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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?


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Morgan Spurlock (muckraking documentarian?) has a new film out, in which he attempts to track down Osama Bin Laden. From the article:

"Yes, the man who may or may not have pressured McDonald's to abandon the "Super Size" option (a moment of silence please for French fries portions the size of my head) has decided to set his sights on none other than the most wanted man in the universe; Osama bin Laden.

"Did he find him? How does it all end? Well if there was any doubt that this one was garnering huge interest, the insanely long line for the press screening I attended laid any hesitation to rest. The curiosity was there. Would Spurlock deliver?"
solszewski

9 responses // Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

  • He's dead - he was murdered in December 2001 by Omar Sheikh, as anyone who has paid any attention knows.
    Vierotchka
  • Lots of rumors, but officially no one really knows. Here's the Wikipedia section relating to Osama death rumors:

    Reports alleging Osama bin Laden's death have circulated since late 2001.[93] In the months following the 9/11 terrorist attack, many people believed that bin Laden was dead. This belief was perpetuated by subsequent media reports often referencing bin Laden's serious health problems,[94] though there has been evidence to suggest that he is still alive.[citation needed]

    April 2005: The Sydney Morning Herald stated "Dr Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Australian National University, says documents provided by an Indian colleague suggested bin Laden died of massive organ failure in April last year ? 'It's hard to prove or disprove these things because there hasn't really been anything that allows you to make a judgment one way or the other', Dr. Williams said."[95]

    August 2006: On 23 September 2006, the French newspaper L'Est Républicain quoted a report from the French secret service (DGSE) stating that Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan on 23 August 2006, after contracting a case of typhoid fever that paralyzed his lower limbs.[citation needed] According to the newspaper, Saudi security services first heard of bin Laden's alleged death on 4 September 2006.[96][97][98] The alleged death was reported by the Saudi Arabian secret service to its government, which reported it to the French secret service. The French defense minister Michèle Alliot-Marie expressed her regret that the report had been published while French President Jacques Chirac declared that bin Laden's death had not been confirmed.[99] American authorities also cannot confirm reports of bin Laden's death,[100] with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying only, "No comment, and no knowledge."[101] Later, CNN's Nic Robertson said that he had received confirmation from an anonymous Saudi source that the Saudi intelligence community has known for a while that bin Laden has a water-borne illness, but that he had heard no reports that it was specifically typhoid or that he had died.[102]

    November 2007: In an interview with political interviewer David Frost, taken on November 2, 2007, the Pakistani politician, and Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman, Benazir Bhutto, claimed that bin Laden had been murdered by Omar Sheikh. During her answer to a question pertaining to the identities of those who had previously attempted her own assassination, Bhutto named Sheikh as a possible suspect while referring to him as "the man who murdered Osama bin Laden." Despite the weight of such a statement, neither Bhutto nor Frost attempted to clarify it during the remainder of the interview.[103] Omar Chatriwala, a journalist for Al Jazeera English, claims that he chose not to pursue the story at the time because he believes Bhutto misspoke, meaining to say Sheikh murdered Daniel Pearl and not Osama Bin Laden.[104] The BBC drew criticism when it rebroadcast the Frost/Bhutto interview on its website, but edited out Bhutto's statement regarding Osama Bin Laden. Later the BBC apologized and replaced the edited version with the complete interview.[105] Bhutto's statement regarding Bin Laden conflicts with an earlier statement in October 2007, where Bhutto stated in an interview that she would cooperate with the American military in targeting Osama bin Laden.[106]
    solszewski
  • Pshaw! Hes not going to deliver onto the American public, video footage of finding Osama if you haven't heard about it about five billion times on the news already... On the other hand, they may be too bussy with celebrity to present the actual news.
    ...
    Actually I'm not sure I understood exactly what this was about, but I'll go ahead and stop talking with my fot in my mouth at this point...
    XD
    TumDeeDumDum...
    Nefri
  • All I know is that if this guy actually finds Bin Laden alive on his own, he will have made our current administration look even more incompetent, if such a thing is possible.
    Varex_Sythe
  • Wikipedia (which is as accurate as whoever alters or adds to it) notwithstanding, I heard about Omar Sheikh murdering Osama bin Laden long before Benazir Bhutto mentioned it - but then, I do live outside of the USA. Benazir did not misspeak.
    Vierotchka
  • Aintitcool review says the movie's a waste of time.
    binowhite
  • He is in Washington... Only in Washington!
    NOTOTHEWALL
  • Maybe our administration didn't need Osama Bin Laden anymore and put his character to rest. I'm sorry but since that reporter said 296 or more reports of WMD in Iraq were lies..I just keep thinking of the movie "Wag the Dog" with Dustin Huffman where they kept faking war scenes and putting them on the evening news. You gotta love this stuff!

    And remember the movie "Capricorn One" 1978 with James Bolin, Elliott Gould, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston, Hal Halbrook, and Brenda Vaccaro. where the govenment fakes a manned Mars mission, set in a a studio instead of on Mars. The conspiracy involved killing the astronauts to cover up their lies..but Brolin escapes to come running over the hill, in his space suit, just in time to spoil his burial and blows the whistle on all of them. Cool!

    mzzim
  • I'm not sure if Bin Laden is dead or alive. And though I don't really like most religions in any way shape or form, I have a quote that I recall from a priest character in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "End of Days".

    "The greatest trick the devil did was convince people he didn't exist"

    Varex_Sythe

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