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| WaPo Hang-Wringing About Elusive bin Laden |
| 2006-09-10 |
| The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them anywhere near the al-Qaeda leader, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. But not because the MSM keeps leaking the methods of gathering intelligence, no; the genius terrs figger it out all by their lonesomes. "The handful of assets we have have given us nothing close to real-time intelligence" that could have led to his capture, said one counterterrorism official, who said the trail, despite the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history, has gone "stone cold." But in the last three months, following a request from President Bush to "flood the zone," the CIA has sharply increased the number of intelligence officers and assets devoted to the pursuit of bin Laden. What about all the screaming that the evil Buh$hitler had 'disbanded' the Binny Boyz? The intelligence officers will team with the military's secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and with more resources from the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies. The problem, former and current counterterrorism officials say, is that no one is certain where the "zone" is. "Here you've got a guy who's gone off the net and is hiding in some of the most formidable terrain in one of the most remote parts of the world surrounded by people he trusts implicitly," said T. McCreary, spokesman for the National Counterterrorism Center. "And he stays off the net and is probably not mobile. That's an extremely difficult problem." Rest at link, including it's Bush's fault for pulling folks to go to the bad war in Iraq, (because, "It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that.") and what a petty man Rumsfeld is. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 That should be "Hand-Wringing". I do catch most of my typos. Usually. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-09-10 15:58 |
| #2 Not sure, Frank. I've seen lots of footage of discolored rocks in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-09-10 14:34 |
| #1 Have we seen a video of him that can be positively dated since 2002? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-09-10 14:08 |