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2010-06-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

American on mission to kill bin Laden arrested

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Posted by ed 2010-06-15 07:55|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I'd like to know how he got there.
Where, btw, is "there"? A bus station in a small town? Miles from any building, out in the country? Second-rate airport?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-06-15 08:15|| 2010-06-15 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Where, btw, is "there"?

"He was picked up in a forest in the Chitral region late on Sunday, he said."

Posted by ed 2010-06-15 08:50|| 2010-06-15 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 wow what a tease

there is a story in that

a movie too.... i want Michael Bay directing

Posted by anon1 2010-06-15 09:09|| 2010-06-15 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4
In other news:
CIA reviewing recruitment policies after denying having devised the plot or knowledge of the alleged assassin. "The CIA will neither confirm nor deny operational successes or failures of intangible and/or questionable assets engaged in the prosecution thereof."

Also in other news:
Patient missing from CA mental ward.

Posted by logi_cal 2010-06-15 09:28|| 2010-06-15 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Mental or not - we need more patriots like this -- he has more balls than anyone here fighting jihad from the comfort of your hone
God bless him

Posted by dan 2010-06-15 10:44|| 2010-06-15 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Guys like that always do more harm than good. At least he did not get as far as Jack Adima. If he wants to do the right thing he should join the Army, the agency, but not like this. Now he will be used as a propaganda tool against us. Which is pretty minor, I agree. But now he is in Jail, our state dept is having to deal with him and our opponents, diverting their time to this. Worse yet he could have been captured by the Taliban and we would have had to rescue him putting real patriots in harms way.

All of this aside, OBL is in Iran not Pakistan.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-06-15 10:51|| 2010-06-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Pak cops had to arrest him for fear he might succeed.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-06-15 11:37|| 2010-06-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 He watched one too many movies.

Posted by Charles 2010-06-15 11:45|| 2010-06-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Well I appreciate the sentiment...

Posted by AuburnTom 2010-06-15 12:29|| 2010-06-15 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Oh my. The CIA may be in worse shape than I thought.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-15 12:38|| 2010-06-15 12:38|| Front Page Top

#11 52 is too old to join the Army, he has a bad kidney and wants revenge for his lost loved ones.

Better there chasing Osama than at my local post office.

I hope he doesn't get in much trouble.

Posted by Lumpy Anguting2786 2010-06-15 12:52|| 2010-06-15 12:52|| Front Page Top

#12 If he hadn't been in Chitral they'd have ignored him.

Posted by Fred 2010-06-15 13:05|| 2010-06-15 13:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Sword and pistol? What about the shovel?

Posted by KBK 2010-06-15 14:09|| 2010-06-15 14:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I appreciate the sentiment as well.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-06-15 14:31|| 2010-06-15 14:31|| Front Page Top

#15 If any mercenaries are reading try Iran!

Posted by Paul D 2010-06-15 14:47|| 2010-06-15 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Was his name Froggy and was he goin' a-courtin'?

Posted by gromky 2010-06-15 15:25|| 2010-06-15 15:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Put me down in the Appreciate The Sentiment category, too. Hell, I'd even hold his beer.

Posted by SteveS 2010-06-15 15:35|| 2010-06-15 15:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Ok Pakturds, now go find the other 9,999 Gary's.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-15 16:55|| 2010-06-15 16:55|| Front Page Top

#19 Mental or not - we need more patriots like this -- he has more balls than anyone here fighting jihad from the comfort of your hone

Wow...talk about flaming. But hey, you nailed it with a breathtaking soliloquy of literary eloquence: The comment alluded to the super-duper, double-dog-dare, uber-secret CIA program of sending 'questionable assets' (i.e., 'mental patients') to dazzle & confound the enemy on the ground. So, when yours actually drop, know 2 things: 1. You don't know anything about anyone here (certainly not about my resume) and, 2. It's called 'sardonicism', aka, SARCASM.

You, sir, may pick up your travel orders @ 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, DC. Pack for high altitude/desert and bring a Pashto & Dari literary guide. And grow a beard, (if you can). Sword is optional, but not recommended. It would be helpful to practice PLF as well...

Posted by logi_cal 2010-06-15 17:20|| 2010-06-15 17:20|| Front Page Top

#20 Whether Osama is in Iran or Packistan, after 9 years, I have no doubt he is concerned about those under orders from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, DC.. Because, they aren't allowed to go into Iran or the death valleys and mountains of Pakistan and Osama is smart enough to be where those people are allowed to be.

What Osama is worried about, are individuals like Faulkner on a persoanl mission for revenge, answering to no one, ready to die feeling Heaven is a much greater place than this place. I don't think he will put others in harms way because they won't know what he is doing, and he won't let them know.

The greatest Jihadist today, Osama, could be getting his first taste of terror, knowing a lone wolves, just as suicidal and "crazy" as his Martyrs, are coming for him.

Posted by Gloluck Lumplump5948 2010-06-15 17:48|| 2010-06-15 17:48|| Front Page Top

#21 *** cough *** PENN STATE *** cough ***...

D *** NGED DELICIOUS AM = BREAKFAST MACAROONS!

And a Mighty YEEEEAAAHHHHH RRIIIGGHHHTTTT is suddenly heard over GUAM-WESTPAC....

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-15 19:43|| 2010-06-15 19:43|| Front Page Top

#22 We're looking for this same sort of effort, this same unceasing Patiotism, this same faith in our fathers to KICK THIS FUCKING WELLS ASS!

Posted by Shipman 2010-06-15 21:04|| 2010-06-15 21:04|| Front Page Top

#23 he has more balls than anyone here fighting jihad from the comfort of your hone

Fine line between bravery and inanity.

(yes - 'inanity').

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-15 21:14|| 2010-06-15 21:14|| Front Page Top

#24 A toast to the effort..

Posted by CB 2010-06-16 00:07|| 2010-06-16 00:07|| Front Page Top

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