Osama Bin Laden Theories?

[VOP2288]

As an American who witnessed the horrors of September 11th 2001, the war that followed, and everything after that I find myself wondering...where is the man responsible?

Has anyone else noticed that we seem to have given up trying to find the bastard?

8 years later, with all our tools and technology (probably including alot of stuff we civilians don't even know about) we still cannot find Osama.

Is he dead? Or is he really this good at hiding from one of the most powerful nations in the world (and heck...we're not the only ones looking for him either).

Secondly, how could we as Americans somehow just let his disappearance slip by almost unnoticed? Why is that alright for us?

[Farnan]

We know where he is we just can't get to him.

He is in the Federally Administered Tribal Region protected by an army of Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters. Getting to him would involve actions that would start a war with Pakistan.

[Hiero of Syracuse]

He's probably dead. Though I wouldn't doubt he has connections and availibility to medicines for his condition. But if he is dead perhaps a new man is taking the lead over the organization.
And he was able to hide because, Afghanistan wouldn't let us obtain him and he escaped somehwere into Pakistan or India.

[Farnan]

He's probably dead. Though I wouldn't doubt he has connections and availibility to medicines for his condition. But if he is dead perhaps a new man is taking the lead over the organization.
And he was able to hide because, Afghanistan wouldn't let us obtain him and he escaped somehwere into Pakistan or India.

No he was able to hide because we didn't have enough ground troops in Afghanistan to seal off Tora Bora so he escaped. He is not in India, he is in Pakistan in the FATA. Why would he go to India?

[♔Jean-Luc Picard♔]

If I were him, I'd seek shelter in Turkmenistan. Who would look for him there?

[Stavroforos]

Hopefully one of our surveillance drones will see him and send a nice little missile up his way.

[Henry X]

I have to agree with Farnan on this one; he really couldn't run anywhere else.

And we can't go to Pakistan for the reasons that Farnan has mentioned and that the public won't tolerate another war.

[nopasties]

I have to agree with Farnan on this one; he really couldn't run anywhere else.

And we can't go to Pakistan for the reasons that Farnan has mentioned and that the public won't tolerate another war.

I'm not sure the central government would really get into a full war with the US for such a thing. IMO such an action of the US invading Pakistan's sovriegn territory would undermine the legitamacy of the cenral government and cause other problems including a possible coup.

[Chukada1]

Im pretty sure 9/11 does not justify a war with Osama Bin Laden. I'm also pretty sure that even if the casualties were Osama's 1, Missles 1, it would not be worth it, because he is an idiot and there is another to take his place.

[Gumpfendorfer]

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009..._eyed_as_b.php

Here is the area where OBL likely is. That was some time ago.

[Digbert]

He is most likely dead by now

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his country's intelligence believes that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, but they have no proof to back their claims. "The Americans tell me they don't know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him.
“The Americans tell me they don’t know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does not exist any more, that he is dead. But there is no evidence, you cannot take that as a fact,” The Nation quoted Zardari, as saying.

http://blog.taragana.com/n/pak-intel...zardari-40581/
But he could be alive and well

[Nakharar]

http://www.marktaw.com/blog/TheOsama...interview.html

he could be everywhere. Anywhere. When Robert Fisk interviewed him i think he was in Sudan and i had a chance to meet Robert Fisk

Also he might be in Saudi apparently hes related to the Royal Family there...

[green tea]

http://www.marktaw.com/blog/TheOsama...interview.html

he could be everywhere. Anywhere. When Robert Fisk interviewed him i think he was in Sudan and i had a chance to meet Robert Fisk

Also he might be in Saudi apparently hes related to the Royal Family there...

He is related to a very rich saudi clan that values business and good ties to the western world much more than some crazy religious ideology, so I doubt that. I bet he lives a horrible life in the pakistani tribal areas with three nagging women who complain all the time that they have to live in tents and never can go shopping, and 15 rebellious children that would like to go to rock concerts and play football.

[Farnan]

He was in the Sudan over a decade ago before he went to A-Stan.

[chamaeleo]

He just bought the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia, and is presently converting the congressional bunker into a Lair. What can I say, the dude knows his mineral water...

[Denny Crane!]

Possibly they can't go and get him because they would get their arses kicked? It isn't easy country to fight in and would cost a lot of lives to fight through that heavily armed tribal area. Even without going in its a death toll with to little public support.

[Babur]

he is probably somewhere in the FATA in Pakistan

[Bovril]

It's totally irrelivent, as has always been known. Bin Laden is little more than a figurehead. There is no evidence linking him with 9/11 that would stand up in court (which is not to say he wasn't involved) which is why Bush refused the request of the Taliban to abide by normal extradition rules prior to his potentially genocidal bombings. What is more, a single individual could never be all that important in a disparate and at best cell organised movement like "Al-Quaeda".

Besides, if Bin Laden was captured, that would be something of a disaster for Pentagon planners as it would destroy their rational for what they wanted to do in the most strategially important area of the world.

[Gelgoog]

It's totally irrelivent, as has always been known. Bin Laden is little more than a figurehead. There is no evidence linking him with 9/11 that would stand up in court

Confessions typically are considered evidence and stand up well in court.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

He is probably either in the tribal Afgan/Pakistani area, dead, or hiding somewhere like Iran or Libya.