Gates: No good intelligence on bin Laden - Jones: Bin Laden still spends time in Afghanistan

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Sunday, December 6, 2009; 10:28 AM

WASHINGTON -- National security adviser James Jones says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan.

Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, says the al-Qaida leader is "sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."

"We're going to have to get after that to make sure that this very, very important symbol of what al-Qaida stands for is either, once again, on the run or captured or killed," Jones said.

read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120600918_pf.html


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12/06/09 10:21 AM ET

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says would 'go and get' bin Laden if it could gather reliable information on his whereabouts

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it has been "years" since the United States had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

Speaking in an interview to be aired on Sunday on ABC's "This Week" program, Gates also said he could not confirm reports this week that a detainee might have seen bin Laden in Afghanistan earlier this year.

read: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/war/Gates-No-Good-Intelligence-on-bin-Laden-78631317.html
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=21075

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1. What BS

They know exactly where he is. If he's killed, they'd have to end the "War on Terror." Plain and simple.

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8. Are your kidding? No one thinks terrorism is confined to Bin Laden

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2. Why is Gates Secy of Defense? He is PNAC.. Neocon....

Of course they have no good intelligence on Bin Laden.. he's dead.

Is the CIA still sending him paychecks?

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3. What do they do carry his coffin in and out of Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Speaking of intelligence or lack of it, this is another thing the Bush/Cheney administration dropped the ball on.

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4. You heard it. We have to support the surge. Bin Laden hangs out in Afghanistan

According to a member of a group that never lies: The military.

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6. Quiz..... undergroung but not in a cave.

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5. Also, from the BBC about the mythical superbogeyman and Gates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8397684.stm

When asked by ABC's This Week programme when the US last had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of the al-Qaeda leader, Mr Gates said: "I think it's been years."

Last week, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Pakistan to do more to find Mr Bin Laden.

"We've got to ask ourselves why, eight years after September the 11th, nobody has been able to spot or detain or get close to Osama bin Laden, nobody's been able to get close to Zawahiri, the number two in al-Qaeda," he said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani responded by saying he did not think Bin Laden was in Pakistan, and that his country had yet to be given any "credible or actionable information" by the US on Bin Laden.

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7. "he's here, he's there,

he's everywhere, that damned Pimpernel!

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9. here's the retired jones and one of his buddies