By: psmealey
news that the FBI has "no hard evidence" connecting Bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks. Okay. So, ... great. Now we learn that we had no reason to invade Afghanistan either?
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bin laden is the Tupac Shakur of dead terrorists. You mean he's going to plan more terror attacks after he dies then he did while he was still alive?
View ArticleBy: themadjuggler
Osama bin Laden claiming that he was behind 9-11 does not necessarily mean he actually was. People get irrationally infuriated when someone mentions 9-11 conspiracy theories, but the truth is that...
View ArticleBy: warbaby
The Ithaca Journal article is quite interesting: there's no federal indictment for 9/11? Wow. Is this so? Damned interesting if true. Of course, the FBI does 95% of their successful prosecutions on...
View ArticleBy: bardic
Jesus wasn't gay, but all that attention paid to washing the feet of his followers, i.e., pedicures? Definitely metrosexual.
View ArticleBy: augustweed
Next on metafilter, jesus is gay! Hey maybe he is! Christians sure tend to believe he didn't have sex with women.
View ArticleBy: dw
Yeah, I can see all you bleeding hearts BITCHING about all the lives lost needlessly just to build some goddamn CANAL tso all his cronies can make more money. Hmm. Foment a rebellion in a sovereign...
View ArticleBy: phatboy
You guys realize sploid is a humor site, right? The stories linked is real, but the write-ups are always intended to be a joke. Next on metafilter, jesus is gay!
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By: augustweed
Bin Laden has been dead for years. This is just a way to quietly step away, taking advantage of the collective amnesia of the people. Here is an article on Fox news (of all places). Notice the date? I...
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
Ha ha, you all read a Sploid post! This is Metafilter kenlayne, no one reads the links.
View ArticleBy: tkchrist
I'm with Roboto. That article was pretty craptastic. NPR, of all mainstream things, scooped this months ago. C'mon. And OBL is very much alive as the numerous recordings and videos would seem to...
View ArticleBy: Hat Maui
Death was too good for Ken Lay and Osama bin Laden is being unfairly criticized. A banner day for MetaFilter. a few people's comments != MetaFilter
View ArticleBy: frogan
God, that's an awful article. Seconded (thirded?). Yes there are some questionable sources but there is also real news, all wrapped up nicely. Nicely? Really? I see links to bad sources and an article...
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
it has worked well for both of them, almost like they worked together........ Birds of a feather, fenriq. May they be each other's sex slaves in hell.
View ArticleBy: The Jesse Helms
I assumed that if he was killed, he would be more of a rallying point as a martyr than if he just faded away into the dust of Asia.
View ArticleBy: Tryptophan-5ht
"why does it refer to the bin laden "confession" video as clumsily doctored" the video shows a much chubbier man writting with the wrong hand and wearing a gold ring (no no for muslims).
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
wfc123writes"It pointed out how American news services pretty much avoided the story." Yeah, except for these 350, including Reuters, CBS, the Washington Post, the Voice of America, MSNBC, and the New...
View ArticleBy: wfc123
It was a good post. It pointed out how American news services pretty much avoided the story.
View ArticleBy: cell divide
I started by composing a post about the revelation yesterday that the CIA had disbanded its Bin Laden search unit a year ago, while collecting links I discovered Spoid had already done the job for me,...
View ArticleBy: fenriq
three blind mice, it has worked well for both of them, almost like they worked together........ And it says that our "leader" did, in fact and in complete contradiction to his public statements,...
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
God, that's an awful article. There's no indication whatsoever that the CIA has "given up" on the search for bin Laden. They have, however, disbanded a group tasked with searching for him. This doesn't...
View ArticleBy: kirkaracha
The headline's misleading, since they disbanded the search team last year. From the New York Times article:The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned...
View ArticleBy: HTuttle
Teddy Roosevelt would be better than the crooks in office, HAHAHA! Yeah, I can see all you bleeding hearts BITCHING about all the lives lost needlessly just to build some goddamn CANAL tso all his...
View ArticleBy: AloneOssifer
Or maybe it's a great way to get people to go to Sploid.. which is for sale..
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
You know, fenriq, I've heard just the opposite. My sources tell me that that Al Kay Duh was the best thing that could have ever happened to George Bush and the Republicans. Their recruitment numbers...
View ArticleBy: Balisong
Heminator, You act as if the sploid article isn't filled full of links to real news articles.
View ArticleBy: DenOfSizer
Or he could be already found, in a hole in GITMO, and they're just waiting a week before the midterm to announce his capture.
View ArticleBy: Heminator
I hate to be doing callouts, but seriously crappy post. Sploid? One-link? Ugh. Not helpful.
View ArticleBy: Balisong
the US military and intelligence agencies are incredibly useless if they can't capture a 7' tall Yemeni hiding in a cave. dragging a dialasis machine behind him.
View ArticleBy: fenriq
You know, I heard the re-election of George Bush was the best thing that could have ever happened to Al Qaeda and bin Laden. Their recruitment numbers have never been better with Bush in charge. What...
View ArticleBy: ninjew
So, now we can turn the terror alert color to blue? Oh, we're not using that anymore? Someone please tell what I need to be afraid of.
View ArticleBy: ilsa
More here and here. Related but off-topic item the CIA thinks that late October 2004 ObL tape helped defeat Kerry. Not that I have anything against "Sploid," but somehow "according to the New York...
View ArticleBy: bardic
If "they" equals ranking Bush and Republican operatives, yes. It's pretty obvious, isn't it?
View ArticleBy: pardonyou?
The post also links to news that the FBI has "no hard evidence" connecting Bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks. Not sure lack of "hard evidence" is all that significant, in light of the fact that he's...
View ArticleBy: mattbucher
A shibboleth is a word, not a person. In the days after 9/11 Bush was told that declaring war on Osama was peanuts compared to declaring war on terror in general. Terror is also still at large.
View ArticleBy: Freen
Bardic: So what you are saying is, either they are incompetent, or they've been lying to us in order to keep people afraid and voting republican?
View ArticleBy: bardic
I think ObL has been dead a long time, and the CIA knows it. But the longer he remained the boogeyman, the more often Bush could raise the cowardice level of the American public with the ZOMG TERROR...
View ArticleBy: Ironmouth
What about Ramzi bin-Al Sheib's money transfers to the hijackers? Khalid Sheik Mohammed's confession to an Al Jazeera reporter? Puhleeeze.
View ArticleBy: ColdChef
Be patient. He'll turn himself in eventually. When the guilt gets to him. Mark my words.
View ArticleBy: Pastabagel
On that Sploid link, why does it refer to the bin laden "confession" video as clumsily doctored? Is there anything to this, beyond the usual tinfoil hatted lunacy?
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