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Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive

Postby Candy » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:13 am

Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same "barbaric" tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.

The tape appeared to be a complete version of one that was first broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.

"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived," bin Laden said, in the 11-minute, 26-second tape.

RAF should answer this one. He likes these sport games. :twisted:
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Postby Мастер » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:09 pm

I think the guys looking for him will be more than willing to accomodate his wishes on this point...
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Postby Lance » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:33 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I think the guys looking for him will be more than willing to accomodate his wishes on this point...

I'm sure you are right, but if we were the kind of society to parade someone naked through the streets, wouldn't it be particularly fun to do it to him?
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Postby Lonewulf » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:34 pm

Yes yes, we all hate Bin Laden. Yadda yadda.
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Postby Мастер » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:02 pm

Lance wrote:I'm sure you are right, but if we were the kind of society to parade someone naked through the streets, wouldn't it be particularly fun to do it to him?


Violates the Geneva convention, although I believe the administration has given its view on the (non-)applicability thereof...

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Postby Superluminal » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:42 am

I'll bet you a nickel, that when we find him, he comes crawling out of his cave with both hands up the way Saddam did. He's not stupid, he knows that the 70 virgins will still be waiting for him, whether he dies today or 30 years from now. Once he's dead, it's over. If alive, there is always a chance he can regain his freedom and he can still be a symbol and a magnet for his followers. Being in prison would make it easier for him to send coded messages than it is from his cave. I do hope that they kill him, to spare us the mockery of a trial.
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Postby Мастер » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:57 am

Superluminal wrote:I'll bet you a nickel, that when we find him, he comes crawling out of his cave with both hands up the way Saddam did. He's not stupid, he knows that the 70 virgins will still be waiting for him, whether he dies today or 30 years from now. Once he's dead, it's over. If alive, there is always a chance he can regain his freedom and he can still be a symbol and a magnet for his followers. Being in prison would make it easier for him to send coded messages than it is from his cave. I do hope that they kill him, to spare us the mockery of a trial.


There is a certain amount of controversy over whether the passage from the Qu'raan that allegedly refers to the virgins (the number 72 is from tradition, not the Qu'raan) really says that, or something else...

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Postby Superluminal » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:33 am

I have a copy of the Koran that I keep between my Debunkers handbook and my IRU manuel. I looked up the relevent Suras mentioned in the link. And he's right, there is no mention of the number of virgins. Or that you are going to heaven to have an orgy.

Have to go to Lances house for that. :P
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Postby Enzo » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:35 am

Hi all. OK let me get this straight. If I die a martyr I get 72 virgins? Assuming the theory is true. So I get 10 weeks of sex with inexperienced partners. Then what? Seems like not much of a payoff for killing myself.
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Postby Candy » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:39 am

Enzo wrote:Hi all. OK let me get this straight. If I die a martyr I get 72 virgins? Assuming the theory is true. So I get 10 weeks of sex with inexperienced partners. Then what? Seems like not much of a payoff for killing myself.

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Postby Мастер » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:39 am

Enzo wrote:Hi all. OK let me get this straight. If I die a martyr I get 72 virgins?


Well, that's the tradition. The Qu'raan never mentions a number, and as per the cited article, there is controversy over whether the word used really means virgins.

Assuming the theory is true. So I get 10 weeks of sex with inexperienced partners. Then what? Seems like not much of a payoff for killing myself.


Depends on your frequency.
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:41 am

Those are magical self-restoring virgins.
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Postby Lance » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:20 pm

I come up with 3 1/2 weeks.
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Postby azazul » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:38 pm

Lance wrote:I come up with 3 1/2 weeks.

I call bullshit.
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Postby Candy » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:15 pm

Why virgins? Wouldn't having sex with dead girls be like the same experience?
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Postby Lonewulf » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:23 pm

Candy wrote:Why virgins? Wouldn't having sex with dead girls be like the same experience?
Oh wait, they are all dead. :-k


Er, how would making love to virgins be like fucking dead girls? TOTALLY different experience.

...Not that I'd know...
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Postby Мастер » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:27 pm

Wow, I think there should be some nice customized ranks coming out of the last couple of posts...

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Postby Candy » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:27 pm

Not Lonewulf wrote:
Candy wrote:Why virgins? Wouldn't having sex with dead girls be like the same experience?
Oh wait, they are all dead. :-k


Er, how would making love to virgins be like [strike]fucking[/strike] loving on dead girls? TOTALLY different experience.

...Not that I'd know...

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Postby Lonewulf » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:32 pm

Candy wrote:Don't they both just lay there and take it. :lol:


Depends on the virgin, depends on the dead.

That vampiress chick, for instance, was pretty dominating...

... she was a bitch too (for unrelated reasons).

I'm so glad we hid the presence of vampires from the public.



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Postby Candy » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:34 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Wow, I think there should be some nice customized ranks coming out of the last couple of posts...

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Postby Мастер » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:34 pm

Not Lonewulf wrote:Er, how would making love to virgins be like fucking dead girls? TOTALLY different experience.

...Not that I'd know...


Hmm. As you don't indicate in which of these two areas your knowledge is lacking, each reader will have to judge for him/herself which is the more probable...
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Postby Lonewulf » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:38 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Hmm. As you don't indicate in which of these two areas your knowledge is lacking, each reader will have to judge for him/herself which is the more probable...


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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:38 pm

No virgins after all? > LINK
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Postby Мастер » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:04 pm

Halcyon Dayz wrote:No virgins after all? > LINK


That's very interesting. Why didn't anyone post that before?

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Postby Lonewulf » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:15 pm

I wouldn't mind having 70 virgins. I hear virgins are tasty. I wouldn't know, I haven't had one yet.

(And I'm not talking in the "sexual" way).
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