Obama Reacts to al Qaeda Message; (CNN BARF QUEEN ALERT)

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[jessduntno]

CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Hi there, everybody. Breaking news tonight: The president-elect reacts to a new taped threat apparently from Osama bin Laden.

Bullet point number one; Al Qaeda's leader speaks out for the first time in months. In that audio message, bin Laden called for a jihad against Israel and vows to open new fronts against the U.S.

In an interview just aired on CBS, president-elect Obama says killing bin Laden is one way, but not the only way, to stop him.

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BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT-ELECT: If we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

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BROWN: The president-elect says U.S. forces need to concentrate on the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. But, tonight, he is being warned of a new bloody chapter to come in Afghanistan.

..we want to bring in now CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen,...and our chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, here with me in New York.

snip

He's already trying to bad-mouth President Obama. So, he's really clinging for his own justification and survival.

BROWN: Peter, we just heard a moment ago what Barack Obama told Katie Couric. He also said he intends to take a slightly new strategy with bin Laden compared to Bush. Listen to what else he had to say.

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OBAMA: I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function. My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him.

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BROWN: So, Peter, is that possible, to make him ineffectual without actually killing him?

[jessduntno]

Arrrrrrghhhhhhhh...

[Darkwolf377]

BROWN: So, Peter, is that possible, to make him ineffectual without actually killing him?

Is this a joke?

[Republican Wildcat]

In an interview just aired on CBS, president-elect Obama says killing bin Laden is one way, but not the only way, to stop him.

Good grief. How far we are going to fall in a just a few short days.

He's a poser. What else can be said?

[gusopol3]

technically alive? Maybe he thinks Osama's a robot. Hey maybe he thought Iron Man was true

[jessduntno]

“BROWN: So, Peter, is that possible, to make him ineffectual without actually killing him?
Is this a joke?”

Sadly, no. It is penetrating news as hawked on CNN...by Campbell Brown...

[lilylangtree]

Harvard elitism at work! Bleah!

[aphid]

On a side note...CNN compares this inauguration to Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/01/cnn-report-actually-compares-upcoming.html

[Sacajaweau]

Am I noticing the media saying “bin laden” rather than using Osama??

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

To mecca, little Amerikan Lemmings.....to mecca! And bow down to the Great Obama.

[Darkwolf377]

Either she is stone stupid enough to think this is a new strategy or she thinks we are.

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON

From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243

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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot

[happinesswithoutpeace]

“If we have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America.”

This is almost word for word what Albright said about Bin Laden in the late 90’s.

She claimed the Taliban had said they had taken away his cell phone so he couldn’t communicate with his operatives.

[jessduntno]

“Either she is stone stupid enough to think this is a new strategy or she thinks we are.”

One wouldn’t necessarily rule out the other, would it? ;^)

[happinesswithoutpeace]

“had taken away his cell phone”

should have been SAT phone...

[Sender]

Osama, if he is alive, is not suffering in a cave. He is probably living large in someone's home or compound in Waziristan, careful to never emerge into the potential view of a satellite or Predator drone without appropriate cover. He probably has numerous trusted couriers, nondescript Pashtun or Afghan men who can carry his orders to subordinates and who can bring him news.

Osama, if he is alive, is not out of business. He can carry on a global jihad just as mafia bosses and gangstas carry on business from the slammer.

Only by killing or capturing him can we dishearten the jihadi network. PEBO is so naive. It's a good thing he's not in charge of the nation's defense...oh, wait...

[old and cranky]

I asked my kids what they thought about bin laden over the last several years, their thoughts were the same as mine, haven’t heard much of anything and he hasn’t done anything...wouldn’t that mean he has been contained? But for Bush to contain him wasn’t good enough, but Obama KEEPING him contained is, well, worshiped. It is so pathetic you have to laugh and cry and the same time.

[Impeach98]

"But for Bush to contain him wasn’t good enough, but Obama KEEPING him contained is, well, worshiped. It is so pathetic you have to laugh and cry and the same time."

Well put. It's all so sad but true!

[jimbo123]

More context here:

Bin Laden’s Son No Longer Under Arrest in Iran

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166126/posts

[exist]

Obama probably helped write that al-Qaeada message.