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Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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1. Ray Zacek:He could start writing the Bin Laden Blog.
Jun 28, 2006 - 5:00 pm 2. Dale Gribble:I’ve noticed those dead guys do a lot better on audio.
Jun 28, 2006 - 5:04 pm 3. ikez78:It will be interesting to see if/how bin Laden describes his relationship with Zarqawi. Of course, plenty of people have said the two were rivals, this statement may or may not support that.
On a side note, it appears that another Saddam official has been caught working with al Qaeda
Jun 28, 2006 - 5:47 pm 4. Vexorg:here is the link http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/haitham-al-badri.html
So, how long until Bin Laden just puts out press releases and calls it good?
Jun 28, 2006 - 9:58 pm 5. Bill M:Who’s his agent?
Ask any member of the Democratic National Committee. I’m sure they either know or know who knows.
Jun 28, 2006 - 11:19 pm 6. LemonDrop:Does anyone really listen to what Bin Laden says?
Jun 29, 2006 - 5:18 am 7. lilkidmom:I don’t care how many audio tapes are released claiming to be the “voice of Bin Laden” I refuse to believe this creep is alive until I see the whites of his eyes. Voice recordings are too easily faked. And barring any high tech manipulations of pre-recorded messages from him, all they really needed to do was get someone to fake his voice on an early released tape and have that one authenticated, then with that as the standard for comparison they’d be free to create as many new tapes as they want.
Jun 29, 2006 - 6:03 am 8. ras:lilkidmom,
I agree. I think OBL was spattered over the rocks long ago. But it’s in both sides’ interest not to confirm it, even presuming that they could.
For AQ, it would be a tremendous loss of face to admit that the US long ago got their man, now made even worse by their refusal to admit it all this time.
For the US, well, AQ is not, IMHO, a “decentralized” organization, as the popular phraseology goes, and that’s key.
Dispersed geographically? Sure. But real decentralization refers to decision-making and the dispersal of authority, not location, and in that respect AQ is the complete opposite: it’s about as centralized as possible. Cell members generally don’t even know who all their “co-workers” are; usually, they know only a few others at best.
If any of us worked for a company like that, would we be bragging about how decentralized it was? Or would it be more like, “can’t even take a goddamn piss around here without checking with head office first!”
AQ cell members take orders from above. And as long as they think OBL is alive, they will sit obediently and wait to hear from him. [The recent exceptions, in Toronto and Miami, were wannabes who weren't really a part of AQ yet.]
All of which suits the US, of course. Current AQ cells won’t even try to regroup and re-form, cuz they might expose themselves in the process. All they can do is sit tight and wait for orders that will never come. That would change if Bin Laden were either captured or confirmed dead. I doubt that he’ll ever be found. Who wants to?
Jun 29, 2006 - 12:42 pm