[Stoner]

Just saw this news report and since it was at Debka and Reuters, I thought it was worth posting as it's own thread and see if future reports confirm this:
http://www.debka.com/
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29435964.htm


This site denies it:
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/182932

[angelize56]

Originally Posted by Stoner

Is Osama dead?

We can only hope so!

[Stoner]

Hi Sparky


Yes!
I would have liked to have seen him captured and faced justice, but whatever the mechanism.....good riddance......

[angelize56]

Hiya Smilin' Jack!

Can you imagine him in custody....about as exciting as Saddam in custody!

[cheese]

No, hes chilling on his exotic private island uncharted out in the pacific listening to usher on his ipod.

[Wino]

He was still at my corner 7-11 this morning.

[angelize56]

Smokin' early Wino!

[Wino]

Originally Posted by angelize56

Smokin' early Wino!

Who, me?!?! Not kidding about Osama at the 7-11........I love walking up and hitting the window real hard before I walk in...........takes him a few seconds to get up off the floor.......he's really high strung for some reason! When my retirement money runs out I plan to turn him in for the $25 mil reward.

[mach9]

He's got a new smilie out... doesn't prove he's alive, however...

[guitarman1]

I hope he is still alive ,I find him an amusing and colourful character! And besides who would you hate then? Imagine how BORING the world would be if everyone thought and acted the same? Gee that sounds like a communist ideal ,UNIFORMITY.

[Stoner]

Looks like Debka and Reuters Alternet got caught posting rumors.......
One day that s0b is going to croak and no one will believe it

[lizard]

Hi Stoner!
His head on a stick would have made people believe it. Too bad it didn't work out like that....yet.

Bring home bin Laden's head, CIA told
From correspondents in Washington
May 04, 2005

As the US reeled in shock days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the opposition Northern Alliance to topple bin Laden's hosts the Taliban.

He told National Public Radio (NPR) in an interview broadcast yesterday and today that he stopped by the office of then Director of the CIA counter-terrorism centre Cofer Black for final instructions.

He was told : "Your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their cooperation military and they will take on the Taliban."

"When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice."

Mr Schroen was also ordered to kill other al-Qaeda leaders suspected in the plot in which terrorists slammed hijacked airliners into New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon killing nearly 3000 people.

It was the first time in 30 years with the CIA he been ordered to set out to kill a target rather than try to bring them in alive, Mr Schroen told NPR's Morning Edition program.

He said he told Mr Black, "Sir, those are the clearest orders I have ever received, I can certainly make pikes out in the field but I don't know what I'll do about dry ice to bring the head back, but we will manage something".

A week after the September 11 attacks, US President George W. Bush told reporters he wanted Osama bin Laden and recalled Wild West posters that demanded suspects "dead or alive".

But the suspected terror mastermind was never caught and Mr Schroen told NPR that CIA operatives found it hard to get close enough to strike bin Laden, partly due to his ability to move quickly around the country.

"We could never tell where the man was going to be that night," said Mr Schroen, who is promoting a new book and believes bin Laden is now hiding out in tribal areas of Pakistan.