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Bush Orders Intel Community To Get Bin Laden Before He Leaves Office
A brand new effort has been launched to try and capture or kill Osama bin Laden. President Bush has asked the British special forces to assist U.S. forces in the effort and they have agreed. Some in the intelligence community believe they know what region of Northwest Pakistan Osama bin Laden is hiding and are prepared to take him out.
Special forces have been methodically rolling-up the Al-Qaeda network member by member both in the Pakistani tribal areas and around the world. The plan is to get those closest to him and push him back towards the Afghan border where unmanned drones flying overhead can spot him and take him out.
All this sounds like a great thing, but I don’t understand why we always have to know about it. We know from his recordings that UBL reads the papers, and is aware of what’s being discussed in the media. I’m sure he’ll be quite pleased to read about the plan to catch him.
-Chris Jones
U.S. Forces Planning Major Operation To Kill Bin Laden
U.S. intelligence agencies believes that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, and they intend to drive him out in a major military offensive.
General David Petraeus headed up a major meeting in the Qatari capital of Doja aimed at putting together a military operation to go after bin Laden.
Of course, all this is coming from an arab news network which automatically calls into question the entire story. If it is true, chances are bin Laden has learned of the coming operation and has already moved.
Audio: New Bin Laden Message Threatening Europe
Bin Laden Threatens Europe Over Danish Cartoons
From the AP:
Osama bin Laden slammed the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad in a new audio message posted late Wednesday and warned Europeans of a strong reaction to come.
The message, which appeared on a militant Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group’s media wing al-Sahab, showed a still image of bin Laden aiming with an AK-47.
A voice believed to be bin Laden’s described the cartoons as taking place in the framework of a “new Crusade” against Islam and warned Europeans that a reaction would come.
“The response will be what you see and not what you hear and let our mothers bereave us if we do not make victorious our messenger of God,” he said, without specifying what action would be taken.
The tape was posted less than a week after the Danish intelligence service said the reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad had brought “negative attention” to Denmark and may have increased the risk to Danes at home and abroad.
Danish newspapers republished a cartoon showing Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban on Feb. 13 to show their commitment to freedom of speech after police said they had uncovered a plot to kill the artist.
It’s unbelievable that Bin Laden and other radical Muslims are still making noise about those damn cartoons. The fact that Bin Laden and his sympathizers are willing to murder people over a cartoon really shows the kind of tyrannical vision they have for freedom loving countries.
So in the interest of poking an Islamic radical in the eye, we are reposting a few of the Danish cartoons that Muslims find so offensive.
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Little Bin Laden Wants To Be A Peace Activist
Omar Osama Bin Laden (nice name) is the 26-year old son of the repugnant Osama Bin Laden. Omar was in the news a couple of months back because he married a 52-year old British broad named Jane Felix-Brown, who of course changed her name to Zaina Alsabah.
Now the couple say they want to be advocates, planning a 3,000-mile horse race across North Africa to draw attention to the cause of peace.
Omar doesn’t renounce his father for all the mass murder he’s committed, but simply says that their are better ways to defend Islam than militancy.
“It’s about changing the ideas of the Western mind. A lot of people think Arabs—especially the bin Ladens, especially the sons of Osama—are all terrorists. This is not the truth,” Omar told the AP last week at a cafe in a Cairo shopping mall.
Omar bin Laden lived with his father in Sudan, then moved with him to Afghanistan in 1996. He claims to have trained in the Al-Qaeda camps until 2000, when he suddenly decided “jihad” wasn’t for him.
“I don’t want to be in that situation to just fight. I like to find another way and this other way may be like we do now, talking,” he said in English.
Little bin Laden refuses to speak ill of his murderous father and says he’s just trying to defend Muslims.
“My father thinks he will be good for defending the Arab people and stop anyone from hurting the Arab or Muslim people any place in the world,” he said, noting that the West didn’t have a problem with his father when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
We didn’t have a problem with him in the 1980’s because he wasn’t knocking down buildings and massacring civilians all around the world.
This guy is a jackass. Omar looks like the perfect candidate for an “extraordinary rendition” compliments of U.S. intelligence.
After a thorough “interview” we should hold him and his wife at Gitmo until we can locate daddy.
-Chris Jones
Bin Laden Releases New Audio Tape Warning Iraq
Osama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida’s latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military has dealt severe blows to al-Qaida’s Iraq branch in recent months.
In Iraq, a number of Sunni Arab tribes in western Anbar province have formed a coalition fighting al-Qaida-linked insurgents that U.S. officials credit for deeply reducing violence in the province. The U.S. military has been working to form similar “Awakening Councils” in other areas of Iraq.
Bin Laden said Sunni Arabs who have joined the Awakening Councils “have betrayed the nation and brought disgrace and shame to their people. They will suffer in life and in the afterlife.”
In the audiotape, bin Laden denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the former leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, who was killed in a September bombing claimed by al-Qaida.
“The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life,” bin Laden said.
Bin Laden talked about U.S. and Iraqi officials attempt to set up a “national unity government” joining the country’s Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
“Our duty is to foil these dangerous schemes, which try to prevent the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq, which would be a wall of resistance against American schemes to divide Iraq,” he said.
He called on Iraq’s Sunni Arabs to rally behind the Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group led by al-Qaida. Besides the Awakening Councils, some Sunni insurgent groups that continue to fight the Americans have rejected the Islamic State.
What this tape shows is that Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are getting desperate. He has all but lost popular support among the populace in Iraq, which is the most critical factor in sustaining an insurgency. Anyone that continues to say we’re losing the war in Iraq is either a fool, or just doesn’t want to see the truth.
We were on the wrong track for the first few years in Iraq, but thanks to General Petraeus we are now finally turning things around. Even people who were and are against the Iraq war should be able to get behind a winning strategy. People like Harry Reid who continue to call for withdrawal are bitter, ignorant, and partisan Democrats who care more about undermining President Bush than about a victory for America.
The anti-war crowd are a very small, albeit shrill minority whose power doesn’t extend much beyond the Blogosphere. Democrats who continue to pander to their 1960’s era hippie base are making a big mistake. Most Americans even those against the Iraq war still want to see their country succeed.
We finally have a strategy that’s succeeding and we need to come together as Americans and see this thing through to the end. When the end might be is not clear yet, but as long as we continue to move forward and make progress we should support the Iraq effort for as long as it takes.
-Chris Jones
Al Jazeera Airs New Bin Laden Audio Tape
Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called on the Europeans to stop helping the US in the war in Afghanistan, saying America is “ebbing” in excerpts of a new audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera television.
“The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies,” bin Laden said, addressing Europeans and referring to their countries’ military contributions in Afghanistan.
-Chris Jones
McCain says he wants to shoot Bin Laden
Republican presidential candidate John McCain told workers of small weapons factory that he not only wants to catch Osama Bin Laden if elected, but said he “will shoot him with your products”.
“I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell and I will shoot him with your products,” McCain said.
McCain always has a good line. Nice one Senator!
-Chris Jones
McCain: Bin Laden Reveals U.S. Success
John McCain said Monday that a new message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in which he scolds his followers in Iraq proves that U.S. efforts there are succeeding.
“Basically he encouraged the extreme elements—al-Qaida in Iraq particularly in the Sunni areas—to join together and be more effective in bringing terrorism and murder and suicide bombings to Iraq and to Anbar province,” McCain said. “It’s a clear sign that we are succeeding in Iraq because people got very tired of al-Qaida taking their young women, killing their young women, killing their people, and acting in the most brutal fashion that they are.”
In the audiotape played Monday on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden chastises some of his followers for lagging behind and making mistakes in Iraq, and for putting their personal allegiances ahead of their opposition to American forces.
New Bin Laden Audio Tape Released
Osama Bin Laden has reached out once again from his “undisclosed location” in the form of another audio tape. In an incredible irony he pleads for Iraqi insurgents to avoid “extremism” and “admit mistakes.”
The terror leader even goes so far as to recommend to himself not to be extreme in his leadership.
The tape appeared to be in response to moves by some Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq that have joined U.S. troops in fighting al-Qaida members, as well as other Sunni insurgent groups that—while still attacking Americans—have formed coalitions opposed to al-Qaida.
“Some of you have been lax in one duty, which is to unite your ranks,” bin Laden said in the audiotape. “Beware of division … Muslims are waiting for you to gather under a single banner to champion righteousness. Be keen to oblige with this duty.”
“I advise myself, Muslims in general and brothers in al-Qaida everywhere to avoid extremism among men and groups,” he said, saying leaders should not build themselves up as the sole authority, and that instead mujahedeen should follow “what God and his prophet have said.”
What I wonder is how a person commits suicide bombings and rejects extremism at the same time? How does one reject extremism while living a constant jihad?
-Chris Jones
MASTERMIND OF 1993 TWIN TOWERS ATTACK CLAIMS HE HAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive “Supermax” prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports that some 900 force feedings were performed on other al-Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison. The 60 MINUTES segment will be broadcast Sunday Oct. 14 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET/7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Anyone who’s read extensively about Yousef would know that the mere suggestion that he would convert to Christianity is ridiculous. In addition to being of nearly genius intelligence level and a master bomb maker, he’s also a true believer.
His uncle and mentor is Khalid-Shakh-Mohammed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and top Al-Qaeda operative. It was with his uncle that he hatched the 1993 Trade Center bombing that ended in failure. Since Yousef was apprehended it was up to KSM alone to plan out the 2001 attacks.
The idea of using planes to crash into the the Trade Center was originally thought up by Ramzi Yousef back in 1992, but Osama Bin Laden thought the plan would take too much planning. So Ramzi and KSM decided on a truck bomb which they used in the ‘93 attack.
-Chris Jones
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