{"id":699,"date":"2004-02-28T16:17:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/bin_laden_rumors\/"},"modified":"2004-02-28T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T21:17:52","slug":"bin_laden_rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/bin_laden_rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian radio reports that Osama bin Laden was captured &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20040228\/D810BV100.html\">a long time ago<\/a>.&#8221;  The Pentagon, Pakistan, and even one of the sources for the story are denying that bin Laden is actually in custody, and I doubt people would keep something like that secret for very long.  But it is conceivable, as some stories have reported, that we have <i>located<\/i> bin Laden, are containing him within a small area, and will move to haul him in at a more &#8220;convenient&#8221; time.  Thus I don&#8217;t think we can easily dismiss the motives attributed here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report said bin Laden had been in custody for a period of time, but that President Bush was withholding any announcement until closer to November elections.<br \/>\n&#8220;Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election,&#8221; the radio report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Call me cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/bin_laden_rumors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bin Laden Rumors\"><p>Iranian radio reports that Osama bin Laden was captured &#8220;a long time ago.&#8221; The Pentagon, Pakistan, and even one of the sources for the story are denying that bin Laden is actually in custody, and I doubt people would keep something like that secret for very long. But it is conceivable, as some stories have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}