October 26, 2002

4:59 AM

Bin Laden is in Saudi Arabia I must apologize for the format but I thought this DebkaFile piece of interest and since I do not subsribe I was able to get the story through having it send to me via e-mail in order to avoid an even worse format. The piece, accurate or not--who can verify it?--seems to indicate how large and clever this terror operation is and where they feel there is safety against an all-out American drive to capute bin Laden. Anyone want to go and collect the reward money?
posted by Postroad (23 comments total)

You outdo yourself with each post.
posted by anathema at 5:05 AM on October 26, 2002

What's this I hear about Gabbo?
posted by planetkyoto at 5:14 AM on October 26, 2002

That links goes to MSN Hotmail...
posted by PenDevil at 5:22 AM on October 26, 2002

That link goes to MeFi...
posted by anathema at 5:33 AM on October 26, 2002

That link goes to MeFi..... Does that make it a double post?
posted by ginz at 5:41 AM on October 26, 2002

The original article, which seems open to the public. Maybe it was embargoed. In any case, Debka truth arbitrage rules apply: 1/3 true and ahead of the media, 1/3 agenda-setting from a vaguely Zionist perspective, and 1/3 pure, unadulterated BS.
posted by dhartung at 5:46 AM on October 26, 2002

Why did you try to serve pages from your hotmail inbox? All you had to do was click the link. This link goes to the article, which is a Debka bombshell, based on unsubstantiated "revelations," complete with a file foto of Bin Laden on a horse which they probably want you to believe was taken last week.
posted by planetkyoto at 5:51 AM on October 26, 2002

oops, sorry dhartung.
posted by planetkyoto at 5:52 AM on October 26, 2002

No signs of disability or ill health were on view.

Wow. And to think the guy was on kidney dialysis. What an amazing recovery! Perhaps it is time to stop playing "where's waldo" with Bin Laden and accept the notion that he's dead.
posted by bucko at 6:13 AM on October 26, 2002

no wait. it was elvis.
posted by quonsar at 6:14 AM on October 26, 2002

Bin Laden has left the building.
posted by hama7 at 6:19 AM on October 26, 2002

a file foto of Bin Laden on a horse which they probably want you to believe was taken last week.

It's clearly Saddam's personal horse -- completely mechanical, and there's a lot of weapons of mass destruction stashed inside it. We finally have the smoking Gun, Saddam = Al Qaeda

PS Thanks for the link, this Debka site is almost as funny as The Onion
posted by matteo at 6:37 AM on October 26, 2002

This horse...it vibrates?
posted by adampsyche at 6:41 AM on October 26, 2002

I've come to the conclusion that postraod is, in reality, against the war on terror. He makes such posts to discredit those he disagrees with.

Or he's a loon.
posted by Mick at 6:44 AM on October 26, 2002

Mick: thanks! I have learned through many years of marriage to agree with everyone.

the horse: did you think they would send in some guy to take pictures from the day before yesterday?
Right about Debka_-1/3 this and so on...I had qualified my remark cause I am not sure which category this fits in. Fact: we have sent pilotless planes at border close to that area...why? this in major papers a few days back.
as for posting what I did (method)_--I had forwewarned that I totally lack tech skills and simply do the best I can. I am that way in my sex life too.
posted by Postroad at 7:11 AM on October 26, 2002

how do you explain your aversion to spell check?
posted by machaus at 7:17 AM on October 26, 2002

Sometimes it's hard to push all the right buttons?
posted by robself at 7:18 AM on October 26, 2002

You know, if the desert-dodger were actually dead, and his multi-millions frozen, then it is curious that the Bali terrorist attack is rumoured to have been paid for from the Bin Laden coffers.

And, as a egomaniacal theocrat, some evidence of his survival would be necessary for the morale of his psychotic and criminally insane followers, but there is none yet.

An aside: If images are absolutely forbidden in fanatically right-wing Taliban-style Islam, why were there so many videos produced by Al Qaida?
posted by hama7 at 7:28 AM on October 26, 2002

I would just like to take a moment here to point out to the television viewing audience at home that I am, in fact made, entirely of wood.
posted by ZachsMind at 7:32 AM on October 26, 2002

Thank god he's alive. I was so worried.

Or.. wait... is that the right reaction?
posted by eyeballkid at 7:40 AM on October 26, 2002

It's official, Bin Laden is "somewhere, where we don't know where he is".
posted by Dark Messiah at 8:00 AM on October 26, 2002

Well, it would sorta make sense... he knows we won't bomb Saudi Arabia.
posted by spilon at 8:09 AM on October 26, 2002

An aside: If images are absolutely forbidden in fanatically right-wing Taliban-style Islam, why were there so many videos produced by Al Qaida?

I might be wrong, but I don't think images per se were forbidden. Only images of God (That is common to most of Islam IIRC).
posted by cx at 8:36 AM on October 26, 2002