Posted on 03/20/2004 7:52:15 PM PST by saquin
"..Some 300 to 400 foreign and local terrorists are present at about seven targets in the agency, he said, adding that two abortive attempts were made by the terrorists to run away in vehicles on Friday. Two terrorists including one foreigner were killed, he said. Four terrorists, one of them foreigner, have been apprehended while nine returned to their hideouts in the area. He said the DNA test of killed terrorists would be taken to ascertain their identification..."
Because they knew that Elvis Bin Laden has been dead over two years.
I thought that Bin Laden and #2 were always/usually together.
Al-Zawahiri didn't see much reason staying with the dead guy.
They are starting a project next week called the "Fact Log" or "FLOG" for short, in order to address the many conflicting positions John Kerry has taken on the issues over his career and his recent voting record in the Senate.
The White House has announced they will begin to "FLOG" John Kerry on his many flip flopping positions on the economy and the War on Terror :-)
This appears not to be a coincidence! September 7, 2002 http://www.angelfire.com/space/pearly/htmls/bush-ignored.html
"Another US official was also present possibly from the intelligence services. Mr Katz, who now works at the American embassy in Eritrea , declined to talk about the meeting. But other US sources said the warning was not passed on.
A diplomatic source said : "We were hearing a lot of that kind of stuff. When people keep saying the sky's going to fall in and it doesn't, a kind of warning fatigue sets in. I actually thought it was all an attempt to rattle us in an attempt to please their funders in the Gulf, to try to get more donations for the cause."
The Afghan aide did not reveal that the warning was from Mr Muttawakil, a factor that might have led the Americans to down-grade it. "As I recall, I thought he was speaking from his own personal perspective," one source said. "It was interesting that he was from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, but he gave no indication this was a message he was carrying."
Interviewed by The Independent in Kabul, the Afghan emissary said: "I told Mr Katz they should launch a new Desert Storm like the campaign to drive Iraq out of Kuwait but this time they should call it Mountain Storm and they should drive the foreigners out of Afghanistan. They also had to stop the Pakistanis supporting the Taliban."
The Taliban emissary said Mr Katz replied that neither action was possible. Nor did Mr Katz pass the warning on to the State Department, according to senior US diplomatic sources.
When Mr Muttawakil's emissary returned to Kabul, the Foreign Minister told him to see UN officials. He took the warning to the Kabul offices of UNSMA, the political wing of the UN. These officials heard him out, but again did not report the secret Taliban warning to UN headquarters. A UN official familiar with the warnings said : "He appeared to be speaking in total desperation, asking for a Mountain Storm, he wanted a sort of deus ex machina to solve his country's problems. But before 9/11, there was just not much hope that Washington would become that engaged in Afghanistan."
Officials in the State Department and in UN headquarters in New York said they knew nothing about a Taliban warning. But they said they would now be looking into the matter."
Er, recall what the good Brigadier sais about this operation: it began getting some results when they took a communications radio from a stiff Chechen, and began listening in on the net.
Sometimes you can learn a lot from a deader. Think equipment, documents, etc. Che Guevara had a diary on him when he got whacked in 1967. Then the diary was used to smoke out a Cuban spy in the Bolivian cabinet.
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Criminal Number 18F
"My fellow Americans...........((THIS IS A FOX NEWS BULLETEN, WE ARE BREAKING AWAY FROM JOHN KERRY TO BRING YOU THIS IMPORTANT NEWS. ZAHIRI HAS BEEN CONFIRMED DEAD. OUR TEAM OF CORORSPONDANTS ARE ON THERE WAY, WE WILL BE TO WALL TO WALL COVERAGE OF THIS DAY'S EVENTS))
Bwahahahahahha... well, they have not had problems to interrupt President Bush for a car chase or a minor thing re: Kobe ...That would be too wonderful. Hear the bloodhound is on his way to DC for a vote to raise taxes...
Ijaz beginning to sound a lot like slick willie.
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