Donny Rumsfeld stated, “We are pretty sure he is either alive or dead.”

how profound, Donny

Buh Bye, Bloggoes!

December 2001 Quoting an unnamed Taliban official, the Pakistan Observer reported that Bin Laden died of untreated lung complications and was buried in an unmarked grave in Tora Bora on December 15. This report was picked up by Fox News in the United States on December 26. A videotape was released on December 27 showing a gaunt, unwell Bin Laden, prompting an unnamed White House aide to comment that it could have been made shortly before his death. On CNN, Dr Sanjay Gupta commented that Bin Laden’s left arm never moved during the video, suggesting a recent stroke and possibly a symptom of kidney failure. According to Pakistani President Musharraf, Bin Laden required two dialysis machines, which also suggests kidney failure. “I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a… kidney patient,” Musharraf said. If Bin Laden suffered kidney failure, he would require a sterile environment, electricity, and continuous attention by a team of specialists, Gupta said. In April 2002, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated, “We have heard neither hide nor hair of him since, oh, about December in terms of anything hard….We are pretty sure he is either alive or dead.” FBI Counterterrorism chief Dale Watson and President Karzai of Afghanistan also expressed the opinion that Bin Laden probably died at this time.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26059346-25837,00.html

PAKISTAN’S intelligence and security establishment thinks Osama bin Laden is dead or has fled heavily bombarded tribal areas and gone elsewhere in the Islamic world, probably Yemen.

“If he is still alive – and I emphasise if – he is definitely not in Pakistan,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik tells The Weekend Australian in an interview in Islamabad.

“He could be in a neighbouring country, and he could even have used a boat to go elsewhere … possibly getting aboard a fishing boat on the remote Makran coast of Baluchistan and going to another country.”

Both President Asif Ali Zardari and Dr Malik have a political imperative in insisting the al-Qa’ida leader is not in Pakistan, but senior members of the country’s intelligence agencies who have previously been upfront in admitting he was probably in Pakistan now say they have doubts he is alive or in the region.

One senior security analyst said: “The reality is that our FATA tribal region – including Waziristan, where Osama has often been touted to be – has simply become too hot for him.

“The killing two months ago of (Pakistan Taliban leader) Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack, and the killing of a string of other highly placed militant leaders, including Osama’s third son, shows just how unsafe FATA has become for them.

199 got it Right Here!

Stephie as Natasha? who gets to be Boris? Jim
Rebekah has to put on the Squirrel suite, Chris
wears the antlers… pile in the SUV we’re goin’ to the liquor barn!

Max gets to drive! Oliver’s got shotgun!

Whatever happened to Manners??