Peace.

Second: we cannot actually take at face value any report regarding information collected from bin Laden's house. This is all in the realm of Spook World, where everything is a game.

Specifically: "The news will undermine hopes of a negotiated peace in Afghanistan". Sniff sniff sniff, hmmm.... smells like a genda.

He is in reality a Pakistani ISI General who took that identity. This is why there is no biographical data or pictures of Mullah Omar before the Taliban and after the start of the Afghan war.

RAW (India's intelligence agency) have a lot of info on this which was handed to the Chimp Administration but they did nothing.

talking conspiracies here

UBL was a puppet of Dick Cheney's and didn't do anything, set him up in a nice place in Pakistan and put on a show.

wonder if I should put the Ministry song No W on here. oh balls there'll be rednecks all over me ya heeer. and yes I can put on a southern accent if I wanted to and it's all jeff foxworthy's fault. how to act dumb and they smarten up before they know it.

...asked a man to pick him out of the water and carry him to higher ground. The man hesitated, and said, "If I pick you up, you might bite me."

"Oh, no," said the snake, "if you help me I wouldn't bite you."

So the man pick the snake up out of the water and carried it to the top of a hill, whereupon, the snake bit him. The man cried, "I trusted you--you said you wouldn't bite me if I helped you!"

And the snake replied, "But you knew what I was when you picked me up."

We know from bitter experience what the Taliban is. The only safe way to deal with them is to remorselessly destroy them.