CNN.com: 'Revenge' pushes hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan

[Hissyspit]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/03/afghan.sept11.ap/index.html

'Revenge' pushes hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan

NARAY, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hundreds of American soldiers at this remote outpost are keeping up the hunt for Osama bin Laden even though the trail's gone cold, still motivated by memories of the hijacked and crashed airliners of five years ago on September 11.

"Revenge was a big part of it," said 24-year-old Lt. Mike Vieira of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. The unit's 600 soldiers arrived here in February at what was then the army's northernmost outpost along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.

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At least seven soldiers, including the battalion's first commander, Lt. Col. Joseph J. Fenty of Florida, have been killed in ambushes and helicopter crashes during the mission. The troops are pushing into areas of eastern Afghanistan where anti-U.S. insurgents have long operated unchallenged.

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The distance and time spent away from loved ones back home can eat away at morale.

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"Unless you are here and see the terrain, you wonder how is it possible the man (bin Laden) has been able to avoid capture for over five years," says the battalion's intelligence officer, Lt. Clay Huffman, 24, from New York state. Targeting low-level militants is difficult "and the higher ones are very careful," he said.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Quick! Someone tell them the pretzeldente

doesn't care about Bin Laden, doesn't even spend any time thinking about him.

This means those soldiers in Afghanistan can come home now! :)

[DRoseDARs]

2. "Unless you are here and see the terrain..." OH. BULL. SHIT.

Two words for you Lt. Huffman: Tora Bora.

We caught up to him just fine and just before we went in for the kill, the commander in charge was told, "No, wait." If this administration had any interest in finding bin Laden, it would have already done so long ago and not as an election-year stunt.

[CJCRANE]

3. "The troops

troops are pushing into areas of eastern Afghanistan where anti-U.S. insurgents have long operated unchallenged".

[CJCRANE]

4. I heard they'd called off the hunt

for Bin Laden, that it's officially over, they'd quietly disbanded the unit.

So how come it's suddenly back on again?

[Briar]

5. Revenge

(not Justice, as the apologists argue) has pushed every reaction from 9/11 onwards, including the brutal dismantling of Iraq.

Which is ironic, since the noisily Christian nation pursuing that revenge seems to have ignored the Christian injunction against revenge, and for love and forgiveness.

[roseBudd]

6. Ann Coulter says bin Laden is irrelevant, well all righty then