Comments on: Osama’s Friggin’ Dead

By: jas

jas — Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:03:31 +0000

I also believe he is dead. The last video from Tora Bora showed him to be wounded and paralyzed on one side. If he died slowly of gas gangrene, it is a fate much to kind for him and his ilk.

An intersting tidbit:
The latest al-Jazeera tape notwithstanding, the best information available shows that Osama bin Laden died on December 5, 2001 in Afghanistan and buried the same day in an unmarked grave. At the time OBL’s death was confirmed by the United Mujahedin Organization (UMO), the principal radical group that once supported him. In the past two years several members of bin Laden’s extended family, always speaking on condition of anonymity, have confirmed his death.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri091103.asp

By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:18:47 +0000

Yeah, it is pretty amazing that the “unbiased” news media is just reporting this as if it were real. They just want to glom onto any bad news they can find. What professionalism. Report outrageous enemy propaganda, in wartime, as fact. Anything to shave a few points off of Bush’s approval ratings.

Osama is the new Elvis. Watch. Sightings will continue for years. Maybe the Forgotten Rebels can re-record their classic “Elvis is Dead” (the big fat goof is dead) as “Osama’s Dead” (the skinny dirtbag is dead). That would be cool.

By: twalsh

twalsh — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:06:55 +0000

I am stunned that I have not seen one news channel or newscast place the last known video of Bin Laden side by side with this one. Maybe they just did and I missed it. In the last one I recall his hair looked horribly gray, in this one only statesmanly gray. Pretty sure he’s not getting “Just for Men” where he’s hiding out (unless that is on some French Estate) so I think this “new” footage is years old.

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:09:23 +0000

Well said.

I would only add that last year on this date: nothing. Yesterday: the Washington Post warns of possible attacks by a worm.

By: Ken Carroll

Ken Carroll — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +0000

At best, this video shows Bin Laden’s recent lot: a smelly, arthritic, cave-dweller, with a neolithic existence, and neolithic technology lumbers, half-crippled, down the side of a hill. That’s it. He looked like he was about to have a nervous breakdown. It took 2 years to get a few minutes of this videotape? You can be sure that this was edited so as to show him at his best. A lot of damage he’s going to do to the west. Pathetic really.
In fact, though, this is probably several months old – he has to be dead.