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Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: wulfie on September 09, 2003, 12:41:11 PM: From:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/sept11_OBL_030908.html

"The hunt for Osama bin Laden has been narrowed to a 40-square-mile section of the Waziristan region of Pakistan, senior U.S. officials told ABCNEWS."

Mike/wulfie
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: OIO on September 09, 2003, 03:56:33 PM: i bet he's sitting on all those WMD's they havent found yet. Tricky SOB

(insert fishing rod gif here)
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: Maniac on September 09, 2003, 03:59:13 PM: Ya,

Feels like the hunt for bigfoot.
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: Eagler on September 09, 2003, 03:59:39 PM: how many MOAB s would it take to carpet bomb those 40 sq miles?
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: Ripsnort on September 09, 2003, 04:01:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Eagler
how many MOAB s would it take to carpet bomb those 40 sq miles?

edit: 6,400
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: Maniac on September 09, 2003, 04:04:38 PM: Nukes?
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: Ripsnort on September 09, 2003, 04:07:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Maniac
Nukes?

No, MOAB's.

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The bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Air Burst (MOAB) weapon, contains 9.5 tons of a very powerful explosive. It is intended primarily for targeting against infantry and armoured vehicles. It can kill people within several hundred metres of the point of detonation, and cause lung damage and other injuries over an even wider area.

The MOAB is an airburst weapon designed to be used against surface targets or shallow trenches, not deep underground bunkers. It represents a more powerful development of a 7.5 ton bomb, the BLU-82, originally produced during the US war in Vietnam; there, it was employed, among other things, for instant clearance of forest to provide helicopter landing zones. The BLU-82, sometimes called Big Blue or even daisy-cutter, was kept in the USAF weapons inventory after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975.

The BLU-82 was subsequently used to attack Iraqi infantry and trenches in the 1991 Gulf war, and more recently in Afghanistan. There, it was deployed against cave entrances and in open country around the mountains of Tora Bora. Journalists who visited areas where the bomb had been dropped reported scenes of extraordinary devastation.
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Post by: Otto on September 09, 2003, 05:03:40 PM: Osama bin Laden is DEAD! He died at Tora Bora and his atoms are now circling the globe.

But, since it impossiable to prove his demise it's in everyone interest to keep chasing his ghost.

Hint: Can you say 'Video Camera'?
Title: bin Laden has 40 square miles left to live?
Post by: FUNKED1 on September 09, 2003, 05:29:04 PM: I'll say it again, they already found Bin Laden, Saddam, and the WMD, and they are withholding the information so they can get the poll numbers to peak at the right time in November 2004.