I wouldn't be suprised if he's captured right before the election. As SNL's Church Lady (Dana Carvey) would say, "Howww conveeeeeeeeenient."
How about long before the July Democratic Convention....or even the June options expiration - take yer pick. The Bush Administration is saying "before the end of the year" just to be appropriately conservative, as it were... With U.S. denials along with certain aspects of the operation being released in the past few days, one gets the impression that the trap is about to be sprung - as soon Pakistani troops can also be brought up into the area for the world to see their "participation" in keeping their borderland tribal chiefs from continuing to assist the bad guys. After all, bin Laden's fateful final stop is right there in Pakistan's back yard. The U.S. wants to be sure Musharraf looks good in this "cooperative operations" matter to help strengthen his leadership in that politically insecure country.
You should all be aware that the Sunday Express publishes 'exclusive' stories every week. These 'exclusives' then disappear as they invariably turn out to be nonsense. I just heard that they got their story when 'a high ranking official from the White House phoned them'. Why on earth would anyone from the White House phone a crappy little British tabloid?
The Sunday Express bwahahah!! Like all UK tabloids it should come on a roll so you could use it in the bathroom, the only reason it looks like a newspaper is because some degenerates actually buy it to read it past the second or third page usually dedicated to the deep subject of tits .
Bloomberg.com posted a headline on this and cited the sunday express earlier last night, but it seems to have disappeared.
sometimes newspapers print articles just to sell papers for example an Italian newspaper a month or two ago published a story about terrorists having warned they would destroy NYC on feb2nd .. thank god it did not happen so the Bright Bro's could come to the Traders Expo
I can already imagine Dumya giving a "Mission accomplished - at last!" press conference aboard an aircraft carrier, wearing a tiger stripe Navy Seal combat suit including green colored face and an M60 on his back with a 10 ft long ammo belt wrapped around his body...
Standard Chartered's Largest Shareholder, Who Helped Block Takeover, Dies Georgio Armani Signs $1 Billion Venture to Open Hotels, Resorts With Emaar U.S. Stocks Fall on Concern Over Corporate Profits, Higher Interest Rates Osama Bin Laden Detected in Pakistan's Northwest, Express Says Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. and U.K. forces have detected al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in northwestern Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, London's Sunday Express newspaper said. Bin Laden and as many as 50 supporters were north of the town of Khanozai and the city of Quetta, the newspaper reported, citing an unidentified ``U.S. intelligence source.'' Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is believed to be with bin Laden, the newspaper said. The leader of al-Qeada, which has been blamed for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is boxed into a 10-mile (16-kilometer) wide area after traveling 240 kilometers from the south to the Toba Kakar mountains about a month ago, the Sunday Express said. <b>White House spokesman Alan Abney said the White House had no comment on reports that bin Laden has been captured by the U.S. military.</b> The area is under surveillance from a satellite while forces await orders, the newspaper said in its early Sunday edition. Bin Laden's whereabouts had been discovered through a combination of intelligence tip-offs and video image analysis by geographers and soil experts, the newspaper reported. (The Sunday Express, 2-22)