Osama Bin Laden Is On Run, Officials Say

[chlamor]

Osama Bin Laden Is on Run, Officials Say


Friday May 20, 2005 5:46 PM

By MUNIR AHMAD

Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Osama bin Laden is on the run with a small band of fighters, but his al-Qaida network has been paralyzed by Pakistani government forces, the country's foreign minister was quoted as saying Friday.

Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri declined to say whether Pakistan had specific information on the whereabouts of the world's most wanted fugitive, accused by the U.S. of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

``Osama bin Laden is alive and moving around from place to place, but not with a large group of people,'' Kasuri was quoted as saying in the English-language newspaper The News.

Kasuri said Pakistan's army had ``paralyzed al-Qaida's communication network'' and vastly reduced its capability to strike, the newspaper reported.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5019706,00.html

[Tempest]

1. What's next? Are they going to capture his # 3 man again?

Yawn.

[Roland99]

4. That's why he is on the run.

It's obvious they were getting close to him. I mean, his personal coffee-maker and photocopier?

[Kralizec]

54. Yup!! No more coffee for Osama! n/t

[dhinojosa]

2. Who is this...Osama guy, I have heard this name before.....

hmmm. Does it have anything to do with Saddam or Iraq? :sarcasm:

[benburch]

3. We got him on the Run! We're gonna smoke him out!

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com.nyud.net:8090/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040406/040406_amsterdam_hmed_4p.hmedium.jpg

[maddezmom]

5. the * propaganda machine is in over-drive today n/t

[chlamor]

10. gotta get the 'merikans

in a fear-filled frenzy for the weekend of conspicuous consumption.
Shop your worries away-Osamas on the run

[dubyaD40web]

12. Trying to bump the sagging poll numbers. It worked during the election.

[deadparrot]

6. But damn...!

We were so close three weeks ago...and two days before that...and a week before that.

:boring:

Wake me when we catch the religious fundamentalist lunatic who murdered 3,000 of my fellow citizens, then we'll talk.

[devinsgram]

35. Yeah,

Wasn't it just last year they were hours away from catching him.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

70. Yeah, and Charles Grassley stated it was "obvious" he'd be caught

before the election:

http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i4oscaught.html

[sabra]

7. Don't you mean al-Zarqawi?

[hedda_foil]

8. We're on the hunt!

Smoke 'em out of his cave! One head on ice comin' up!

[bunny planet]

9. Its hard work being on the run, dragging that dialysis machine behind you.

They should catch him real soon.

[shraby]

13. If they don't know where he is,

how can they know he's on the run?

[Seabiscuit]

34. It's double-speak: "on the run" = "we lost him years ago"

[bunny planet]

43. What isn't double-speak in Bizarro Bushworld?

[Demit]

20. Luckily he's got his band with him to help! Hey, Band on the Run!!

They're actually going on tour!!!

[ausiedownunderground]

73. I actually heard a rumour he was putting the Band back together!

"The Muslim Brothers" - Belushi's on Bass!!

[megatherium]

88. They're going to play covers of the old Dead album "Blues for Allah". nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. Judge Joseph F. Crater

They never found him either.

[tanyev]

14. Osama's new favorite song:

Well, The Night Was Falling As The Desert World began To Settle Down.
In The Town They're Searching For Us Every Where, but We Never Will Be Found.
Band on the run, Band on the run

[Voltaire99]

62. "And the president..."

With a head of cement,
Will search for evermore,
For Osama on the run, Osama on the run

[tanyev]

75. Perfect!

I was trying to figure out a way to change the ending to make it apply, but I couldn't think of anything.

[kineneb]

84. Ah, great minds think "alike"

That song is exactly what came to my mind. Who says life does not have a sound track!

[Minnesota_Lib]

15. So 1306 days later, we've finally got him on the run.....impressive (nt)

[Krupskaya]

17. Compare this to WWII.

December 7, 1941 to August 16, 1945 (two days after VJ Day) = 1,348 days.

September 11, 2001 to May 21, 2005 = 1,348 days.

Nice to see we're making progress! Or not.

[XemaSab]

59. and it's not like we weren't looking for him

BEFORE 9-11 too.

[jobycom]

16. Dude's been running longer than Forrest Gump

[Lorien]

56. Lol!

Sadly, this is true.

[Danieljay]

63. Busted a gut...funny...thanks! EOM

[lonestarnot]

82. Oh God CHOKE ROFLOL! SPEW CORNFLAKES!

[Ganja Ninja]

18. Yea, sure, whatever.

:eyes: :boring:

[0007]

19. The next step. Tomorrow morning they tell us they just missed

him. But Osama did leave his computer behind with valuable information that Rumsfeld sez is invaluable.

[NNN0LHI]

21. Is this the guy who has only one leg? Or is it the guy in his underpants?

Oh my, I get so confused with all these different evil doers.

Don

[maddezmom]

24. LOL

I think it's the one with kidney problems. :evilgrin:

[complain jane]

74. yeah yeah yeah.

We're gonna get him dead or alive like that old poster out west but eeehhhhh on second though, we really have no idea where he is and ah we really don't care. We've caught "number three" like ten times and we've also caught "the real mastermind behind the September eleven attacks" like what, four times? Meanwhile Saddam's on national television in underpants and Bush is on national television sucking face with Saudis, and arabs high in the mountains of Afghanistan are all suddenly reading Newsweek. Am I up to date? What color terrer 'lert are we at?

[Career Prole]

22. Whaddya know? So's the administration!

My money's on the tall skinny guy.
The dork'll probably fall off the bike...he looks a bit shaky.

[BR_Parkway]

23. Safe assumption - he hasn't been caught yet, ergo he's on the run

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Does this mean that he snuck out of the Holiday Inn

in Dubuque without paying his bill, and checked into a Motel 6 in Bozeman?

[Pithy Cherub]

26. Osama is having his annual cardio exam?

Must be - every year OBL is on the run. Then he sits down and makes these long video tapes...

:boring: See what happens when bush head up the Texas Rangers...

[maddezmom]

29. oh boy, now that you mention it

it's been a while since we've had a tape. Probably in production now.

[MGKrebs]

27. Yes but Osama, Inc has already done the IPO

and they don't even need him anymore.

[Lerkfish]

28. Osama wins "greatest race", next to appear on "Fear Factor"

For someone who attacked us, we never quite seen to be able to get the guy...weird, huh?
But they can stop a minister at the border because he ordered the Koran to do a comparative religion study.

glad we have our priorities straight.
:banghead:

[frylock]

45. don't forget osama and amber's wedding

[Blue Belle]

30. On the run my ass...

He's probably out on a beach somewhere soaking up some rays.

The only thing he's running for is another umbrella for his sea breeze...

[bullimiami]

31. HA HA HA HA the AP is so damn funny.

bush comedy tools.

[Frederik]

32. On the run again

Just can't wait to get on the run again
Seeing places that I've never seen before
I just can't wait to get on the run again
etc

[Canuckistanian]

33. "Puppies are cute" says Pentagon source

Today an unnamed defense source made the incredible claim that young dogs are, in fact, visually appealing... developing....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. My little runaway?

I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain
Wishing you were here by me to end this misery and I wonder,
wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder
why,why-why-why-why-why
He ran away, and I wonder where he will stay - yay,
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway.
I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain
Wishing you were here by me to end this misery and I wonder,
wa-wa-wa-wa- wonder why,why-why-why-why-why he ran away,
and I wonder where he will stay-yay,
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway.

[maxrandb]

51. I Got a '69 Chevy

With a 396,
Fuelly Heads and a Hirst on the Floor,

She Waiting Tonight Down in the Parking Lot,
Outside the 7/11 Store

Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch,
and he rides with me from town to town.

We only run for the money, got no strings attached
We shut 'em up and then we shut 'em down.

Tonight, Tonight the Strips just right
I want to blow 'em off in my first heat.

Cause summers here and the time is right
for Racin' in the Streets.

[catnhatnh]

77. Or, as George Bush and Neil Young say...

...Long may you run...Come to think of it those are probably the only four words in the english language those two BOTH said...

[ucmike]

37. oh, good. now i feel safe.

[leftchick]

38. Good Gawd Give IT UP ALREADY!!

even the stupid ass sheeple in this country aren't paying attention to the UBL crap anymore.

[ixion]

39. on the run... dialisys machine, sterile environment and all

yeah. right. whatever. :eyes:

[getmeouttahere]

42. Exactly!

They know where he is at all times, because BushCo is in cahoots with him

[nine30]

47. Dialysis machine on a mule running behind him

[BattyDem]

40. I KNEW they'd bring him out again!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

But I thought it would be closer to mid-week. So ... who had "Friday" in the pool?

[rocktivity]

41. ..

:boring:
rocknation

[LouisianaLiberal]

44. I heard from a reliable source

that he is hiding out with Emmanuel Goldstein.

[XemaSab]

60. Good call

n/t

[Zhade]

71. Abu Musab al-Goldstein, perhaps?

Welcome to DU.

[spanone]

46. and lugging around a dialysis machine too?....whadda guy!

Actually, he's hangin' with Dave Chappelle in South Africa, you know, just chillin'.

[true_notes]

48. Ossama has been on the run

for 4 fucking years now. I personally think he ran himself 6 feet into the ground, and the admin is just using him as a spin pedestal.

[passy]

49. And Elvis was spotted in Kabul.

[wallwriter]

50. Even if this weren't utter horses***,

What difference, exactly, is catching Osama going to make?

[Village Idiot]

52. Run to the Hills!!!!

White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Afghani
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Arabs are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives.....



How very, very apt...

[Old and In the Way]

53. If he's anywhere, he's back in the Kingdom.

Maybe we exited the airbases in SA so none of our people would accidently run across him at the local bazaar or a gay beheading event...

[Chicago Democrat]

55. yeah right, thanks psy-ops or Rove or liar dujour

:puke:

[MadisonProgressive]

57. He's on the run?

Isn't that what * said in late 2001? He must be getting exhausted by now!

[XemaSab]

58. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[Up2Late]

61. Osama Bin Laden Has been Dead since December, 2001

You really think they would tell us if he was found? He's the * "boogieman."

Do we have anyone here that can read Arabic? This is reported to be his death notice that ran in the newspapers in Egypt:




Also, there's this, and this is from a RW Internet International News site called World Tribune .com

Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Wednesday, October 16, 2002

TEL AVIV — Osama Bin Laden appears to be dead but his colleagues have decided that Al Qaida and its insurgency campaign against the United States will continue, Israeli intelligence sources said.

Al Qaida terrorists have launched a new campaign of economic warfare and are targeting shipping in the Middle East, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

The Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported.

But Bin Laden's heir has been chosen and his colleagues have decided to resume Al Qaida's offensive against the United States and Western allies, the sources said.

(more at link above)

And this from CNN .com

Musharraf: bin Laden likely dead

January 19, 2002 Posted: 12:35 AM EST (0535 GMT)

And This from The Telegraph (U.K.)

US casts doubt on bin Laden's latest message
By Toby Harnden in Washington
(Filed: 28/12/2001)

(clip)

"...Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until two weeks ago by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora Bora, according to the Pentagon.

Since then, nothing has been heard from the al-Qa'eda leader and President Bush has hinted in private that bin Laden's silence could mean he has been killed.

White House aides said the video could have been made more than a month ago as the only proof of timing was a reference to the damage to a mosque in Khost taking place "a few days ago".

That meant the filming took place after Nov 16, when a stray bomb hit the mosque..."

He's Dead.

[damntexdem]

64. Uh, hasn't he been on the run for years?

Hasn't Al Qaida been paralyzed for years?

Hasn't terrorism been stymied for years by the war on terror?

LOL!

[librechik]

87. Of course--the Pakistanis have had him paralyzed in a luxury villa

right next to AQ Khan ever since Tora Bora. Shrub's numbers are down, so the arch villains are going to switch villas for awhile. They do this every time Gallup sinks below 50 for the dauphin.

The security squad calls this precise maneuver "smoking them out of their holes."

I'll bet you thought Bush was just blowing some out his ass.

[leesa]

65. He's been dead since December 2001. How can he be on the run?

[oblivious]

66. Those last two lines indicate a lawless land.

The government just has to say you are suspected of having "terrorists" visit you and your home gets burnt down. No proof, no trial, no law.

The action came weeks after Pakistani intelligence agents raided the homes of Faqir Ahmad and Mohammed Bashir and arrested 11 terror suspects, some of them foreigners.

No one was inside the homes when the elders burned them - apparently to satisfy the government, which has said it will take stern action against those who would shelter terrorists.

[Gman]

67. "I don't know where OBL is and I don't care"

said Bush in March 2002, 6 months after 9/11.

[d_b]

68. They might be on to something.

So far they've taken out four of Zarqawi's legs and captured two #3 men.

[MADem]

69. A Stupid Flash!

On the Run Again, starring Osama, chimp, Powell and Geraldo: http://www.flowgo.com/funpages/view.cfm?page_id=40286

But then, there's this possibility:

http://politicalhumor.about.com.nyud.net:8090/library/graphics/osama_comma.jpg

[tinfoilinfor2005]

72. I think he's in Saddam's knickers...

saw the pic...somebody's hiding in there...

[DisgustedTX]

76. "Running" from Crawford to Haliburton's headquarters

Must satisfy our masters!

[w4rma]

78. Good grief. He's been "on the run" for a while now. (nt)

[splat@14]

79. Scared me, I thought he was running for office from the subject line. n/t

[lonestarnot]

81. Oh good one! He probably is ...budget director.

[lonestarnot]

80. Well if they know he's on the run, they must have seen him running dayah!

[pinniped]

83. This can't be true.

I was watching a public access channel show earlier this morning at the narrator said Bin Laden was a CIA/presidunce* asset and will never be caught.

[tandot]

85. That he is still on the run shows the incompetence of this administration

and it also shows the utter ignorance of those people who voted for Bush.

[salin]

86. They HAD to do this... spike in violence needed a distraction

the blame it on Newsweek has failed (as more and more major newsoutlets report that the info had been reported many places, previously)... and so soon after Ridge's claims of politicization of Terror Alert - made upping the status (and getting folks scared and compliant again) wouldn't work... Rove's is a dwindling distraction repetoire.

[Rainscents]

89. Osama, he still on the run? Gezzz, I didn't know that.

[frustrated_lefty]

90. Oh, sh! t

Be on the lookout for a 6 foot 6 man trodding through a desert with an IV behind him and dialysis equipment being trundled in tow.

They have "vastly reduced" jack shit until they lock his funds up.