[SevenMinusOne]

Conventional forces (and their risk adverse Gen's/JAGs) constantly strectching our OODA loop....and AQ HVTs continue to operate within in it....

[tdewey10]

Osama is dead Jim.

And has been for a looooong time.

[tdewey10]

Osama is dead Jim.

And has been for a looooong time.

[Poser]

MSNBC - Fake news.

[Robert357]

......even though their attacks left dozens of al Qaeda and Taliban dead

Sounds like the operation had some success.

[jveritas]

Our troops will get the evil subhuman, they will get him.

[Dog]

Well Dev I see our forum naysayers are out in force tonight....so many here will eat crow someday...

[BIGLOOK]

Just for old times sake.

[rdl6989]

...constantly strectching our OODA loop....and AQ HVT Pardon my stupidity, but what does that mean??? I find it hard to believe that Obama I mean Osama, and/or Ayman al-Zawahiri would still be around Tora Bora.

[potlatch]

The walking dead

[AliVeritas]

ping

Hey Dev, didn’t you just post that Mike S article?

[toddlintown]

This raghead’s taking a dirt nap.

Get over it.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

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.

[airborne]

I read the whole story, and all I can say is, “What a load of crap this reporter is spreading!”

He wrote the headline and then tried to make the story fit.

[theBuckwheat]

The videos that his ilk keep putting out in his name universally leave me with the impression that he has been dead for a long time.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

...some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought... One of the officials interviewed by NBC News...admitted Tuesday that it was “possible” Bin Laden was at Tora Bora...some in the special operations and intelligence community are telling NBC News that...no one is willing to say...there was no expectation that Bin Laden or Zawahiri would be there, say U.S. military and intelligence officials ...Senior officials in the U.S. and Pakistan tell NBC News...Another official said that intelligence analysts believed... many believed it was Bin Laden...said the official...Also, locals reported the presence of groups ...“He's surrounded by the true believers,” reported Rick Francona, who worked with CIA and special ops teams in Iraq in the 1990s....One senior military official said ...One general predicts, "That's the way we'll get Bin Laden." ...Military officials admit ..."They didn't gel," said the military official....Michael Sheehan, a former Army Special Operations colonel and counter terrorism ambassador...Rangers were moved to Iraq, said a special operations officer...The 82nd, said a second special operations officer...

So, besides the two guys who did something back in the day, who did MSNBC really speak with?

[VeniVidiVici]

Quite frankly even if he is alive he sure as hell ain’t enjoying himself. I’d almost prefer the status quo. He can’t sleep, can’t eat and his sheep go wanting.

[arthurus]

Osama will always escape capture. He made his final escape years ago in those mountains. He is in a Safe Place now where the Americans can never reach him and he has his 72 Virgins to protect him.

[ChessExpert]

Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces. Or, he may be dead.

There are a lot of mays in that article. Also a lot tightly edited quotes, many from unattributed sources. I liked this bit of Democratic party thinking: “But the bigger part of the picture is the question of allocation of resources from Afghanistan to Iraq.”

I can just see the Democratic party insisting we take soldiers out of Iraq to chase a man who has been obliterated for some time. When things work out badly, Bush will be left holding the bag. That kind of “help,” we can do without. Just my 2 cents. :)

[shield]

LOL...you know how to draw ‘em in, with a thread like this. You’ve got all the ‘UBL is Dead’ crowd...and they seem to run to UBL threads....to scream he’s dead. When they’ve got NO proof whatsoever, he’s dead. ;o)

[maine-iac7]

Someone posited an interesting theory to me the other day - he believes Binny may well be in the Philippines - there, the Al Queda don’t wear beards...which would account for the strange (fake) black beard?

I doubt, if he is still taking up oxygen, that he’s anywhere near Tora Bora =