Monday, February 20, 2006

Osama--Won't Be Taken Alive

Here's the latest from Osama bin Laden, "I won't be taken alive."

Here's what the news story says.
"Osama bin Laden vowed never to be captured alive and said the U.S. military had become as "barbaric" as Saddam Hussein in an audiotape reposted on a militant Islamic Web site after first being broadcast last month.
In the tape posted to the Web site Monday, bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil. The tape was initially broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel.
Islamic militant Web forums often repost messages from al-Qaida leaders to ensure sympathizers can see them. U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that last month's tape was of bin Laden _ making it his first message in more than a year.
'I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived,' bin Laden said, in the 11-minute, 26-second tape."
We have wonderful technology, it allows me to post these musings on the World Wide Web and allow thousands, hundreds.....okay, it allows me to read these things.
If we can locate so many bad guys on computers, how come we can't catch this guy and his fellow terrorists?
It makes you wonder. In the meantime, chill the Champaign, it's nearly time to pop that bottle and say good bye to Osama. After all, how many years can a guy who needs kidney dialysis survive in caves and traveling by horseback to avoid capture as he suffers from dysentery?
One thing is certain, our image of Martini-swilling-tuxedoed-Bond-spies is gone. Now we need Arabic speaking spies with dark skin to infiltrate these bad guys. How much would you pay these spies? What would it be worth to you to completely end your ties with the world to suffer diarrhea and stomach parasites?