A new videotape “announced” on a jihadist website, on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, shows Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the first time since October 2004. Osama is older as his eyes clearly reveal, his frame has gotten bigger, and more importantly the shape and colour of his beard have undergone a transformation. Gone is the salt-and-pepper flowing formation; instead there is an all-black neatly trimmed beard, probably dyed or a wig. Former US counterterrorism official Richard Clarke has been quoted as saying that Osama may be in Southeast Asia, the Philippines or Indonesia, where men don’t usually wear beards.
Questions: Is Osama bin Laden still alive? If so, where could he be hiding? If he is alive, why does he make an appearance so infrequently? By popping up before American elections and 9/11 anniversaries, is he in an inverted sort of way helping American politicians? Will the claim that he may have shifted based to Southeast Asia take the heat off Pakistan?
It is better not to thnk of him. Whether he is alove pr dead, whether he is eating food or hungry, whether is h sleeping or not, it is immaterial. It is better we forget about them at the earliest.
If the Americans think that Osama has dyed his hair to avoid detection, they have another think coming. He may still have the salt and pepper beard under the new black beard. Or he may have shaved off his beard.
Osama is alive and he is in US custody. How else do you explain how he seems to crop up whenever the Bush administration could do with a bit of help! Before the 2004 elections and now on the eve of 9/11.
I dont know and to be honest, dont really care, but here is a nice piece from Scott Adams on this video. Extremely hilarious.
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/osama-placebo.html