Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden

[DeepModem Mom]

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/index.html

[av8rdave]

1. What a concept: Take the fight to the real terrorists

Obama must really hate America! :sarcasm:

[Oceansaway]

2. Mclame claims he knows UBL's whereabouts...

just ask that idiot.....

[niceypoo]

3. But, but...

what will Rudy talk about now?

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Evil only will come of this." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*

"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

[ensho]

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

[Mike Daniels]

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?

[HomerRamone]

6. Does anyone really think he's still alive and if so, why?

I seriously would like to know...

[DeepModem Mom]

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.'"

[BadgerKid]

8. Obama is talking right in case Osama is alive. n/t