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14 The Real Plight of Osama 14 The Real Plight of Osama THE REAL PLIGHT OF have these pictures in my possession. stood on foundations of ignorance, and typewriter - which happened to be THE REAL PLIGHT OF OSAMA BIN LADEN This really freaked out my friend. needed the guise of holy war's to Yarrow’s - sat down, and began tying OSAMA BIN LADEN On December 19, 2001 when protect their ignorance. What is going as fast as he could. In three minutes, he we entered the caves of Tora Bora, we on between United States and other typed out his poem - then he got up and found many new advanced weapons free countries and the terrorists, left. He didn’t bother taking “Puff the given to the Al Qaeda by the Chinese. murder, in the name of holy war is now Magic Dragon” with him. He didn’t In only makes sense that Osama bin once removed from an actual holy war! care - he’d gotten it out of his system. Laden would go to Tibet under Chinese He just left it sitting in the typewriter. protection and get a total rejuvenation. The Mystery Behind “PUFF Folk music was popular at The Chinese government caters to THE MAGIC DRAGON” Cornell in the late ‘50s, and Peter America because of big business Yarrow was a big man in the folk Revealed scene. Although he was still an concerns, but the real feeling of China undergraduate, he taught a course on towards America is quite obvious , as “Puff the Magic Dragon” is probably folk music, performed and often the Chinese are constantly trying to one of the best-known folk songs in the organized concerts. As Lipton tells it, by steal our secrets, give us a very hard world. But is it really, as many people Yarrow returned home that night and by time when we land our aircraft on their believe, about drugs? Here’s the Dr. Fred Bell properties and in general, have a very answer. found the poem sitting in the Dr. Fred Bell typewriter, and wrote a melody for it. hard line on democracy. The Chinese Eventually Yarrow became part of I find it quite amusing Lenny Lipton's first year of Peter, Paul and Mary, and they whenever the subject of a Osama bin college wasn’t easy. Not because he included the song about “Puff” in their Laden comes out on the national news was homesick - he was glad to finally act. media. It's quite obvious that the be out of Brooklyn - but because he Years went by, and Lipton United States government is was having a hard time getting used to forgot all about his three-minute poem controlling what the media can report, being on his own. There were so many until a friend from Cornell happen to and it's also quite obvious that they things to think about: girls , money, a mention that he’s seen Peter Yarrow really don't want to know is true career. Growing up obviously wasn’t perform “Puff” with his new group. whereabouts. going to be easy. Lipton secretly began Yarrow told him that Lipton had This story starts back in early to miss his childhood. written it. Was it true? December of last year when one of my The fall of 1958 and winter of Suddenly, Lipton’s little poem friends came back from Tajikistan in 1959 passed. So did Lipton. who came back to him. Afghanistan after delivering some managed to survive at Cornell in spite In the world of rock ‘n’ roll, propaganda leaflets from the back of a of his emotional turmoil. And then one one inevitably runs into stories about C-130 while flying over Afghanistan. I evening in the spring of 1959, a few unscrupulous operators who’ve stolen told him I would be performing a days after his 19th birthday, Lipton songs from their rightful owners. So remote viewing with the help of the made one of the most important it’s nice to be able to write about a case Pleaidian's. He in turn notified the decisions of his life. He decided to go in which an honest man went out of his State Department of what was about to to the library. way to find a writer. That’s what happen. But what followed only lead He was supposed to have happened here. When it began to look to my convictions that the truth was not dinner that night with a friend who as if “Puff” was really going to be going to set anyone free. lived off-campus, but it was still early. worth something, Peter Yarrow tracked Not about December 9th, military, not only supports Osama bin So Lipton wandered over to the library Larry Lipton down to let him know Osama bin Laden left the Tora Bora Laden, but secretly they endorse Al in the Cornell Student Union. He about it. And he’s always listed Lipton Mountains of Afghanistan, proceeding Qaeda. In China there are no drones scanned the shelves until he found a as co-writer - even when Lipton didn’t on an old opium trail Northword flying over looking for Osama bin volume of poems by Ogden Nash, then remember having invented the world’s towards the Mazar E Sharif. This Laden or any of the other Al Qaeda pulled it from the shelved and retired most popular dragon. defied State Department logic, as the members, as they would in to a chair with it. Lenny was struck by For years, people have northern alliance was in control of that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan or a simple rhyme about the “Really-o speculated about the meaning of area. What people don't realize, is that any of the other Stans. Truly-o Dragon.” In fact, he was “Puff,” But Lenny is quite clear about Osama bin Laden is a celebrity to all Osama bin Laden, will once he inspired by it. “If Ogden nash can write what was on his mind when he wrote sides. Therefore a blind eye be turned is healed, will continue on towards that kind of stuff, so can I,” he thought. it: “Loss of innocence, and having to my all parties concerned as to his real North Korea, North Vietnam, Lipton returned the book, left face an adult world,” he says. “It’s movements in Afghanistan. He Cambodia and other areas in the golden the library, and headed for his friend’s surely not about drugs. I can tell you proceeded into Kazakhstan and the city triangle. If you remember correctly, a house. As he walked down the hill that that at Cornell in 1959, no one smoked of Dushanbe. There he stayed for a few years ago, there was quite a led him from Cornell into the town of grass.” None of the “suggestive” few days before proceeding eastward commotion about general Kum Sa and Ithaca, he thought of Ogden Nash’s names were thought out - they just into China. Dushanbe is a city right his heroine empire.This was presentes dragon. And then he thought of his popped into his head as he was out of Arabian Nights. It has been a by Bo Grits a retired American Green own dragon. As he approached his walking along that night. “I find the hangout for drug lords for the past Beret. The Al Qaeda and Osama bin friend’s house, Lipton incorporated his fact that people interpret it as a drug thousand years. Anyone even Laden, have been receiving billions of dragon into a little poem about a song annoying,” he says. “It would be resembling anything straight would dollars in heroine money. Heroin, that subject that was never far from his insidious to propagandize about drugs stand out like a sore thumb. In I might add that is sold to your mind in those days - the end of in a song for little kids. I think it’s a Dushanbe, Osama bin Laden would be children in your schools cheaper than childhood. very sentimental tune.” quiet at home for a few days. However cocaine. You tell me who is honest in When Lipton got to 343 State “Puff the Magic Dragon” has because of the high profile reward this great standoff. Street, he knocked on the door. No had remarkable success for a poem that offered for him by United States State The government to this world answer. Apparently neither his friend took three minutes to write. As a song, Department, there would be informants are corrupt as they have been for nor his friend’s room-mate, Peter it reached #2 on the national charts in that are not loyal to the Al Qaeda centuries, millennia, and nothing is Yarrow, was home. But Lipton wanted 1963, and in the ‘70s became the basis cause, and what eventually probably going to change except we will have to get this poem onto paper, so he went of a continuing series of children’s try to collect on the reward offered. more of our constitutional freedoms inside anyway. he headed straight for a cartoons. [End] So I he went into China and our rights to inalienable freedoms skirting through passes in the Hindu taken away. But be aware, there are Kush mountains and on into Tibet. In higher forces out there now in the new the northern part of Tibet which is age that are going to set the record located at the southern part of the Gobi straight ,and put these governments in Desert. Here he enjoyed rest and a giant fishbowl. The process has relaxation in one of many temples already begun, in this our Aquarian dedicated to healing. The Pleaidian's age. even gave me a picture of the building The governments were he was in, a picture out the bedroom he established to protect the religious was in, and approximate location. I beliefs of the unenlightened whom