Breaking: Close associate of Osama bin Laden surrenders

[redqueen]

Banner on CNN:

Close associate of Osama bin Laden, Khaled al-Harbi, surrenders to Saudi security officials in Tehran, Saudi official says. Details soon

[kentuck]

1. Why, we were just talking about him yesterday....

Wondering when they were going to catch him? How many here have ever heard of him??

[redqueen]

2. Anyone who's followed the information on Iraq

This guy was news while they were drumming up support for the war.

[gratuitous]

3. Oops, a couple of weeks too early

He wasn't supposed to come in from the cold until the END of the month to steal the thunder from the Democratic convention! Goldurn terrorists can't follow a simple script. Oh well, whaddya gonna do?

[jackstraw45]

4. No..script is: This guy now gives "intelligence" to capture Bin Laden

just in time for the late July convention.

That's the script.

Got it? :)

[tom_paine]

5. Yep. Bin Laden coming soon.

Jesus Christ, these Tyrants are predicatable as the sunrise.

[frank frankly]

7. oh, I got it, jackstraw...

:puke:

those lousy fuckers

[redqueen]

8. Do they have time?

Can they get him to cooperate with the Saudi's within the next two weeks?

Or do you think Bin Laden is the secret prisoner they're hiding the identity of, and they're just keeping him on ice for now?

[jackstraw45]

9. Here's the script:

A few days of interrogation followed by him giving intel about where Bin Laden has been hiding.

Cue: Jessica Lynch style rescue squad with cameras for the VIDEO capture of Bin Laden.

We're talking night-scope cameras, charging marines, the WHOLE works.

It will be a wag-the-dog affair just in time for Edward's or Kerry's speech at the convention.

CNN, MSNBC and Fox will be forced to SPLIT SCREEN the speeches and Bin Laden coverage.

THIS IS THE PLAN!

[redqueen]

10. That scenario implies you think they can turn him

rather than the "Osama on ice" option.

I was wondering if that would be that easy... not sure how cooperative he would be with Saudi officials.

[jackstraw45]

12. Osama on ice could mean that

he's sitting in a cell with an IV in his arm keeping him drugged 24/7 until they drag him into a hole for the big video "capture."

And the Saudis...well, House of Bush, House of Saud...'nough said.

They'll do what they have to do to restore the popularity of Bush.

They weren't shown the Iraq war plans before the Secretary of State for nothing you know.

[redqueen]

19. That's more what I was suspecting

a "capture", rather than a capture from actual intel gained from his surrender.

[redqueen]

6. Who is Khaled al-Harbi?

Saudi officials identify man on bin Laden tape

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/16/ret.tape.identity/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Saudi citizen pictured conversing with Osama bin Laden about the September 11 terrorist attacks in a videotape released last week is a former Mujahedeen and war compatriot of bin Laden, not the man initially identified by U.S. officials, senior Saudi officials told CNN on Sunday.

Saudi officials said the man on the tape is Khaled al-Harbi, who fought with bin Laden against the Russians in Afghanistan about 20 years ago. On Friday, one day after the Pentagon released the videotape, U.S. officials said the man visiting bin Laden was Ali Sayeed al-Ghamdy, a former Islamic theology professor once imprisoned by the Saudi government.

But the man's tell-tale injury -- he has no legs -- led Saudi authorities to look elsewhere.

Officials believe the tape depicts bin Laden as the honoree at a dinner that includes several visitors, with al-Harbi being one of the most vocal.

more...

[elehhhhna]

11. Saudi Terroist AMNESTY Program????

What does that mean? Come out, come out wherever you are? Come home and we won't arrest you? We behead GAY people but you 9/11 dudes are welcome, all is forgivern, etc.

SOmeone please explain before my head explodes.

[redqueen]

21. Yep that's pretty much it

They announced June 23, so there are still eleven days for more to come forward.

[NNN0LHI]

17. He is the guy who was in the video with the Fake Fat bin Laden n/t

[redqueen]

18. lol

Thanks for that detail. :)

[MallRat]

13. NO! You're supposed to surrender DURING the Dem Convention, not BEFORE it!

Didn't you read the script, Khaled?

:eyes:

[jackstraw45]

14. See my script in post #9

That's my guess for the REAL script.

[DarkHorse]

15. Good

Good. It's just too bad he surrendered to the Saudi's.
They are even worse than our government. We won't ever
learn anything from the guy.

[bluedog]

22. surrendered to Saudis'

well, does this mean that Saudi Arabia is now harboring terrorists and have terrorist ties.
Is this "surrender" a ploy to get a member of Al-queda in Saudi Arabia to unite the already members there......and the fighting will begin in that country?

[59millionmorons]

16. 1 of 2000 Bin Laden close associates

Hell this guy has more close associates than a 3 dollar whore. This is about the 50th time a close Bin Laden associate has been caught. Still no Bin Laden.

[kentuck]

20. Gotta appear to be making progress...

in the war on terrorism...gotta catch an associate every couple of weeks or people might forget there is a war going on....

[peekaloo]

23. smoked him outta his hole to blow more up ours!

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