There They Go Again

Another of the (curiously) infrequent audio tapes (video tapes are just too darned expensive) from Osama bin Laden has surfaced.

When is the U.S. government going to finally admit that bin Laden is dead and stop this farcical charade of "authenticating" the voice on the tapes as bin Laden's?

He's dead.

As the good people at Ace of Spades HQ would (probably) characterize bin Laden's death:

He died from a sense of shame, loneliness, and a Hellfire missile up his ass, but mostly from a Hellfire missile up his ass.

I'm not going to bother saying it again......he is DEAD.

Bin Laden -- Alive?

I don't believe it.....not for one minute. Oh, sure, I'd like for him to still be alive so we would (eventually) have the pleasure of killing him publicly.

But that ain't gonna happen. He's long dead, folks.....probably buried in a cave that collapsed when struck by one of those really big bunker buster bombs.

Why do I think that?.....First of all, if he were alive, he'd be more common on American TV than "home equity loan" commercials.

Also, look at these screen grabs from his last 2 released videos. Both the 2004 (on the left) and the 2007 videos are (intentionally?) out of focus and the 2007 video shows an apparently much younger bin Laden.....his beard is dark and more stylishly trimmed, too. I suspect that the audio tracks for both were provided by someone who is sorta good at doing impressions.

He could have dyed and trimmed his beard, but there's no plausible explanation for such vanity.

And if you think that these dirt bags living in a cave prevents them from making decent quality videos, take a look at the recent videos of Ayman al-Zawahiri (the number 2 man in al-Qaeda). No problem with focus there, because there's no need to obscure his features to.

Al-Qaeda and the U.S. government both need bin Laden alive in order to further their agendas.
AQ, needs him as an invincible leader against the infidels.....the U.S. needs him as a boogyman to counter the increasing opposition to the way the war in Iraq has been conducted.

I'm really disappointed in our government for carrying on this charade, too. They must think we're really stupid.

Bin Laden Dead?

Unconfirmed reports suggest that bin Laden may have died from typhoid. Say it ain't so! Typhoid is too good for him. I can think of many better ways for him to see his last sunrise.

When Osama stopped making propaganda videos, I speculated that he was either dead or seriously wounded. There was no other plausable explanation for his disappearance from Al-Jazeera broadcasts.

I'm skeptical of the purported audio tapes made by bin Laden in the meantime. The jihadis want everyone to think Osama is still alive, because he is an important icon for their cause. He is immensely popular with Islamists and serves as an inspirational leader for the jihadis.

The U.S. wants everyone to think he is alive, too, because they need him to be the bogey-man in the so-called "War on Terror." Without Osama, we have no one on whom to focus our outrage for the actions of the terrorists.

If Osama is dead, I suspect that a lot of people will lose interest in continuing a costly campaign to rid the world of all the scumbags who carry on bin Laden's war against the West. Instead, they will support the isolationists' desire to simply hunker down in the relative (note I said relative) safety of America's distance from the bulk of the trouble-makers (yeah, the Middle East).