ABC: CIA Rushing Resources to Bin Laden Hunt

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/cia_rushing_res.html

CIA Rushing Resources to Bin Laden Hunt

Armed with fresh intelligence, the CIA is moving additional man power and equipment into Pakistan in the effort to find Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri, U.S. officials tell ABC News.

"Reports that the trail has gone stone cold are not correct," said one U.S. official. "We are very much increasing our efforts there," the official said.

People familiar with the CIA operation say undercover officers with paramilitary training have been ordered into Pakistan and the area across the border with Afghanistan as part of the ramp-up.

Although never publicly acknowledged, Pakistan has permitted CIA teams to secretly operate inside Pakistan.

[AX10]

1. Or the GOP needs something to boost Bush's ratings.

[rodeodance]

15. bumpity bump bump bump..........

[Marie26]

24. Or they need an excuse

to cover up new ramped-up covert ops against Iran.

[truthisfreedom]

2. How exciting! I'm just so thrilled! bushco has failed to get this guy for 6 years after he

"attacked" us inside our own borders, and meanwhile they've destroyed nearly everything we hold dear, and NOW they're going to make a big push to catch him.

[KittyWampus]

20. Well, letting bin Laden go in Tora Bora just added to the excitement, eh?

[robinlynne]

31. 3 times even. (They let him go three times.)

[Lasher]

34. Lemme see...

First time was when the Taliban offered to give him to the Saudis and we didn't accept, right? Then Tora Bora was two. What was the third?

[Amonester]

37. When bin in Dubai where he met a CIA official?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html

[Lasher]

38. Hmmm, I think that must be right.

Junior's juvenile attitude precluded any interest in bin Laden. He wasn't interested in retaliating for the attack on the USS Cole because it occurred during Clinton's presidency. It was like they attacked the Democratic States of America but Junior lived in the Republican States of America. Here's one reason I believe that:

Clarke vs. Rice: Excerpts from testimony
Thursday, April 8, 2004

Fifteen days after former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke testified before the 9/11 commission, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made her case before the panel.

Here are excerpts from their testimony on several key issues before the commission.

<snip>

Why didn't Bush respond to the USS Cole bombing?

CLARKE: I suggested, beginning in January of 2001, that ... there was an open issue which should be decided about whether or not the Bush administration should retaliate for the Cole attack .

Unfortunately, there was no interest, no acceptance of that proposition. And I was told on a couple of occasions, "Well, you know, that happened on the Clinton administration's watch."

I didn't think it made any difference. I thought the Bush administration, now that it had the CIA saying it was al Qaeda, should have responded.

RICE: I do not believe to this day that it would have been a good thing to respond to the Cole, given the kinds of options that we were going to have. ... We really thought that the Cole incident was passed, that you didn't want to respond tit-for-tat. ...

Just responding to another attack in an insufficient way we thought would actually probably embolden the terrorists -- they had been emboldened by everything else that had been done to them -- and that the best course was to look ahead to a more aggressive strategy against them.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/clarke.rice/index.html

Edit to correct dangling participle. Muh anglish teechur wooda bin poude.

[robinlynne]

42. saw a video with a cia officer from afghanistan saying that they let him go three times

in afghanistan. sorry, I cant remember exactly who it was.

[whistle]

3. Is Bin Laden Hunt related to Hunt Oil of Texas?

[coalition_unwilling]

18. Or perhaps E. Howard Hunt (of Watergate fame)?

[whistle]

22. That's also possible

[Botany]

4. Nice to know that "a secret mission" by the CIA is so secret

"Shhhhhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet; I'm hunting bin Laden, ehehehehehehe."

[SoFlaJet]

7. LOL

Wabbit season.....Duck Season....

[Botany]

8. How about?

Iraq season .... Iran season ....

I have to try to laugh a "kid" now 20 is in Sadr City, Baghdad driving
a Hummer for *'s surge ..... that does not have a chance in hell to work.

[SoFlaJet]

43. I was screaming about this

to my brother a little while ago on the phone-he's a Vietnam vet and he told me about the 9 guys killed already today-he said he's going to Washington because there's supposed to be some demonstration where the pro-war "morans" are going to TRY and block the VVOA memorial-he's going as a gate crasher

[librechik]

12. yeah--no way anyone will warn him!

cuz, of course, he's like all unpopular and stuff. Wait--no, that's OUR Evil Leader...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. *

:rofl:

[GeorgeGist]

6. And the point of announcing this ...

is Bullsh*t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. They are "Rushing Resources"...

To the tribal areas of Pakistan, perhaps the single most lawless and violent areas on the face of the earth. Even the Pakistani Army is loath to go there.

That is sure one duty station I would hate to see come up, if I was a CIA Knuckledragger, no matter how much I liked being in the middle of the furball.

[stillcool]

10. the Punch and Judy show

..has more validity.

[tchunter]

11. someone's worried about his "legacy"

he'll either prevent a future from occurring or go down as the worst president ever

[Lasher]

35. Not to worry, his rich pals have bought him a legacy

Half a billion dollars are sitting in a stink tank right now, just to pump out post-presidency good news history remakes forever. That's the way it's done when you give the rich folks all the tax cuts they want. Haven't you noticed all the things that are named after Saint Gipper? They even named an airport after him that was already named after another president.

[ShortnFiery]

13. Gee, I though Cheney's blood clot was successful at burying the lead?

The discovery of this clot must be impromptu and genuine because we all know that our USA M$M whores can only focus on one story at a time. :shrug:

[Vidar]

14. Six years late.

[rodeodance]

16. oh,,,,,,those little details!!

[Dr Fate]

28. no no- they are "rushing" n/t

n/t

[MGKrebs]

17. Resources? Like thawing equipment?

[youngdem]

19. Trying to pull Bushy's ratings out of the shitter I see

We missed our chance at Tora Bora...To kill him now inside Pakistan risks erupting yet another war we are not equipped to fight nor apt to stomach.

I guess they want to rescue his image by killing Bin Laden before he is done, but like everything these clowns do, they will fuck it up.

[KansDem]

21. .

:boring:

[Ignacio Upton]

23. Well...better they find him now than during the last week of October 2008

n/t.

[dansolo]

25. Didn't the CIA disband the group that had been hunting bin Laden?

[Trajan]

26. First : The US (and anyone else for that matter) ....

Can enter the tribal areas at will, if they can walk over mountain passes and meld into the population .... They could have always done this, and most surely have ..... The Pakistani border is far from being a solid barrier ... it is extremely porous ...

Second: Osama and al Zawahiri can hide indefinitely, given the difficult terrain and remoteness of most locations ..... This is, of course, why they 'havent' already been spotted ....

Third: It is obvious that the 25 MILLION dollar reward hasnt motivated a single successful turncoat ..... It doesnt appear that will change anytime soon ....

I often think about the exit of the USSR from Afghanistan .... the degrading march through the passes towards the north .... leaving in abject failure ... like so many before .....

They will never find OBL ..... Not there ....

[John Q. Citizen]

33. He may be dead.

[Dr Fate]

27. Rushing? Errrr- how is SIX YEARS LATE "rushing?" n/t

n/t

[IndianaGreen]

29. "Undercover officers...been ordered into Pakistan." Those blue eyes are a dead giveaway!

Find the guy riding the donkey with a dialysis machine under tow.

[robinlynne]

30. DUers. Your answers are so good I've nothing more to add. just a kick.

[tuvor]

32. I am truly not that concerned about him.

I don't really think about him very much.

[Lasher]

36. General says eliminating bin Laden not priority

Feb. 23, 2007, 11:18PM
General says eliminating bin Laden not priority

By CHRIS VAUGHN
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

FORT WORTH — The Army's highest-ranking officer and the former leader of the secretive world of Special Operations offered his thoughts on the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden during a luncheon here Friday.

They're probably not what anyone expected.

"I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."

Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the Army, pointed to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the killings of his sons, Uday and Qusay, and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence that bin Laden's capture or death would have little effect on the threats to the United States.

"So we get him, and then what?" Schoomaker said. "There's a temporary feeling of goodness, but in the long run, we may make him bigger than he is today. He's hiding, and he knows we're looking for him. We know he's not particularly effective. I'm not sure there's that great of a return" on capturing or killing bin Laden.
(snip/...)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2743846

:wtf:

[xchrom]

39. six years, six years, six years --

that's the real headline here -- it's been SIX YEARS.

six years, six years, six years

[PhilipShore]

40. CIA disbands Bin laden Unit -- last year!

[MethuenProgressive]

41. And George Bush responds: "Osama bin Who?

[dogfacedboy]

44. Too little, too late.

After years of failure by CheneyBushCorp to capture/kill OBL, I will find it impossible to believe that if OBL is ever captured/killed on Bush's watch that it isn't a big, well timed show.