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| London mag sez Binny's alive... |
| 2002-07-15 |
| Osama bin Laden is in good health after recovering from a shrapnel wound inflicted in December, according to an Arabic-language magazine editor. Abdel-Bari-Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi magazine, said on Monday that bin Laden's associates told him the terrorist mastermind was injured in his left shoulder by shrapnel during an attack on his base in the Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan. Atwan said he was given no other details on the injuries or events surrounding the assault. Captured al Qaeda fighters who fought at Tora Bora said bin Laden's left hand was injured in the fighting. A bin Laden videotaped statement released in late December, after the Tora Bora battle, shows the al Qaeda leader moving his right hand. His left arm never moves and the left hand is never seen in the video. There's a difference between the left shoulder and the left hand. And the statement's hearsay — from people who lie to each other almost as much as they lie to everyone else. Take the whole statement with a three or four-pound grain of salt. Asked where bin Laden is hiding, the editor said, "They never indicated where he is. But I guess he is in the border area (between Afghanistan and Pakistan)." If he's still alive, that's probably where he is. After all, that's where Fazlur Rehman lives... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Heres what I dont get: The only people who benefit by him being alive - is us! If Al Queda wakes up one day and says 'yeah, you guys are right, you got him - he dead, were sad, but the show must go on". The euros will then come out and say "ok, youve got your guy, so we're going home and declaring victory' There is no greater way for al qaeda to shatter the 'alliance' against terror than by coming out with that kind of news. Think if it - if he is alive( which I think is increasingly not likely ) he is talking, and if hes talking we are listening and rounding up his people at a furious pace, if hes dead, things go quiet. It hard to track silence. |
| Posted by: frank martin 2002-07-15 13:23:49 |