The future leader of "Al Qaeda"...

For Al Qaeda, (aka the dataBASE of warlords and radicals compiled by their supporters in US central intelligence in the 1980s), who will be assigned/promoted as the next leader... the next boogeyman to put the fear of Allah up us good JudeoChristians? Who will take Osama bin Laden's position, now that the powers-that-be have decided that OBL's "alive" status was no longer a worthwhile investment?

Will it be Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, OBL's former physician?

Or Ilyas Kashmiri from Pakistan?

Maybe Gulbuddin Hekmatyir? Or is that a 'too obscure' option?

How about Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni who allegedly organized one of the infamous Three Stooges... aka the "Underwear Bomber".... remember Abdulmutallab, the young kid who, armed with a one-way ticket, no valid passport at the time (supplied later), with no baggage, and a "bomb" which could never have exploded, and was already on a terror watch list to boot, was carefully shepherded onto a flight by the authorities, and then conveniently "busted" when he tried to "detonate" his "bomb"?

Anwar al-Awliki is a likely bet. This character already has had a fair bit of publicity, which could easily be further capitalized upon by the Obama Administration and the mainstream media. He also could have been briefed about his "future potential" when he dined with Pentagon top brass a very short time after the 9/11 attacks. Just an idle speculation there... we "conspiracy theorists" have that privilege
wow.... Fox News has forgotten to wipe that link!

Oh well...

Who's next for new Bete Noir?

As they say, never a truer word was spoken in jest.

Here's three more absurd things about this entire trillion dollar mine of steaming bullshit that's being crammed down our throats:

(1) It's taken $1trillion, 10 years, the world's biggest manhunt *ever*, the combined resources of the CIA and the entire US military/intelligence/law enforcement apparatus, MI6, Mossad, Interpol, ISI, etc .,etc., etc., three long wars (two of them longer than World War II), the rounding up of thousands of people all over the world and the loss of civil rights for so many here, just to track down one man .... and now he's allegedly dead, we have zero hard proof/evidence to verify that the person killed was indeed OBL.

Up until the end of 2001, Osama bin Laden, while been on the FBI's most wanted list for bombings in Africa and elsewhere, has been interviewed 3 times by Jamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabian), three times by Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (most recently in November 2001), three times by UK journalist Robert Fisk, once by Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, once by ABC's John Miller, once by US journalist Peter Arnett, Adrian McLiman, Tayseer Allouni (from Spain) October 2001, Abdel al-Bari Atwan (of Arabic paper Al-Quds Al-Arabi ), and more.

Numerous journalists have waltzed into Bin Laden's hiding place with seemingly little difficulty (apart from a vetting procedure and a journey to remote villages), successfully conducted interviews with him, some on video, and had them published in the press and on television.

The following two incidents have been neither confirmed, nor disproved either: He was reported to have been in Dubai in July 2001 for medical reasons and was visited by a CIA official. And on the night of September 10, 2001 ... \ .... it was reported that he spent the night at a Pakistani military intelligence facility in Rawalpindi that "reported to Washington DC on a daily basis".

And then they tell us that the entire might of the US law enforcement/intel community and military since the early 1990s has been unable to find him?

This is BULLBISCUITS! Gimme a break.

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(2) In the days right after 9/11, a number of bin Laden's relatives were hastily allowed to leave the US *before* they could be quizzed by the FBI etc... whisked out of the country on specially approved flights while all other aircraft, commercial and private, were grounded by the FAA.

But now, the US wants to question his wives, 10 years later? Why not then, but its OK now?

This does not compute.

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(3) There was a $27 million reward (two sums, one $25 million, and an additional $2 million) on the head of Osama bin Laden, dead or alive, since shortly after 9/11. In 10 years, if he was indeed alive for that long... there must have been many people who knew of his whereabouts, status, etc etc.. but not a single person was interested in turning him in, in return for untold wealth and probably, lifelong protection.

That scenario seems decidedly far-fetched.... and doesn't ring true either.