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Bin Laden Threatens Revenge if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Killed

By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 09:03:51 PM EST
Tags: Osama bin Laden (all tags)
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Osama bin Laden released a tape today, threatening to kill any captured Americans if Khalid Sheikh Mohmammed is executed.

"The White House has expressed its desire to execute him," bin Laden said, according to a translation provided by Flashpoint Partners, which is headed by terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann. "The day America makes that decision will be the day it has issued a death sentence for any one of you that is taken captive."

U.S. Reaction:

U.S. officials dismissed the threat, saying that it has long been clear that Americans captured by al-Qaeda cannot expect to live.

This sounds like a weeks-old message delivered by carrier pigeon.

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    Bin Laden Threatens Revenge if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Killed | 6 comments (6 topical)

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    If ever there were a statement (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by andgarden on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 09:35:01 PM EST
    designed to guarantee that we execute KSM, this would be it. Assuming that it's actually from OBL, of course.

    Pigeons from Ibiza? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Salo on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 09:28:39 PM EST
    Or Tahiti?

    Call me jaded... (none / 0) (#2)
    by lentinel on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 09:33:14 PM EST
    but this just sounds phony to me.

    It just feels like something the administration is turning loose to boost public support for executing KSM.

    Uh? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Addison on Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 11:45:26 PM EST
    Because up until now Americans and other Westerners in the "care" of al-Qaeda have been treated so kindly?

    Weeks old? Years old, I'd say. <eom> (none / 0) (#5)
    by FreakyBeaky on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 01:33:16 AM EST


    As if our people that they capture (none / 0) (#7)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 07:14:51 PM EST
    have a snowball's chance in hell.  I doubt that we execute KSM though.  Nobody is in any hurry to create any new martyrs, Osama just wishes we were.  This is all his own hot air.

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