US, Pakistan deny bin Laden was captured

[x-g.o.p.er]

Hmmm...can anyone say "October Surprise?"

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040228/D810BV100.html

[Journeyman]

1. If they trot him just before the election. . .

perhaps the People will give a cheer for "good ol' George," heave a heavy sigh of relief, and vote someone else in as President, now that George has fulfilled his "promise" and can be got rid of . . .

[emanymton]

2. Then They Must Have Caught Him

[reprehensor]

4. I agree.

He been got. It's hard to believe or say, but when the denials start coming over a friggin' radio Iran story...

[loftycity]

8. Yeah they have got him....

They CIA has known where he has been the whole time.


What was the article in Ruppert's site that the CIA visited Bin Laden in Dubai hopital in the summer of 2001?



Just got done reading Kevin Phillips book....I wish every American would read it ..... Geez

[MichaelHarris]

3. websites

I think everyone here with websites should keep that article, not the link, posted up until the election. You never know the mysterious ways of the INTERNET, things disappear. If the article is correct the more people that see this the more will see the lies of this administration. I know I will be posting it.

[WillyT]

5. It Is Statements Like This...

<snip>

The director of Iran radio's Pashtun language service, Asheq Hossein, said the report was based on two sources - one of whom later told The Associated Press he was misquoted.

<snip>

That truly make me believe that this has happened.

Time was, not too long ago, that somebody claiming they were misquoted held some sway. These days, just seems like they had their family threatened.

Whadda Country...

:mad::nuke::grr:

[bagnana]

6. I read an article about a reporter who might be the same guy quoted

If it is the same person, he was misquoted: the article said that he easily reached Osama and that the authorities knew where he was, but for some reason were purposely not going in after him. That seems very likely to me.

[teryang]

7. I interpret this to mean- third parties have him

When is a denial not a denial?

<"I never said this," Shahed said in a telephone interview with AP's Islamabad bureau. "But 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."<snip>

<Hossein said he had a second source for the report but declined to identify him other than as "a man with close links to intelligence services and Afghan tribal leaders.">

[lancdem]

10. If that's true

Would Osama let himself be taken alive? Just wondering.

[teryang]

11. Short answer- I'm guessing

I don't think he would would be inclined to be captured alive by unfriendly forces. If he is held by a warlord or is directly under ISI control, he may have been betrayed or expected favored treatment as part of some scam or sweetheart deal.

No westerner really knows what goes on in Pakistan or Afghanistan. One terrorist arrested in Pakistan initially named as a 911 ringleader leader smiled and laughed presumably on the way to a death sentence. Most of the stories about dead or captured terrorists from this part of the world are complete bullshit, pure political theater for western consumption.

[baby_bear]

9. I think it will be the "July Surprise"

- just before the Democrats' National Convention.

There should be official betting in Las Vegas on the actual day.
That seems to be only "unknown" at this point.


s_m

[lazarus]

12. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=389605