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To: hamboy
The Paki press is as unreliable as the Paki ISI. The Stratfor article never says OBL wasn't killed in Abbottabad, just that it was tactically irrelevant. Yu can read the actual source article at Stratfor:

http://www.stratfor.com/print/193267

3 posted on 08/21/2011 9:59:23 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop
For the interested:

Summary

The killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden represents possibly the biggest clandestine operations success for the United States since the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003. The confirmation of his death is an emotional victory for the United States and could have wider effects on the geopolitics of the region, but bin Laden’s death is irrelevant for al Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement from an operational perspective.


Goldstein is dead. Time to pick a new one...
13 posted on 08/21/2011 10:17:51 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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