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Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 101
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 10:24 am: |       |
Hey, what do I know....What are your impressions of the following message sent by Osama Bin Laden to the West....
"..Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush, or al-Qaeda....Your security is in your own hands. Any state that does not mess with our security has naturally guaranteed its own security..."
Mess ?...Hmm..Do I smell another Tom Bulling here,or is it customary for terrorists-in-towels to use the American term, "mess" ???
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John Savage
Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 265
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 4:22 pm: | |
Hi Howard,
I think the answer hear lies in the translation.
The report in todays Guardian (UK) reads, "and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe."
Depends on which newspaper you buy.
Best Regards
John Savage |
Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 102
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 6:43 pm: | |
John: Thanks for ruining my budding conspiracy theory ! ..and I wasn't bulling !!..
I offer this Arabic curse toward you, ya fellaheen ! It comes from the 18th Century prophet and convienience store night manager, Neba Bin Soba...
" May the nubile and well oiled bodies of a thousand harem girls be at your disposal,oh Gory One...but you're too drunk to do anything, but look.."
Seriously John....Alan Sharp also told me the same about this translation...Thanks for your reply..
Hassen Bin Sober Jr. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 3340
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 7:34 pm: | |
Back in the 80s there was a story that Iraqis were torturing devout Moslem Iranian prisoners-of-war by forcing them to watch sex films. The question being asked was : did they cut their hands off first?.....
Robert
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Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 103
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 10:18 pm: | |
No, Robert.....
The films featured, one entitled, Up and Coming , featured a sultry little redhead named Dr. Ruth and Billy Barty...They let 'em keep their hands intact to enjoy the pokin' motion of these two diminutive dynamos... that was old school torture !
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Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1009
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 11:44 am: | |
Hi Howard, John, and Robert
What is interesting perhaps is that Osama's videotape is probably as aimed politically as much at his own power base as at America. When we consider that Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been getting all the press recently not Osama, the appearance of the videotape at this time is probably meant to remind his base that Osama was responsible for "the big one" i.e., September 11.
All the best
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 106
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 12:27 pm: | |
Good observation,Chris...It did begin to appear that al-Zarqawi had eclipsed Bin Laden,at least in the media.
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SirRobertAnderson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Sirrobert
Post Number: 65
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 6:29 pm: | |
Hey Howard! Great to see you're still active here.
As an interesting aside, the most recent issue of "The Economist" has an article quoting a Western Islamic scholar that there may be an error in the translation of the term "virgins" and that martyrs may be promised 72 RAISINS in Paradise, not 72 VIRGINS.
Oops.
Sir Robert
SirRobertAnderson@gmail.com |
