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usama bin birthday .....

 

from Alternet …..

‘Osama bin Laden is going to turn 50 on Saturday. The big 5-0. It's a special occasion. And George W. Bush got him the biggest present of all: 2006 days of freedom and well-being!

Man, that's thoughtful. Five and a half years ago, when bin Laden ordered the attacks against the Twin Towers, Pentagon and White House, he could not have imagined things going any better.

They hit three out of four targets. The United States government was asleep at the wheel. The American leader was so flummoxed by the attacks he sat around reading a children's book and looking like a jackass to the rest of the world. That same confused leader then invaded the country you were in but missed you as you strolled into Pakistan. Then he attacked the wrong country and deposed a secular leader you hated. He ran his army into the ground fighting the wrong people. And let you run free and uninhibited for 2006 days.

And now you're about to turn 50 - and you're still foot loose and fancy free. 2006 days since you attacked the United States and still no consequences. George Bush certainly knows what to get a guy. You couldn't have asked for anything more. He all about put on a party hat and sang you a song.’

lightweight moral soup...

From the ABC

Bin Laden alive, says Afghan warlord

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still alive but keeping a low profile, notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a video released on Arab television overnight AEST.

"According to my information I think that Osama is still alive," Hekmatyar said in the video broadcast by Al-Arabiya television.

He said Bin Laden, wanted by the United States over the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, would be better off "not multiplying his appearances in the media or in publishing statements and videos".

Hekmatyar earlier this year claimed that his men had helped Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to escape US special forces searching for him in the eastern Afghan mountains at the start of 2002.

The Sunni warlord is a former Afghan prime minister who carries a multi-million-dollar US bounty on his head.

His men have attacked coalition forces in Afghanistan but he conducts his business separately from the Taliban militia which sheltered Bin Laden until it was ousted from power in a US-led invasion in late 2001.

Hekmatyar is believed to be hiding in eastern Afghanistan or Pakistan while leading his Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party) faction in attacks against foreign and government targets.

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Gus: After more than 700,000 deaths, including nearly 3,500 US troops, after the near-total destruction of Iraq's infrastructure, after 1.5 million displaced and ruined Iraqis, after comparatively more US bucks spend in Iraq than in WWII, six years of attrition war in Afghanistan following a 20 year war there, in which our allies are now our enemies, much sabre-rattling towards Iran who carries business as usual, a cricket ban against one of the poorest countries on earth, countless lies, porkies, furphies, a disintegrating US administration with the lowest approving rating ever, a roving Dick shooting lawyers instead of quails, corruption galore in the political appointment of prosecutors, crooked voting machines in the US, billions of US dollars vanishing in Iraq, more billions vanishing in Iraq as countless oil barrels disappear, AWB massive kickbacks to Saddam that were not bribes according to the Ostryalian tax department...

... and after many more crookeries in the style of outing Valerie Plame, of David Kelly "suicide", of torture that is mislabelled, of imprisoning people without charge, of shooting Innocent people from close up and from 30,000 feet, after large corporate collapses due to incompetence and corruption... not to mention the global warming freight train to which our glorious rattuses are desperate to add more destructive coal than ever before, the man in his cave has not been killed by his "fatal" kidney disease — the terrorist guru — sends a little message... "hello, remember me"?

Yes, with all the moral soup we could cook up, we've managed to shoot ourselves in the foot and many people at the same time a zillion time over... and we're about to sink the future...

But! wait!... The economy is roaring — according to the spruikers who do not dare look down as they're walk a tight rope over the chasm of trade deficits — thanks to the diligence of the Chinese, busy making millions of plasma-TV sets so we can watch Paris Hilton... a fluffy celeb providing the necessary frivolity to our mundane lives... Oh boy... And some rednecks thought the 60s were lightweight...

see cartoon at the beginning of this line of blogs...

arise Sir Osama

Bin Laden gets Pakistan honour

By South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd

Religious scholars in Pakistan have awarded their highest honour to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in reaction to Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie.

The tit-for-tat recognition was given by a private body that claims to represent 2,000 religious scholars in Pakistan.

It said it was bestowing the title 'Sword of Allah' on bin Laden, in response to Britain giving a knighthood to the author of The Satanic Verses.

Meanwhile, Britain has expressed "deep concern" at remarks by the Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister who said the award given to Rushdie justified suicide attacks.

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