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Thread #94929   Message #1842007
Posted By: Willie-O
24-Sep-06 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bin Laden dead or alive?
Subject: RE: BS: Bin Laden dead or alive?
Oddly enough I agree (mostly) with Old Guy's last post!

OBL proven dead of natural causes would solve a lot of nasty problems, especially the peculiar quasi-friendly standoff between the US and Pakistan regarding where he might be and who might (or might not) go find him and confront him.

But yeah, it's probably too good to be true.
US and French intelligence seem very skeptical. And it's thought that if he did die, Al-Quaeda would move quickly with their very effective propaganda machine, in order to get their own spin out first and use the event in their own way. (No doubt to make him a martyr and inspiration for more ugly violence)

W-O