Posted on 08/22/2006 2:01:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Amanpour: Bin Laden still deadly relevant Ex-CIA official says cleric sets cap of 10 million U.S. deaths
By Christiane Amanpour CNN
Editor's note: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has reported on crises from many of the world's hotspots. Here, Amanpour shares her analysis with CNN.com on the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nearly five years have passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks, yet Osama bin Laden -- the world's most-wanted terrorist -- remains a dangerous fugitive, his words and actions inspiring jihadists across the globe.
It's hard to fathom that bin Laden would remain so relevant today, when in the days after the attacks, the Bush administration and much of the world was determined to get him.
"I want justice," President Bush said, referring to bin Laden after September 11, 2001. "And there's an old poster out West. ... I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'"
The United States unleashed an onslaught on Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban, but bin Laden slipped away. By most accounts, it's because the United States did not have enough boots on the ground, not enough U.S. soldiers to pin him down and block off escape routes in December 2001.
"In the first two or three days of December, I would write a message back to Washington recommending the insertion of U.S. forces on the ground," Gary Berntsen, the leader of a secret CIA unit pursuing bin Laden at the time, told CNN. "I was looking for 600 to 800 Rangers, roughly a battalion. They never came." (Watch more about bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora -- 2:04)
Bin Laden is believed to be hiding across the border in the rugged regions of Pakistan, but his global campaign of terror continues.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
What's that 10 million cap about? Don't they want all Westerners (and Easterners and anybody else) off this planet?
Last I heard, it was 4million.
Must be a mis-print!
Everyone knows terrorists
are created by
bad economics
and the lack of access to
a good school system . . .
I suspect that they're just looking for a number that liberals will support. It doesn't mean that they really intend to stop at 10 million.
10 million dead jihadies is a good start.
They will have to aim at 5 billion if they actually intend to make this an islamic planet. Maybe 6 billion because they will have to bump off a lot of mainstream Moslems as well. 4 or 10 million will have a different effect than they expect.
No kidding. Any more and the left would start squawking 'disproportionate'.
Ok, so they'll kill 10 million of us then go away????
Even a president Hillary would be impeached for failing to respond massively.
10 million cap huh? OK, I hereby put a 1.2 billion cap on the mooselimbs!
If we ever find bin Laden and his boyfriend Zawahiri, I think we should put them on a one-way flight to Mars, and let them enjoy a planet-wide caliphate and all the sharia law they can stand.
...cause they're not gonna get it here on planet Earth!
No doubt the lovely witch is in email communication with her hero OBL
Last I heard, Bin was enamored with Whitney Houston and planning a hit on Bobby Brown so he could make Whitney his sex slave.
Typical pre-election hit piece reminding all that Bush and the Pubbies in office didn't get Bin Laden due to "not enough boots in Afghanistan"... read that.... because we were too busy going into Iraq.
Is this an editorial or is she reporting the "news"?
I think we should kill all 1.2 billion jihadis -- except bin Laden himself. Then we could laugh at him and humiliate him every time he pronounced another fatwa on us.
Only the jihadis, mind you. Not the peaceful ones.
He's dead Jamie Rubins wife....
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