Benazir Bhutto claimed Osama had been killed shortly before her assassination. Whether or not he really is dead is something we don't know for sure, but it sure is convenient to have him alive and ready to speak to mankind beyond the grave.
Jack
2010-10-03 01:49:26 UTC
Everything about Bin Laden is fake. The timing of "his" videos is always suspicious. The last one was released just as Congress was debating whether to extend funding for the so-called "war on terrorism."
There are no apparent Arabic versions of any of Bin Laden's tapes; they seem to appear already dubbed into English. Shocking, I think, since most foreign tapes do not appear that way. Perhaps, just maybe, someone (US government? CIA? Someone else? Several people/governments working together?) doesn't want each TV/radio station translating the videos differently. Last thing we need is anyone doing any independent thinking, when we have a war against a country that has never attacked another, as far as we can tell!
Maybe some people who once lived in Afghanistan attacked the USA, but since the government is so dodgy about all of it, making up at least half of the "evidence," it begs the question of how much of it anyone can believe.
IMO, there is now and never has been, anyone on this planet named Osama bin Laden. The only evidence of his existence are statements from the USA government and its deceptive allies.
who WAS #1?
2010-10-03 03:10:56 UTC
Bin Laden is much more useful as the boogyman than anything a real human could do. I still remember that within hours of 911 somehow magically from the bowels of CIA, the news media was telling Americans about this obscure nobody who Reagan helped Afghanistan to fight off the Soviets and how surely, without doubt he was responsible for skyscrapers in NYC falling down.
Felt a little prepackaged at the time, and it still does.
?
2010-10-03 00:26:32 UTC
I suspect Bin Laden has been killed in one of the many air raids. It is to bad that it can not be proven! The video sure sounded fake.
michele
2010-10-03 00:20:37 UTC
If it wasn't believable, we wouldn't be looking at a travel advisory for Americans traveling to Europe to be announced by the State Department tomorrow.
~Dr. B.~
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