Sunday, January 23, 2005

Double, or Nothin'?

Peek, a boo…

"With the trail of Osama bin Laden gone cold, the U.S. State Department is revving up a new publicity blitz to remind Afghans and Pakistanis of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda’s chief. Bin Laden is still thought to be hiding somewhere along the 1,640-mile, mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but intelligence officials in Kabul and Islamabad say there has been no trace of him for the past 20 months. By the end of February, the White House is expected to double the sum on bin Laden’s head, to $50 million, acting on legislation passed in November by Congress."

Yep, that’s going to do a lot of good.  I’d plumb forgot that there was a $25 million dollar bounty on Bin Laden’s gourd-lee-oh, as, evidently, have so many of the Afghanis, and Pakastanis, and other of our Muslim friends. The publicity blitz, and extra $25 mil, ought to stir the natives to action.

“A New Osama Push."

Posted by John Venlet on 01/23 at 07:46 AM
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