Comments on: Does anyone care about bin Laden any more?

By: Indian

Indian — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:51:03 +0000

Who’s going after Whom???
Pakistan after Mehsud
Media(alongwith their armchair intelligentsia) on a wild goose chase for OBL
NATO after Pakistani Nukes

By: TC Kirk

TC Kirk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:41:16 +0000

al Qaeda is militant terrorist cells.

By: Joshua FOust

Joshua FOust — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:06:39 +0000

I think THAT is a much more appropriate, and difficult, question to ask.

By: Myra MacDonald

Myra MacDonald — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:51:15 +0000

Joshua, in answer to your comment, I’m not trying to compare Mehsud and OBL directly, but rather to highlight the attention given to Mehsud compared to the remarkably little attention paid these days to bin Laden.

Perhaps I should rephrase the question. When people, including U.S. politicians, talk about going after al Qaeda in Pakistan, what exactly does that mean? Who exactly are they going after?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:21:22 +0000

Everybody knows the truth about Bin Laden! He was NOT responsible for 911, was never wanted for 911, and he is dead as dead gets. Question is, do they care, and the answer is so IN YOUR FACE!
We must stop the military complex and the DOGS OF WAR. Not for the lazy people who say “it doesn’t matter till
its in my back yard”, it WILL then be to late. Do it for yourself and your children. Let those blind who will be led by the blind, fall in the ditch.

The United States military complex supplies the WORLD with WAR.
Why do we fight for oil yet not to save the blood of man?

“Cowardice ask the question, is it safe?
Expediency ask the question, is it politics?
Vanity ask the question, is it popular?
But conscience ask the question, is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that it is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is RIGHT! ” MLK.

By: K Khan

K Khan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:06:25 +0000

just like OBL, people in pakistan believe that Baitullah Mehsud is under the payroll of C-I-A and RAW. Helping them destablize pakistan

By: Joshua FOust

Joshua FOust — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:10:39 +0000

I think your assumptions behind the question are wrong. Bin Laden was an international figure whose goals and activities were international. Best I know, Mehsud is a Pakistani whose focus is Pakistan. He hasn’t been blamed, at least outright, for any attacks in Afghanistan or against U.S. troops (a virtue the Pakistani army cannot lay claim to). He is Pakistan’s problem—a major one, to be sure, but certainly not on the scale of OBL.

By: Grandpa

Grandpa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:12:24 +0000

Well, I read that bin Laden died of kidney failure in Pakistan in 2003. I think that Benzanir Bhutto said that. In any case, bin Laden has apparently passed and any use of his name in attempts to create urgency of some kind in the West, has been bogus. As has been stated, the press should know that. I have wondered if al quaeda is actually a creation of the CIA anyhow. In any event, our tomato plants are doing great, and we had a good corn and bean harvest. If you believe the main stream press at all, good luck. Just stay on your feet and out of the way, folks. Liars abound !!

Long life, good health, and peace to all.

Grandpa

By: Lobito

Lobito — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:51:05 +0000

bin Laden was a bogey man who served his purpose but is now irrelevant. He went belly up at Spin Ghar in December 2001.
A news agency should know that.