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CIA Says Osama Bin Laden Is Isolated, "alive and surviving"
CNN ^ | 11-13-2008 | CNN

Posted on 11/13/2008 7:52:48 PM PST by 82ndABNOfficer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden is isolated from al Qaeda and spending much of his energy merely surviving, the head of the CIA said on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; binladen; bush; bush43; bushlegacy; cia; counterterrorism; gwot; pakistan; wot
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
I wonder how Obama poops. Does he have the usual accouterments?
181 posted on 11/14/2008 7:06:08 PM PST by Thebaddog (WTF just happened to us?)
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To: potlatch

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Good - post - potlatch


182 posted on 11/14/2008 7:54:06 PM PST by devolve ( ____"hussein the creepy" -- Evan Thomas - Nudesweek ____)
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To: devolve

Thank - you - devolve.

Lol, be glad I didn’t post it 6 times in a row!! heh


183 posted on 11/14/2008 7:57:45 PM PST by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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I tend to do that sometimes


184 posted on 11/14/2008 8:06:39 PM PST by devolve ( ____"hussein the creepy" -- Evan Thomas - Nudesweek ____)
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To: devolve

Of cours you did. If you make a large nice graphic then you go and post it on every thread that it applies to. Otherwise it’s a waste.

And, I would go to each one and reply - for years.


185 posted on 11/14/2008 8:09:41 PM PST by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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the years dwindle down


186 posted on 11/14/2008 8:13:15 PM PST by devolve ( ____"hussein the creepy" -- Evan Thomas - Nudesweek ____)
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To: Frantzie

A lot of good Americans sacrificed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sadly Saudi A, UAE, China and others just bought our election.

And don’t forget Chicago.


187 posted on 11/14/2008 8:38:47 PM PST by Wisconsinlady
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To: potlatch

After numerous rounds of ‘We don’t even know if Osama is still alive’, Barrack Hussein Obama has now been telling everyone he will capture Osama Bin Laden when elected.” So, Osama himself decided to send Barrack Hussein Obama a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Obama opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:

370H-SSV-0773H

Obama was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Howard Dean. Dean and the DNC and his aides had no clue either, so they sent it to Joe Biden. Joe Biden could not solve so it was sent to the FBI and the CIA. Eventually they asked John McCain and his Staff to look at it. And within minutes McCain’s Staff e-mailed Obama with this reply: ‘Tell Obama he’s holding the message upside down’.


188 posted on 11/14/2008 11:30:43 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: molette67

ping


189 posted on 11/15/2008 9:35:12 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Driving a taxi somewhere.


190 posted on 11/15/2008 10:01:23 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: r9etb
Iraq would be the proper place, if your strategic goal was to deal with Iran...

and Syria. Both Syria, now sandwiched between the see, Israel, Turkey and American forces in Iraq, and Iran, sandwiched betwee our forces in Agfhanistan and Iraq, are largely incapacitated. When we withdraw... well, that's another matter.

191 posted on 11/15/2008 10:20:34 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: do the dhue
On the discussion of UBL, one aspect that we have not tried, is the route of ridicule. Put out a counter-message that UBL had his chance at martyrdom and he has fled and hid. Ridicule him until his image takes a hit within the radical Muslim world or he is forced to try and make himself relevant. This course of action has been wanted/pushed by a segment within the Mil to no avail, yet.
192 posted on 11/15/2008 10:49:48 AM PST by SevenMinusOne
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To: SevenMinusOne
Outstanding position.

Why not try it. Force his hand.

Ask why does Osama runs while he asks others to die? Compare Osama to Hussein. Show how Hussein's sons fighting and dieing, while Hussein ran and hid in a hile.

Ask why doesn't Osama want 72 virgins?

Ask if his plan was to blow up our buildings and then hide for seven years? Ask why is he himself is not standing and waging his jihad against us?

193 posted on 11/15/2008 11:50:37 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: ForbesFan

You know, a lot of times it’s not that easy keeping dialysis patients alive in the US, with the finest facilities and the best and most sanitary medical care in the world. I’m not seeing this working out too well in caves.


194 posted on 11/15/2008 1:07:19 PM PST by ottbmare
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To: MeekOneGOP

370H-SSV-0773H

Lol, the minute I read ‘coded message’ I could actually read those upside down letters instantly!
Thanks Meek.


195 posted on 11/15/2008 1:10:13 PM PST by potlatch
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

NUKE IT , GIVE BUSH his do’s ...


196 posted on 11/15/2008 4:53:43 PM PST by Deetes (OBAMANATION)
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To: ottbmare

See posts #143 & #152 - Regards -


197 posted on 11/15/2008 5:56:30 PM PST by SevenMinusOne
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To: potlatch

hahaha! :^D

Me, too. :)


198 posted on 11/15/2008 11:55:32 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: do the dhue; HelloooClareece; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Travis McGee

Yes, we were legally at war with Hussein. Yes, a cease-fire is only a cease-fire, not a peace treaty; and if one side violates the terms of the cease-fire, the other side may take military action.

Yes, Hussein broke the cease-fire by refusing to fully and completely cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. He broke the cease-fire by continuing to build missiles that had a greater range than he was allowed to have. Hussein never verified that he had destroyed all stocks of WMDs. These were a substantive breach of the terms of the cease-fire.

The UN Security Council unanimously agreed, in its November 2002 resolution, that Hussein was in “material breach” of the previous resolution that had created the cease-fire. It should be a no-brainer. Hussein violated the cease-fire. We were legally at war.

I agree that the war to remove Hussein was very successful, and eventually we did catch him. The Iraqi government, which is a true government “of the people, by the people and for the people” of Iraq, put him on trial and executed him. But al Qaida chose to extend that war. They poured in men, guns and money. And on our side, many mistakes were made. This is a continuation of the war against Hussein. It’s obvious that both Iraq and Iran recognized the Jidahi-prophesied capital of a future “Worldwide Caliphate” was to be in Baghdad. Iran wants to dominate not only Baghdad, but the entire region.

Terrorism is one of the weapons that both Iran and Iraq have employed to further their own dominance and influence in the region. Even if there is no proof of a pre-invasion alliance between Iraq and al Qaida, such an alliance was (in my opinion) almost inevitable. The enemy of Hussein’s enemy was his inevitable friend. This was a possibility that we faced in March 2003: a strategic alliance between al Qaida and the Hussein regime. Whether it was an existing fact or a future risk doesn’t really matter. What matters is that we couldn’t afford to allow it to continue to exist.

The war in Iraq has drained al Qaeda dry. It cost them a lot of men and weapons to sustain that war. This is a tremendous victory for America, for the Iraqi people, for our allies in the region, and for George W. Bush. But because it is a victory for George W. Bush, the news media make very little mention of it.


199 posted on 11/16/2008 5:51:33 AM PST by Philo1962 (Iraq is terrorist flypaper. They go there to die.)
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To: do the dhue; HelloooClareece; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Travis McGee; potlatch

Yes, we were legally at war with Hussein. Yes, a cease-fire is only a cease-fire, not a peace treaty; and if one side violates the terms of the cease-fire, the other side may take military action.

Yes, Hussein broke the cease-fire by refusing to fully and completely cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. He broke the cease-fire by continuing to build missiles that had a greater range than he was allowed to have. Hussein never verified that he had destroyed all stocks of WMDs. These were a substantive breach of the terms of the cease-fire.

The UN Security Council unanimously agreed, in its November 2002 resolution, that Hussein was in “material breach” of the previous resolution that had created the cease-fire. It should be a no-brainer. Hussein violated the cease-fire. We were legally at war.

I agree that the war to remove Hussein was very successful, and eventually we did catch him. The Iraqi government, which is a true government “of the people, by the people and for the people” of Iraq, put him on trial and executed him. But al Qaida chose to extend that war. They poured in men, guns and money. And on our side, many mistakes were made. This is a continuation of the war against Hussein. It’s obvious that both Iraq and Iran recognized the Jidahi-prophesied capital of a future “Worldwide Caliphate” was to be in Baghdad. Iran wants to dominate not only Baghdad, but the entire region.

Terrorism is one of the weapons that both Iran and Iraq have employed to further their own dominance and influence in the region. Even if there is no proof of a pre-invasion alliance between Iraq and al Qaida, such an alliance was (in my opinion) almost inevitable. The enemy of Hussein’s enemy was his inevitable friend. This was a possibility that we faced in March 2003: a strategic alliance between al Qaida and the Hussein regime. Whether it was an existing fact or a future risk doesn’t really matter. What matters is that we couldn’t afford to allow it to continue to exist.

The war in Iraq has drained al Qaeda dry. It cost them a lot of men and weapons to sustain that war. This is a tremendous victory for America, for the Iraqi people, for our allies in the region, and for George W. Bush. But because it is a victory for George W. Bush, the news media make very little mention of it.


200 posted on 11/16/2008 5:52:08 AM PST by Philo1962 (Iraq is terrorist flypaper. They go there to die.)
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