Another "Near Miss"

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I'm not impressed. Where is Osama?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The operational commander of al-Qaida, possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, was killed early Thursday by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials have told NBC News.




http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10303175/

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1. Yeah right, so how many number 3s are they going to catch???? n/t

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2. Wait! I'm confused!

When did the CIA obtain the manpower and ability to launch a "missle attack?"

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5. I'm sure there was military involvement. The CIA role was probably

target location.

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6. J.F.K was going to give the C I A a role ,,fired! Why?

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7. Who was fired?

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8. Anyone not in the " Good Old Boy Network "

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13. I'm not following you, are you saying JFK fired someone. Sorry.

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14. I mean within virtually minutes of disintegration, of the whole Agency, why?

Bad Intelligence ,He Saw the harm in an unchecked entity, it killed him.

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15. Oh, you're saying the CIA had JFK assasinated?

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17. Not only that, but I Believe it bought the favors that have brought us to

Covert government,working only for Friendly Fascism.I'm not saying Trickie dick and 41 were on the Grassy Knoll, but they couldn't say for sure what they were doing that day.

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9. the CIA owns and operates many Predators which now have missile

launching capabilities. They are specifically designed for assassination.

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3. I guess we are making progress, we finally got to a No. 3!!!!

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4. Evil elf Russert will be substantiating that possible pseudo fact sunday

and Shrub will be declaring yet another Victory monday, and on and on.

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10. Hmmm. CNN is reporting that he died in an "explosion"

but no mention of a missile strike.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A senior al Qaeda commander died in an explosion at his home in a tribal area of northern Pakistan, officials said Saturday.

Abu Hamza Rabia, who was in charge of international operations for al Qaeda, apparently was working with explosives when the blast occurred, killing him and others, said Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Pakistan's information minister.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/03/pakistan.rabia/index.html

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11. Oops. Guess the MSNBC minders were sleeping on the job and let facts out

Isn't it amazing we've 'progressed' to the point where a CIA missile attack in another country is reported as 'ho-hum'? How I long for the days when we would attempt to cover such things up.

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12. I wonder if its a missile attack that is being covered up or vice versa?

I would think that maybe it was an accident that someone is trying to take credit for.

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16. To the Pakistani government, it's much more useful to call it an accident

so that their countrymen don't get angry that the Pakistani government allows the U.S. to do such a thing. They're going to have a little trouble deluding the locals, since they found US missile fragments.

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18. Well at least it appears the CIA has accomplished something good

for a change.

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19. Who knows..I hope you're right.

The article isn't specific on who else was killed.

Missiles aren't a very clean way to administer justice.

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20. I'm sure there was "collateral damage"