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2009-12-06 Terror Networks

No good US intelligence on Osama bin Laden for years, says Robert Gates

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Posted by tipper 2009-12-06 05:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It was said all the essential leaders fled before the Pakistani offensive in the tribal areas, going to other countries. Obama dilly-dallied long enough over additional troops in Afghanistan for the Taliban and any AQ to again flee, with the latest Marine offensive not meeting much resistance. I think Bin Laden is a special guest being harbored somewhere--Iran, Yemen, Syria, Venezuela??? Binny may be a Wahhabist and consider the Shia idolators, but he hates the Sunni Saudi Royal family, the descendents of ibn Wahhabi; his hatred of America and the West is worth setting aside his personal beliefs for awhile to use them to further jihad. One son was once under "house arrest" in Iran. He rode horses on a Syrian beach during his summer visits to his mother's clan. One wife was returned to her family in northern Yemen. He knows the desert as well as the mountainous regions yet he's spent some time on the docks and reportedly invested in his own fleet of ships. CIA pays the Taliban and State gives millions to ISI. For all they know, he has crossed over the US border! Should have sent Blackwater (Xe) years ago.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-12-06 10:40|| 2009-12-06 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 The JAGs are still working on how to Mirandize him from a Predator.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-06 11:28|| 2009-12-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "he's dead, Jim"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-12-06 12:12|| 2009-12-06 12:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee, I wonder if Gates and the US is really that naive, or do we have double and triple headfake going on? If we knew where he was, would we want him to know that?
If we didn't know, but wanted him to move, might we say we don't know, expecting him to think this was a signal that we did and were trying to calm his fears, so we could flush him?
If we know, but he's the guest of someone like....oh maybe the Paki ISI, maybe we want them to think we don't know so they remain calm, or perhaps they double think it and think we know and move him, or give a clue to his location...
the mind boggles at the wilderness of mirrors yet again. My father worked as a peer to Angleton and remarked once that he was "complex and odd". One can only imagine the gordian knot he saw daily!

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2009-12-06 12:23|| 2009-12-06 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 No matter what, you say you don't know where he is. If you say you do know where he is, the next question is, when will you whack him?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-12-06 13:02|| 2009-12-06 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 * "ALL WAR IS A COALITION/CONSPIRACY".
* "WAR IS POLITICS/ECONOMICS BY OTHER MEANS".
* To paraphrase FFDR on US Politics, "NOTHING IN WASHINGTON DC IS UN-INTENTIONAL".

We must remember that OSAMA is part of a larger GROUP/MOVEMENT, INSIDE + OUTSIDE OF ISLAM INCLUD RADICAL ISLAMISM e.g. collusory COMMIES-MAOISTS [MSM-Net News], dedicated to destroying the USA and imposing GLOBAL JIHAD-SHARIA "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY".

As said times before, even iff the US did succeed in capturing or killing OBL, theres AYMAN ZAWAAHIRI, MULLAH OMAR, NOTORIOUS UNDEAD ZOMBIE "I died in Iraq ergo I founded the UIGHUR Islamist Movement in China years later" ABU MUSAB ZHARQHAWI, + OTHER BURQUA BOYZ.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-12-06 19:18|| na]">[na] 2009-12-06 19:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank G and I are tag teaming this issue.

Posted by KBK 2009-12-06 22:02|| 2009-12-06 22:02|| Front Page Top

#8 ION TOPIX > DAILY TIMES.PK > [US NSAdvisor] JONES: US WILL LAUNCH NEW EFFORT TO CAPTURE OSAMA IN PAKISTAN [believe OBL in Wairistan];

and

* SAME > GATES: WE WON'T PURSUE TALIBAN LEADERS IN PAKISTAN. SURGE TO FORCE TALIBAN TO TALKS.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-12-06 22:22|| na]">[na] 2009-12-06 22:22|| Front Page Top

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