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To: Kenya AA who wrote (18650)	3/10/2003 3:18:12 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

We paid $25 million for a corpse?!?! Tom

To: Kenya AA who wrote (18650)	3/10/2003 3:20:44 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 25898

the arrest of this dead guy! By the time he dies again in interrogation the Bin Laden sons will likely pop up again. Karl Rove has a whole bag full of secretly captures people or clues. Each time Junior's ratings fall again he reaches in and pulls something out to either create a new alert crisis or pretend that some sort of success is happening. It's been 539 days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!

To: Kenya AA who wrote (18650)	3/10/2003 3:30:10 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

March 03, 2003 The Resurrection of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] Warblogging just reported earlier today about the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a man purported to be the #3 manager in al-Qaeda and mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on America. There's just one problem. Either the government has lied to us ? either last year or now ? or Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the Son of God or somehow otherwise capable of resurrection. As Brenda Stardom points out today it was reported in 2002 that Mohammed was killed in a "frenzied shootout" with Pakistani military, ISI and the FBI. Meanwhile The Memory Hole features two newspaper articles: one from October, 2002 and one from March, 2003. In the first article it is reported that Khalid Mohammed was killed in a shootout with Pakistani police and the FBI. In the second article it is reported that he "was detained by Pakistani authorities this morning and is now in American custody." Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is either the Second Coming of Christ ? and thus capable of resurrection ? or our government has been lying to us, either then or now. Did Mohammed die in a shootout with police in Karachi or is he now in US custody? Both can't be true. I have little doubt that Mohammed is now in American custody. The fact that it was reported that he was killed in a shootout last year, however, suggests that we are being lied to by someone, somehow. There are, I believe, three scenarios to examine. Firstly, it is possible that Mohammed really escaped a combined Pakistani police, ISI and FBI dragnet last year and that the authorities really believed they had fatally wounded him. Secondly, it is possible that Mohammed gave the authorities the slip last year and that they announced his death as either some kind of propaganda weapon to use at home or as a psychological warfare method to use against al-Qaeda operatives in the United States and elsewhere. The third possibility, and the possibility I'm starting to suspect, is that Mohammed was really captured last year. We announced his death for the precise reason that I talked about earlier. We wanted to get intelligence frmo Mohammed without anyone knowing we had him. That way we could actually use his intelligence. If the third scenario is true it means that Mohammed has now outlived his usefulness as an intelligence tool and is now entering his lifespan as a propaganda and psychological warfare tool. I should note that the photograph of Mohammed shown above suggests to me that this scenario is true. This photograph shows a broken, dishevelled man who hasn't slept or washed in a week. This is not the Mohammed his friends knew and liked. He was known as the Islamist James Bond, for Allah's sake. I find it likely that this is either a picture of Mohammed after months of secret CIA interrogation or that this photograph was staged for psychological warfare purposes. The third scenario is acceptable from the standpoint of the American people. The first two aren't. Which is true? UPDATE: Reuters reports today that some Pakistanis are claiming that Mohammed never was arrested. Three particular paragraphs from the article: warblogging.com