Posted on 09/26/2007 6:15:15 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces August mission in Tora Bora almost snared 'high value target'
A little more than a month ago, with the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaching and fears of a new al Qaeda attack rising, some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought they had found one of the world’s two most wanted men just where they last saw them six years ago.
For three days and nights — between Aug. 14 and 16 — U.S. and Afghanistan forces pounded the mountain caves in Tora Bora, the same caves where Osama Bin Laden had hidden out and then fled in late 2001 after U.S. forces drove al Qaeda out of Afghanistan cities. Ultimately, however, U.S. forces failed to find Bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, even though their attacks left dozens of al Qaeda and Taliban dead.
What happened this time? Military officials admit there were unidentified "planning and coordination problems" even before it got to execution, “primarily between the operators and the generals who give the go-orders” added an intelligence official. A company of the 82nd Airborne was brought in since a Ranger team trained in special operations was not available. But the combination of the “dark side” — the SEALs — and the conventional — the 82nd Airborne — didn't work. "They didn't gel," said the military official. There was "a lack of responsiveness to the intelligence and a lack of aggressiveness."
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Osama is dead Jim.
And has been for a looooong time.
Osama is dead Jim.
And has been for a looooong time.
MSNBC - Fake news.
Seems to me that we need to just flatten the entire area out when we have a “good idea” where he is. Collateral damage - you bet! Wipe ‘em out - those tribal groups are sympathizers and supporters responsible for killing our guys and afghany fighters.
Too bad we can not kill Bin Laden more than once though.
Sounds like the operation had some success.
“MSNBC - Fake news.”
No lie. What is this “may have” crap? Ridiculous.
Our troops will get the evil subhuman, they will get him.
But we'll get each one of them.....in time... (Just as we did to Saddam and Zarqawi, both of which, many kept insisting they were dead or didn't even exist...until we actually killed them).
Maybe they didn't want some general deciding they should be tried for murdering Bin Laden.
Well Dev I see our forum naysayers are out in force tonight....so many here will eat crow someday...
Sure we can. Clone him and kill him and reclone him and rekill him.............
ping
Hey Dev, didn’t you just post that Mike S article?
Oops never mind, I didn’t read all of it.
This raghead’s taking a dirt nap.
Get over it.
It doesn’t get much better than watching Keith Olbermann speak fawningly with Michael Scheuer, the former CIA officer in charge of locating Osama bin Laden. He sets him up for answers criticizing the Bush administration by the simple fact that they have not found/killed/captured by the time of the interview. Completely overlooking the fact that from 1996-1999 he was in charge of locating OBL himself, and failed completely in that responsibility. It’s right up there with calling in the oracle himself (John Dean) and neglecting to mention his guilty plea to a felony obstruction of justice charge (in order to avoid many felony counts of obstruction, perjury, etc.) in order to allow him more time to pour vitriol all over the Bush administration. Sheesh.
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