Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda before 9/11.

The Weekly Standard ^ | From the Jan. 26, 2004 issue | Richard H. Shultz Jr.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Prior to 9/11, these units were never used even once to hunt down terrorists who had taken American lives. Putting the units to their intended use proved impossible--even after al Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, bombed two American embassies in East Africa in 1998, and nearly sank the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000. As a result of these and other attacks, operations were planned to capture or kill the ultimate perpetrators, Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, but each time the missions were blocked. A plethora of self-imposed constraints--I call them showstoppers--kept the counterterrorism units on the shelf.

I first began to learn of this in the summer of 2001, after George W. Bush's election brought a changing of the guard to the Department of Defense. Joining the new team as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense forspecial operations and low-intensity conflict was Bob Andrews, an old hand at the black arts of unconventional warfare....

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Fyi.

[Pukin Dog]

Excellent report. Thanks for posting it.

[miltonim]

Counterterrorism! bump

[serurier]

Thank you very much , I have some text about Iraq war (but It's use chinese write),I hope you can see it .
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[OXENinFLA]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[There's millions of'em]

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[Jim Noble]

Old habits die hard.

I cringed on 9/11 when W said the perpetrators would be "brought to justice".

Fortunately, he later decided to bring justice to them, instead.

[MEG33]

If only...

[Dark Knight]

The Somalia point was a miss. Politicians denied armor support to the forces, and they were creamed. Blackhawk Down did a pretty good impression of what it feels like when politicians call the warriors shots.

I liked the lion BBQ. And the SF guy's attitude at the end.

DK

[Dark Knight]

The Somalia point was a miss. Politicians denied armor support to the forces, and they were creamed. Blackhawk Down did a pretty good impression of what it feels like when politicians call the warriors shots.

I liked the lion BBQ. And the SF guy's attitude at the end.

DK

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Volley bump! (^:

[Archangelsk]

Huge ping. Send to your usual suspects.

[Alamo-Girl]

Volley volley bump!!!

[futureceo31]

If you like reading books, you should read Mission Compromised by Ollie North. He displays the contempt of the Clinton administration for the military and I was AMAZED And disgusted at this. After reading this, I cannot believe that some conservatives on here would even think of sitting out the elections and possibly giving us a Rat for president.

[BlueNgold]

Hmmm .. wondering what Dick Marchinko would have to say about this ...

[centurion316]

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