Bin Laden operating area 'shrinking'

Herald Sun ^ | 21 April 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

AL-QAEDA chief Osama bin Laden operates in an increasingly narrow area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, US spy chief John Negroponte said.

"I think he's operating from a narrower and narrower corner of space in that Pakistan-Afghanistan border area," Mr Negroponte told NBC television's Today Show.

Asked what worried him most, he replied: "It's the international terrorists. It's al-Qaeda. What is it we don't know?"

The former ambassador to Iraq oversees 16 spy agencies - including the CIA - as the first director of national intelligence, a post set up as part of an effort to reform counter-terrorism efforts after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Mr Negroponte has come under criticism recently from lawmakers in Congress over his performance, but he told the US television network that progress had been made since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

"We're really on this case 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And in that sense, I think we are certainly safer than we were before 9/11," he said.

In 2001, US and Afghan forces tracked bin Laden in Tora Bora in Afghanistan but failed to capture him.

[Aussie Dasher]

We WILL get him. He will be SOOOO very sorry when we do!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

If we get him will the poll numbers go up? LOL!

[denydenydeny]

In 2001, US and Afghan forces tracked bin Laden in Tora Bora in Afghanistan but failed to capture him.

Did John Kerry co-write this article or something?

[Rudder]

Q:What's a flybird?
A:A flybird, Sir, is an object that flies in ever-decreasing coencentric circles until it eventually flies up its own tailpipe(censored version).

I learned this recitation at some intentionally forgotten military duty.

[Migraine]

Bin Laden operating area 'shrinking'

...so is my interest in noose-tightening stories... I just want some photos of maggots crawling out his nose.

[Redcloak]

I'd like to see his operating area cut down to a 6' X 2' X 1' region.

[Blackirish]

I think it's narrowed to a hole in the ground.

OBL has prolly been dead for a while

[SevenMinusOne]

We WILL get him.

Without a doubt. Time was on his side (along with Zawahiri and a few other HVTs ekking out their survival in the Pak border regions)....but that variable is slowly starting to turn toward our favor now -

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

tic, tic, tic, tic....

[Big Giant Head]

Shrinkage!

[Rembrandt]

"If we get him will the poll numbers go up?"

If we get him within the next two years, the Beast will probably want him as her VP candidate.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Did John Kerry co-write this article or something? <<<

Kerry saw bin Laden in Cambodia, Christmas of 1969 I believe.

[Migraine]

I think it's narrowed to a hole in the ground. OBL has prolly been dead for a while

I totally agree with you. I just want to see those maggots crawling out his stupid lips. He was one of the most evil, twisted, coldhearted bastards that ever lived. He had no idea of what it is to be a man with honor.

[patriciaruth]

I just want some photos of maggots crawling out his nose.

We were promised "flies on their eyeballs."

That's what I'm holding out for.

[sono]

He's dead, Jim

[ASA Vet]

[Straight Vermonter]

ping

[rageaholic]

His "operating area" is Musharraf's guest room.

[Coop]

I wish

[hawkaw]

My thoughts exactly.

Gen. Tommy Franks was very clear that the USA could not confirm OBL he was in the area. They only suspected OBL was there.