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WHAT A LOAD OF TOSH
big_white_dog84 said:What were the French special forces doing in Afghanistan?
Sleepy said:The French Army is still in Afghanistan and has been since not long after 9/11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_of_Osama_bin_Ladenhominid said:It was reported in a french newspaper, end of last year time, the Bin Laden was dead.
There were videos released of him from time to time, just to scare us some more, but I haven't seen a rescent video of him in years - he used to talk about topical stuff in those videos. Then long after 911 audio tapes started to be "smuggled" out to al-gezira, which, again, could be another ploy - but they were always non specific and I've not heard of a new one for some time now either.
Some sites have said that he died as fair back as the end of 2001 and I could believe that. It's just that the people in power need his image of terror to scare people into giving up there rights, among other things.
Are French special forces no good then? Or are you making a 'joke'Ricochet J said:Don't blame the US to be honest. The French would have missed his crippling body trying to escape fire a metre away!![]()
What is the deal with the French being linked to surrendering exactly? Because they surrendered to the Nazis in WW2, rather than have their country flattened and huge numbers of their civilians and soldiers killed for nothing?Jonnycoupe said:Maybe the US didn't want the French unleashing a mighty weapon of mass destruction, the white flag.
Al Vallario said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_of_Osama_bin_Laden
The latest video was released on 7th September 2006, four days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Al Vallario said:
Wiki said:On December 26, 2001 FOXNews reported “Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al-Qaeda leader.” [18] The World Tribune subsequently reported “Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December [2001]. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications.”
Al Vallario said:The latest video was released on 7th September 2006, four days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
BBC said:The footage also shows the al-Qaeda leader meeting senior figures Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohammed Atef in what al-Jazeera said were the mountains of Afghanistan.
Binalshibh was captured in 2002 and Atef was killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan in late 2001.
hominid i think said:As I've siad, there have been only audio tapes of "him" or non specific videos with him talking about non-relevant non-current stuff.
cleanbluesky said:Special Forces are trained to spill their guts randomly at points in the future...
robmiller said:What's your point :/
cleanbluesky said:I think the biggest indication that Bin Laden was alive was when they started using backdrops due to American incompetence - when a British geologist realised that the rocks in the background belonged to a specific part of Afghanistan and since then efforts have been made to disguise backgrounds within the videos.
cleanbluesky said:Not that I actually think OBL would live in a cave, that's just too romanticised.
Jokester said:Why would they need the US' permission?
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Most notably the Bush family of course.DHR said:Apparently there a numerous families in the US government with strong ties to the bin laden family, dealings with oil etc.
DHR said:Apparently there a numerous families in the US government with strong ties to the bin laden family, dealings with oil etc.