http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/72174/1/.html

i'll have to wait until the news later tonight to see if anyone else can give a better perspective. If they do have him cornered with 50 or so henchmen, if he is even there and they can get him alive...hmmm interesting to say the least.

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

But certainly not the first time they thought they had him cornered.

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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein

They should nuke him while they have the chance.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

or let him loose in the bronx... That would be fun.

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Lat rocks my box with sox

Here's hoping.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

He's cornered? In the mountains? I certainly hope so!

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

Mbeggar, that is the best suggestion ever. I would love to see that.

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Checksum: I thought about it, I guess I'm striving for my own personal ideals. I'll just project those ideals onto Jesus and say "I'm trying to be like Jesus" so that I won't have to listen to you banter endlessly about me worshipping a false god or some such.

The Last True Evil: Ironically, that's very Christian of you.

That would make one heck of a Pay-Per-View commercial.

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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein

Typical AMerican Answer.

They have Ak 47's and bad aim.

SOlution.

Annihilate EVERYTHING withn 50 miles of them

That'll learn em

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  do other babe}
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so would I

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Lat rocks my box with sox

He'd start a hotdog stand. So what?

He'd crash his hotdog cart into random cars screaming "All for Allah"

I am just happy that we could have him captured soon.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike

It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash

But you see, look at the marketing aspect. You could have T-Shirts, mugs, and you it could be a pay-per-view thing.
And then it would hit hollywood. First there'd be a 6 hour miniseries. Then a movie. Then a full time series, that would last 3 seasons. And THEN you would start seeing pieces of Osama or the nuke up on Ebay.

Man. It would be a goldmine.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I can see it now "AUTHENTIC OSAMA TURBAN! RARE!!!" And of course there would be 160 of these selling at once on e-bay.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike

It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash

i though we already got osama...

or are video games lying to me again?

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wang is within all

I kinda hope we take him alive..

Or nuke it from orbit.

[This message has been edited by fourwood (edited February 23, 2004).]

LOL AMERIKKKA SUX 'cause Americans are violent, brutish and thoroughly enjoy killing things. ... Typical British answer.

In any event, I hope they catch him. If it helps Bush's chances, so be it - maybe it should.

"Do they have nukes that only kill one or two people? Because I really think we should nuke bin Laden, if it's at all practical."

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"Why aren't I'm using at these pictures?" - Cloud, 4/14/02

They have "tactical Nukes" which have a smaller blast radius, but still the same uncontrolable effects on the environment.

They are still rather indiscriminate killers, and that is why they are still seen as unethical.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

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Does he even run Al Queda(sp?) any more?

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

He never did.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

If they nuke the area, and they can't find a body, it is possible he could still be alive. Unless they have a body, or something that shows him dead (lower half of the body, upper half, head, etc) there is still a chance he would be alive. If they nuked him, his body might never be recovered.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

I highly doubt the news. I haven't really seen any substantial articles to that effect on any of the "trustworthy" sites, and I personally believe that Osama has outsmarted all that are searching for him.

As for the nukes, tactical nukes still make MOABs look like firecrackers. Also, there';s the problem of nuclear fallout: once you blow one, that patch of area is gonna be lethal for about 50,000 years. Also, in such a volatile reigon, India might take the detonation in Pakistan as an attack, and launch their nukes, resulting in an exchange that would result in more than 100 million deaths, quite possibly more than a billion (the two countries have almost 1.5 billion between them). Also, the United States using a weapon of mass destruction would be completely intolerable, given that that's what Sadaam is charged with.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.