Yemeni desert. About a week later, Rumsfeld expressed anger that it was the CIA, not the Defense Department, that had carried out the successful strike.

"How did they get the intel?" he demanded of the intelligence and other military personnel in a high-level meeting, recalled one person knowledgeable about the meeting.

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then director of the National Security Agency and technically part of the Defense Department, said he had given it to them.

"Why aren't you giving it to us?" Rumsfeld wanted to know.

Hayden, according to this source, told Rumsfeld that the information-sharing mechanism with the CIA was working well. Rumsfeld said it would have to stop.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105_pf.html”

“Anyone know salebored? Is he maybe one of violin's trolls, bringing up fuego just like violin on out-of-date thresds?
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“That actor quit the union and now works for an independent studio.”

“The taliban and Osama were part of the resistance to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980's (remember there was a cold war on that the Democrats wanted to surrender in and Reagan wanted to DEFEAT the Soviets).

You know we supported the Soviet Union in World War II but no one goes hard on Roosevelt, or Truman. We supported Castro but no one goes hard on Kennedy. There were 13 years of us walking away (specifically Somalia) to teach Osama he could make us back down with losses of life. From what I am seeing the majority of the run away spirit is in Lib North East.”

“Silly liberals lack the intellect to understand the concept of Fuego.”

“Stove Stomper lacks the intellect to purchase flood insurance when living by the water in an area prone to hurricanes.
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“inteleect ??????
kleent is gonna be all over you, violin.
You know how he is about spelling.
Spelling mistakes = dumbass.
[VBG]”

“One needs to wait 10- 8-minutes until it is too late for another edit on the post of question.
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Was that like a change-of-subject?
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For a minute or so I thought we might see a good fight. But, TT is family and family members do not fight amongst themselves. Expecially when they are two old friends like violin and StoveStomper. There, introductions are over, so now shake hands and come out swinging.
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“Violin is still peed that only 30 people showed up in Gettysburg.”

“Violin is the type that would enjoy baking puppies to death as long as they were from a Repub or Christian home.”

“Now Stovie, Violin wouldnt get off on that...unless they were Jewish puppies (preferrably Isreali).”

“Are you two attached at the hip??

SS & XL

Uh huh, and ya gots but one arsehole between the two of ya.
Maybe that's why yooz guys are so mean.
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“From the same article:


[A] videotape, obtained exclusively by the CIA and not previously reported, that shows bin Laden walking on a trail toward Pakistan at the end of the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when U.S. forces came close but failed to capture him.
[...]
On the videotape obtained by the CIA, bin Laden is seen confidently instructing his party how to dig holes in the ground to lie in undetected at night. A bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft can be seen exploding in the distance. "We were there last night," bin Laden says without much concern in his voice. He was in or headed toward Pakistan, counterterrorism officials think.

That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105_pf.html”

““Stove Stomper lacks the intellect to purchase flood insurance when living by the water in an area prone to hurricanes.
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Violin
1:54:21 PM
9/11/06

LMAO
Sweet little dumb violin wouldn't be so cruel as to try to use a personal tragedy against a political enemy now, would the Vile Little Fellow?

And here dumbbunny says XL and I are the mean ones.
LMAO!!!!”

““Violin is the type that would enjoy baking puppies to death as long as they were from a Repub or Christian home.”
StoveStomper
3:14:58 PM
9/11/06

Now Stovie, Violin wouldnt get off on that...unless they were Jewish puppies (preferrably Isreali).”
XL400236
3:45:58 PM
9/11/06

Yeah, you two are a regular couple of sweethearts.
Hahahaha.......hee hee hee !!!!”

“"Uh huh, and ya gots but one arsehole between the two of ya."

Looks like the two silly libbies have that problem.
Hahahaha.......hee hee hee !!!!”

“For us to have one Arsehole betwixt the two of us MarkO would have had to post right after Stove and before me.

Oh Violin as for the photos or Osama...I have seen photos of Generals leading their troops out of combat many times...what does that mean?”

“uh...'cause he hasn't DIED yet?....DUUH?”

“LOL@ST. There is some debate on that. I know a few Nephrologists who really believe that given the Kidney problems the REAL Osama would not have survived this long.”

“some think he died almost 2 years ago”

“some think we never landed on the moon and that the landing was staged by the government

others think that elvis is still alive spending the remainder of his life in solitude somewhere in the United States

still others think that the earth was created 6000 years ago

85 percent of young Americans can not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map”

“90 percent of young Americans can not find a map.
98.7 percent of young Americans can not read a map.”

“well, a lot depends on how you define "young americans" and "map"”

“"Young americans" are ________ defined!
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BTW, I just checked 34 different State Highway Maps. I was unable to locate Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on any of the maps. I guess that qualifies me as a young American.”

“Why is Osama still alive ??

I guess because no one has killed him, he has not had an accident, and has not died of old age or disease.

ergo .. he's alive !! alive !! (crudely taken from Young Frankenstein)”

“Nope...not gonna touch it...wouldn't be prudent at this juncture...”

“98.735% of all statistics are pulled from someones arse.....”

“Why??

Maybe he has allies.....”

“JUst remember 50% are below average.”

“Ass-draggers are bringin' up the rear”

“NO they aren't MarkO, they are petitioning the US GOVERNMENT to add weight to those out front to slow everyone down and make it FAIR”

“More Arthur XL Laffering Matter echonomiks.”

“Sure thing, XL.
And there are communists trying to overthrow Georgus Rex.
Quick, for the bomb shelter!!”

“Bum shelter?”