Bin Laden Granted Right To Use Nuke

From the New York Daily News:

Osama Bin Laden has been granted religious approval to use a nuclear bomb against Americans, according to the CIA's former top Al Qaeda expert.
The former official, Michael Scheuer, tells CBS' "60 Minutes" on tomorrow's broadcast that Bin Laden was given written authority by a Saudi sheik.

The sheik "found that [Bin Laden] was perfectly within his rights" to use nukes.

"Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer says.

Scheuer, who resigned yesterday, was the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking Bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, and the previously anonymous author of two books critical of the West's response to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. He's been tracking Bin Laden since the mid-1980s.

Scheuer tells "60 Minutes" that American leaders have made a mistake by characterizing Bin Laden as "a thug, a gangster" rather than a disciplined plotter of destruction.

"Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary," he says. The Al Qaeda mastermind was involved in the original planning for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He also charged that former CIA Director George Tenet failed to provide the agency's Bin Laden unit with sufficient manpower.

In the interview, Scheuer says that even if Bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably would not have used it before without the authority of the sheik.

Don Singleton
Originally published on November 13, 2004



Any American citizen right now could be killed within the second. I guess now we know how everyone in Iraq feels.

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
From the New York Daily News:

[b]Osama Bin Laden has been granted religious approval to use a nuclear bomb against Americans, according to the CIA's former top Al Qaeda expert.
The former official, Michael Scheuer, tells CBS' "60 Minutes" on tomorrow's broadcast that Bin Laden was given written authority by a Saudi sheik.

The sheik "fou ...[text shortened]... zen right now could be killed within the second. I guess now we know how everyone in Iraq feels.

I don't think Osama was really waiting for some random sheik to give him the go-ahead. But I'll be interested to hear what Scheuer has to say.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Yes...
but, let me draw you back to reality...

If I tell you that you've got religious approval to drug 7th adventists with LSD...does that mean it's gonna happen?

Na....

Knew you would agree!

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
From the New York Daily News:

[b]Osama Bin Laden has been granted religious approval to use a nuclear bomb against Americans, according to the CIA's former top Al Qaeda expert.

Originally posted by iamatiger
Lets hope this is wrong then:

http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html

lol I disagree with what you said but that video was pretty funny nonetheless! lol

Originally posted by Ragnorak
[They need stuff like this to continue the inhumane treatment of the 'terrorist' states of Iraq/Chechnya/Palestine.

http://geekt.org/gopconstrm.mov

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Originally posted by jgvaccaro
I don't think Osama was really waiting for some random sheik to give him the go-ahead. But I'll be interested to hear what Scheuer has to say.