U.S. confirms bin Laden's whereabouts, ABC says

Kyodo News | 12/12/01

[Godfollow]

yep!

[2Jedismom]

I loved it! Especially when kinda stumbled over saying "Dead Al Quaeda!" like he couldn't believe the stupidity of the question. I got the actual exchange off the DoD for my dad, so I had it handy. Here it is, you got it pretty close.

Q: Mr. Secretary, the other day, the United States took the extraordinary step of dropping a daisy cutter somewhere up in Tora Bora. You folks apparently had a pretty good idea of where someone you thought was. Have you found intelligence to borne out (sic) your hunch?

Rumsfeld: Well, there are not a lot of those, so they don't use them frivolously. There's no question that when that was used, I thought it was yesterday -- was it yesterday?

Q: (Two were ?)

Rumsfeld: Yeah.

Q: Sunday.

Rumsfeld: Day before?

Q: Sunday.

Q: Sunday.

Rumsfeld: Well, very recently. That they felt they had good reason to use it in that location.

Yes.

Myers: And --

Q: Mr. Secretary --

Myers: And I just -- let me just add, Mr. Secretary, it was effective. I mean, we've been on the ground and it had the desired effect.

(Cross talk.)

Q: Which was what? What was the desired effect?

Q: Can you describe to us anecdotally what the --

Myers: The desired effect was to kill al Qaeda.

Q: What sort of results are you aware of? What did your people on the ground see?

Myers: Dead al Qaeda. (Laughter.)

[lds23]

The only good al-queda member is a dead al-queda member.

[dwbh]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would you tell the media that you know where OBL is hiding? Once OBL knows that we know where he is, won't he just go hide somewhere else?

[Bryce Buchanan]

They are like Rodney Kings with notepads. & Honesty is never so noticable until you do without it for so long.

Two great one-liners in one thread.

[Campion]

I believe the operational instructions for the Daisy Cutter require the dropping C-130 to be at least 6000 feet AGL.

Quite a bang to require that much of a minimum distance.

They're nice and cheap, too. Only about $25k a pop. It's just a big tank full of (12,000 lbs of) ammonium nitrate, polystyrene, and powdered aluminum slurry, with a chute and a ground-contact detonator.

[spokeshave]

Notice the lack of snow in the photos...there's no "up to our armpits in frozen quagmire snow that is so cold it snaps tool steel" because the lib rats gave us global warming

[mvscal]

"Let's just hope they never fall in the hands our our enemies so that they can be used against us!"

If we can't intercept and destroy a C-130, then we would probably deserve to have one dropped on us.

[carton253]

And wear hats!

[carton253]

I don't think there is anywhere else for him to go...

[B-bone]

Albright . . . in evening wear

Isn't it just a little early in the morning to suggest that image?

[paul51]

Give bin laden a white bronco to use. It will be more entertaining that way.

[1L]

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does the Daisy do that's special, other than delivering huge quantities of conventional explosives?

[MaeWest]

" We intended to degrade the potential of their ability to perform their desired function...."

Hmmm, wouldn't that also be his comment about American citizens?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Second that nomination, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE!

[Aric2000]

What is so special about a daisy cutter? Hmm, OK, how about it is the largest Conventional bomb we have. It is equivalent to a small nuke.

The bomb is dropped from a c-130, as it comes down a detonator inside explodes and spreads the fuel out in a very fine mist, then a second explosive ignites the fuel. It is A Fuel/Air Explosive. The resulting shockwave and explosion will kill anything and everyone within 600 yards. If the explosion doesn't get you, the shockwave will, if the shockwave doesn't get you, the lack of oxygen will.

They are impressive, VERY impressive!!

[veryconernedamerican]

na they ran out of money a few weeks ago and started using fat ladies burkas.

[veryconernedamerican]

they want him to try to move, that would just hasten his death. he is surrounded and the only way he can escape is if they decide it's better to let him go somewhere else to give us an excuse to attack. we're giving him a dose of terrorism.

[veryconernedamerican]

let add some pigs blood to the one with bin laden name on it

[veryconernedamerican]

let add some pigs blood to the one with bin laden name on it