Osama Bin Laden is in Pakistan not Iran.

[Postman]

Porter Goss has an "excellent idea" as to the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden but he can't tell us where he is.

It just so happens that Porter Goss is a Bush crony willing to say or do anything to continue the deception of the American people.

Maybe one could infer from his lack of candor that Goss is setting the propaganda stage for the Iran War by suggesting in a subtle way that Osama is in Iran.

One could also infer that he is suggesting that Osama is in Pakistan and actually apprehending and capturing Osama inside Pakistan would have a destabilizing effect (i.e. Musharaff would be killed and extremists would take over)

Considering the track record of lies attached to this most criminal of administrations, I tend to believe the more logical argument that Bin Laden is being harbored in Pakistan.

The BS told to us before the Iraq invasion about the reasons for war in Iraq should be fair warning to all about the credibility of this administration when it comes to matters of foreign policy and intelligence.

Don't fall for some "defector" from Iran telling of Iranian nuclear capabilities. The same shit happened with Iraq and now look where we are.

[justinsb]

1. OBL is likely in Saudi Arabia

It's where he's from and where his wealthy and powerful family and friends are. It seems like the place he'd likely go after retiring from the CIA in 2002.

[Zynx]

6. Unlikely - the Saudi family wants him dead

Largely because he wants them dead.

I say Pakistan.

[leveymg]

7. Actually his family is from Yemen. They moved to SA

in the 1930s where UBL's father, originally a bricklayer, became a trusted insider and bagman for King Faisal. The bin Ladens were rewarded with enormous construction contracts, and the family business grew into a huge diversified conglomerate, the largest employer in the Middle East.

Yemen has long been the epicenter of anti-British, anti-colonial militancy on the Arabian peninsula, owing to the huge naval base the British built at the Port of Aman, and abandoned in 1967. In the 1990s, the US Navy started using the port again, which became a (predictably) contentious issue for local Islamic radicals.

In October 2000, The USS Cole was blown up in Aden Harbor during a refueling stop by Yemeni al-Qaeda members. Flt. 77 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi was from Yemen, where his uncle had been operating an important UBL communications center.

The NSA and British intelligence had been eavesdropping on that site since at least 1995, when the name "Nawaf" was first noted. The CIA tracked al-Hazmi and his partner, Khalid al-Midhar, to and from the January 2000 planning summit in Kuala Lumpur where the Cole attack and the 9/11 "planes operation" were discussed. That meeting was monitored by multiple US and allied intelligence services.

Al-Midhar and al-Hazmi reentered the US on January 15, 2000. The recent FBI Inspector General's report reveals that the FBI liaison at the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) was ordered not to send out a memo he had drafted alerting FBI counter-terrorism officials about their entry into the US.

I would look in Yemen, as well.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Yeah, but Pakistan has nukes so we can't invade them...

Idiot Son needs a victory somewhere and he's figuring people will forget Iraq if he invades Iran. Just like everybody forgot about the Afghanistan mess.

As long as he's in office it's just going to be one disaster after the next.

[dogday]

3. So much for if you harbor Terrorist, you are with the Terrorist

remark by shrub....

[ThomWV]

4. He Could Just As Well Be In Palm Beach

You can not believe a single word you are told about the 'war on terrorism'. Not one single word.

[Al-CIAda]

5. You mean the CIA controlled ISI had him all along?

Hum...imagine that.
:sarcasm:

[Kraklen]

8. He's probably in Crawford, Texas.

Playing X-box and drinking mint juleps.