Posted on 09/24/2006 6:51:34 AM PDT by Cyclops08
The following is PURE speculation! Feel free to beat it to a pulp if you want (I'm a big guy, I can take it!).
French intelligence released a report that Ossama is dead, based on unnamed Saudi Police sources. This has since been rebuked by the Saudi government, but the danage has already been done.
Is this a French "October Surprise?" A bogus story getting a big play in the US media, designed (in French eyes) to remove the main focus of the War on Terror. With Ossama dead, the Americans will no longer support continued war and abandon the Republicans this November. -->the very concept is goofy, but lets face it, we're dealing with Europeans here, logic is not the issue.
we know Chirac's France funneled a LOT of money into Israel's Liberal parties last election. Could this story be an attempt to influence American voters?
Not right, but I am surprised the democrats have not hopped aboard the story and told us everybody can come home now because it's over....the usual BS.
Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? ~ CBS reporters from Karachi - London
UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIM: --
Ace of spades HQ ^ | September 23, 2006 | unknown
What was Rove planning for an Oct Surprise....I hadn't heard of that one/.....?
Direct link to CNN:
Drone photo said to show Taliban
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military said it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan.
NBC-TV claimed U.S. Army officers wanted to attack the ceremony with missiles carried by the Predator drone, but were prevented under rules of battlefield engagement that bar attacks on cemeteries.
Lt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman with the U.S. military in Kabul, said the photograph was released to the network by someone who did not have the clearance to hand it out.
"It is an operational security issue and the photo was released at an inappropriate level," Lawrence told The Associated Press Wednesday. "Inquiries are being made into how it was released."
NATO spokesman James Appathurai declined to comment on the incident.
"I haven't seen the story and I can't comment on U.S. rules of engagement," he told a news conference in Brussels, Belgium.
Lawrence declined to provide further details. It was not clear when the photo was taken nor where the gathering took place.
The grainy black and white photo shows what NBC says are some 190 Taliban militants standing in several rows near a vehicle in an open area of land. Gunsight-like brackets were positioned over the group in the photo.
NBC quoted one Army officer who was involved with the spy mission as saying "we were so excited" that the group had been spotted and was in the sights of a U.S. drone.
But the network quoted the officer, who was not identified, as saying that frustration soon set in after the officers realized they couldn't bomb the funeral under the military's rules of engagement.
NBC later removed the photo from its Web site.
At the Pentagon, officials also declined to comment on what the photo depicts, when it was taken, and what the rules of engagement are in such situations.
Been looking thru the threads on the Predator Photo of the Funeral....one of which had a statement that the predator was not armed .
Yeah, they love Bush and the Conservatives over here and want us to win.
The "leak" says date of death was in August...the photo of the funeral was in July.
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