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Politics : THE BIN LADEN LOVERS' HALL OF SHAME AKA THE BIN LAUNDRY LIST -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (331)	12/20/2001 10:16:39 PM
From: BDR	Respond to of 383

WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden names some of the Sept. 11 hijackers and commends them to God, according to a more thorough translation by one of the experts hired by the government to review a videotape of the suspected terrorist. A more leisurely review of the tape released by the government last week came up with ``a whole bunch of names,'' translater George Michael said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. He would identify only three: Nawaq Alhamzi, Salem Alhamzi and Wail Alshehri. Alshehri was on American Airlines flight 11, one of the planes that hit the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York; Alhamzi and Alhamzi were on American Airlines flight 77, which hit the Pentagon. ``You'll have to talk to the Pentagon about the rest,'' Michael said. Michael, one of two translators hired by the government, said he handed the more detailed transcript to the Pentagon Wednesday at 1 p.m. Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke said Thursday night that she was unaware of a new translation, but added it was not surprising to find more information with a more in-depth study of the conversation, considering the poor quality of the sound on the tape. White House officials did not immediately comment on the reports. The Pentagon released the first transcript last week, offering a chilling glimpse of terrorist planning as bin Laden told his aides and clerics that the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his ``most optimistic'' expectations. Bin Laden appeared calm and at times amused as he talked about the attacks on the hour-long tape dated Nov. 9 that the Bush administration said was found in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's voice was difficult to hear on the videotape, and government-hired translators at several points wrote ``inaudible'' when they didn't agree on an interpretation or when they couldn't make out the words. None of the hijackers' names were in the first transcript. In the more thorough, updated version, Michael said, bin Laden names several hijackers and says: ``may God accept their action.'' References bin Laden made in the original transcription of the tape released last week already tied him to the attacks - but naming and blessing the hijackers suggests an intimacy that would reinforces U.S. claims of his deep involvement in the planning. The names only emerged now, Michael said, because the first translation was rushed in 12 hours, in a room in the Pentagon. It took four days to complete the fuller transcript in the comfort of his own office, Michael said. ``We did the first translation under a tight time frame,'' he said.

To: jlallen who wrote (331)	12/26/2001 1:12:40 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 383

Osama has died a natural death pakobserver.com Tariq Saeed PESHAWAR—Much dreaded Osama bin Ladin, the man on the top of the US list of most wanted men, had a peaceful natural death in mid-December in the vicinity of famous Tora Bora mountains, a Taliban leader who attended funeral of the Al-Qaeda leader confided to Pakistan Observer. “The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfil their cherished goal of getting Osama alive or dead”, the source added while referring to intensive operation launched by US and British troops to “smoke Osama out”. Late Osama bin Ladin, according to the source, was suffering from some serious lungs complication and succumbed to the disease for lack of proper treatment. The source claimed that OBL was laid to rest honourably in his last abode and his grave was levelled even as per his Wahabi belief. About thirty close associates of OBL in Al-Qaeda including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some “Taliban friends” attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets were also fired to pay final tributes to the “great leader”. The Taliban source who claims to have seen Osama’s face before burial said “he looked pale and freak but calm, relaxed and confident”. Asked whether Osama had any feelings of remorse before death, the source vehemently said “No”. Instead, he said, Osama was proud that he succeeded in his mission of igniting awareness amongst Muslims about hegemonistic designs and conspiracies of “pagans” against Islam. Osama, he said, held the view that the sacrifice of a few hundred people in Afghanistan was nothing as those who laid their lives in creating an atmosphere of resistance will be adequately rewarded by Almighty Allah. When asked where are his last remains buried, the source said “I am sure that like other places in Tora Bora, that particular place too must have vanished”.