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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:32 PM
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So, it looks like Al-Zawahiri is NOT cornered.
Why haven't we heard anything? Hmm?
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:34 PM
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1. It was a PR stunt...


Ever wonder why Aaron Brown just happened to be over there? Hmm...

There was a "news" report that said he made an escape in a bulletproof SUV! LOL! You have to be braindead to fall for this shit anymore.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:34 PM
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2. Looks like Bush screwed up again.
Killing US troops for oil in Iraq while the real terrorists get away. I wonder wha the freepers think about that.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:36 PM
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3. Well, it gave CNN two days of "content". Spoon-fed media.
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annagull Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:38 PM
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5. looks like they are STILL milking it!
Who can take this crap seriously anymore? Thank you Al Gore for the internet! :-)
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:37 PM
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4. This came accross from "DEBKA"
DEBKAfile Reports Exclusively: Pakistan red-faced on discovering “high value” terrorist target its troops surrounded in Waziristan was not bin Laden’s No. 2 Zuwahiri but chief of Pushtun Ahmadi tribal federation. DEBKA sources estimate that any harm to Pushtun chief would spark wholesale tribal war offensive against Pakistan
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:39 PM
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7. WOW !!!
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:41 PM
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8. Take Debka with a grain of salt
they are right about 70% of the time...
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 06:12 PM
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19. probably no different than fox or cnn.
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arewethereyet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 06:34 PM
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21. this just in from the aussies
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9018516%255E2703,00.html

may have punched through the perimeter

real ? who knows ?
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:39 PM
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6. The sad thing is....
...about 40% of the American public probably believes they captured him yesterday and have moved on to the next news cycle.
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annagull Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:43 PM
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12. Right, by Monday onto the next useless "news" story
michaeljackson/lacypeterson/marthastewart/....
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HydroAddict Donating Member (316 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:48 PM
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14. Ain't this the GD truth...
If you would have taken a long position in market on Thursday at noon (when the BS story broke), then sold today around 2:00 (when the BS was called), you would have made a killing.

Something tells me someone is fucking with us hard. Sorry, just in bad mood, because I lost a few bucks when my tech indicators where all washed out by this BS. Just ranting...ignore me.
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:41 PM
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9. The thing that frosts me is how they all parrot this stuff.
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:42 PM
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10. What the hell is going on?
All the news broadcasts I'm watching on the tube are still reporting that he's surrounded. Conversely, I read on LBN that Al-Zawahiri escaped the net.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:43 PM
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11. That is why I said take Debka with a grain of salt
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:46 PM
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13. PR stunt by Musharraf?
On Hardball last night, there was this guy being interviewed (I think a Mid-Easterner who works for the US). Anyhow, Chris was asking him about al-Zawahiri and he implied that Musharraf was basically putting on a show for Colin Powell. He said that he will believe it when he sees al-Zawahiri captured.

Guess he was right!
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annagull Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:49 PM
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15. Keith Olberman had a skeptical report last night, too
basically saying about the same thing.
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DerBeppo Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:52 PM
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16. that sucks
Politics aside, I was hoping they would catch him. His an extremely dangerous man.

you know what's scarier? Weren't the threads yesterday full of people saying that the administration and faux news was playing this down and two steps shy of refuting it completely?
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 05:54 PM
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17. where are those bunker-busters we pay so much money for?
Why isn't Bush dropping one of his giant bombs on this location, bringing them justice? That is, after all, IF they have who they say they have...

:shrug:
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 06:10 PM
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18. Has anyone ever reported how they even know
it's Al-Zawahiri? Was his name on the mailbox?
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 06:27 PM
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20. From what I've read in a number of places
The only 'evidence' I have heard of at all is that the tribal fighters are fighting back 'ferociously'. They are saying that this leads them to believe that someone important was there. They said, surprisingly conclusively, yesterday that it wasn't bin Laden, so I think they came up with al-Zawahiri just through the process of elimination.

The area where the Pakistanis have closed off is 19 square miles. It's several villages, and many have fled the fighting as refugees.

If you ask me, it's more likely the start of a civil war in Pakistan (or a war between 'Pashtustan' and Pakistan).

Here, Pravda predicted it all back in 11/2001:

Hans Kaitert: North Alliance's victory is Pakistan's nightmare
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/15/21079.html
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osaMABUSh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 06:55 PM
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22. It was all BS for the "Anniversary"
How can anyone commemorate this anniversary?
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