Bin Laden 50 today?

[Joanne98]

By Saeed Ali Achakzai

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden, if he's alive, celebrates his 50th birthday on Saturday, and his friends in the Taliban prayed for his long life.

The al Qaeda leader's long silence has fueled speculation that the world's most-wanted fugitive may have died, though many in the international intelligence community reckon Islamist militant Web sites would circulate word of his death.

"He is alive. I am 100 percent sure," Taliban spokesman Mullah Hayatullah Khan told Reuters, adding that senior leaders were in touch with bin Laden, reinforcing a widely held view that he is hiding near the rugged Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Khan said special prayers were offered by Taliban fighters in camps in Afghanistan to mark bin Laden's birth on March 10, 1957, in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.

"We prayed that Allah may give him 200 years to live," Khan said," by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location.

"When we woke up today, we offered collective and long prayers for him because he is a great mujahid (holy warrior)."

The most recent videotape of bin Laden was released in late 2004 -- subsequent tapes released were identified as old footage -- and around half a dozen audio tapes surfaced in the first half of 2006. Continued...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSISL26622820070310

He's a Pisces!

[fed-up]

1. Wait til I tell my brother he shares Bin Laden's bday-nt

[Joanne98]

5. LOL!

[acmavm]

2. He's only 50???????

[Mrs. Overall]

3. Osama is a Pisces??

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Happy Birthday Osama!!

May the Republican incompetency let you live much longer!! :sarcasm: :grr: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Botany]

6. Good thing the "War on terror" is going so well.

REPORTER: Do you want bin Laden dead?
DUBYA: I want justice. There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
Washington, D.C., Sep. 18, 2001


but still bin Laden went on to control Iraq ...


Would the United States and other free nations be more safe or less safe with Zarqawi and bin Laden in control of Iraq,
its people and its resources?
Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 28, 2005

From W speak

[wuushew]

7. How do birthdays work with lunar calendars?

Is it possible to mentally caluclate what the month and day was easily in your head?