OBL or UBL?

[Endangered Specie]

And why the differnence anyhow?

[Burma Jones]

1. The only guy I hate more than Bush.......

Well, and his buddies.

[oostevo]

2. Assuming you're talking about O(U)Sama,

It's because it's difficult to directly transliterate that name from Arabic to English. It could be either Usama or Osama (for that matter, you'd be amazed how many different ways there are to spell 'Hussein')

The State Department and the man himself spell it Usama, so I tend to as well.

[Endangered Specie]

3. How else do you spell Saddam Hussein?

Sodamn Insane?

[oostevo]

5. Well,

My Iranian friend spells his name (he's not related ... he tells me that incessantly) Husseyn. There are others, but I'd have to look them up.

[Bluebear]

4. "Irrelevant". Our President said so.

Six months later, bin Laden remains at large. Only the rhetoric has changed. Perhaps you saw the Associated Press story in Thursday’s Tribune under the headline: "Bin Laden irrelevant, Bush says." Asked about bin Laden at a news conference, Bush said, "I am truly not that concerned about him." The account did not say whether the president stifled a yawn, but it did quote him as saying: "I am deeply concerned about Iraq."

http://archive.showmenews.com/2002/Mar/20020319Comm001.asp

[JohnLocke]

6. Fox spells it UBL, so I don't.