A little story that supports my theory that Bin Laden is dead, and has been dead for a long while.
link to AP report Officials from Riyadh to Paris to Washington rushed to insist they had nothing to substantiate the report.
Why the rush? How do they know the guy is alive when they haven't been able to find him since Nov/Dec 2001? Which is about the time he was killed during a bombing run in the mountains of Tora Bora. Rather than rush to say anything, if I was in charge of an organization that has
appeared to be inept in capturing the worlds most wanted man, I'd be keeping my damm mouth shut.
And of course there is the always pervasive, unnamed anonymous sources...
A Pakistani counterterrorism official with intimate knowledge of the hunt also dismissed the French report...He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the matter.
The denial was echoed by a purported spokesman for the Taliban, the former Afghan regime that sheltered bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks. He also asked not to be named.
"We don't have anything to support it," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We've heard these things before and have no reason to think this is any different. There's just nothing we can point to, to say this report has any more credence than other reports we've seen in the past."
Even Condi plays stupid and states she doesn't know anything about the current report stating OBL is dead.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she had "no comment and no knowledge" about the report, while presidential spokesman Blair Jones said the White House could not confirm the report's accuracy. But two U.S. intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said U.S. agencies had no information to suggest bin Laden was dead or dying.
But one unnamed official said something that gives some insight as to why the US government would want to hold this secret until the 'right time'.
"The big question is whether his death ... would have a demoralising effect, or if he achieves the status of martyr and becomes a rallying figure," one [unnamed] U.S. intelligence official said this weekend.
Something smells.
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