Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?

[dipsydoodle]

Osama Bin Laden died eight years ago during the battle for Tora Bora in Afghanistan, either from a US bomb or from a serious kidney disease.

Or so the conspiracy theory goes.

The theory that has developed on the web since 9/11 is that US intelligence services are manufacturing the Bin Laden statements to create an evil bogeyman, to justify the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and back at home.

So is the world's most wanted man still alive?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8444069.stm

[spanone]

1. it doesn't really matter, does it?

[The_Commonist]

7. I think it matters.

It mattered when they pulled the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, because it revealed the reality of the situation. Reality matters.

[spanone]

8. as the bogeyman, it doesn't matter.

[HillbillyBob]

2. He has been dead since Dec 2001, and that was reported

but only in whispers, killed by US troops. I wish I could keep up with where and under what circumstances. Think on this if he had not been shot dead, he would be dead by now, since he was on a dialysis machine which is high tech and uses a lot of power and needs a lot of maintenance to keep it running, filters, seals and such and cannot take rough treatment or exposure to dust etc. Think about how would you manage to keep such equipment going in a cave?

[malaise]

3. Funny how the BBC fails to mention Benazir Bhutto's

interview with David Frost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

[90-percent]

4. Doesn't he continue to create propaganda tapes

That stuff has been going on continuously for the last nine years, hasn't it?

If he's dead, how do they get his corpse to speak on all those videos for all these years?

-90% Jimmy

[niyad]

9. what makes you think any of those tapes is actually obl? where is the proof?

[90-percent]

10. Good point

If Osama's video's are bogus wouldn't our government tell us?

Would our intelligence agencies allow what a fake Osama says to go unchallenged?

If he's really dead, how come our main stream media continues to play his messages as if he's still alive?

Does this mean if I go out and get some Osama make up and whip up a youtube vid, I could be mistaken for OBL himself?

If there's people in our government that knows he's dead, how come people in our government continue to allow these tapes to be played on MSM as if he's still alive?

It's almost as if parts of our government are deliberately lying to us? They wouldn't do that , would they?

-90% jimmy

[HopeHoops]

5. One thing Bush got right - he said he wanted bin Laden "dead or alive".

He's either dead OR alive right now and was back then as well, so Bush actually got what he wanted.

[mikelgb]

6. YES

he is dead or alive