Bin Laden will be caught : CIA

[cal04]

US intelligence officials think bin Laden is hiding somewhere along the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border. Military and intelligence agencies from numerous countries, but most significantly Pakistan as of late, have assisted in the search for him over the nearly three years since the September 11 attacks.

Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin has pledged recently that bin Laden will still be caught. "We have pins on a map. We have reports," said a second senior CIA official, speaking of bin Laden's whereabouts. The officials briefed reporters at CIA headquarters about a highly critical report released on Thursday by the presidential commission investigating September 11. Still, bin Laden remains elusive.

The commission's report detailed a series of strategic and tactical mistakes made by the intelligence community, including missed opportunities to go after terrorist operatives and thwart the attack.
Even today, intelligence veterans have said the agency has no useful idea where bin Laden is. Federal officials have warned of a heightened risk of attack leading up to this country's November elections. The first CIA official said credible evidence suggests that bin Laden and other senior leaders called "al-Qaeda central" are thought to be currently planning attacks.

Other groups sharing the same militant ideology are plotting as well

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1562205,00.html

[maddezmom]

1. and in other headlines: War on Terror Seen Limping in Afghanistan, Pakista

War on Terror Seen Limping in Afghanistan, Pakistan


ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - Despite a massive manhunt and billions of dollars spent on manpower and equipment, the U.S. war on al Qaeda in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Pakistan is still a long way from achieving its objectives, security experts warned.



The 9/11 commission's report, released on Thursday, described Afghanistan as the incubator for al Qaeda and for the September 11, 2001 attacks, noting that the country must not become a sanctuary again for international crime and terrorism.


Security and political analysts said Washington had been unable to root out the terror threat from the region and bring real stability to Afghanistan, where Taliban fighters and their Islamic militant allies carry out deadly attacks almost daily.


"The war on terrorism is being lost by the Western alliance. Al Qaeda and their local allies today are much stronger in Pakistan," author and Afghan expert Ahmed Rashid told Reuters.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&nci...

[0007]

32. The link is only bringing up a page that sez "Document Not Found"

I guess that it is an old Link?

I think the U.S. is a sanctuary for international crime.

[Timefortruth]

2. DUH!

In late September or early October. There is almost no doubt.

[wtmusic]

3. "OBL will be caught October--er, soon!"

Wonder if one of the pins on their map is an Afghan prison...

This is such an obvious setup. We have to get national media on the story of the October surprise.

[UpInArms]

4. Yeah! We have PINS on a MAP!

I am so impressed!

Have they looked in FU-Cheney's bunker?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. The is LBN?

Let me know when they have something significant to announce. Thanks.

:sarcasm on:

[freetobegay]

6. "We have pins on a map. We have reports," said a second senior CIA officia

So what went wrong in Iraq then?

[Gyre]

7. Fuck the CIA

they don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. Don't know why this story is even newsworthy anymore considering the source.

Gyre

[warrior1]

9. Idiot

Why would you announce this, besides you have an agenda.

Believe me I want them to catch him, but telling the whole world where you think he is, doesn't give me much hope that you can, if you can't keep you fucking mouth shut. Shit you think he's going to stay here's he is at....

[onehandle]

8. President Kerry will do his best.

Unlike the squatter, he'll do something.

[asjr]

10. "U.S. Intelligence officials think" they know--

Oh, please.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. If we have to overthrown every government in the Middle East to do it.

Well, almost every one.

Go get 'em, boys! We belieeeeeve!

[Bandit]

12. What Bush* said about capturing Bin Laden

Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all. Who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not; we haven't heard from him in a long time. And the idea of focusing on one person is -- really indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission. Terror is bigger than one person. And he's just -- he's a person who's now been marginalized. His network, his host government has been destroyed. He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match. He is -- as I mentioned in my speech, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who is willing to commit youngsters to their death and he, himself, tries to hide -- if, in fact, he's hiding at all. So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did.

[truthisfreedom]

13. bush is a flip-flopping fake.

he just makes sh*t up as he goes along.

[Alpharetta]

14. There would be more American casualties if we were really looking

Remember all the FBI agents in North Carolina looking for Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympic and Birmingham bomber?

Now you know Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Carolina residents are all armed with some nice guns. How many agents a week would have been killed in North Carolina if those agents were actually from, say, an invading arab country?

(edited to change the name to Eric Rudolph. I keep forgetting Eric Roberts is Julia Roberts' brother, not a bomber.)

[progressivebydesign]

15. Just in time for the elections!!!

Make sure we scream it loud! We ALL know that Bin Laden is on ice somewhere, as Saddam was, and just awaiting the right moment to be "captured". Utter bullshit from the CIA. I thought Bush "didn't care" where Bin Laden was???

[Tommy_Douglas]

18. Was Saddam really caught at the right time?

It really didn't do a whole much for Bush's approval rating...

I figure if OBL was on Dyalysis for kidney problems four years ago... Having to hid in the rugged mountains of Pakistan would very likely have killed him.

[leesa]

16. But will the members of the Bush Crime Family be caught??

That is far more important than some guy on dialysis in a cave.

[lovuian]

17. YA YA YA......They should have caught them a year ago

But they didn't....They Need Binnie and the gang to blame for stopping the elections

[lancdem]

19. That was a headline in our afternoon paper

and my co-worker had a good one: She said, "CIA says bin Laden will be caught Nov. 1." LOL

[daleo]

20. Bin Laden will be caught

Just as soon as we eat all the ice cream, and make it to the back of the freezer.

[Enraged_Ape]

33. They will have to explain the frostbite on his fingers, toes, and penis

But it will be no problem. I'm sure FOX NEWS will come up with some horseshit explanation that the brain-addled masses will eat up.

[genius]

21. OBL is in Saudi waiting to come out. He's working for Bush.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. so catching bin Laden solves all our problems?

I think not.

[MasonJar]

23. bin Laden. hmmm..I've heard that name before. Oh, I know...it

was on an airplane flight list. Wasn't he once wanted:dead or alive.

[hyphenate]

24. Sure, he'll be caught

What say, two weeks before the election? Or do you think they'll give it a month to make sure they get some commercials out of it?

I'm sure they're just waiting for the signal from Rove to go ahead and nail him.

[MGKrebs]

25. Just needed to get my sig line in here...

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[PATRICK]

26. The real missing Intel

is some PROOF that Bin Laden is really alive or, at the very least, whether his videos and tapes are genuine and contemporary.

This type of offering is so lame that it is no wonder the CIA rep is so bad. First how about saying why they are so sure he is alive and then I might be impressed by the extreme unlikelihood that he will be physically "caught" on the word of the latest Bush appointee.

Pathetic. Probably a balloon to see if the public assumption can be gulled by some attack and obliteration of target with the good news that- yes- for sure they got Bin Laden, but golly gee whiz, we only have a few scraps of his turban and Bin Laden DNA.

[RememberWellstone]

27. No kidding.

It has been planned for months. OBL will be caught, I hope America will see through the charade. Then they'll set us up for war in Iran. More dead young people for Bush...nice campaign promise.

[meisje]

28. He's dead John..... Dead!

[are_we_united_yet]

29. Yeah what do ya say

around.....October?

[GHOSTDANCER]

30. YADA YADA YADA...

[Tight_rope]

31. Nothing new to read here....moving along.

[Citizen Daryl]

34. Rumsfeld: "He's in the area around Jalalabad ..."

"... and Kabul and east, west, south and north somewhat."