Posted on 07/13/2005 7:07:36 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The first published interview with new CIA Director Porter Goss, which appeared last week in Time magazine, contained a bombshell that exploded with barely any notice.
To the ritual question — when will we get Osama bin Laden? — Goss gave a far from ritual answer.
"That is a question that goes far deeper than you know," Goss began. "We have some weak links" that make it impossible for now to get bin Laden, he explained, pointing to "the very difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states."
Sounds like you know where he is, the interviewer pressed. "I have an excellent idea of where he is," Goss responded.
The CIA boss was delivering a clear message to the "weak link" — Pakistan and its military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
Consider just these few recent events:
On June 5, the FBI arrested a young Pakistani-American man and his father in Lodi. According to their affidavits, the men purportedly lied about the son being trained during the past two years in al-Qaida-linked camps just outside Rawalpindi, home to the army's headquarters. The Pakistani government hurriedly denied that such camps existed.
The following week, a Pakistani TV network aired an interview with a senior Taliban commander in contact with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and bin Laden. Afghan officials and the outgoing U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, questioned how a TV crew could find a man whom Pakistani intelligence services say they can't locate.
On June 20, Afghan authorities arrested three Pakistanis for plotting to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, a frequent critic of Islamabad's failure to curb the Taliban. Afghan officials see the hand of the ISI behind all this, including a recent upsurge in Taliban violence.
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Char
I've been saying Iran for the longest time now.
Well, either Iran or San Francisco.... /sarcasm
Perhaps we need to stir up trouble in Kashmir again, escalate things a little, and let the Indians launch a pre-emptive strike against the Pakistanis.
While they're pre-occupied over on the East side, we can send troops into the northwest region and get that SOB.
F'em. Don't we have Navy Seals for this sort of thing?????
This Administration is the weak link. 3,000 dead and all they care about are diplomatic niceties. Disgusting.
What did Bush say about those states which support or harbor terrorists? If going after Saddam was justified because of his links to terrorists and his lust for WMDs (and I believe these were legitimate reasons to oust Saddam), we have ample and similar justification to topple the fanatics running Iran.
We did let 500+ Pakistanis, advising the Taliban to be airlifted out of Afghanistan, during the fighting in Afghanistan. They still have too be pretty mad at us .... but it makes more sense to me that OBL is in Iran.
If this is true, we need to support India's claims in Kashmir,
cut off their aid and give Pakistan an ultimatum.
Yeah, we should probably bomb every other country that has ever harbored a terrorist into the stone age. Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, England, Germany, and so on. Brilliant scheme...
Do you and your ilk even THINK before you post that kinda rubbish?
Sounds to me that that is what is needed....time to turn the heat up on the Paki's.
Cozy up with India for a bit.
Enough to let the current Paki regime know that their country, as it currently exists, could be a footnote in history - real quick.
LVM
bump
Ted Kennedy say he is in Illinois.
Paul Williams, author of "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11", on the Savage show. He observed that The Binster is in Pakistan. Mush's tenuous hold on the reins of government precludes both extradition and interdiction.
/Ward Churchill?
I agree, we should tell the Pakistanis that they have 30 days to produce OBL and One-Eye, if they don't do it we should let them know that we will no longer attempt to act as a buffer between them and India.
What about Toronto or Monreal?
How much do you want to bet that Osama is in China?
President Bush should have been in New Delhi by 10/1/01 at the latest.
Pakistan was a terrible idea in 1948, and it hasn't improved with age.
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