Does ben laden areal character, or USA made that imagination?
338420
the guy is very real why else are all these Muslims fallowing a guy and killing each other just to do terrorism he is their leader and pls watch more news there are serious stuffs happening in this world
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There was no connection. Seems everyone knew that but the Bush Administration.  Oh, they'll keep looking though ... I suspect untill they can make something else up.\n\nNever been happy about a war started on the basis of, "Well, could be Rabbit. Could be."  Says a lot for Cartoons.
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Are you asking a question or are you preaching?  The discourse above sounds more like a sermon than a question.\n\nAt one point the US did support Iraq, and Saddam (when they were fighting Iran).  However they were never allies of ours.  The relation ship we had with them was more an "enemy of my enemy" thing.\n\nI doubt seriously that Israel ever trained the Taliban, much less in Pakistan.\n\nI am skeptical about the US "giving $6 billion to Al Qaeda,"  unless you are referring to indirectly through the purchase of oil.\n\nAs for the rest, it seems that it is the sermon part.
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you really think this is all about Bin Laden??How can you believe such propaganda?\nTell me,how is Osama communicating with his operatives world wide and pulling off all these mastermind stunts?
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I think it is typical of the American hypocricy when it comes to strategic necessity. They were sure Al Quaida came from Afghanistan so they bombed the hell out of that place, then they believe Iraq trained and supplied them so it became ONE reason for making war on them sanction-strangled poor sods, however the fact that Pakistan is a Muslim country which in some ways supports Al Quaida activities has nothing to do with America's necessity to keep a nuclear partner on its side.\nStrange that they should denounce Iran for developing nuclear potential because it doesn't play ball but its ok for the Pakistanis to have it? America is a strange and powerful creature. Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky are good on this stuff, as well as Robert Kagan.
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Osama Bin Laden\nHe has that manly facial hair and mystery about him and where he is. So exciting! A man who does as he wants and to who he wants! Who can resist??
1074211
Don't be hard on the United States. I think I have the answer to that and it isn't about anything more than simple survival.\n\nIt doesn't matter where the U.S. looks or how hard it is to find him. Osama Bin Laden knows that he is dead meat anywhere in the world that he goes. And he knows how powerful he is and how much weight he pulls with as many people as he has looking for him. He knows that his whole movement will be dead if he gets dead. And he knows that it isn't a matter of "if we find Osamma" but "WHEN we find Osamma". \n\nHe knows that too many insurgents are depending on him and he knows where they are, how many of them there are and he knows that they are all so stupid and lack so much skill at organization that if he gets dead, the whole Middle East falls into the hands of the United Nations and all the mullahs and all the emirs and all the sheiks are rendered powerless when that happens. \n\nIt doesn't matter when we find Osamma if we ever do. He is dead eventually and powerless after that.
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I think he is someone very close to starting ww3. and thats only with his mouth. just think what he could do with his brain going at the same speed. i think he is a camel humping son of a goat humper. just as well that i am being polite about him.
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You know you have asked one of the most pertinant questions I have read for a while.On the surface you have opened up a potentiel minefield here.\nI am english.I have visited the USA many many times and have loads of great american friends.I have written many times in this column poking a little ironic fun at "the yanks".\nMy experience is that" the average american" and remember we are talking the average,is warm, generous and very naive.They often have little or no understanding of other countries or their cultures. Often to the extent of having little knowledge outside their own state.Because they lead their lives around Oprah, Jerry Springer,World wrestling are easily influenced by tv propaganda they have become, unfortunately, the butt of jokes.I dont know the exact figures , but my understanding is that"Joe" doesnt travel outside the USA.I believe they have a blinkered view of the world. An observation confirmed by the replies I have received from americans. Self irony doesnt exist for you.Loosen up and dare to poke a little fun at your "leaders".The other point is remember that God isn't american.Try to learn and understand a little of other cultures and beliefs.You dont have to agree just take a look.Take care. Good Luck
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Yes, the buildings were insured for an unheard off amount a month before the event and there were numerous other things that point towards this type of theory bin laden and the bush family have had business deals in the past as well as the other players within the New World Order and other secret societies, The rest of the world are just pawns in a game of a chosen few. If a leader of a country denies what is expected of them, they are ejected in one form or another.\nI try not to read too much into it because there is nothing I can do nor anyone else\n\nI also have to add that clinton is in on it as well, from the same group.\n\nDo you really think that it was a matter of fate that the buildings fell like that of a controlled implosion.\n\nI also found it interesting that chaney was hidden away while bush was talking through a blow horn at ground zero
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inspite of what evry one wants to believe, the whole 911 thing was plotted by the american government and osama bin laden is a cia agent.\nproof:\n# it is common knowledge that the us was considering many courses of action in iraq to keep the oil safe before the 911 incident, after that they decided to attack iraq, but what the hell has iraq got to do with 911? huh?its a war on terror. just what the hell is terror?\n#nobody considered the plausability of the idea that getting poor ignorant arab youths to the us to train on small airplanes would be enough for them to acquire the skills necessary to drive a commercial airliner at such speed into such a small target,imagine you were trying to run a car at 200 mile an hour into  a garage door, how easy is that? besides nowhere did we ever hear of a black box being uncoverred and handed to neutral authorities or the recovery of te bodies of the peo-ple involved.\nwhat about the fact that both towers collapsed completly(like an implosion they do on old buildings)to quote the cnn reporter commenting live when it happened , how neat was that?\n# all 911 did was give the USA reason to invade afghanistan whichis  a strategic location near russia and china, and to control its production of opium.\nalso they got an excuse to destroy iraq and drive the oil prices up so that companies owned by bush and baker and rumsfield would profit.\nalso it was used to decrease the civil liberties of the american citizen, turning america gradually into a police state.\namong a lot of other things.\nall  of this makes the administration appear (lucky) to have had this occur during its time,\nbut there is no such thing as luck.\nits a scenario plotted by the cia and carried out by the media to draw a blanket infront of the american citizen  to ensure his  slavery to the corporation  -state.
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Yes.  The Project for a New American Century (similar to Nazi Germany's Reich of a Thousand Years) is a poorly conceived "plan" to ensure that the US remains a "superpower" and that all other nations are *prevented* from becoming "superpowers", both through economic and military force.  \n\nThe Nazis, however, overextended themselves by starting two wars at once (under false pretenses) and isolating themselves politically, aligning themselves with other repressive regimes, eliminating individual freedoms, imprisoning and murdering a minority ethnic group within its borders (and entering others' nations to capture such people).  The US wouldn't make those same mistakes, would it?\n\nFor anyone who is well informed (ie. they don't watch FOX or CNN but do read the independent media) this is not news, nor are the war crimes such as in Falujjah.
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wow it is fantastic show Hollywood can not able to make movie like that\nbush vs Ben laden you mean dumb and the dumber .you really think that innocent lives be saved!Think they face to face to plane how could they settle things to kill every human on our mother earth and then how to kill other life finally stay together to smoke Sigar
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Americans are some of the kindest pple in the world and have done a lot of good for a lot of people.  Unfortunately, some bad has also been done and, even more unfortunately, it is usually by big companies.  However, most americans are not a part of the bad things that are done in the name of the USA so I would say that, yes, I do like Americans and have met some really wonderful people.  Since the second world war, the kindness that USA has shown to the rest of the world has been great!!  Not to mention a lot of the entertainment that has kept many happy and laughing -- though one has to pick and choose what's good -- fortunately, most of it is good including Borat who is making film for make glorious nation.  That bloke is nuts!!  He pulled his underpants on national TV.  Loooooney!!!!!
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No, I am afraid I do not. Reading body language correctly is an art, but unfortunately it is an art that does not translate well to other cultures. Unless you are completely immersed in Middle Eastern culture, and have had lots of experience studying both men and women from the Middle East, many of your conclusions will, I am afraid, not be valid. I, too, have seen many interviews with him, and I have looked very carefully at his body language. I think your conclusions would be very sound if you were dealing with a man from the United States or Canada, and also possibly from Western Europe, but not for a Saudi living in hiding out in the middle of nowhere, trying to wage war on the Western World.\n\nBody language is an important part of communication, but varies widely with different cultures. One of the great problems that Western intelligence services have encountered in dealing with terrorism in the Middle East is that we don't have enough people who are trained in both the languages and in the cultural customs. Languages can be learned in a classroom, and, to an extent, so can cultural customs. Learning to understand indirect communication, such as body language and gestures, really requires immersion in a living laboratory.\n\nFor what it's worth, I think that Bin Laden is retiring, rather than timid. I take that impression from my own extensive experience with Middle Easterners, from what I have read about him, and from watching interviews with him. I do not believe he is easily scared; I believe that he sincerely believes he is in the right, and that the righteousness of his cause will help him prevail against his great enemy. I also believe that he is incredibly intelligent, and that, frankly, is the part that scares me the most. I think people underestimate him, and underestimating your enemy can have deadly consequences.
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Yes, very good people, the US media does a pretty good job depicting people from other countries as a bunch of illeterate corrupted terrorist savages, when in fact most people all over the world have good education and show more respect and knowledge of other cultures than americans.
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My husband thinks it might; his favorite expression is "just drop the bomb on them." In the sense that nobody would ever again doubt that the US is the biggest, meanest dog on the block, perhaps a facsimilie of world peace might result if we blow the Middle East sky high. It would be the peace of fear, though, the modern day equivalent to Pax Romana. And, as with the fastest gun in the West, there's always somebody aiming at you from behind. I don't think nuking the Middle East is really the answer, but it's a tempting thought.