Bin Laden manhunt still drawing a blank

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060902/ap_on_re_as/sept11_hunt_for_bin_laden

Bin Laden manhunt still drawing a blank

By PAUL GARWOOD and MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press Writers 46 minutes ago

AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER - The al-Qaida terror camps are gone from
Afghanistan, but the enigma of
Osama bin Laden still hangs over these lawless borderlands where tens of thousands of U.S. and Pakistani troops have spent nearly five years searching for him.

Villagers say the CIA missed by only a few miles when it targeted bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, with a missile strike in January. Then in May, U.S. Special Forces arrested one of al-Zawahri's closest aides, suggesting the trail has not gone entirely cold.

As for bin Laden himself? He may be nearby. Yet hopes of cornering the Saudi-born al-Qaida leader seem distant as ever. The last time authorities said they were close to getting him was in 2004, and in hindsight those statements seem more hope than fact.

Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the most publicized manhunt in history has drawn a blank. The CIA has reorganized agents searching for the al Qaida leaders in the face of the evolving nature of the terrorist threat. And the American military's once-singular focus is diffused by the need for reconstruction and a growing fight against the Taliban, the resurgent Afghan Islamic movement that once hosted bin Laden.

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[Erika]

1. Coultergeist said Bin Laden is irrelevant now

The democrat lady said why is he? Coultergeist slithered off stage.

[IChing]

3. And read this newspeak

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree

This is most likely a "Newspeak Translation" of Longfellow's original poem, The Village Blacksmith

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.

[MADem]

2. Why, golly gee, who'd a thunk?

[mom cat]

5. No one could have ever predicted this!

:sarcasm:

[IChing]

4. Best title I have seen, a blank, That gun needs to be handed to

Cheney or maybe Emmanuel Goldstein so the bullet of hate gives more profit