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2007-09-27 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-27 09:16|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 "Missed him by that much!"

Posted by Maxwell Smart 2007-09-27 10:03|| 2007-09-27 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe he is a symbol at this point but I for want would like to see his head on pike.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-27 10:22|| 2007-09-27 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 would like to.. There, corrected.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-27 10:23|| 2007-09-27 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 "But the bigger part of the picture is the question of allocation of resources from Afghanistan to Iraq."

Sooo...this report is from NBC huh? Go figure.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-09-27 10:49|| 2007-09-27 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 They turned inhabitable caves into rubble and killed dozens of Al Qaeda and Taliban dead. Sounds like a success to me.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-27 11:01|| 2007-09-27 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Bush can never be successful in the MSM. It would destroy their credibility or something.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-09-27 11:27|| 2007-09-27 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 It would destroy their "credibility" or something.

Fix'd.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-27 11:35|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-09-27 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 And they will fight to the death to protect him, they will probably even kill him before they allow him to be captured

If bin Laden is still alive, we need to trigger the "fear of capture" scenario.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-27 13:05|| 2007-09-27 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 There was intelligence of a pre-Ramadan gathering of al Qaeda including "leadership" in Tora Bora.

Is it too much to ask to have had Tora Bora bugged and rigged with explosives after we cleaned it out the last time. We dont' want to bring the roof down on his head but sealing every exit but one would simplify his containment. If we left two enterences open (one looking as if we never found it) we could simplify capture.

If that's not doable the whole place should have been destroyed so that it couldn't be reused.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-09-27 13:15|| 2007-09-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 The locak sheiks told him he had to leave as they had "Lost too many people" due to his presence. He retorted "We have no where to go". Probably tried to head back to warzistan or Baluchistan at that time.

Osama is nothing without Mullah Omar, as you probably have heard. Zawahiri is the one with the overall power at this time. Osama is laughing material.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-09-27 16:53|| 2007-09-27 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Osama is dead. Period.

Posted by Crusader 2007-09-27 18:52|| 2007-09-27 18:52|| Front Page Top

#12 "is a poor substitute... a blunder" > WHY IS THAT? Besides having Ranger companies formally attached to them, the Army's Airborne forces also had "near-Ranger/Para-Ranger" individual and joint mini-courses as part of their normal or routine training. *SEAL TEAM SIX > HHHHHMMMMM, at one time were charged wid anti-Terror ops including ANTI NUCLEAR-WMD TERROR. IFF OSAMA IS MOSTLY PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED DUE TO HIS KIDNEY/HEALTH PROBS, THE DESTRUCTION OF MANY IN HIS PERSONAL SECURTY APPARATUS WILL MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-27 19:15|| 2007-09-27 19:15|| Front Page Top

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