Newsweek: Osama bin Laden resurrected once more!

[rfranklin]

Bin Laden Is 'Healthy, Giving the Orders' Says Terror Suspect
Michael Isikoff
A new FBI terrorism case provides a rare nugget of intelligence about Osama bin Laden: the Al Qaeda leader is alive, well, and personally “giving the orders” for the terror group’s operations, according to comments made by an alleged American Al Qaeda operative on a secret bureau recording.

The bureau’s case against the alleged operative, a Chicago cab driver named Raja Lharsib Khan, has so far gotten little attention. This is likely because there is no evidence that the cabbie’s alleged discussions about blowing up an American stadium with remote-control bombs this summer (secretly recorded by the FBI) had progressed beyond the talking stage. But contained in court documents made public shortly after Khan’s arrest on terrorism charges last Friday were some unexpected revelations about Al Qaeda's No. 1 leader....

Contrary to some intelligence reports in recent years, bin Laden was not ill nor was he isolated from his followers, according to the conversation that was secretly recorded between Khan and an undercover FBI agent at a Chicago coffee shop on Feb. 23. Instead, the Al Qaeda leader continues to be very much in charge of his organization and is personally directing terrorist operations, according to excerpts of the conversation that are recounted in the FBI affidavit. “I asked the Lala about him,” Khan said about bin Laden while describing his talks with Kashmiri. “And he says … he’s perfect, healthy, and he’s leading and he’s giving the orders … he’s OK, he’s in safe hands.”

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http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/03/29/bin-laden-is-healthy-giving-the-orders-says-terror-suspect.aspx

[Forkboy]

1. I'm sure they keep their lowly cab driving cut outs informed all the time.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Repugs reply, 'thank GAWD!'

OBL has a way of getting resurrected at the most opportune moments to pull the repugs' biscuits out of the fire. Too much attention getting paid to seditious RW born-again taliban fuckheads? Thaw out Osama!

[arcane1]

3. Sounds more like "hearsay" than "intelligence" to me

It's not like the guy saw OBL in person or anything.

[arcadian]

4. How can they know things like this and not know where he is?

It's all bullshit.

[truedelphi]

5. Why, they know these things in the same manner that on

September 10th, 2001 the Powers that Be had no idea of what was in the works. The event happened before ten Am on September 11th - and Powers that Be still didn't know who did it.

And within 24 hours they had found the barely singed passport of the major hijacker. In debris and rubble where the air so thick with smoke that people had evacuated the area...

How can you doubt the veracity of stuff like this?

:shrug:

[arcadian]

6. Keep chugging that Koolaid

:rofl:

[DCKit]

7. "...according to comments made by an alleged American Al Qaeda operative..."

Jebus, they're tapping BushCo*'s phones too!

There's just no end to it.