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U.S. plans Al Qaeda offensive (in Pakistan). (Capture Bin Laden?)
Chicago Tribune ^
| 1/28/04
Posted on 01/28/2004 6:00:38 AM PST by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, deeply concerned about recent assassination attempts against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a resurgence of Taliban forces in neighboring Afghanistan, is preparing a U.S. military offensive that would reach inside Pakistan with the goal of destroying Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, military sources said.
U.S. Central Command is assembling a team of military intelligence officers that would be posted in Pakistan ahead of the operation, according to sources familiar with details of the plan and internal military communications. The sources spoke on the condition they not be identified.
As now envisioned, the offensive would involve Special Operations forces, Army Rangers and Army ground troops, sources said. A Navy aircraft carrier would be deployed in the Arabian Sea.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedapakistan; army; centcom; pakistan; southasia; specialops; springoffensive; usn
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To: areafiftyone
Nice tip-off. Got the time and date of the operation?
To: areafiftyone
Thank God the Godless Islamics never visit the Internet, and this information will remain safe.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:02:23 AM PST
by
50sDad
(Hey Vegans! More people were killed this year by dirty onions than by Mad Cows!)
To: The_Victor
I think we need to come up with a secret decoder ring in order to login to FR.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:04:34 AM PST
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: The_Victor
I'm sure Bin Laden will just wait there for us. In fact, Osama if you're reading this, wait there. Oy!
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:04:58 AM PST
by
Williams
To: areafiftyone
I'm sure plans for all sorts of things are made all the time. Why is this one being leaked ?
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:05:01 AM PST
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: The_Victor
Hey tell that to the Chicago Tribune.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:05:19 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: VRWC_minion
Maybe its not even true. Who knows.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:05:47 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: Williams
Wait? Nah, let him run so he can die tired.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:06:02 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Come see the violence inherent in the system!)
To: VRWC_minion
Why is this one being leaked ?Silly, me. Its probably because it highlights that Bush is a miserable failure. I'm getting too slow on the uptake.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:06:11 AM PST
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: VRWC_minion
pysch ops? if Osama thinks an attack is imminent, he may move out of is hole in search of a safer one. At that point, he's visible and then he's ours.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:06:23 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(2+2 does NOT equal 5)
To: 50sDad
Who knows if the info is correct or not. If it is then they should find out who leaked it.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:06:51 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
Maybe its not even true. Who knows.
It better be true. I expect that we plan for contingencies so that the president has options if and when he has to react to something.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:07:36 AM PST
by
VRWC_minion
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To: areafiftyone
Hey tell that to the Chicago Tribune.That wasn't aimed at you. Do you suppose the CTrib wants to insure that GWB doesn't catch OBL before November?
Does a bear defecate in the woods?
To: All
Maybe they are already there doing it and we are really just finding out about it now.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:08:10 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: KantianBurke
That was my thought reading this. Flip on a light and see which way the roaches scatter. Apply Raid as necessary.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:09:12 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: The_Victor
Thats okay. Sorry about that. I need more coffee.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:09:22 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: VRWC_minion
I'm sure plans for all sorts of things are made all the time. Why is this one being leaked? Probably because it's complete bull.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:11:02 AM PST
by
New Horizon
(Why build one, when you can build two at twice the price?)
To: The_Victor
Do you suppose the CTrib wants to insure that GWB doesn't catch OBL before November? I wouldn't put it past the Chicago Tribune to do that. Why do I have this gut feeling that Bush is going to capture him very soon. Is it just me?
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:11:04 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
dis-info.
bin-Laden is dead. It serves A-Q's purposes (build the "holy warrior" mystique) to manipulate us into believing he's alive.
The problem is, we're only 98% certain he's dead. If we announce he's dead, and then he "arises from the dead", it would be a colossal PR catastrophe for the US. So lacking absolute certainty, it is also in our interest to, on a low level, suggest that he may well be getting dialysis through a Coke bottle in a cave.
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:11:18 AM PST
by
cookcounty
(JohnFoneyFaceKerry: "The only man in history to be on both sides of 3 wars.")
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