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2006-09-14 India-Pakistan

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Posted by 3dc 2006-09-14 04:58|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pakistasn has to decied how much of it will be vitrified. That is the message they should be hearing from US, Russia, China et all. Give up AQ and it's leadership, no more games, do it or pay.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-09-14 05:21|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-09-14 05:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sentiment on the streets of the Middle East turned noticeably against the US, Israel and pro-West Muslim rulers.

Because of the "victory" or because we allowed Israel to continue for 34 days?

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-14 06:00|| 2006-09-14 06:00|| Front Page Top

#3 bin Laden had recovered from serious kidney-related ailments.

Sounds like maybe a kidney stone. Two choices:

1) God healed him.
2) Pakistani doctors healed him.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-14 06:01|| 2006-09-14 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 "Sentiment on the streets of the Middle East turned noticeably against the US, Israel and pro-West Muslim rulers"

That's a joke. Those "pro-western" leaders use anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiment as a safety valve. All articles from Asia Times to be taken with a pinch of salt. They have a history of hyping up the capabilities of the jihadis. Look up their archives to see what they said about the Taliban's prospects in October 2001.

Posted by Apostate 2006-09-14 06:01|| 2006-09-14 06:01|| Front Page Top

#5 pro-Israeli Egyptian government ??

I suppose that's how some see it.I might agree to "not-as-violently-anti-jewish-as-some-would-like" Egyptian government.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-14 06:31|| 2006-09-14 06:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Osama bin Laden has been in hiding for the better part of five years. That's an awfully long time for a kidney stone to pass through -- and if that's what happened, every moment must have been agonizing for him, poor dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-14 08:13|| 2006-09-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like bollocks. He chose the moment at which some sort of ceasefire is arranged in Pakistan to move across the border into the midst of one of the bloodiest, one-sided outbursts of open-field combat since Tora Bora? I don't think so. Not unless he was a corpse looking for somewhere heroic to get perforated and thus go down in a blaze of heroic martyrdom.

Dying of a glorified kidney stone not being exactly the stuff of legend.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-09-14 08:19|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#8 he's dead, Jim

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-14 08:41|| 2006-09-14 08:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Serious kidney ailments also result from exposure to toxic chemicals and poisons. Hope it is a painsful slow rot.

Posted by Danielle 2006-09-14 09:14|| 2006-09-14 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 It is not unknown for people to recover from kidney ailments although it is very rare. My mother recovered from acute renal failure after 4 years of dialysis. So talk of his recovery could be true. Now lead poisoning... that could be fatal.

Posted by DanNY 2006-09-14 10:32|| 2006-09-14 10:32|| Front Page Top

#11 "Sentiment on the streets of the Middle East turned noticeably against the US"
And I thought they were agaainst us on 9/11, my bad. Did'nt realize they OK up until then.

Posted by plainslow 2006-09-14 11:38|| 2006-09-14 11:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Osama bin Laden is on the move, and Tuesday's terror attack on the US Embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, could be a tangible result of this. ...

The incident not only carries al-Qaeda hallmarks, it is also very much in line with the al-Qaeda leadership's focus, agreed on during the Israel-Hezbollah war, to extend the flames of conflict across the region.

IF this really was an AQ op, it doesn't say much for their capabilities. If you can't successfully pull off a 2-VBIED event in a very friendly country you're not exactly looking like "a strong horse."

Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-14 11:47|| 2006-09-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the US should drop leaflets into the NWF province saying we will carpet bomb the place until not a stone is standing if they turn over Binnie.

Then if they do turn him over bomb anyway as a lesson to all for hiding him.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-14 12:10|| 2006-09-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Does this mean the "pregnant days" are at an end?

Posted by Thoth 2006-09-14 12:16|| 2006-09-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#15 I think we really don't want Binny. Think about it. Dead or alive, we are better off fighting against the splodydopes than watching a Binny trial 24/7.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-14 12:31|| 2006-09-14 12:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Who said anything about a trial? A man with no country, no code, and no GOD.

Posted by newc">newc 2006-09-14 13:35|| 2006-09-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#17 According to a witness, bin Laden traveled in a double-cabin truck with a few armed guards - not in a convoy. Apparently, this is how he now prefers to move around.

Wazooo Binny Mobile

fatwa: I don't ever leaver home without one

Posted by al Binny 2006-09-14 14:55|| 2006-09-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#18 It has been alleged that Osama was treated in a Pakistani military hospital for his kidney ailment.

Kidneys are available for sale in Pakistan so a transplant would not be out of the question.

Posted by john 2006-09-14 18:32|| 2006-09-14 18:32|| Front Page Top

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