Doesn't Al Queda has a history of 'announcing' when a leader dies whether it be on video or internet? They take pride in it. I think when bin laden dies, we'll know it. This might also be a ploy to try and get bin laden to make another video so we'll know for sure he's still alive.
I agree. Osama Bin Ladin dying from disease or natural causes just strikes me as his final escape from the effort to get him. The best thing would be if he could be captured alive and face justice.
it would be a moral victory, but moral victories dont get me a new contract or shoe endorsements. usa 0 typhoid 1 if the report is true.
I doubt Al Qaeda would not annouce Bin Laden's death. Why would they hide it knowing that eventually people would figure it out. We'll know when the next video comes out...
I doubt Bin Laden died of something that can so easily be cured with antibiotics. If he was sick, I'm sure his handlers working with the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence agency) made sure he got the best available medical care that Pakistan can offer. At least thats been the case in the past:
[Conspiracy] It makes sense now why Pakistan recently made a big deal about how they were no longer going to help look for bin Laden. They tell the US hes dead. They both agree to hold off on the news until the elections. Pakistan make the people happy by thumbing their noses at the US. The administration gets its October surprise. [/Conspiracy]
Whatever happened to the last 2 October surprises when we were going to unleash a captured Osama picture on the world?
This part made me laugh. I wonder how many friend requests he gets from chicks with webcams ("oo ur hot I lik guys in turbens").
link - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20490458-2,00.html Bin Laden 'alive, in Afghanistan' AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden, reported last week to have died, is alive and hiding in Afghanistan, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published in The Times today. "It's not a hunch,'' General Musharraf said. Afghanistan's eastern "Kunar province borders on Bajaur Agency. We know there are some pockets of al Qaeda in Bajaur Agency. We have set a good intelligence organisation. We have moved some army elements. We did strike them twice there. We located and killed a number of them there.'' Pakistan's military ruler also suggested links between bin Laden and Afghan warlord and former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, saying: "In Kunar province, it is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who is operating.'' "There must be some linkages.'' Gen Musharraf also said he had no information about reports bin Laden may have died from typhoid fever . The memo, leaked to a newspaper last weekend, emerged from a French intelligence memo citing Saudi sources. "I don't know. Unless I am sure I never say anything,'' he said. "If they have some source they should tell us. At least our intelligence does not know anything.'' Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have increased recently, as the leaders of the South Asian neighbours have traded barbs over each other's attempts at curbing extremism - or perceived lack of them. Each state claims bin Laden is hiding in the other's rugged border mountains. Similar accusations are levelled regarding the whereabouts of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Overnight (AEST), Gen Musharraf and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai have come face to face at a dinner summit with US President George W Bush at the White House, where Mr Bush urged the leaders to improve cooperation in fighting terrorism. "Today's dinner is a chance for us to strategise together, to talk about the need to cooperate, to make sure that people have got a hopeful future," Mr Bush said at a press conference, standing between Gen Musharraf and Mr Karzai. "As we work for a more hopeful world, we will continue to make sure that extremists, such as Osama bin Laden, that wants to hurt my friend here, as well as upset the democracy in Afghanistan, is brought to justice," Mr Bush said, referring to repeated assassination attempts in Islamabad. Gen Musharraf held a serious expression, while Mr Karzai smiled slightly during Mr Bush's statement. They did not shake hands. Mr Karzai has complained that Taliban fighters carrying out armed attacks inside his country are being sheltered on the Pakistani side of the border. British report In an earlier interview with the BBC, Gen Musharraf rejected allegations made in a British military policy paper that his country indirectly supports terrorism and extremism through its ISI intelligence service. “Absolutely, 200 per cent, I reject it,” he said. The allegations were made in a policy paper written by an unnamed senior official in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) obtained by the BBC - the broadcaster described the author as linked to Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6, and part of a fact-finding mission to Pakistan in June. “Indirectly, Pakistan, through the ISI, has been supporting terrorism and extremism, whether in London on 7/7 (the July 7, 2005 bombings on London's transport network) or in Afghanistan or Iraq,” the report read. Criticism of Pakistan has risen recently, with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan charging Wednesday in a CNN interview that fugitive Taliban militia chief Mullah Omar was in Pakistan, and that Islamabad needed to do more against Islamic religious schools that “are training extremists full of hatred for the rest of the world”. The policy paper proposes using military links between Britain and Pakistan to persuade Gen Musharraf to step down as leader of the country, accepting free elections and dismantling the ISI. Pakistan's military ruler responded angrily to the suggestions, saying: “I would like to tell this Ministry of Defence spokesman to say the Ministry of Defence maybe should be dismantled before the ISI is dismantled.” A spokeswoman for the defence ministry said the reports “in no way represent the views of either the MoD or the government”. - AFP and Reuters
