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| Osama bin Laden still alive, claims new video |
| 2002-05-19 |
| A video featuring Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden uncovered in Britain has sparked new claims that the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks is still alive, the Sunday Times reported. It said the video was obtained by a British-based Islamic news agency, which claims that Pakistani intelligence officials who supplied the film said that part of the footage was filmed just eight weeks ago. So that'd make him alive in March... If that is true, the film would be the first hard evidence that the chief suspect for the attacks on New York and Washington survived the US-led military assaults on the Tora Bora, eastern Afghanistan, the paper said. We kinda-sorta-mostly guessed that he did. The 40-minute film came to Britain on an encrypted CD-Rom and was decoded by the agency based in Birmingham, central England, last week, the British weekly said. Oh, cheeze! NEVER let on that you can do that! You dumb spits! It said that the part of the video that is claimed to have been filmed in March shows bin Laden sitting outside under a tree on what appears to be a pleasant spring evening. Sitting in the garden of a madrassah. We can even guess whose... According to the paper, bin Laden appears thinner than in previous footage and his delivery lacks some of the zest of previous clips. That's because he's in end-stage renal failure and doesn't have much longer to live. It quoted bin Laden was saying: "The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only herself to blame." There aren't any Jews to speak of in Afghanistan or Pakistan. What the hell are you doing there? He adds that if he "specifically targeted Britain and America -- this war is not confined to them -- it served as an opportunity for other nations to revise their stance." "So get out there and burn those synagogues and support those gunnies!" Had a glimpse of an excerpt on FoxNews. Binny looks about the same as he did in his last vid — made about the same time? He's skinny and he looked doped. Speculation was the vid was shot near Spin Boldak, though that can be taken with a grain of salt. Couldn't see his hands, but I'd bet my next paycheck they're swollen like they were last time. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |