Will we ever capture Bin Laden...

jlew24asu

what do you suggest? we bomb and invade pakistan?

mammasan

El_Kabong wrote:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060313/asp/nation/story_5962372.asp


New Delhi, March 12: The Pakistan foreign office had paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report, The Friday Times has claimed.

The Pakistani weekly said its story is based on disclosures made by foreign service officials to the Public Accounts Committee at a secret meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday.

It claimed that some of the commission members were also bribed to prevent them from including damaging information about Pakistan.

The magazine said the PAC grilled officials in the presence of foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and special secretary Sher Afghan on the money paid to lobbyists.

“The disclosure sheds doubt on the integrity and honesty of the members of the 9/11 inquiry commission and, above all, the authenticity of the information in their final report,” it said.

The report quoted an officer as saying that dramatic changes were made in the final draft of the inquiry commission after the lobbyists got to work. The panel was formed to probe the September 11 terror attack and make suggestions to fight terrorism.

After the commission tipped the lobbyists about the damaging revelations on Pakistan’s role in 9/11, they contacted the panel members and asked them to go soft on the country. The Friday Times claimed that a lot of money was used to silence these members.

According to the report, the lobbyists also helped Pakistan win the sympathy of 75 US Congressmen as part of its strategy to guard Islamabad’s interests in Washington. “US softened towards Pakistan only because of the efforts of the foreign office,” an official was quoted as saying in the report.

The Pakistan foreign office defended the decision to hire the lobbyists, saying it was an established practice in the US.

An observer at the Islamabad meeting said money could play an important role in buying powerful people. The remark came in response to comments made by some US officials after 9/11 that “Pakistanis will sell their mothers for a dollar”.

Pakistan had emerged as front-runner in the fight against terrorism unleashed by the US after the terror strikes. Washington pumped in billions of dollars to win President Pervez Musharraf’s support in launching a crackdown on al Qaida network thriving on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Thank you for correcting me then.

citizen_drew

Pearjamfanno1 wrote:

I doubt he'll ever be captured. He was at and old age when he started running and there are no signs of anyone getting any closer. Maybe they should get that 'Dogg' bounty hunter guy to go lookin for him. From what i know theres still something like a 5mil bounty on him dead or alive.

I don’t think he’ll be caught either, or he would have been caught by now.

And as far as the 5 million dollar figure…perhaps your thinking of how much Paris Hilton pocketed for showing up at a beer party over the weekend…

The bounty on bin Laden’s head is 25 million plus the 2 million from the APA….so 5 x as much as Paris made over the weekend…:rolleyes:


But if we did catch him, do you think prosecutors could make the charge of orchestrating the attacks on 9/11 stick…??? Or would they just kill him for being indicted on the 1998 embassy bombings and consider the rest a given…

anyone?

mammasan

citizen_drew wrote:

I don’t think he’ll be caught either, or he would have been caught by now.

And as far as the 5 million dollar figure…perhaps your thinking of how much Paris Hilton pocketed for showing up at a beer party over the weekend…

The bounty on bin Laden’s head is 25 million plus the 2 million from the APA….so 5 x as much as Paris made over the weekend…:rolleyes:


But if we did catch him, do you think prosecutors could make the charge of orchestrating the attacks on 9/11 stick…??? Or would they just kill him for being indicted on the 1998 embassy bombings and consider the rest a given…

anyone?

I haven't read to much on the edvince linking him to the 1998 embassy bombing so I can't really comment on that, but if it's anything like the evidence we have against him in the 9/11 attacks than it would all be circumstancial evidence. I don't think that in a fair trail Osama would ever be able to be convicted of any of these crimes. The trail would be the biggest circus side show dwarfing the OJ trial by infinite times. I don't think that catching him is even a realistic option simply because the problems that would arise on how to deal with him would out weigh the positives of having caught him. Killing him would only make him a martyr. He would be a martyr to all his current followers and any future followers, of his ideals, as well. He has already planted the seed and it has taken root, to kill him now is to make him immortal.

ONCE DEVIDED

the american admin needs it dog to wag
thus osama ( who needs dialysis) wont be found. he will keep on sending messages at time when the admin needs to booga booga people.
GWB said at the start of the Iraq invasion when asked about osama- " he isnt even on my radar'

The Illinoisemakers

ONCE DEVIDED wrote:

the american admin needs it dog to wag
thus osama ( who needs dialysis) wont be found. he will keep on sending messages at time when the admin needs to booga booga people.
GWB said at the start of the Iraq invasion when asked about osama- " he isnt even on my radar'

Wow, that's a quote I haven't heard before, care to give a source?

MrBrian

mammasan wrote:

I haven't read to much on the edvince linking him to the 1998 embassy bombing so I can't really comment on that, but if it's anything like the evidence we have against him in the 9/11 attacks than it would all be circumstancial evidence. I don't think that in a fair trail Osama would ever be able to be convicted of any of these crimes. The trail would be the biggest circus side show dwarfing the OJ trial by infinite times. I don't think that catching him is even a realistic option simply because the problems that would arise on how to deal with him would out weigh the positives of having caught him. Killing him would only make him a martyr. He would be a martyr to all his current followers and any future followers, of his ideals, as well. He has already planted the seed and it has taken root, to kill him now is to make him immortal.

Sounds about right,
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I would however love to see him caught and have a fair trial. I also believe that he would walk free. But this is why I think that America would rather kill him once they catch him.

citizen_drew

Yeah…
I don’t believe there’s anyway in hell the administration would allow him the world wide stage a fair trial would bring…but I sure would like to hear all the secrets he has in that head of his...I think.