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Curt Weldon: Bin Laden Is Dead
2006-03-17
Rep. Curt Weldon, who broke the Able Danger story last year revealing that military intelligence had identified lead hijacker Mohammed Atta as a terrorist threat before the 9/11 attacks, now says that Osama bin Laden has died.

Weldon made the stunning claim during an interview Wednesday with the Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported: "Weldon is making explosive new allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding." Weldon cited as his source an Iranian exile code-named Ali, telling the paper: "Ali's told me that Osama bin Laden is dead. He died in Iran." Weldon said he last spoke to Ali three weeks ago. The Iranian exile was a prominent source for his 2005 book, "Countdown to Terror." The book also contained the first mention of the Able Danger data mining operation.

The Pennsylvania Republican has long alleged that bin Laden has been using Iran for sanctuary. In June last year, Weldon said in a TV interview: "I'm confident that I know for sure that [bin Laden] has been in and out of Iran ... Two years ago, he was in the southern town of Ladis, 10 kilometers inside the Pakistan border. I also know that earlier this year, he had a meeting with al-Zarqawi in Tehran ...
Well, if they needed to meet, Tehran would be a logical place
"If you look at the recent comments coming out of both the CIA and some of our military generals in theater, they're now acknowledging the same thing that I've been saying - that in fact, he's been in and out of Iran. "[But] no one can prove it exactly until we capture him."
Posted by:Steve

#20  Think a $25 million dollar U.S. bounty has anything to do with O.Bin Ladens hiding out?
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 12:12  

#19  Happy St Patty's Day and Top of the Morning to All of You:

I like those in the good fight against Islamo-Fascism, but I do not like to have my hopes lifted by false prophets. Am I going too far to suggest that Rep. Weldon just might be a ... crank?
Posted by: Happy 88mm   2006-03-17 21:54  

#18  LODI now LADIS - in any case, find the body and publicly prove it in front of America and the world. Iran is an oil nation so any health probs Osama had can easily be treated iff not resolved by his Iranian, etal, supporters, and wid out a verifiable body young, dumb, and full of 72 raisins-happy, suicide-happy impressionable Muslim youths have no one to call a Hero, Saladin, or a Mahdi.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-17 20:53  

#17  Oh fer gawd's sake. Another freakin' "hidden imam". They goin' for legend status.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-03-17 18:16  

#16  OBL has died so many times you could sell season tickets to his funerals...
Posted by: Iblis   2006-03-17 17:06  

#15  As Coroner I must aver...

Does that mean if we remove his ruby slippers his body will shrivel up?
Posted by: BigEd   2006-03-17 16:38  

#14  wxjames:

that sounds like something out of a "Godfather"
movie. lol
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 14:48  

#13  What nitwits, Binny should have had one of his boys turn him in just proir to death so the $25 mil would go to fund fighting for another year or month or whatever.
These guys need some imagination.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-03-17 13:29  

#12  6:

I would think having a $25 million bounty on ones' head would cause a "fear of death".
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 13:20  

#11  Using an Islamitard as a source? I don't know. Who knows, maybe Bin Laden had to much of the Meccan Allah Approved "Swine Sperm Beer" and it did in what remained of his kidneys. We can only hope.
Posted by: Flenter Greth1600   2006-03-17 12:56  

#10  No, it was fear of death BiStander.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-17 12:49  

#9  Think a $25 million dollar U.S. bounty has anything to do with O.Bin Ladens hiding out?
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-17 12:12  

#8  Poor Osama's Dead!
A JDAM lights his head!
Posted by: Dreadnought   2006-03-17 12:02  

#7  ...I have said this befor and I will say it again - the smartest thing we could ever do is to NEVER admit Bin Laden is dead. If this is true - and I'm sorry, I don't think it is - the screaming for us to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq will be deafening from both sides of the aisle.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-03-17 11:35  

#6  Michael Ledeen has said the same ...
And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time.

Link

Posted by: doc   2006-03-17 11:28  

#5  i wish we would play on the fact that binny has been running and scared since 9/11, can we not somehow highlight the fact to the 'muslim world' just how weak and pityfull this strategy of binnys is.

Actually, we have. To Bush's immense credit, he has had the courage to tour in hostile territory like Pakistan and do so openly. This is one he|| of a lot more than bin Laden has done since Clinton tried to nail his @ss in Khost.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-17 11:17  

#4  Khalilzad should personally taunt him on al-Jizz regularly. Call him a girly man who is afraid to show his face in public, etc.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-17 11:12  

#3  i wish we would play on the fact that binny has been running and scared since 9/11, can we not somehow highlight the fact to the 'muslim world' just how weak and pityfull this strategy of binnys is. We need to explain to them that great heros and fighters dont hide like frightened little wimps from those they choose to pick a fight with. In many respects that is what should dominate in the argument with muslims, do they really want their great hero being remembered as a running scared coward?
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-03-17 10:55  

#2  True or not, I have always felt it would be strategically advantagous to make him prove he was alive at least once a quarter...
"But I'm not dead yet..."
Posted by: capsu78   2006-03-17 10:43  

#1  So how are his clones doing. I am sure that a man of his wealth had more than a nose run over by a steamrollers to provide tissue for clones of the master caliph!
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-17 10:27  

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