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Originally posted by MaggieL
Opinions as to what hapened to bin Laden are a dime a dozen. Is there some reason why this one deserves more credibility than any of the others?
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"Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health after being wounded in an attack on his base in Afghanistan in December, an Arab journalist with close ties to the Saudi-born militant's associates said Monday."
Now, true, that's not the world's most reliable source, but I see no reason to doubt it. I could see if they said he were OK, and he wasn't.
But I doubt they'd say that he was "wounded by shrapnel" if that didn't really happen. And that would mean he was pretty close to the fighting, but we didn't seal off all their escape routes. And that means we lost the ground fight, if our objective was to prevent escape, which I believe it was.
Of course, he might really be dead, and they're saying this to cover that up. But it also seems like some rather high-ranking sources in the past week or so have said there's credible evidence that he's alive and in the Pakistan border region.