CIA Says Bin Laden Still In Pakistan

[sabra]

Source: CBS News/AP

Panetta: Finding Al Qaeda Leader Still A Top Priority; Pakistan's Crackdown On Militants Helping

(CBS/AP) CIA Director Leon Panetta says he believes Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan. The spy agency hopes to close in on the al Qaeda leader as Pakistan's military cracks down on the tribal area where he is thought to be hiding.

Panetta told reporters after a speech on Capitol Hill that finding bin Laden remains one of the CIA's top priorities. He said he hopes that the combination of increased CIA activity and the Pakistani military offensive will give the United States a better chance of nabbing him.

Panetta said in his speech that the CIA has increased the number of officers and agents in Pakistan who are providing targeting and other information to attack the al Qaeda network there.

The new assessment comes as Pakistan has unleashed a new military campaign in the country’s Waziristan region along the Afghan border, driven mainly by a combination "quick strikes" on suspected Taliban militant targets as well as all out attacks, senior government officials and Western diplomats said, reports CBS News' Farhan Bokari.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/11/world/main508... ;topStories

[notadmblnd]

1. yeah but, did they give the location of his burial?

didn't think so.

[bdamomma]

2. I thought Bin Laden was dead.

[get the red out]

7. He can be both dead and in Pakistan

[jobycom]

3. You know how you can tell the CIA wasn't involved in Kennedy's assassination?

He's dead, isn't he?

I doubt the CIA has any clear idea of whether Bin Laden is alive or dead, but if he's dead their budget is going to be a lot smaller, so they base their assumptions accordingly.

[Octafish]

23. If CIA's so incompetent, why do so few Americans know that it helped NAZIs escape after WW2?

Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

Few Americans also know that CIA even incorporated large numbers of NAZIs in its ranks?

CIA Started by NAZI Sympathizers and Staffed by NAZIs...

Oh yeah, not that there's anything funny in the assassination of President Kennedy, but wouldn't Americans find it ironic to know that two CIA NAZI-connected "leaders" served on the Warren Commission?

A fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission

[Chemical Bill]

25. They assassinate world leaders pretty competently. n/t

[Chemical Bill]

28. The CIA is great at smuggling drugs into the country. n/t

[jobycom]

29. You're right, everything that's happened since the CIA was founded was their plan.

Including this post.

[Octafish]

36. I didn't say that. Just that most of the money and power is in their pockets.

And by "their" I mean those connected to their stooges, the Bushes, including Wall Street, Big Oil, the Military Industrial Complex and the Mafia. It's the "American Gestapo" President Truman feared.

Look around. You'll see a Congress intent on protecting the interests of the ownership class, two illegal and immoral wars without end, an emptied Treasury, and a penured middle class. Not a coincidence -- it's the workings of Capitalism's Invisible Army.

[EFerrari]

31. Well, by the same token, you can tell they were involved

because it was such a screwed up action that the patsy had to be killed on national teevee.

[jobycom]

33. Please.

If any government agency actually wanted JFK dead he'd have been dead of natural causes in the bed of some cute staffer. No one with any experience or intelligence would have chosen to shoot him in Dealy Plaza. Most of the places people imagine shooters--the overpass, the Grassy Knoll--were physically impossible to shoot from, and the only places a shooter had a chance were from the School Book Depository or the building across the street, and those were too visible and too hard to control access to to be sure of invisibility.

It was an assassination of opportunity by a loner. If there had been a broader plan, it wouldn't have happened there.

[EFerrari]

35. So, jobycom. I can't agree. n/t

[timeforpeace]

4. CIA's credibility intact again?

Even if he is alive, the war there is not justified. The US should pull out of Afghanistan, and Iraq, as promised. Every US soldier killed there is a needless tragedy. We don't hear about casualties, or anything for that matter, from the media anymore. Is that to makes us accept it, and make it OK now that Bush is gone?

[pinto]

5. (aside) House is voting on Pakistan Aid bill today. One year of military aid ($450 million) and

3 years of domestic aid ($1.5 billion.) HR 1886. Republicans have dragged it out by trying to strip accountability, oversight and reporting requirements from the bill. After eight years' of blank checks they can't change their tune. Dems struck down their amendments.

[No Elephants]

6. "Still?" So, someone remind me why we're killing civilians in Afghanistan?

[winyanstaz]

8. I suggest they take shovels to find him.

And yes, so why exactly are we at war in Afganistan?
Why are our soldiers being killed there if Osoma isnt there?
I also want to know why it is ok to kill thousands of innocent civilians to get one man?

[dipsydoodle]

9. That's odd

could've sworn he was in the shed at the bottom of my garden. Maybe its just a squirrel .....with a beard

[KansDem]

13. You mean this little guy?

[debunkthelies]

19. Oh Yeah

Way cool,

[dipsydoodle]

24. That's the one

[Clear Blue Sky]

10. CIA doesn't know squat...

[Oregone]

11. Will he ever die?

Will my grandchildren grow up with his face in their living room, releasing messages every few years? Will it just become comedy by then?

[mbperrin]

12. Okay, is Panetta stupid because he believes this, or is he stupid because

he thinks I'm so stupid that I'LL believe it?

I know he is, but why does he think I am?

[Soylent Brice]

14. courtesy of rcrush:

[Javaman]

15. Sure, of course he is.

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. Iraq has WMDs and the bogey man is under my bed - USA "intelligence" is bogus

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.
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Who believes the USA anymore?

Only the fools that let a sociopath like Bush run the country for 8 years.

The rest of the World knows better.

It is getting very close to the time that the USA is gonna have to pay up for all it's evil wars/invasions/coups of the last 50 years.

"What goes around . . ."

you know the rest . .

buckle up

[frog92969]

21. Our chickens will come home to roost

And the people who will say it was unprovoked are fools.

Our crumbling empire is textbook Rome, with smatterings of Nazi Germany.
With no signs of "change" we'll be easy pickings before too long.

[Vidar]

17. The CIA has no credibility & now, neither does Panetta.

[xchrom]

18. in light of the debacle in iraq -- and torture and gitmo -- what's the meaning

of bin laden any more?

there would have been an action of real justice if we had gone after him in some kind of sane fashion in the beginning -- not whored ourselves to musharef and on and on.

the meaning of bin laden is as buried as i think he is.

and if he isn't --

[balantz]

20. Ah, but is Pakistan still in Bin Laden? That is the question.

Bin Laden is dead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOquXklFyS8

[ohio2007]

22. You can take bin Laden out of the mountain but you can't take every bit of the mountain out of OBL

jmo

[mitchum]

26. Well, they never lie

[Sigh Sister]

27. They can't fool me. I saw Weekend at Bernie's n/t

[EFerrari]

30. LOL

[bemildred]

32. Panetta confirms his toolishness,

As if there was any doubt.

[rschop]

34. re: CIA Says Bin Laden Still In Pakistan

The CIA, isn't that the agency that intentionally allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11?

In fact isn't there now inconvertible proof of this located right on the US government's own web sites and sources?

[librechik]

37. gee, i hope he doesn't find out we know and hide

sorta like the sneak attack we pulled on Iraq.

Is this any way to run a spy service? Outing effective operations, announcing our best info to the world, torture and lies?

[Devil_Fish]

38. Bush said he dosn't care about OBL why should we? NT