# Osama Bin Laden is dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 23, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833 "2006-09-23T09:43:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![2lazy2pee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/4bbf92/32.png) [@2lazy2pee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2lazy2pee)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/61 "2006-09-23T20:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=gum] Hehehehehe 🙂 Goat, **jjimm** , goat. \ [/QUOTE] Hey. Even Stevie Nicks has standards! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/62 "2006-09-23T21:18:52Z")
I gotta hand it to him – that Karl Rove guy is BRILLIANT! Using _France_, no less. Talk about deniability! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/63 "2006-09-24T15:18:22Z")
[QUOTE=gum] \*\*\*I \*\*\* am rabid and frothing? Golly. Well, at least I _have_ a pair of dancing shoes, instead of an American ex-wife and a son who doesn’t want to be with me. [/quote] My relationship with my son’s grand. It sure beats the hell outta the one you have with that mangy bitch that eats your filthy, fly-infected twat outta pity. Poor thing must gag as all get-out while she does. > [@](#): > > not anti-Moslim. Merely anti-Islam Don’t who you think you’re fooling, but an irrational bigot is what you are. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/64 "2006-09-24T21:44:17Z")
[QUOTE=2lazy2pee] Hey. Even Stevie Nicks has standards! [/QUOTE] I had to search for that one, **2lazy2pee**. I must have missed that South Park episode. Hehehehehe 🙂 :eek: **RedFury** , Your _son_ eats your twat? Is that all in vogue in your part of the waste land? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/65 "2006-09-24T21:55:43Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the ugly face of Europe. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/66 "2006-09-24T22:00:18Z")
_takes a bow_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/67 "2006-09-24T22:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=gum] _takes a bow_ [/QUOTE] I assure you, I didn’t just mean you… Someone who looks like this: :mad: should share the award. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/68 "2006-09-24T22:19:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mehitabel] a few wayward bacteria did what the mightiest army in the world could not [/QUOTE] Osama’s a Martian? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/69 "2006-09-24T22:25:32Z")
It’s looking like he’s probably not dead. One story I read even suggested that this story was “leaked” to coerce him into making another tape so we could identify where he’s hiding. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/70 "2006-09-25T03:45:29Z")
Hmmm … Schrodinger’s Osama. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/71 "2006-09-25T04:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Hmmm … Schrodinger’s Osama. [/QUOTE] Schrodinger’s Terrorist has that special ring to it. Someone funny enough could really capitalize on that right now (_I’m looking at you SNL of 12 years ago!_) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/72 "2006-09-25T07:33:38Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] …snip… Good lord, I just realized that by this logic, _I_ killed Osama! (Assuming that he’s actually dead, that is.) [/QUOTE] (Bush) I killed Osama (Canada) No, I killed Osama. (Bush) No, I really DID kill Osama. (Cartman evil arrogant snicker) He He, I killed Osama, He He. (Afghanistan) I killed Osama. (Bush) No, really, I killed Osama. (Pakistan) I killed Osama. (Bush) No, I literally killed Osama. (England) I killed Osama. (Bush) Goddamnit, I killed Osama. I went after him and he died of typhoid because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/73 "2006-09-25T13:51:29Z")
People still die of typhoid? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/74 "2006-09-25T13:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] People still die of typhoid? [/QUOTE] Hiding in a cave in Afghanistan without antibiotics, yes. One would hope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/75 "2006-09-25T14:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Schrodinger’s Terrorist [/QUOTE] Band Name! ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/76 "2006-09-25T14:54:59Z")
Mangled: “Never assume that a human is dead until you have seen the body. Even then, mistakes can be made.” -Dune ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/77 "2006-09-25T15:02:37Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] If he dies uncaptured, he becomes sort of a Pancho Villa/Robin Hood figure (although he’s probably reached that status already). [/QUOTE] Great so are we the Mexican dictator Diaz or the Sherriff of Nottingham? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/78 "2006-09-25T15:07:33Z")
[QUOTE=col\_10022] Great so are we the Mexican dictator Diaz or the Sherriff of Nottingham? [/QUOTE] Can’t it be both? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/79 "2006-09-25T15:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=col\_10022] Great so are we the Mexican dictator Diaz or the Sherriff of Nottingham? [/QUOTE] The Sherriffe of Nottingham, as played by Alan Rickman. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833/80 "2006-09-25T16:10:26Z")
Why would Al-Queda be so foolish as to ever admit he is dead? I imagine they could keep up the illusion that he was alive for years-after all nobdy sees him, he communicates via couriers, etc. what better that for his leadership to keep issuing doctored-up tapes and messages? Personally, it would not surprise me to learn he died years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/373833.md?page=5)