The Straight Dope

Go Back   Straight Dope Message Board > Main > Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 10-26-2001, 12:20 PM
Googler Googler is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
http://www.nationalreview.com/interr...y102501b.shtml
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-26-2001, 12:32 PM
Jonathan Chance Jonathan Chance is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: On the run with Kilroy.
Posts: 14,792
All hearsay. I'd be skeptical about it at this point. A National Review story about a Chinese website that reports Taliban rumors?

It's makes the Washington Press Corps look reliable.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 10-26-2001, 12:58 PM
Googler Googler is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
what! I dont get any chocolates for telling this news.?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 10-26-2001, 01:39 PM
Jonathan Chance Jonathan Chance is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: On the run with Kilroy.
Posts: 14,792
Not saying you don't deserve kudos for bringing it to our attention.

Just saying it looks shaky from here. Report-wise. Not Googler-wise.

Because we all love you, Googler.

Let's show him some love, folks!
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 10-26-2001, 02:17 PM
Vinnie Virginslayer Vinnie Virginslayer is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
I heard Fatboy Limbaugh talking about this yesterday, he thought it peculiar that Donald Rumsfeld say "we may never catch bin-Laden" as code for he's already dead. The theory is the US is spiking this story since many Americans will call for the military operataion to end when in actuality killing bin-Laden is simply the tip of the iceberg in the New War. If you keep Americans thinking he's still running around, it is easier to justify the operation.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-26-2001, 02:26 PM
Gatopescado Gatopescado is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
ah, vinnie, you always crack me up!

i wanna see his dead, burnt body! then, when were sure he's dead, go west to iraq and get ole' saddam! (as long as were in the neighborhood)
__________________
Reduce your Carbon Footprint: Kill yourself.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 10-26-2001, 03:52 PM
Zenster Zenster is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 9,515
This one is really hard to believe.

If both of these scumbags had been executed by other factions within the Taleban, the organization would be tripping all over themselves in their haste to display the corpses to our armed forces. The post mortem exhibition would be one of their only hopes for a quick cessation of the bombing campaign underway in Afghanistan.

As much as I'd like to think this really happened, I strongly doubt it. Besides, we need to get all of the Taleban and not just their "spiritual" @sshole, er... leader.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:57 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

Send questions for Cecil Adams to: cecil@chicagoreader.com

Send comments about this website to: webmaster@straightdope.com

Terms of Use / Privacy Policy

Advertise on the Straight Dope!
(Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.)

Publishers - interested in subscribing to the Straight Dope?
Write to: sdsubscriptions@chicagoreader.com.

Copyright © 2013 Sun-Times Media, LLC.