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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Forces Arrest 40 Suspects Connected to Bin Laden
2011-05-06
Pakistani security forces have arrested 40 people in Abbottabad suspected of having connections to the late Osama bin Laden.
... who was potted in Pakistain...

Not to worry. Lahore High Court will spring them. "Lack of evidence," y'know.
Ah, the 'third phase'...
Pakistani sources called the arrests near bin Laden's compound the "second phase" of the operation that killed the Al Qaeda leader, according to the Open Source Center.
Really, they were gonna get around to the first phase. We didn't have to do it.

Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#10  Probably putting them in protective custody so they don't come down with a sudden case of Predator.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2011-05-06 19:53  

#9  Lepetomane, or who blew watch duty?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-05-06 17:08  

#8  The "Usual Suspects" will get a 2 week paid vacation and will be just part of the catch and release program.

The old playbook worked so well before......

At least Congress is looking into cutting off funding---10 years late.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-05-06 16:30  

#7  I think this Casablanca qutoes works in this situation, "Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects. "
Posted by: Joger Oppressor of the Lichtensteiners9577   2011-05-06 15:17  

#6  Its laughable , the amount of dribble eminating from Pakistain . A few more weeks of this and I'll need some stitches in my side . Seriously who the hell do they think theyre kidding with so much balony . ooh wait.. its their their gullible , backward , inbred population. Huzzah.
Posted by: Oscar   2011-05-06 15:10  

#5  Or maybe wire it to Zardawi, see what happens.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-05-06 14:53  

#4  Maybe they're looking for the mole.

Maybe it would be worth 25 million or so just to wire that sort of money to someone's account, see what happens.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-05-06 14:52  

#3  Ah, yes, the "round up the usual suspects" phase of what Pappy described yesterday (and I'm paraphrasing) as a typical Third World cluster-f0rk.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-05-06 14:40  

#2  Yeah, how do we make it look like we were not complicit in protecting UBL and we are on top of this thing? And how do we make it look like we are doing something so the American boodle continues?
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-05-06 14:33  

#1  We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here*, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! - Governor William J. Le Petomane

* subsidized by American foreign aid
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-05-06 13:47  

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