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Title: Where is Osama?
Post by: Lunar on August 04, 2004, 01:54:43 AM
-Central Asia is defined as the Muslim countries between Russia and Afghanistan -- Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.  All of them but Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have borders with Afghanistan.

I say he's dead.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ATFFL on August 04, 2004, 01:55:40 AM
I agree, he's dead.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: The Duke on August 04, 2004, 02:01:18 AM
In Pakistan, under the protection of the ISI.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ?????????? on August 04, 2004, 02:06:04 AM
On my couch drinking a beer with Saddam. :)


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: raggage on August 04, 2004, 02:14:30 AM
On my couch drinking a beer with Saddam. :)

Thats disgusting. Almost as bad as that idiot before who said they loved Bush because he was protecting their trailer park from terrorists.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ?????????? on August 04, 2004, 02:21:04 AM
On my couch drinking a beer with Saddam. :)

Thats disgusting. Almost as bad as that idiot before who said they loved Bush because he was protecting their trailer park from terrorists.

Take a joke. :) Geesh.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: opebo on August 04, 2004, 04:44:41 AM
I think if we nuked Karachi we'd probably kill Osama.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: minionofmidas on August 04, 2004, 04:58:55 AM
On my couch drinking a beer with Saddam. :)
While I don't think he's in your house, and Saddam is certainly elsewhere, I don't think Florida is such a bad guess...if I were him the US is where I'd be.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: Gustaf on August 04, 2004, 05:52:39 AM
I think he's dead...or hiding in Central Asia/Pakistan/Afghanistan somewhere.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: English on August 04, 2004, 06:35:41 AM
I reckon he's dead. There were reports he was seriously ill months ago. Cancer I believe.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ?????????? on August 04, 2004, 08:32:35 AM
Could he be hiding out in Iran? Or maybe perhaps Saudi Arabia? :o


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: Nation on August 04, 2004, 09:13:50 AM
Could he be hiding out in Iran? Or maybe perhaps Saudi Arabia? :o

Nah, I'm pretty sure he's dead.

And if he is alive, he won't let himself be caught. He'd kill himself before we got a chance to get him.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: Lunar on August 04, 2004, 10:24:09 AM
And if he is alive, he won't let himself be caught. He'd kill himself before we got a chance to get him.

Just like Saddam Hussein.

The difference between the two is that Osama is a crazy fundamentalist and Hussein was an ex-dictator who wanted to stay alive.  Besides, if Osama is caught, not only does he shame himself and give much to the United States, but he's going to end up dying anyway.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ijohn57s on August 06, 2004, 09:09:04 PM
I think he's dead. If he's still alive, he's in Pakistan.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: The Dowager Mod on August 06, 2004, 09:13:33 PM
Killed at ToraBora.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: MarkDel on August 06, 2004, 11:26:01 PM

That is a very real possibility, but we may not know this and may never know for sure.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: minionofmidas on August 07, 2004, 04:32:21 AM
Could he be hiding out in Iran? Or maybe perhaps Saudi Arabia? :o
Yeah, Saudi Arabia is an option. Kinda like the US option really, from the ideological point of view.
Iran is probably one of the least likely scenarios.

Essentially there's three options:
-Killed at Tora Bora or died on the run of kidney failure
-In hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan
-Somewhere in the West, or a place he'd falsely consider West (such as Saudi Arabia). Without a beard, with a sleek haircut, and growing fat.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: © tweed on August 07, 2004, 01:38:51 PM
He is in US hands, just waiting for the right time to announce it.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: cwelsch on August 07, 2004, 08:45:18 PM
He has/had diabetes and got dialysis for them.  He would need dialysis for treatment, and likely lost a foot and suffered very low blood pressure if he didn't get them.

I said alive in Pakistan, but there's a good chance he was killed or died of diabetes.  Dialysis patients only last a few years anyway, I believe.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: The Duke on August 08, 2004, 02:39:01 AM
He has/had diabetes and got dialysis for them.  He would need dialysis for treatment, and likely lost a foot and suffered very low blood pressure if he didn't get them.
Dialysis patients only last a few years anyway, I believe.

 People with end stage renal failure requiring dialysis must dialyze every 72 hours. If he required that level of attention he is long dead. I cannot imagine there are many dialysis centers in Afganistan or Pakistan.

As long as medical attention is available, he can live indefinitely without any impairment.  The fact that we have not heard from him in so long suggests he is no longer alive, but if anyone read Arnaud deBorchgrave's latest, he may be in the protective custody of the ISI.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: freedomburns on August 08, 2004, 04:20:41 AM
ISI has him and they are holding him ransom against the US taking away the statute in their charter which requires the approval and vetting of the ISI Director by US intelligence.

or

He may be in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana while awaiting his turn on stage at the "donkey bar".  :o

freedomburns


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: minionofmidas on August 08, 2004, 04:30:37 AM
ISI has him and they are holding him ransom against the US taking away the statute in their charter which requires the approval and vetting of the ISI Director by US intelligence.

or

He may be in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana while awaiting his turn on stage at the "donkey bar".  :o

freedomburns
See that nice, lean, cleanshaved, darkhaired man with the sunglasses who's just moved in opposite to you? That's him. :)


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: freedomburns on August 08, 2004, 04:41:47 AM
Somebody call the cops.


Title: Re:Where is Osama?
Post by: ?????????? on August 08, 2004, 07:10:10 AM
He may be in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana while awaiting his turn on stage at the "donkey bar".  :o

freedomburns


Ha :) I loved that song.