Osama bin Laden - Dead or Alive?

[RedGoneWILD]

Right now, as of 10:22 EST on January 24, 2009...do you think bin Laden is breathing air or dirt?

[Bonds_25]

Alive based on the video he released a short time ago. Granted, the video could have been old.

[WilyWestbrook0]

I think he is still alive, but I heard he was sickly and on dialysis or something.

[OnePimpTiger]

What if we really have absolutely no clue...I'm 50/50 at this point.

[sportzluvr1]

I put dead, because im an optimist.

[garnett_21]

The mean ones don't die - he's alive.

[haybierman]

A better poll to post would be "DOes it matter?"

[RedGoneWILD]

Alive based on the video he released a short time ago. Granted, the video could have been old.

here's a list of all his audio/video releases over the years...allegedly

no new video of him since 2004, a couple days before the election in which he took credit for 9.11 and helped Bush win....except for the one in 2007 which the picture freezes when he mentions current events. everything else is audio...which could be old...the video in 2004 even could have been filmed in 2001

I think he is still alive, but I heard he was sickly and on dialysis or something.

yeah, i think he was sick pre 9.11 as well...there were always reports back then that he was sick, and one that even said he visited an American hospital in Dubai 2 months before 9.11

What if we really have absolutely no clue...I'm 50/50 at this point.

i was gonna put a "not sure" option, but hoping everybody could at least lean 51/49

I put dead, because im an optimist.

haha...same here

The mean ones don't die - he's alive.

good point

[RedGoneWILD]

A better poll to post would be "DOes it matter?"

well, sure it does...because he was public enemy #1 BEFORE 9.11...25 million dollar reward on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list, and they haven't even updated his crime sheet...his wanted poster is hanging in the movie hannibal, released BEFORE 9.11...i mean, this guy has been on the 10 most wanted list for like 15 years now, and we still haven't caught him?...of course it matters

especially when there's a thread about obama breaking campaign promises because he's not concerned with bin laden anymore...i just dont think there is anyway that he's still alive...he was ambushed in tora bora in late 2001, when everybody in the world was looking for him...then all the sudden he's not heard from, nobody's chasing him, we move on to different targets (saddam, captured & killed already) and he's still chilling in a cave making audio tapes? no way...lol

[Bonds_25]

here's a list of all his audio/video releases over the years...allegedly

no new video of him since 2004, a couple days before the election in which he took credit for 9.11 and helped Bush win....except for the one in 2007 which the picture freezes when he mentions current events. everything else is audio...which could be old...the video in 2004 even could have been filmed in 2001

Ah it was an audio recording, not video.

"On January 14, 2009, a new audio recording purportedly by bin Laden posted on Islamist websites called for a new jihad over the Israeli offensive in Gaza and said the global financial crisis has exposed the waning influence of the United States in world affairs and that it will in turn weaken its ally Israel. The recording was accompanied by a still photo of Bin Laden superimposed over the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem."