'Osama' mentioned in Padilla trial wiretap call - I thought Osama was a pretty common name?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/429314,152NWS8.article

MIAMI -- Jurors in Jose Padilla's trial heard intercepted phone calls Thursday in which Osama bin Laden is mentioned, as prosecutors tried to cement a link between the al-Qaida leader and the accused terrorist operative.

In a call on Sept. 3, 2000, co-defendant Adham Amin Hassoun asks Mohamed Hesham Youssef the whereabouts of Padilla, whom he identifies by an alias, Ibrahim.

"Ibrahim is a little farther south," Youssef tells Hassoun, according to an FBI translation from Arabic. "He is supposed to be at Osama's, and then he might be able to go from Osama's ... to go a little farther north."

[robcon]

1. One word names - Osama - suggests it is bin Laden.

Since Osama has become a one-word name for bin Laden, if he didn't mention bin Laden, it's suggestivbe that he meant bin Laden.

No proof - only suggestive.

[hobbit709]

2. If we were intercepting these calls in 2000

then why act so surprised after 9-11-2001 happened?:tinfoilhat:

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Al Qaeda people refer to him as the Shiek, not Osama.

Here Osama likely meant somebody else.

[Richard Steele]

4. So, Padilla's code name was "Ibrahim", and Osama BinLaden's was..."Osama"?

This is a JOKE, right? :wtf:

[Toots]

5. Ooooo scary phone call, scary names, Adham Amin Hassoun ooooo scary Mohamed Hesham Youssef

Ibrahim, Osama, oooo scary.. After reading this very scary phone log I am going to go hide under my bed and be very very brave American...This so scary they should lock up this guy forever...