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Could this be how they tracked Osama?
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Blog Guy, you’re the only one I trust to come up with the real story on how they got Osama bin Laden. There has to be more to it than merely a decade of meticulous hard work by the military and intelligence agencies.
I can’t talk about it. It’s too sensitive.
Come on, Blog Guy. Look, I wouldn’t be online if I couldn’t keep a secret, and we’ve already established that it’s safe to put it in your blog, since nobody looks here.
Well, okay, I have to admit it was ingenious. They invited bin Laden to the wedding.
The ROYAL wedding? Last Friday, between Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton? No way!
It gets better. They knew he probably wouldn’t come, but as our wedding etiquette column recently advised, once you get a wedding invitation you have to send a gift.
So all they had to do was wait for his present to arrive – a cheesy Ikea bookcase that William is going to have to assemble himself, gee thanks a lot – and then they simply traced the American Express card he used back to the billing address. The ceramic “OBL” on the mailbox was all the confirmation they needed.
That’s amazing! You know, I’ve always wondered how they figured out he was the Al Qaeda leader, anyway. What first tipped them off, many years ago?
Look at this page from his high school yearbook. He’s the only one in color.
Bingo! Those guys don’t miss a trick, do they?
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Top: Pakistani soldiers walk past a compound, surrounded in red fabric, where locals reported a firefight took place overnight in Abbotabad, located in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province May 2, 2011. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
Right: Undated file photos showing the thirteen men listed as “most wanted terrorists” and released by President George W. Bush at FBI headquarters in Washington DC, October 10, 2001. The thirteen pictured here are wanted for the bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, which left more than 200 people dead. REUTERS/FBI/Handout
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If it was the Flingle-Googan bookcase, with the curvy pine shelves and alum wrench spindles -bully for bin laden. That’s what the smart terrorist is giving for weddings these days.
I heard they tracked him through his Sony Playstation credit card account.
Glad they finally got him. I was afraid he might be one of your regular commenters here. Guess we’ll know if someone doesn’t show up in the next couple of days.
Now that you mention it, Dave, we haven’t heard from Shra for a few days…
All I can say is good riddance to bad rubbish (assuming Prince William threw out the bookcase). Oh yeah…and bin Laden – TAG YOU’RE IT!! Loser.
I heard the real story is that he was killed after a catstrophic failure of his Williams Sonoma hammock stand.
I guess he just didn’t get the recall notice.
And I’m sure we can all agree that it was Kate’s idea to invite him. Clever and pretty; a dangerous combination. Haven’t seen that combination in a Brit since Emma Peel.
Ummmm…how did they know where to send the wedding invite to?
Hmmmmm, good point BG, but I’d be more inclined to think she took her zapper and joined the strike team. Haven’t seen CrowGirl in a couple of days either, and we know how good she is with a knife and gun.
True, Dave, but CrowGirl isn’t going to a country where they don’t eat pork. She just isn’t.
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen my sister in a few days. She left wearing a white hat AND I found an Ikea receipt in her room this morning. Coincidence? Methinks not.
Yeah, Dave was disappointed when he moved into the Goat Cave, as the realtor had said it had ’3G coverage’. This turned out to mean it was covered in droppings left by three goats, and not that it had high-speed wireless Internet.
Do you think the guy who’s now moved up to Number One Most Wanted is celebrating or scared?
BG: great story! I’m just relaxin’ and lovin’ all the comments.
Death is what he know he will meet and we all know its inevitable.He has made himself significant in life and death.While the world celebrates the passing of the most wanted fugitive of our generations.Its surprising to note that he was found in Pakistan.
I hope they show bullet holes and video etc of raids, or else many Osama’s ghosts will keep on appearing around the world.
BG, you aint geting rid of me that soon, ya know…
Dave, thanks for sticking up for me.. you are a true mate!
@Spin, no of course I would not question the journalistic integrity of OE. I was just wondering if there was a deeper conspiracy involved. As you pointed out maybe they did register at Ikea. Maybe they like shopping at Ikea. But because the Royal image would not allow for it they had to come up with a way to get the bookcase. A bit cunning, a bit devious, but in the end a win win for all!