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India-Pakistan
Special US unit can enter Pakistan at will to hunt Osama
2006-09-11
A special US unit now has the authority to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan without having to seek permission first, according to two US officials. A comprehensive report on the hunt for bin Laden run by the Washington Post on Sunday says that Lieutenant General Stanley A McChrystal, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) operates on the understanding with Pakistan that US units will not enter Pakistan, except under extreme circumstances, and that Pakistan will deny giving them permission.

This is what happened in January 2006, when the JSOC troops clandestinely entered the village of Saidgai, two officials familiar with the operation said, and Pakistan protested. “The authority,” one knowledgeable person said, “follows the target”: if the target is bin Laden, the stakes are high enough for McChrystal to decide any action on his own.

The JSOC has been given more resources from the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies. President Bush recently directed the team to “flood the zone” or intensify the search for bin Laden. The resources of the special group in terms of personnel and materials were also increased. However, no one is certain where the “zone” is.
Posted by:Fred

#22  It might shut the Dems up for . . . 5 minutes.

Nope. Two minutes before they're expressing "concern" that OBL gets "humane" treatment.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-11 21:56  

#21  IMHO, the death or capture of OBL will not change anything in the WoT, just like the death of the terrorist Che Guevarra (killed in 67 and made a martyr 30 years later by Castro) did no change "la Revolucion comunista" neither did the arrest in 94? of terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sánchez (aka Carlos, made a hero by Hugo Chávez in 2006)) changed anything.

It might shut the Dems up for . . . 5 minutes. I'd like to find out if you're right either way.
Posted by: Tibor   2006-09-11 21:49  

#20  #16 Death has shown remarkable success in deterring repeat offenses by its recipients.
Posted by Thaitle Phiter8656 2006-09-11 10:27|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

Whahahahahaha, yes indeed. The statistics on mortality and recidivism are strikingly parallel.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-11 13:55  

#19  I suspect this is the payoff for the Wazoo truce deal. Why else would would compel the Bush administration to be so quiet in the face of Pak's "abject surrender"?
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2006-09-11 13:15  

#18  The ISI would not have green lighted this deal if they thought we'd actually get OBL. That said, we might be able to snatch some mid level guys.
Posted by: Iblis   2006-09-11 12:19  

#17  Take out some Saudi princes with charatable attitudes with their money, as well as some Iranian MMs with significant assents that this whole Jihad thing will start winding down. Otherwise, we will be expending all our treasure and military treating the symptoms.

Take out the brains and the food source and the rest of it dies.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-09-11 11:24  

#16  Death has shown remarkable success in deterring repeat offenses by its recipients.
Posted by: Thaitle Phiter8656   2006-09-11 10:27  

#15  IMHO, the death or capture of OBL will not change anything in the WoT, just like the death of the terrorist Che Guevarra (killed in 67 and made a martyr 30 years later by Castro) did no change "la Revolucion comunista" neither did the arrest in 94? of terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sánchez (aka Carlos, made a hero by Hugo Chávez in 2006)) changed anything.

Posted by: Speatch Gluting5663   2006-09-11 10:08  

#14  I trust the ISI as far as I can throw their duplicitous asses.
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-09-11 08:30  

#13  Oderint Dum Metuant
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2006-09-11 08:10  

#12  Want results ? Drop the reward to 15 million.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-11 07:27  

#11  Family goes to the US. Bullshit. The whole village comes over. We'll even give them driving lessons and a taxi each. If it means no GIs get killed getting the scum bag, it is worth it.

Sorry, I don't want any more of those barbarians in the US. Promise them homes in the US, and settle them in Gitmo.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-11 07:24  

#10  Confirmation, I suppose, that OBL is nowhere near the border.
While SF raid border villages, Osama is safe inside the ISI safehouse in Rawalpindi.

Posted by: john   2006-09-11 06:53  

#9  Ramzi Yusef was captured after the US arranged for a huge air-leaflet dropping in Pakistan. According to leaked info. one of his own associates couldn't resist the $2 million reward. Khalid Sheik Mohammad was also betrayed for money. I have met Pakistanis who dislike Arabs for their arrogance and lazyness. I am really surprised that the $25 million reward has not yielded results. Special Forces can't do anything without reliable info.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-09-11 05:47  

#8  For technical intelligence ISI works hand in hand with the NSA (National Security Agency)

Maybe why we've not got the bugger yet...
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-09-11 05:33  

#7  Daily Times. Geez, think there might be some less than pro-WOT reasons for running this story? I'm sure this will generate big-time IslamoNazi faction furor. The PakiLand Follies.

I sure hope it's true.
Posted by: flyover   2006-09-11 03:10  

#6  Ditto.
Posted by: .com   2006-09-11 02:27  

#5  I like the way you think, Penguin. That's a damn fine idea!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2006-09-11 02:24  

#4  Sooner or Later
Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087   2006-09-11 01:50  

#3  Â“This could all end tomorrow.” One unsolicited walk-in, one tribesman seeking to collect the $25 million reward, one courier who would rather his kids grow up in the US, one dealmaker, “and this could all change,” he said.

They should kick the reward to fifty million, or even 100 million. It would be worth it in the short run, let alone long run. Those jihadis watched "Lets Make a Deal". They know.

Family goes to the US. Bullshit. The whole village comes over. We'll even give them driving lessons and a taxi each. If it means no GIs get killed getting the scum bag, it is worth it.
Posted by: Penguin   2006-09-11 01:11  

#2  Send up a swarm of long duration surveillance drones. Arclight anything that remotely resembles bin Laden. Use spatulas to collect DNA evidence for subsequent confirmation.

Yes, I'd love for us to capture him alive. We need to milk him like the last cow on the farm. But more than anything, I just want him dead.

NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-11 01:07  

#1  "No one is certain where the 'Zone' is" > well now, I wouldn't go that far. Many anti-American agendists, Global-crats Commie-crats Retreat-crats + Waffle-crats etal. certainly have a stake in making sure that Kindo is never found - what will Whitney say???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-09-11 00:23  

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