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CIA Says Osama Bin Laden Is Isolated, "alive and surviving"
CNN ^ | 11-13-2008 | CNN

Posted on 11/13/2008 7:52:48 PM PST by 82ndABNOfficer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden is isolated from al Qaeda and spending much of his energy merely surviving, the head of the CIA said on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; binladen; bush; bush43; bushlegacy; cia; counterterrorism; gwot; pakistan; wot
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This is fueling the fire for Obama to invade Pakistan.
1 posted on 11/13/2008 7:52:48 PM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
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I’m not trying to be a RHINO, but having served in Iraq, and worked with and around the intelligence community one has to wonder why Afghanistan and Pakistan was still not the main effort for the WoT...


2 posted on 11/13/2008 7:54:39 PM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
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I think he’s in public housing next door to Obama’s aunt.


3 posted on 11/13/2008 7:54:49 PM PST by beagleone
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Osama became worm excrement - long ago.


4 posted on 11/13/2008 7:55:35 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Obama is working in a Starbucks in St. Paul.


5 posted on 11/13/2008 7:56:49 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

well he promised the American people during the campaign that he would do just that, so we can expect to see it. I mean he wouldn’t lie to the American people would he?


6 posted on 11/13/2008 7:56:57 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Because Iraq was the more dangerous.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 7:57:03 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

How is he doing on his mortgage?


8 posted on 11/13/2008 7:57:08 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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“This is fueling the fire for Obama to invade Pakistan.”

The only thing I see Obama invading is my wallet.


9 posted on 11/13/2008 7:57:08 PM PST by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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When you think CIA, think Valerie Plame. Once that rotten commie gets in office, the leftists in the CIA will get Osama for Obama. Count on it.


10 posted on 11/13/2008 7:57:33 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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I think he’s in public housing next door to Obama’s aunt.

Buried illegal alien relative story ping!
11 posted on 11/13/2008 7:59:16 PM PST by aWolverine
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I can’t. That was just one individual. There are a lot of hard working Men and Women at the CIA that are doing extraordinary things for the American people. Their collection methods and insight have turned the tide against Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They were instrumental in the fight for Baghdad and provided as much if not too much information to the average soldier on the ground. I have nothing but good things to say about the things the Agency did for us in Iraq.


12 posted on 11/13/2008 8:00:04 PM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
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I heard he had a part-time job working for ACORN and the Obama campaign, while he was not running his bomb-making business.....


13 posted on 11/13/2008 8:00:55 PM PST by EagleUSA
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When you think CIA, think Valerie Plame. Once that rotten commie gets in office, the leftists in the CIA will get Osama for Obama. Count on it.

That's the most depressing thing I've read all night. The Agency folks I've known have been steel patriots. But then, they are old school. I have no idea about the Columbia grad analysts who are in it for the pension.
14 posted on 11/13/2008 8:01:14 PM PST by aWolverine
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The following excerpt was taken from an article about MIA Israeli aviator Ron Arad, who disappeared after being caught alive in Lebanon in the 1980s.

It might as well be talking about Osama bin Laden. It is inconceivable that someone could be kept hidden for so long without an intellegence community finding out where he is. There have to be too many people who know the secret of his hideout to have kept this under wraps for so long.

What this means is anyone's guess.
To date, the Israeli intelligence community has no information suggesting Ron Arad is being held by Iran; nor has it been able to ascertain any information regarding Arad's whereabouts since May of 1988. They have no information suggesting he is alive, nor do they have any evidence to the contrary.

Unfortunately, said a senior intelligence officer, that could only mean one thing: "I'm afraid that the only way to explain the fact that we haven't been able to find him, is that he is no longer alive. If he were alive we would have gotten to him. A live prisoner eventually has a large circle of people around him; guards, people who bring him food, the drivers transporting him from one hideout to another.

"We would have found one of those people. If Ron Arad is dead, there are only a handful of people that really know what happened. They, I assure you, have taken the necessary steps so we will never find out."

15 posted on 11/13/2008 8:01:23 PM PST by beagleone
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Baloney. Yeah sure, they did such a great job in Baghdad. “Mission Acccomplished”, eh? You have either been played like a fiddle, or you are the fiddle.


16 posted on 11/13/2008 8:02:23 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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PUT A TAIL ON BERT AND YOU WILL FIND OBAMA.
17 posted on 11/13/2008 8:03:38 PM PST by beagleone
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they’ll nab him when he comes in to pick up his bailout money.


18 posted on 11/13/2008 8:03:43 PM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: beagleone

freudean slip.


19 posted on 11/13/2008 8:04:02 PM PST by beagleone
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True or not, the CIA dares not say anything but that 0BL is alive. When BH0 takes office, they (the CIA) will bend every effort to capture or kill 0BL. Until then . . . it's business as usual.
20 posted on 11/13/2008 8:04:10 PM PST by YHAOS
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