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2004-10-30 Fifth Column

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-30 5:24:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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the fugitive terrorist continued: "It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the US armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone at a time when they were most in need of him."

I think that here Bin Laden is projecting his own feelings of guilt because he abandoned his followers in Afghanistan as they were being massively wiped out as a consequence of Bin Laden's decisions and actions.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-10-30 9:32:33 AM|| 2004-10-30 9:32:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I've been thinking about this ever since we talked about it yesterday, and I'm beginning to wonder if there's less to this than meets the eye.

I think Wretchard may be wrong about this being Bin Laden's "surrender offer;" it takes him too much at his word.

Quite simply, the west is a house divided against himself, and Bin Laden has a choice: say what he really wants (the global Caliphate, etc) or say something tailored to take advantage of the fracture points in our society. He chose the latter.

(BTW, does anyone know yet whether this was really him or a splice-together of an earlier tape? I always thought he was dead because if he weren't he'd be coming down on Zarqawi like a sack of bricks...)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-30 9:36:03 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-30 9:36:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 There is only one answer to this:
FUCK YOU OBL !!

Posted by Elder of Zion 2004-10-30 10:30:02 AM|| 2004-10-30 10:30:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred, I think a better choice for graphic would have started with a screenshot showing Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in the frame with him.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-30 11:11:12 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-30 11:11:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 So did OBL come out at this time to try to drive the electorate towards Bush or towards Kerry?
What does he know of our culture?

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2004-10-30 12:09:16 PM|| 2004-10-30 12:09:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Shit, he can get a distorted view of our culture anytime he wants. Just click the "on" button of the remote control for the satellite TV.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-30 12:58:28 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-30 12:58:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Not sure what's on satellite TV as I don't watch it. Does OBL want Bush to win the election to rally the jihadists against us or does he want Kerry to win who he thinks would be "more sensitive?"

Just posing the question. I don't mean to understate my personal feelings about OBL but "Fuck him and I hope he dies a horrible death and rots in hell through eternity and beyond."

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2004-10-30 1:06:23 PM|| 2004-10-30 1:06:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 As I commented on my blog, I don't think this is really bin Laden. I think it's a cleverly disguised double. Why would OBL remain silent for two or more years, then appear just days before the US election? It stinks worse than a bucket of dead fish. The fact that OBL followed the Democratic talking points to the letter also smells pretty bad. I don't think the tape will have any effect on the election at all, except to remind the faithful that we're still at war, and who the enemy is.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-10-30 2:03:59 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2004-10-30 2:03:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Shit, is that what Michael Moore looks like
after a diet?

Also, why is he sitting? Is this another FDR "don't show that the leader can't walk" deal?

Posted by Brutus 2004-10-30 7:37:02 PM|| 2004-10-30 7:37:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I think OBL is alive, although not well, living in Iran and this has been produced at the behest of the Mullahs to sway the US election. Since most of the tape has not been broadcast, I suspect that it contains something like a specific demand to elect Kerry.

Posted by phil_b 2004-10-30 8:51:39 PM|| 2004-10-30 8:51:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "...is that what Michael Moore looks like after a diet?"

No, after an enema.

Posted by jackal 2004-10-30 10:13:18 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-10-30 10:13:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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