Media reports are emerging that Osama Bin Laden “personally approved” of the “Mumbai-style” attack plot that was itself the subject of speculation earlier this week. His ties to the plot, which itself seems dubious, is based on “assumption” by experts.
“Senior al-Qaeda terrorists have been involved in many recent attack-planning efforts. It wouldn’t be surprising in the least if bin Laden were involved in some of that,” one unnamed US official was reported as saying.
Officials issued the urgent but ridiculously vague “alert” earlier this week, claiming the plot might involve “potential operatives” from virtually anywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere and involve an attack almost anywhere in Western Europe or North America.
The “plot” was cited as the reason behind the massive number of US drone strikes against Pakistan in the past few weeks, though Pakistani officials said it appeared to be more a vague aspiration by some people than any concrete plot by any organization.
Though officials insisted a Mumbai-style plot would be impossible without bin Laden’s assistance, the original Mumbai attack in November 2008 was never connected to al-Qaeda, with Indian officials blaming the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e Taiba for it.
The phrase "Personally Approved" is as vague as the evidence being trotted about concerning an alleged plot.
Besides, bin Laden is dead. Who can survive for ten years hauling around a mobile dialysis machine? And who performs the dialysis? Does he hook himself up? Who does the maintenance? Where does he get the parts for the dialysis machine? Does he improvise using a paper clip like MacGyver?
If Fox News is to be believed, he died in December of 2001. Personally, I think this is correct reporting. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
The Bin Ladin Bogey man is well past its Use by date.
Without him the US Public will want to close down the Global war on terrror so he is regularly dusted off trotted out.
Cant have the Neocons personal God of evil destroyed, like the 60 odd year Communist nemesis was.
Emmanuel Gold… errrrr Bin Laden is the heart of all evil dontcha know.
Sounds like another "Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction" hoax to me. This one to serve as an excuse to cancel the 2010 and 2012 elections, declare martial law, abolish the Tea Parties, and launch a missile attack against Russia for good measure.