Bush says catching bin Laden still matters - CBS

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06251150.htm

Bush says catching bin Laden still matters - CBS

WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday said capturing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has eluded a U.S. manhunt since the Sept. 11 attacks five years ago, still mattered.

"He's hiding. And we're on the hunt, obviously," Bush said in an interview with Katie Couric of CBS News before his speech announcing that 14 high-level terrorism suspects had been transferred from secret CIA custody to the Defense Department's facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"Of course. It matters. He's, he's the head of al Qaeda," Bush said. "But one thing is for certain, though, he's, he's not moving like he used to. Another thing is ... he's, you know, not communicating like he used to."

The hunt continues for bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, as well as others, Bush said.

"And we'll get him. It's just a matter of time. We've got a unit in the CIA who is spending a lot of time thinking about these high-value targets," he said.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "We've got a unit in the CIA"

It's not the Bin Laden unit, chimp shut that one down. He's probably just telling another lie.

[Cobalt-60]

17. One of the things that makes the Chimperor sooo creepy

Is that his body language never matches his words.
Is it any wonder that his actual actions dont match them either?

[Supersedeas]

18. Dead or Alive, to not important, to obviously important-which side of bed

did 'perky' McCouric find the President today.

[pinto]

2. He hasn't a clue. Pathetic marionette.

[savemefromdumbya]

3. Just a matter of time (October November)

[LibDemAlways]

4. Flip-Flop....Bush 10/13/2004....

"So I don't know where he (Bin Ladin) is. I just don't spend that much time on him...to be honest with you."

Interesting how Bin Ladin is back on the chimp's radar with the 5th anniversary of 9/11 approaching. And how in the hell did the above quote ever slip past the media whores less than a month before the 2004 election?

[uppityperson]

5. like this?

I found other pictures, but this one struck my funny bone.

[Sparkly]

7. Thank you. nt

[Guaranteed]

16. Big time. nt

[rsmith6621]

6. They Know Exactly Where Osama Is....

Within a city block right now.....Just watch if it looks like the PUG are going to lose big in Novemeber that this administration doesnt somehow arrange a GRAB and GO operation with minimum casualties.....Oh wait a miniute bush doesnt care about those fighting to make him look like a hero....

The PUGS only have TERROR to run on....

[Straight Shooter]

8. How does bush know bin Laden isn't "communicating like he used to"?

How does he know he's not moving like he used to?

Seems to me in order for him to make statements like that, he has to have some basis in fact. Wait a minute. I'm talking about bush, here. Nevermind. :eyes:

[samsingh]

9. bush is such a complete idiot and so are his followers

[ShockediSay]

11. there's no known cure for stupidity nt

[Erika]

10. Well, Ann Coulter says it doesn't matter

What is a bushbot to believe?

[MrPrax]

12. Fallout...

This started it...

Pakistan agrees peace pact with pro-Taliban tribal fighters

The Pakistani army and pro-Taliban tribal militants signed a peace pact yesterday aimed at ending months of ambushes, assassinations and pitched battles along the volatile Afghan border.

The unusual agreement saw the government effectively recognising a force of tribal fighters whose leaders have links to the Taliban or al-Qaida.

Under the deal, the Pakistani army will end its military campaign against the self-declared "Pakistani Taliban" - a loose alliance of tribal militias with strong links to the Afghan Islamist guerrillas - in the North Waziristan tribal agency. In return, the rebels undertake to halt all attacks on the Pakistani army, which have resulted in 350 deaths over the past three years, and prevent cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.

Guardian
additional: CSMonitor

"In response to a question, the President's spokesperson Major General Shaukat Sultan stated that foreigners settled in the area would be allowed to stay there on the condition that they live peacefully and abide by law," she said.

Xinhau

So then Raw Story, among others carried ABC's story (jeez ABC has been in the news lately):

Press secretary to the president of Pakistan tells ABC Osama bin Laden will not be captured if he agrees to live 'peaceful life' here...

Good Wrap Up of the Affair Courtesy of the Commies:

US president calls not to ignore words of Lenin and Hitler

Speaking before US army officers, US president George Bush juxtaposed Osama bin Laden with Vladimir Lenin and Adolph Hitler. He said that underestimating words of “evil and ambitious” people would be “a terrible mistake”. In the speech delivered to the Military Officers Association of America Bush repeatedly quoted Bin Laden and other leaders of Al Qaeda and maintained that ignoring Bin Laden’s words would be just as dangerous as ignoring in the past what Lenin and Hitler said.

Meanwhile, the Pakistani military rebutted information of the US ABC TV Channel that broadcast that Osama bin Laden would not be imprisoned if he agreed to become a law-abiding citizen. The ABC’s commentary is “absurd” and entirely made-up, major general Shaukat Sultan said in an interview to AP.

The ABC’s broadcast also quoted former White House’s counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clark who commented information issued Tuesday on a treaty signed between the Pakistani government and Taliban. Clark argued that the document indicated that the “leaderships of Taliban and Al Qaeda found asylum in Pakistani territory.” Sultan in his interview disproved this assumption.

Regnum

...in the same vein ...but in American

So Bush is getting heat ...

N.D. senators want U.S. to go after bin Laden

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad would like to catch terrorist Osama bin Laden.

The North Dakota senators are proposing the federal government spend $20 million to create an intelligence team dedicated to the capture of the chief planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The “Bring bin Laden to Justice” amendment would require a classified report to Congress every 90 days on the activities of the government related to capturing bin Laden and other top associates of al-Qaeda.

The senators plan to introduce the proposal today as an amendment to the Defense Appropriation bill being debated on the Senate floor. The Senate is due to vote on the bill before the end of the week.

Minot Daily

But call it what it is...

"They B.S. Us, We B.S. Them," U.S. Bin Laden Hunter Says of Pakistan

"Today, the United States and Pakistan are working closely in the fight against terror, and Pakistani forces are rounding up terrorists along the nation’s western border."

*snip*

The bases are routinely attacked at night, Pelton says, and sometimes one is even overrun before the Americans can take it back with air support hours later. He talked to a task force sergeant, who described the incursions:

"We got hit pretty bad two weeks ago," he tells me, adjusting his dirty Jack Daniel's cap. "Six guys in our unit got Purple Hearts. They were waiting for us--knew exactly where we were. . . . The Pakistanis watched the whole thing and did nothing."

He points to a spot a little over a mile away. "They fire rockets right from that hill on the Pak side. We meet with the Pak officials every month on the border. . . . They smile. We smile. They bullshit us and we bullshit them. Then they watch us get attacked without lifting a finger. This place is fucked." I ask him if the men who attacked him were Taliban, Pakistanis, or Arabs. He looks up at me, squints in the sun, and spits again for effect, admitting, "I have no fucking idea who we are fighting."

TPMmuckraker

If this is the roll out to the GOP re-election campaign, democrats will have no problems

[arewenotdemo]

14. that last article was just too fucking rich

"I have no fucking idea who we are fighting."

Somebody should really tell the poor bastard that he's targeted by:

(1) the Taliban,
(2) the Pakistanis,
(3) Al Qaeda, AND
(4) the Bush Administration.

Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad may have the right idea there.

I want whatever would show our fuckhead fellow Americans that their precious Faux Cowboy effectively allowed Bin Laden to escape into Pakistan where his security is assured by both Musharraf and Bush.

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

13. Most everything * doesn't spend that much time on matters

far as I can tell

[lumpy]

15. The CIA unit is THINKING about those

high-value targets, he sez. Well at least they are THINKING sbout those high-value targets.

[bamacrat]

19. Yeah, about as much as it matter if Puxatauny Phil sees his shadow or not.

He's a giant, frail Arab that has to be hooked up to a dialysis machine twice a week, father time will catch up with him before we do. Well that is unless we know where he is and are keeping him quiet and tucked away to make his little videos.