An intel unit's pinch.
Posted on 03/01/2005 6:04:45 PM PST by AliVeritas
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda is feeling the pinch from intelligence units working to flush out terrorist leaders including Usama bin Laden (search), Gen. John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Abizaid said U.S. commanders and intelligence officials still believe that bin Laden and senior leaders of Al Qaeda (search) are hiding in the Afghan/Pakistan border region and Pakistan is continuing to pressure the terrorist group. Though he didn't name any new breakthroughs in the hunt, Abizaid said the maturing efforts in the region are helping to "narrow the ring until we get the senior leadership" of Al Qaeda.
"We have been successful in really working specific aspects of the network in such a way that it is much less effective this year than last year. In the Pakistan, Afghanistan area, in particular, there's indications they are having difficulty gaining money and there's indication of concern from various intelligence sources about the safety of being able to continue to operate in those areas," he told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Abizaid warned that it's not yet time to celebrate and referred to evidence revealed Monday that shows bin Laden still is trying to attack the United States. U.S. officials said they had intercepted communications between bin Laden and Iraq-based terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search) in which bin Laden encouraged Zarqawi and his group to focus on attacks inside the United States.
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are but a smokescreen for the real war being waged. President Bush said shortly after 9/11 that many things would happen in this war that we would never hear about. Well it is what we are not hearing about that is making the biggest difference of all. Terrorists all over the world are being liquidated by the most unconventional means.
" Terrorists all over the world are being liquidated by the most unconventional means."
Such as ?...
ted kennedy's bottled breath.
Such as rocket launchers fired from drones.
An intel unit's pinch.
Murder in their beds without due process. Assassination. Flattening of their mosque. Bodies with pig blood and feces smeared on them. I hope we are holding nothing back. This is war.
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