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To: NickSE who wrote (7754)	9/12/2003 6:11:02 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793838

thanks for the post.. sent it off to many of my friends.

To: NickSE who wrote (7754)	9/12/2003 7:42:38 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

WHY I THINK BIN LADEN IS DEAD - Sep 12 2003 by Christopher Hitchens I HAVE believed for more than a year that Osama bin Laden is dead and yesterday's pathetic home movie from al Jazeera via al Qaeda (or do I mean the other way around?) has reinforced this conviction. It would be easy enough for his fellow-gangsters to prove me wrong. All they need to do, next time they point a video at their heroic guru, is to put in his hands a recent edition of an Arabic or Pakistani or Afghan newspaper. The date needn't be visible - the headline would do. Or, if they don't have any cameramen who can also read, they could induce the Great One to say a few words about recent developments in, say, Iraq. Until two years ago, you could hardly shut Osama bin Laden up. He had a great fondness for the sermon, the proclamation, the taped fatwah. And all of these, like the captured video from Kabul showing his gloating over the World Trade Center, were extremely easy to authenticate. Indeed, they were too genuine for my taste. How likely is it that such a loquacious character would manage to sit out the whole Iraq war without feeling any need to orate? cont'd.....