Saturday, September 08, 2007

When Comment Isn't Irrelevant



As someone has helpfully pointed out on the previous thread, I shall be flying to Italy on September 11th. Hmmm. As they say in Airline, 'guess I picked the wrong day...'. Watching the bin Laden video all I could focus on was his beard, so when I saw this picture on a blog I hadn't come across before called COMMENT IS IRRELEVANT, I thought I'd share it with you.

For someone who must spend his time travelling from hideout to hideout, bin Laden seemed very well supplied with 'beard colourant'. He was also remarkably well informed about what is going on in the world - even talking about US mortgage rates. His remark about the conflict between America and the Arab world only ending when the USA converts to Islam, however, shows just what a dangerous nutter the West is up against - as if we didn't know it already. He really is like something out of a Bond film. I half expected to see him stroking a cat.

Of course what should worry us is the possibility that this video contained code words, which might set off another round of atrocities. At times likes this it is easy for people to feel helpless. And at times like this we have to hope that the security services come into their own.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps his beard colour is a signal... "if it's grey, blow yourself up today... if it's black, don't fight back"

Ralph said...

Soon to appear on the dust jacket of the next Noam Chomsky rant:

'Among one of the most capable of those from your own side' Osama Bin Laden.

Fidothedog said...

Grecian 2000, brilliant stuff by all accounts.

Quite happy to go gray as nature intended unlike Osama who seems to be having somewhat of a mid life crisis.

I am sure that he will be buying a new flash suicide belt, or what ever it is that radical moslems do when they reach that time of life.

Tapestry said...

Bin Laden does not approve of the way God made him. Surely his religion would compel him to appear as God intended, and not allow him to purchase hair colourants produced by decadent western non-Islamic countries?

Is he finding that western trends and influences such as style, fashion etc are not as bad as he once believed?

Or is it simply one rule for himself and another for everyone else?

Anonymous said...

Especially as someone has bought 245,000 put options betting one european index will fall by a third before September 21st.

I shall be walking everywhere :-)

The Hitch said...

No it just goes to show the video
is a CI Ada fake
They cant even be bothered to try and make it look real as all the sheeple will buy it.

On a serious note, the photograph on my blog of me in my boxer shorts is genuine , no padding or special effects , its all me.
And just in case MI5 are reading it isn'a signal for anything just me relaxing by a light bulb in my underpants.

Anonymous said...

There. Even Osama can't live without product.

Crazy beard, crazy guy.

Byeeeee!

Anonymous said...

I still think Osama is a smear of DNA somewhere in Tora Bora. I don't believe any of these sudden appearances. He never says anything of importance.

It's like when you read about people attending seances, and they finally make touch with Fred or whoever, and what does Fred have to say? Something along the lines of, "I miss you very much, but I'm very happy here. You will meet someone whose name begins with M. Do not trust that person."

I'm not sure the real Osama would be stupid enough to suggest that the US convert to islam.

Anonymous said...

The Hitch:

You are a tart.

If you want Iain to invite you to Lake Como, why don't you just ask him?

Chris Paul said...

The Wahhabi guys that live in my part of Manchester regularly, or frequently to be more accurate, henna their beards. I think for special occasions. Ramadan starts in a few days.

This RAC is not a club or a roadside rescue service.

Anonymous said...

I have to say Osama is looking well for someone who was supposed to have been dead for years. Why can't the Yanks catch him after spending the best part of a trillion dollars on the 'war on terror' ?

Is it because they don't want to ?

After all, no enemy, no war. And that wouldn't keep the military industrial complex that bankrolls Bush happy at all, no sirree..

Anonymous said...

Civilised countries should ban this ramadan rubbish. Can you imagine how alert someone is at 4 p.m. who hasn't had any food or drink since around 5 a.m.? These people are driving cars and doing electrical work and teaching children and they're a bloody menace.

Anonymous said...

Just out of interest:
- Who thinks that Osama is still alive?
- Who thinks that Al Qaeda exists as an actual organisation (as opposed to a verb)

Would be interested in numbers.

Anonymous said...

What the hell do you mean "as opposed to a verb?"

Anonymous said...

Osama?

I've been trying to drill it into him for years that he exists as an actual organisation (as opposed to a verb), but that he should lose his interest in numbers.

Verbs just make me feel queasy.

Shut that door.

Anonymous said...

Dale, convert to Islam or be more porky.

Anonymous said...

Just out of interest:
- Who thinks that Iain Dale is still alive?
- Who thinks that Iain Dale exists as an actual organisation (as opposed to a verb)

Would be interested in numbers.

Anonymous said...

No, missus, please.

No! Settle down. You're a disgrace.

Just make meself comfy.

NO!

Ooh, what a rabble, no, please.

Who asked you?

What?

No!

Titter ye not.

Titter ye NOT!

Anonymous said...

Big Andy - What numbers would you be interested in? How about 18,716? Or would you prefer 709? 22,000,000?

Let us know! We have numbers for all occasions!

The Remittance Man said...

Whether it contains secret codewords or not, doubtless this latest broadcast will inspire some bunch of numpties or other to try something homicidally stupid.

Perhaps what is more interesting is OBL's call for America to convert. Along with his other calls for the recreation of the Caliphate and so on, this seems to indicate a rather broader (if crazier) agenda than just "Palestine" or "Abu Ghraib", regardless of what the so-called experts and peaceniks would have us believe.