Top jihadi Baitullah Mehsud: Osama’s dead, baby
posted at 1:28 pm on May 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
Everyone knows who Mehsud is by now, yes? Alleged mastermind of Benazir Bhutto’s murder, current kingpin among Waziristan’s jihadis, and lately the happy beneficiary of the Pakistani government’s disastrous appeasement policy towards its “problem” citizens. Insofar as he both controls his own territory and has terrorist designs on the west, he’s like Osama and Mullah Omar rolled into one. Which brings us to this tantalizing piece in the Pakistan Daily:
A top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has rejected reports that al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, and other leaders are hiding in his region.
“The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, are not in our territory,” he said in an interview broadcast by a satellite television network.
Funeral prayers have been said for Osama bin Laden over the years with one reported by a Pakistani news organisation, and another in an Egyptian newspaper as far back as December 2001.
Take this with two grains of salt instead of the usual one reserved for anything a filthy jihadi has to say. MEMRI’s got a clip of a TV interview with Mehsud that touches on Bin Laden and Omar (probably the same one referred to in the blockquote although there’s no way to tell) and unless they bungled the translation, he doesn’t say anything about Osama being dead. He says neither Omar, who’s long been rumored to be in Quetta, and Bin Laden, who may or may not be in the mountains around K2, aren’t in his territory. Why would the Pakistan Daily author have misrepresented what he said? Follow the link and read down to the end and you’ll see. He has an agenda, and Osama being dead very much serves that agenda.
Exit question: Why is Mehsud suddenly giving interviews to all manner of media outlets? Exit answer: Because he understands. Click the image to watch.
Update: Pakistan Daily’s having itself a big day, huh
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Didn’t Bin Laden slam the new Indiana Jones movie in his last video?
Chuck Schick on May 27, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I’ve thought OBL achieved room temperature years ago. And I know I’m going to sound like a conspiracy nut but I think the higher ups in our govt have known about his demise as well. The biggest reason they didn’t trumpet it then…or talk about it now is it would give defeatist lefties more surrender ammo:
“Bin Ladin is dead! Why are we at war? Let’s get out of Iraq. Why are we antagonizing terrorists more! If we stay over there we’re worse than OBL ever was!”
TELL me you can’t hear that rhetoric spilling out from the loony left.
Sarjex on May 27, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Excuse us while we take a good hard look and root out any other terrorists.
Buzzy on May 27, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Harry Reid could not have said it better.
RobCon on May 27, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Not to get all biblically prophecy end times on all ya’ll, but it does say that in the end times the ‘anti-Christ’ (those with antipathy to Christians) will use the media and new technologies against the Christians. They will take control of media (movies, news, TV, etc), but the Christians won’t be completely rooted out . . . the Gospel will just be harder to find through the media.
Ya’ll really should read the Bible. . . it’s pretty fascinating stuff. And I’m not saying that the end times are near. People have been saying that since Christ rose from the dead and have been wrong. . . But it is interesting.
Bin Laden isn’t dead, but this guy wants people to think that he is because Mehsud wants to claim leadership position within the media and the global jihad.
ThackerAgency on May 27, 2008 at 1:39 PM
He is correct, I believe, about one thing…Bin Laden is not in this slimeball’s area. Qum, with a balcony connecting his room to Sadr’s.
Limerick on May 27, 2008 at 1:41 PM
If you want to know where Osama is, ask Jimmy.
right2bright on May 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Technically, appeasement only can happen if when one side is in the position to cede something to another party. Pakistan’s withdrawal of troops from areas where they actually never had control is better described as a surrender policy.
The real question is why the Pakistani’s aren’t taking Mehsud out! They know where he is!
highhopes on May 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Maybe if we just talk with Mehsud he’ll become our partner in peace.
JammieWearingFool on May 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Bin Hidin’ is driving Jimmuh Carter around, in his taxi.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Better yet- SEND Jimmy.
highhopes on May 27, 2008 at 1:45 PM
It seems that the “tet” offensive of Al Qaeda is going to be a media blitz
William Amos on May 27, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Completely fatuous.
Richard Romano on May 27, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Thacker,
There is no single “antichrist” mentioned in the Bible, but multiple ones. Search it at http://www.bible.com.
Anyway, I am under the impression bin Laden is pushing up daisies, or at least has one foot in the grave. The video of bin Laden that was released right before the 2004 presidential election where there are portions of the tape where bin Laden continues to talk even though the screen is frozen of his image.
Weebork on May 27, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Let’s take a vote, yeah or ney. Who thinks we should send Obama-rama over to talk to Meshud?
kcd on May 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Sarjex, I tend to think it would be the opposite. I’ve seen dem talking heads laugh and flat out say that they would downplay it and start hammering on something else. Remember when they were screaming why can’t we get Zarkowi? When we did, it suddenly wasn’t important anymore.
As to Bin laden , he’s been nuetralized six ways from Sunday, so I don’t really care- although I’d love for the SOB to die a slow and painful death.
tomk59 on May 27, 2008 at 1:52 PM
In fact the dems want to talk to the taliban really badly
Feingold is there and wants the US to stop supporting Mushariff and talk to all factions
William Amos on May 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Agreed. The warning signals would be loud and clear since we have troops within artillery range of the Iranian border (not to mention missle range). Not a single sign from the ground that such a major undertaking is in the works.
Limerick on May 27, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Dead can mean a lot of things to these fleas. It could mean that he is of no consequence, or that he crossed him over a goat a year ago and the fatwa has only to be carried out. It certainly would be good to realize that fact, but I don’t believe it.
JAW on May 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Mehsud on Bin Laden: “The king is dead. Long live the king. That’s me!”
Steve Z on May 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Wasn’t he on dialysis? That has to be hard to keep sterile in a cave.
(On the other hand, I’ve heard that your kidneys are one of the few organs that work better at high altitudes.)
Tanya on May 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM
“Osama is dead”, kinda like “Paul….is…..dead…..”
bloggless on May 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Lines like this are why you are the Akbar-est.
baldilocks on May 27, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Will use the media and new tech against XNS? Chapter and verse, please? And that is not the definition of “anti-Christ,” i.e., “antipathy for Christians.” An anti-Christ according to St. John is anyone who denies the incarnation.
Sheesh.
Akzed on May 27, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Heh.
James OK on May 27, 2008 at 2:46 PM
It would seem that this guy would know it for certain if bin laden is alive and he wouldn’t claim he’s dead if he knows he’s alive because what if a living bin laden wanted to do some propaganda tapes in the future?
I think he really does believe obl is dead and doesn’t particularly find the ghost tapes useful to him. If bin laden appears on an unambiguous video and removes all doubt, Mehsud would die.
Buddahpundit on May 27, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Why do these guys continue to dress like a bad band from the late ’60s. The Taliban needs to progress to the Disco age as far a fashion. It’s well overdue.
Hening on May 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM
The last ‘video’ was heavily edited. Mostly what we’ve gotten have been audio that’s difficult to verify as authentic. That’s not to say that he isn’t alive, although I think he’s probably dead, but it is interesting that no clear, unmistakable video has emerged for a few years.
Asher on May 27, 2008 at 3:09 PM
1 John 2:18 – Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; …
Prior to that, Paul spoke of the “antichrist,” more specifically, in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; [4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sittetn in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. [6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume … [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
OhEssYouCowboys on May 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Hening on May 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM
———–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaoyXSt92_I
Like Wayne?
(nevermind that the sight of dancing blonde females not dressed in hefty bags may cause their heads to explode….)
Mew
acat on May 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM
The best part of that video was the story being told behind the speaker.
The chalkboard with a boob and butt drawn on it, the old school desk tossed on top of another one, the goofy hangers-ons picking their beards and talking to the other flunkies through the crack in the door.
Solid media genius.
Alden Pyle on May 27, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Why is his face blurred out??
bridgetown on May 27, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I have long thought Osama was in Iran. Which, if true, would give us another reason to slap them around a little.
MrLynn on May 27, 2008 at 6:45 PM
All Ozzie has to do to prove he is alive is to appear in one of his videos holding up the front page of a recent newspaper, preferably one in English. One with a huge headline.
I’m sure Punch Sulzberger would be happy to set him up with a subscription to his penny dreadful publication…
Del Dolemonte on May 27, 2008 at 7:54 PM
One of my old friends, a 70-something Predator pilot, says Usama was bagged by a Hellfire on the side of mountain in February 2002. Blown to bits, not much left to identify, a hostile press would demand a body if the claim was made. I believe him.
Zorro on May 27, 2008 at 7:56 PM
He’s lying. It’s a diversion. “Hey, no need to send in your Special Ops, bin laden is dead.”
Tony737 on May 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM
If Bin Laden was so smart how come he never held up a dated newpaper or played a news video clip after Tora Bora.
Occams razor- he’s been dead for years.
jjshaka on May 27, 2008 at 9:28 PM