Osama captured?

“TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 28, 2004


(CBS/AP) Iran's state radio, quoting an unnamed source, said Saturday that Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan "a long time ago."
The report said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the region this week was in connection with the arrest. In Washington, a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied early Saturday that bin Laden was captured.

The report was carried by Iran radio's external Pushtun service. The director of Iran radio's Pushtun service, Asheq Hossein, said he had two sources for the report that bin Laden had been captured.

A Pakistani military operation has been under way in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a Pakistani official said previously that members of al Qaeda are being sought there, although bin laden was not a specific target.

Speaking to the AP in Tehran, Hossein identified one of the sources as "Shamim Shahed, editor" of the English-language Pakistani newspaper The Nation in Peshawar. Hossein said Shahed told him Friday night that bin Laden was arrested "a long time ago."


I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans') reach, and they can declare him arrested any time."

Hossein said he had a second source for his report that bin Laden had been captured, but he declined to identify him except to say he was "a man with close links to intelligence services and Afghan tribal leaders."

Iranian state radio quoted its reporter as saying the arrest happened a long time ago.

"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said.”

“To be 'officially arrested' sometime in late October 2004, no doubt.”

“I love the conspiracy theories!!!”

“Nah, not the prez of the US.

And he certainly would not conspire with Blair to Spy on the US.

Say it ain't so Dubya.

Yeh, anyone should believe him”

“If osama was alive he would wish us to think he was dead.And, if he.......”

“Put the bong down...now step away...good”

“The story mentioned above was in todays paper. Right beside it was a story of how the US intensifies search for bin Laden. How ironic. So which one is true??”

“osama,.. i am your father”

“They're still looking for him, how intensively and now effectively is a guess.”

“maybe they are looking for him like OJ is looking for his wifes killer.

go look on the golf courses!”

“oh GAWD”

“(AP) The U.S. military pulled back Saturday from an earlier prediction that Osama bin Laden would be captured this year, even while preparing its largest force to date for operations along the Pakistani border where the al Qaeda chief is suspected to be hiding.

Catching bin Laden and other top fugitives remains a priority of the expanding American operation in Afghanistan, but the growing mission is "not about just one or two people," a spokesman said.

"We remain committed to catching these guys. It's pretty much ... just about everything that we do here," Lt. Col. Matthew Beevers said.

But he declined to make any new predictions of when the fugitives might be behind bars.

Beevers insisted the military in Afghanistan was "still confident" of capturing its top targets, but added: "At the end of the day, it's not about just one or two people. It's about ... ensuring that there is stability and security throughout Afghanistan."

Buoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the top American commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Barno, said in January he was confident bin Laden and Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar would suffer the same fate this year.

At the time, a spokesman even said the military was "sure" it would catch the two men and Afghan rebel commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Those remarks, and talk of a spring offensive in Afghanistan by Washington defense officials, triggered speculation bin Laden had been located.

But now the military has followed Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's lead in appearing to lower expectations that a top fugitive would be unveiled during an election campaign in both the United States and Afghanistan.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/10/terror/main611271.shtml


Read: Bush's misadventure in Iraq leaves no resources to go after Osama.”

“Osama is probably kickin' back in Chechnya.”

“No,I saw him on TV sitting in the crowd at the Lakers-Kings game.”

“lol yeah he was right behind Jack at the game.......looks like he has lost some weight :)”

“No, that was Lura Flin Boil with a 5 o'clock shadow.”

“Didn't we just have the supposed #2 in our grasps earlier this year?!?

Boy, that story burned out quickly.....must've been one of those Left Wingy Thingy's.......”

“Osama is locked up in a brig, waiting to be "captured" along about late October.”

“He drowned on his way to Crayford in the Rio Grande. He was found face down,so his back was dry.”

“Breaking news from CNN!!!

Osama Bin Laden has just been captured! A video and some pictures have been released.”

“Breaking news from CNN!!!

Osama Bin Laden has just been captured! A video and some pictures have been released.”

“Oops!

I got a little too excited.”

“You are bored today, aren't you?”

“Slow Day?”

“your such an @ss sometimes :(”

“Thanks!”

“Where's a newbie when you need one.”

“#&%!$.”

“Okay ---- Who fell for that?

Put the cone on your head and go sit in the corner!”

“but for some strang reason, i still like the little bugger.
you pain in the butt!”

“Strangle?”

“I nearly did.... nearly”

“SUCKERS!!!!! ;-)”

“MAN THOUGHT HE WAS RUNNING OVER BIN LADEN
(France, AP) - A French artist was convicted of trying to run over a pedestrian he mistook for Osama bin Laden and ordered to pay the man $615. The 35-year-old defendant, identified as Pierre, was sentenced by a court to a three-month suspended prison term. The man he tried to run over was unharmed. Pierre's lawyer, David Mendel, said his client was the "victim of a hallucination" while driving through Montpellier's historic center. The victim, a man in his 30s, was able to run from the oncoming car, which crashed along the side of a street. "If it was (bin Laden), we would have won $5 million," Mendel said, referring to a reward.”

“New Osama tape supposedly out. I wonder if his offer of a truce in Iraq and Afghanistan means good news for the US (i.e. Al-Qeda is losing and wants to rebuild). That would be good news.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_bin_laden_7;_ylt=AuZsfLEWZ8pec9b8H0jPVw0wuecA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl”

“I was channel surfing in the car a bit ago and Tony Snow was playing bits from the tape like “you can not win in Iraq” and then he’d play all these quotes from democrats saying the exact same things Osama was saying. Very funny.”

“OBL wants a truce? I bet! His global network is in ruins, and even the Sunnis in Iraq have been ruthlessly attacking AQ in the one part of the world that AQ was still consistently active.”

“When asked "Can we win?" the war on terror, Bush said, "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the - those who use terror as a tool are - less acceptable in parts of the world."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/30/83930.shtml”

“I'm glad someone finds humor in it, Nigal.
I find treason.”

“SS accusing Bush of Treason?”

“Silly Libbie ;-)”

“ON CNN's homepage the lead story about Osama's alledged new tape, and his picture . .

are right next to a large ad by Expedia.

The ad copy says "its time to feel giddy about travel again"


oh yeah. Nice position.”

“edit: to SS-->

Oh that's right... the old double standard thing you keep projecting onto others.
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“Violin, what's your point of posting that old quote from Bush? It makes sense to me - de-radicalize the radicals and it makes it much harder for terrorists to operate there.

Are you suggesting that terrorism can be destroyed permanently?”

“LOL @ lee!”

“Follow along mutt - Nigal said Tony Snow played a tape with Osama and various Democrats saying the war can't be won, so did Bush - StoveStomper finds that treasonous.”

“Violin, a very simple understanding of Bush's statement, which is quite obvious, is that terrorism is not like a traditional war where you can point to a single point in time and say, "we won". That's very obvious. Bush over and over and over has said we can win, and are winning, the war on terror. It's all in context of how the question was asked. We can "win" the war on terror, as Bush says, by defeating them through offensive measures and keeping them in retreat, continually. But you can't point to a single moment in time and declare victory, it's an "ongoing winning". I don't see that as a double standard, especially when speaking specifically of Iraq. We can win in Iraq, which is easier to define through their gaining autonomy and the capability to fight their own squirmishes with terrorists and resistance fighters. For any leading Dems or Repubs to suggest can't win in Iraq is not being a strong, positive leader. We can be realistic without being pessimistic, and acknowledge the difficulties, and we can and are winning in Iraq. SO THERE! Remember, it's always good vs. evil. Black and white. Cut and dried. Clear as 12th beer pee.”

“Silly Violin. Trix are for kids (and liberals). Bush was talking about the war on terror and later clarified his statement. These were concerning the war in Iraq.

Congrats, you have just been owned.
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