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| (URL) idea of veracity (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Funny, this diplomacy thing in action... :-P Anyway, it is quite possible. One of the things that is illustrative is the willingness to let others do the dirty work: when they say they had been expecting the Saudis to behead ObL... (but then (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| (...) I have heard this as well. Problem is hindsight is 20/20. Who knew in 1996 that bin Laden would have become the bane of our existance as he is today? Who is to say that taking him out in 1996 would have prevented anything? Its nice to think (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Hello Larry, hello everybody, (...) How does it fit with earlier claims that bin Laden has been one of "our bastards" in the Soviet-Afghanistan war? Can he have acted from Sudan, or shouldn't this rather indicate he went to Afghanistan earlier than (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) No, it's pretty clear that he was IN Afghanistan, then left, then went back. This fits the known timeline of his movements. Doesn't mean it's true, of course (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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