Link to Osama Getaway site:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1212-05.htm
I heard this guy interviewed on Fox. He also blamed the cuts of the 1990's.
Then it must be true!
Osama is burning in the lowest pit of hell with Hitler and Stalin even as we speak..........Waiting for Castro to join in the hot tub..........
Uh, so a close friend of terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden is more credible than a frontline CIA field agent? I bash the CIA 10x a day, and I don't know that I'd go that far.
Fact of the matter is, 8 CIA operatives and their Afghan allies engaged nearly a thousand Al Qaida in Tora Bora, hit them with B-52 strikes, and killed most of them. Bin Laden, who was voice IDed there by electronic intercept using captured radios, appears to have escaped. That sucks, but it happens.
To be honest, I'm not really understand the rest of your post, other than you seem to be aware of the existance of something called a Neo Copperhead Troll, which sounds like it should have it's own special on the Discovery channel.
"He adds he was sure bin Laden was there,because sources he trusted had told him so "
Kinda like all the sources about Saddam and WMD programs and huge underground complexes filled with scuds, or maybe it was the same source that gave them the map to the chinese embassy in Yugoslavia.
At the risk of venturing over into Troll Territory myself, may I suggest that some of the Neo-Copperheads wanted large numbers of American troops on the ground in Afghanistan because it would increase friction between the Afghanis and the Americans, because it would increase the likelihood of American casualties, and because it would increase tension between the US and Pakistan to have so many of our troops milling about right next to the Pakistani border?
Any or all of these things would help make their original predictions about the Afghanistan campaign – (that we would become bogged down in the same sort of mess the Soviets encountered ) -come true:thus proving that they were “ right again
Binny Boy is just a figurehead anyhow.
Chosen for his charisma.
Al queda operations continue without his presence
Knowing people that worked on the lessons learned from OEF and particularly that operation, I do know there were critical mistakes made, but what is that guy smoking?
Well, I still want to know the real reason why we had a 2 day lull.
I always (half) assume that Bin Ladin is retired from the fight, living in one of his family's villas along the Red Sea somewhere, probably being treated by private family physicians for his several ailments, driving the help crazy with his rants and war stories. He probably sits in his underwear watching "One Life to Live" and Oprah, hooked up to IV's.
"In what was meant as a harmless birthday prank,
three of Reagan High School's most popular girls,
Julie, Foxy, and Courtney pretend to kidnap their friend,
the latter shoving a jawbreaker into the victim's mouth
to keep her from screaming. Their plan goes awry
when the girl accidently swallows the jawbreaker,
choking to death. The cool and calculating Courtney
tries to cover the crime but is found out by school geek
Fern Mayo. In return for her silence,
Courtney transforms the gawky Fern
into the stylishly beautiful Vylette,
leaving the conscience-stricken Julie out in the cold,
threatening to set her up for the girl's murder
if she breaks her silence."
So NOW this CIA guy has it right? Before the "invasion" of Iraq the CIA couldn't find their ass with both hands. NOW they get it right? UH-huh...