Sky news is reporting Bin Laden is dead

[brettdale]

Its coming across as breaking news, with the words "Unconfirmed"

Is this an early October suprise?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. No ,it's part of a 5 year string along program ,brought to us by

ShrubCo and MSM the only two entities that have made out more than al qaeda.

[Fridays Child]

2. If it is, I'm not sure how it helps the GOP.

What's the message? We will keep you safe from terrorists by ignoring them until they die of natural causes?

[TheDebbieDee]

19. LOL !

[magellan]

22. !!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[razors edge]

3. This just in

Elvis sighted at Macy's, said to have returned for big sale..unconfired. More at 10:00.

and they call us delusional.

[orpupilofnature57]

12. I bet that's where Kkkarl got the idea !!

[NoodleBoy]

4. it's saying he died of Typhoid

good job, Bush, your war on terror finally killed America's greatest modern enemy by waiting until he died of something else.

[blue cat]

5. link? n/t

[TheWebHead]

6. it was in L'Est Republicain

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Defense Ministry said on Saturday a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died could not be confirmed but said it would launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.

The Defense Ministry issued the statement after a French regional newspaper, L'Est Republicain, published a report quoting a French secret service report as saying Saudi Arabia is convinced al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.

"The information published this morning in the L'Est Republicain newspaper relating to the supposed death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed," the Defense Ministry said.

"The Defense Minister (Michele Alliot-Marie) has asked that an inquiry be carried out to determine the origin of the leak that can be punished by criminal charges."


http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-09-23T094414Z_01_L23801953_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BINLADEN-FRANCE-COL.XML

[REP]

7. Not if He died From ESRD or Any Other Non-USA Causes

Many believe he's been on dialysis for years (I have no idea if that's true or not, but considering how unpleasant it can be, one hopes), but if he died from anything other than Uncle Sam putting a flag up his ass, it won't help the Republicants.

[Leopolds Ghost]

37. Wasn't he on Dialysis BECAUSE he was wounded in Tora Bora???

If so, can't we (er, well, Karl Rove) claim to have inflicted on him a slow and painful death?

I mean, we could have given him the "Shanghai cocktail" or something that would cause him to die in a certain timeframe, like in one of those cheesy counterterrorism flicks... I am thinking of "Agent Buck Rogers of D.A.R.E." or whatever it was called... Anyone see that movie?

[radwriter0555]

42. He was in the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001 getting treatment

for his chronic kidney disease. I believe dialysis has been a way of life for him, for a long time.

Up until about 6 months ago I had believed him dead due to several reports from December 2001 saying he had died in Tora Bora.

However, I had a dialogue with a woman whose husband had housed him in Quetta in 2003, and that's where he's been staying for the most part.

It's hard to say just what the truth is.

[fooj]

8. Where's the body? Prove it.

Prove to the world that he is dead.

[Philosoraptor]

9. the cia will confirm, the media will report, we will decide

[Hubert Flottz]

31. They couldn't even prove that Kenny Boy was REALLY dead...

They lie about EVERYTHING and everyone in the world knows it, except the Faithful Flockers!

[sandnsea]

10. Good - the war's over

Let these people fight out their religious squabbles themselves and bring our troops home. And next time, we go to the country where the attackers came from - Saudi Arabia, that means you.

[brettdale]

11. They are now saying its not true

Pakistan and France are saying its not true, but sky news, still has the breaking logo up saying he may of died.

[orpupilofnature57]

14. I trust France and Pakistan alot more than , Gimmick MSM

[mwooldri]

17. No mention of it by Auntie.

If Auntie Beeb isn't saying it then it is not true. There's been a bomb in Baghdad, yes (I said Pakistan on first edit, my bad). Osama dead? Not yet, at least not as of this morning.

Mark.

[Leopolds Ghost]

38. Why woul France, Pakistan ISI, British MI5 want BBC to release the news

That the chief enemy leader, who has been in hiding for years at a time we are doing poorly in the war effort, and whos survival has motivated the only support for the war, has died of natural causes? That would be demoralizing to the war effort.

[Philosoraptor]

13. Osmabinladen's dead, no no no nooo, he's outside, looking in.

[liberaldemocrat7]

16. Let's turn George W Bush's empire back to sand.

Good one.

[iconoclastic cat]

15. You fools! Now he will become more powerful than you can imagine!

[greyl]

18. lol! nt

[bridgit]

20. yeah, he's like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man @ the end of Ghostbusters...

dammit!! x(

[BootinUp]

35. lol.

[Botany]

43. oh my oh my

What about the scene where Karl Rove tells Skinner,
"I am your father. Come with me to the dark side and
we rule the world."

[symbolman]

21. He's not dead

PAUL was the Walrus. :)

(Some of you older folks will get that one..)

[malaise]

23. An Egyptian newspaper had him dead

a few years ago. Elections are coming. This is priceless:popcorn: :rofl:

[deutsey]

24. Was Lennon saying "I buried Osama"?

:evilgrin:

[symbolman]

25. You have to play the album backwards

"ALL YOU NEED IS CASH" -- wait, that was the RUTLES (the PREFab FOUR), and STIG was dead.. nevermind :)

[Sticky]

26. Yahoo Link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060923/ts_nm/security_binladen_france_dc;_ylt=AsMA_RdQVEUTdinxlNGOm8134T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

[H2O Man]

27. It is an attempt

to get him to respond, thus creating an opportunity to locate him. There have been, of course, rumors like this in the past. Some are likely started by people hoping to discourage a continued search for him. Others are simply as foolish as those that claim he is being treated for kidney disease, or that he is 6'27" tall.

[Sydnie]

29. Are you saying that the reports of his failing kidneys are incorrect?

I haven't heard anyone dispute that, but then again, maybe there have been reports that it's not true and I missed them. :shrug:

[H2O Man]

34. Yes.

Actually there are numerous reliable sources that make clear the kidney business is a myth. More, there is not a single reliable source that indicates otherwise.

I would point out two sentences from Peter Bergen's book: "There has been considerable speculation about the state of bin Laden's health and numerous reports that he suffers from life-threatening kidney disease. This is nonsense." (pages 319-20) Bergen's "The Osama bin Laden I Know" contains plenty of back-up information on this. There is not a single intelliggence person who has been involved in the search for bin Laden who considers the kidney rumors as anything but a myth.

[Sydnie]

36. wow, I learned something today

as I always do when I read your posts.

Now, is he not as tall as reported either?

H20 Man - my myth buster.

[H2O Man]

39. Look at pictures

of him that show him next to others. Unless he is on the al Qaeda basketball team, then the reports of his being 6'27" are also slight stretches of the truth.

There are several high quality sources of information on bin Laden. Bergen's book is very good. The two best books are by Michael Scheuer; "Imperial Hubris" and "Through Our Enemies' Eyes" (revised edition) are must reads.

Also, although the author is not among my favorite people, Yossef Bodansky's "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" is worth reading.

There are many myths, and a substantial amount of disinformation about bin Laden, that are unfortunately accepted as fact in this country.

[bridgit]

45. i do find that plausible H2O Man...

[Sydnie]

28. Did he eat some spinach?

What the hell? He should just be referred to as the cat of the middle east - he appears to have so many lives, deaths, and resurections.

[zanne]

30. How many times can this guy die? nt

[Hubert Flottz]

32. His number 2 guy has died a thousand deaths already and he

is still headed over here, in an Army surplus crop duster/Zodiac Raft/Death Drone, cause he can't kill us all over there.

[deminks]

33. What?? No more tapes? Whatever will KKKKarl do?

[Leopolds Ghost]

40. Nonsense! He Fights To The Finish When He Eats His Spinach.

"It cannot be! You fell."

"Through Tora... and Bora....

"From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak, I fought him, the Taliban of Bin Laden. Until at last, I smote my enemy and threw down his ruin upon the mountainside.

Darkness took him, and he strayed out of thought and time...

...but it was not the end. I felt life in him again!

"But he was destroyed. Bin Laden was Destroyed!"

"No... brettdale. The spirit of bin Laden endured. His life force is bound to the WMD, and the WMD survived. Bin Laden has returned. His fedayeen have multiplied... His Fortress of Tora Bora is rebuilt in the land of Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden is coming for the WMD. He is seeking it... seeking it... all his thought is bent upon it! They are one... Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein. Brettdale... he must never find it!"

[go west young man]

41. It'll be like in V for Vendetta where the government run

media just twist and turn the story enough to make themselves look like they took care of it for the sheeple. Great pic by the way.

[HamdenRice]

44. Cannonfire's theory on "why now": Also Sky News = Fox News

Cannonfire's blog has a couple of interesting speculations on why this would be leaked now, whether it is true or not.

First, the Democrats have recently started using, as a campaign issue, that five years after 9/11 the Bushistas still have not captured or killed the alleged perpetrator of the worst mass murder in US history. If he is dead, that issue goes away.

Second, the Bush regime is trying to convince the gullible American public to divert their view from al Qaeda as the main threat to Iran (just as they did with Sadam).

Cannonfire.blogspot.com

Aside from what Cannonfire has to say, my own observation is that it's kind of like waving video games in front of a kid with ADD. Look here! The bad Arab in the cave! No, look here! The bad Iraqi Arab with the Hitler mustache who tried to kill my dad! No look over there! The mullahs who want to incinerate Manhattan with a nuke!

Keep in mind that Sky News is owned by Rupert Murdoch, which is to say Sky News is Fox news, which is to say that whatever they are reporting, whether true or not, has primarily a propoganda purpose rather than a news purpose.

[Marr]

46. I feel a War on Ghosts coming on.