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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Nov-12-08 11:21 AM
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Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden
Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the U.S. commitment to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to his national security advisers. The Obama team believes the Bush administration has downplayed the importance of catching the FBI's most-wanted terrorist because it has not been able to find him.

"We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority," Obama said during the presidential debate on October 7. But tracking down bin Laden won't be easy....

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Intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a remote and primitive region with mountain peaks as tall as 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) that make the terrain difficult to navigate....The region is divided up by tribes, some of them warring. Developing human sources in the area has been extremely difficult....

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Cooperation from Pakistan's military has been touchy, and most experts agree finding bin Laden is just not a priority for Pakistan's troops....

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Despite the challenges, many experts agree it is important to capture bin Laden....

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/binladen.hunt/in...
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   What a concept: Take the fight to the real terrorists  av8rdave   Nov-12-08 11:22 AM   #1 
   Mclame claims he knows UBL's whereabouts...  Oceansaway   Nov-12-08 11:22 AM   #2 
   But, but...  niceypoo   Nov-12-08 11:23 AM   #3 
   "Evil only will come of this." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*  SpiralHawk   Nov-12-08 11:25 AM   #4 
   so Obama is going to pretend that 9/11 wasn't an inside job?  ensho   Nov-12-08 11:39 AM   #5 
   Has Obama EVER given ANY indication that he suspects it wasn't a legitimate attack  Mike Daniels   Nov-12-08 12:29 PM   #9 
   Does anyone really think he's still alive and if so, why?  HomerRamone   Nov-12-08 11:50 AM   #6 
      Many do not --  DeepModem Mom   Nov-12-08 11:53 AM   #7 
      Obama is talking right in case Osama is alive. n/t  BadgerKid   Nov-12-08 12:26 PM   #8 
 
av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Nov-12-08 11:22 AM
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1. What a concept: Take the fight to the real terrorists
Obama must really hate America! :sarcasm:
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 11:22 AM
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2. Mclame claims he knows UBL's whereabouts...
just ask that idiot.....
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niceypoo (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 11:23 AM
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3. But, but...
what will Rudy talk about now?
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 11:25 AM
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4. "Evil only will come of this." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*
Edited on Wed Nov-12-08 11:27 AM by SpiralHawk
"I have scryed the Omens pertaining to Obama-Osama, and therefore am aware that Republicon Occutists have set this up for a royal pooch screwing. Smirk."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*


* Courageously channeled from the Vast Netherworld of Republicon Occultism by Spiral Hawk
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Nov-12-08 11:39 AM
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5. so Obama is going to pretend that 9/11 wasn't an inside job?



going to do more killing in Pakistan and Afghanistan?

every day another disappointment
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 12:29 PM
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9. Has Obama EVER given ANY indication that he suspects it wasn't a legitimate attack
If not, why do you even imply he's pretending?
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HomerRamone Donating Member (327 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 11:50 AM
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6. Does anyone really think he's still alive and if so, why?
I seriously would like to know...
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Nov-12-08 11:53 AM
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7. Many do not --
"Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer, told CNN he's talked to 'a dozen CIA guys who've been on the hunt for him, and half of them told me they assumed he was dead, the other half said they assumed he was alive, but the key word here is assume. They don't know.'"
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BadgerKid Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-12-08 12:26 PM
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8. Obama is talking right in case Osama is alive. n/t
Edited on Wed Nov-12-08 12:27 PM by BadgerKid
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