Do you guys think Bush may have a future in Hollywood as a Director.
Imagine, OBL admits on film, 4 days prior to the Election, that he carried out the 9/11 attacks. This has to be the film of the year!
What the world couldn't do in 3 years, Bush accomplished overnight.
Worldwide testimony by the man himself.
Damn........ Even Osama is giving out "Get Out the Vote" speeches
Fox News just reported that while the new Osama tape was expected to benefit Bush (cz he is seen stronger on terror), for some odd reason, Fox's own polls show Bush's lead shrinking after Osama's tape is released. From 50-45 to 47-45. Maybe some voters saw the face of 'terror' and said 'what the heck! why haven't we caught him yet?"
Bin Laden Tape Puts Pakistan in Quandary
Bin Laden Tape Puts Pakistan in Quandary
By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The envelope containing terror mastermind Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s latest message to the world was dropped into a letter box in an upscale neighborhood of the Pakistani capital, the second purported al-Qaida video to come out of this nation in little over a week. Officials cautioned on Saturday that the tape's release to the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera's Islamabad office does not prove that bin Laden is in Pakistan. But its appearance was nonetheless an embarrassment to a nation that bills itself as a key ally in Washington's war on terror, and that has spent months focusing its troops on a swath of tribal communities along the Afghan-Pakistan border where the fugitive al-Qaida leader has reputedly been hiding.
Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Al-Jazeera's bureau chief in Pakistan, said the tape was dropped off at the gate of the station's office Friday, just hours before it aired. "The guard brought it to me along with other mail. It was in an envelope, I opened it and it was a big scoop," Zaidan told The Associated Press. Zaidan immediately sent the tape to Al-Jazeera's headquarters in the Gulf nation of Qatar. Pakistan has sent tens of thousands of troops to the long and porous border with Afghanistan (news - web sites), concentrating on forbidding North and South Waziristan, where bin Laden and his top deputy, Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri, are both believed to be hiding.
Scores of soldiers and civilians have been killed, but the operations so far have not netted any major fugitives, leading to charges that the sweeps are conducted as a political show to curry favor with Washington, which has given Islamabad billions of dollars in aid since President Gen. Pervez Musharraf threw his support behind the anti-terror effort.Bin Laden appeared far healthier in the video released Friday than many would have suspected, considering speculation that he was already ailing in the winter of 2001 when U.S., Afghan and Pakistani forces began their dragnet. U.S. officials have often described him as holed up in a dank and dreary cave, all but cut off from the outside world.
Pakistani officials were quick to move into damage-control mode on Saturday, saying they had no idea how Al-Jazeera got the tape, and insisting its existence did not prove the terror leader was here.Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the army spokesman, said the intensity of Pakistan's efforts in North and South Waziristan would make it impossible for bin Laden to hide there."Even if the tape was dropped here, that doesn't mean that he is here," Sultan said. "Nobody knows where he is, but he cannot be in Pakistan's tribal areas because of the presence of so many troops."
Added Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao: "I don't think he is in Pakistan."In Afghanistan, the U.S. military dismissed the videotape as "propaganda," and insisted bin Laden would be caught. "Although we don't have a timeframe for when bin Laden will be captured, we have full confidence that he will be," U.S. military spokesman Maj. Scott Nelson told reporters. Asked where bin Laden was hiding, Nelson said the military still suspected he could be somewhere near the Afghan-Pakistani border. "If we knew exactly where he was, we would be there in a moment and we would have a very happy day and a happy election," Nelson said.
Pakistan has made more than 500 al-Qaida arrests since the Sept. 11 attacks, including a series of arrests this summer that led to a terror warning in the United States. Observers say the success can be seen as confirmation of Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror — or as evidence that this is still the nation of choice for many of bin Laden's followers. The tape was the second released here to a major television network.ABC News received a tape showing a shrouded man claiming to be an American member of al-Qaida in Pakistan on Oct. 22, then waited several days to air it while it looked into its authenticity.
The man, who spoke in English threatened more attacks and said U.S. streets would "run red with blood." Intelligence officials, however, have not been able to verify the tape's authenticity, and officials do not have information linking the video to a specific threat, said an intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. They also have not been able to positively identify the speaker. Both the bin Laden video and the one aired by ABC News carried banners attributing them to the Sahab Production Committee, a purported al-Qaida propaganda company.
Talat Massood, a defense analyst and former Pakistani general, said bin Laden probably was in Pakistan, despite the official denials, and that he could be either in the sprawling Pakistani port city of Karachi or well cared for by followers in the tribal region. "The fact that he has the courage to come out shows that he feel protected in his surroundings," Massood said. His healthy appearance "shows that he is probably living in reasonable comfort and he is being taken care of."
Associated Press reporters Stephen Graham in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Sadaqat Jan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
This quandary was created by the Pakistan army and now only they can solve it. They know how to get to Osama.
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*Originally posted by sholay: *
Do you guys think Bush may have a future in Hollywood as a Director.
Imagine, OBL admits on film, 4 days prior to the Election, that he carried out the 9/11 attacks. This has to be the film of the year!
What the world couldn't do in 3 years, Bush accomplished overnight.
Worldwide testimony by the man himself.
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This is Al-Qaida's strategy to have Bush re-elected and continue the war of Islam vs. West. They benefit most from a hardline U.S. president.
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*Originally posted by sholay: *
Do you guys think Bush may have a future in Hollywood as a Director.
Imagine, OBL admits on film, 4 days prior to the Election, that he carried out the 9/11 attacks. This has to be the film of the year!
What the world couldn't do in 3 years, Bush accomplished overnight.
Worldwide testimony by the man himself.
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Its the other way around Sholay. Actors and Cow boys become President, thatÄs why the policies and acts remind you of Hollywood. Further more of Western movies.
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*Originally posted by Sadiqaan: *
This is Al-Qaida's strategy to have Bush re-elected and continue the war of Islam vs. West. They benefit most from a hardline U.S. president.
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Maybe they presented him his new 10th or 11th wife, this time she must be from Florida!
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*Originally posted by Sadiqaan: *
This is Al-Qaida's strategy to have Bush re-elected and continue the war of Islam vs. West. They benefit most from a hardline U.S. president.
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I agree with this theory completely. That's what the F'n pig intented by releasing the tape now.
The good news is that he had to settle for getting his message out in a videotape as opposed to another attack. To me, this shows that Bush has been somewhat effective (to this point at least) in the war on terrorism.
I personally like this:
THE BEST OSAMA COULD DO
October 30, 2004 – Osama bin Laden might as well have endorsed John Kerry in his 18- minute taped rant aired yesterday on the Execution Channel (aka Al-Jazeera television), which sounded like it had been written by Moveon.Org.
“Despite entering the fourth year after 9/11,” bin Laden said, “Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you, and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened.”
Happily, while Osama’s dyspepsia persists, his ability to “repeat” anything has been severely constrained — by President Bush and the War on Terror.
Osama’s goals have been to sow death and destruction in the name of his own sick religion. But things haven’t been working out so well.
The 9/11 attack was intended principally to provoke a swift, indiscriminate American military response so terrible it would provoke the Muslim masses to rise against moderate Islamic governments in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
That, in turn, would have allowed al Qaeda — then enjoying the patronage of Afghanistan’s Taliban government — to extend itself into newly radicalized regions of the Mideast and beyond.
But while America’s response was swift, it was disciplined, targeted and extraordinarily effective.
There were no uprisings.
No governments fell, except two; the Taliban and Saddam Hussein’s.
And while it is true that Osama remains free — however temporarily — it is also true that he’s also now the world’s most famous homeless person.
Moreover:
Individual al Qaeda-linked cells throughout the world have no central base to which to turn for aid.
Training camps are closed.
Funding sources have dried up.
The medieval regime that offered him succor is itself gone. Afghanistan just held its first democratic elections.
Iraq is moving toward free elections — doubtless to Osama’s chagrin.
Clearly, yesterday’s tape was meant to influence Tuesday’s U.S. election — much as al Qaeda caused Spain to show yellow in the War on Terror — though it remains that it was only a tape.
There was no Madrid-like terror bombing in America, but you can bet your last dollar that Osama and his bloody-handed henchmen wouldn’t hesitate to attempt one if they thought for even a moment that they could get away with it.
Indeed, they’ve failed to pull off any such strike on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Thank President Bush — and the U.S. military — for that.
Someday Osama will be rotting behind bars next to, say, Saddam Hussein — unless he’s killed first.
But the War on Terror — and this is something John Kerry, with his Tora Bora tunnel vision, clearly doesn’t understand — is much bigger than Osama.
That is why Saddam had to be taken down.
And why the Patriot Act must remain in force, if not strengthened.
And why the War on Terror must be prosecuted forcefully, broadly and intelligently for a long, long time.
Clearly Osama’s little lecture yesterday was meant to dampen George Bush’s electoral prospects; in that sense, it betrayed a truly fundamental misunderstanding of the United States.
If 9/11 didn’t make Americans flinch, it’s not likely that an appearance by Osama on a TV channel best known for its videos of beheadings and other gruesome events will do anything more than stiffen the nation’s spine.
Again, for the record: If Osama could have carried out an act of terror, he would have carried out an act of terror.
He can’t — and that speaks to the fundamental success of the War on Terror.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/32993.htm
^ Two terrorists trying to outdo each other. One having a tough time in Afghanistan the other in Iraq. Both have the same aim, to terrorise innocent people. One by bringing down the twin towers, the other by launching the war of terror.
Remember when Bush vowed that he was committed to capturing Osama bin Laden "dead or alive".
Then reversed his stance and said: "I truly am not that concerned about him."
You see, he's not as stupid as he looks or talks. He had a joker card up his sleeves. He knew he could pull a favour from Osama when the time was right!
Pretty smart for a dumbo, wouldn't you say.
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*Originally posted by Stu: *
The good news is that he had to settle for getting his message out in a videotape as opposed to another attack. *To me, this shows that Bush has been somewhat effective *(to this point at least) in the war on terrorism.
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What kind of theory is that!?
If a terrorist says Bush has been lyin to you guyz ever since after the 911 you will say Bush has been effective? In what?! Lying to his own ppl?! I'm not saying that he sounds very trustworthy, but nor does Bush. SO!?
Well not bad.
Ali, here’s the thing. Who would believe a terrorist, in fact many would try to believe the opposite. Reverse psychology is a tactic not lost on Osama.
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I think Osama's had a face lift, n a nose job, he's gone more chubby,,his voice is different too....
cnn v.s. aljazeera: choose your cheerleader
I would have copy-pasted the story, but it would exceed the page width, so here is a direct link:
Actually that isn’t even required. The US govt. more than fulfills that role with its stupid rainbow alerts 
Been going since for 3 years now.
Good to see that you are satisfied that 200 odd billion dollars have been well spent. Now instead of bombing embassies in Africa to get the world’s attention, now Bin Laden simply has to turn on the camera :k:
Rainbow alerts, lolz
May be this is a strategy of Bush to get gay votes.