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

Kyodo News | 12/12/01

[kattracks]

WASHINGTON, Dec 11, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The U.S. military has confirmed that Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and leaders of his al-Qaida network are hiding in a mountainous area in eastern Afghanistan, the ABC television network said Tuesday.

After dropping a powerful "daisy cutter" bomb on the Tora Bora mountain cave and tunnel complex Sunday, the U.S. military monitored a series of panicked radio and satellite-phone calls, ABC quoted U.S. intelligence sources as saying.

The communications showed bin Laden was near the blast and is now on the run, and that many other al-Qaida leaders were killed, it said.

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon press briefing Tuesday that Sunday's bombing had the "desired" effect.

U.S. special operations forces on the ground confirmed "dead al-Qaida" members, Myers said.

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[JohnHuang2]

Good news. The clock is ticking on OBL.

[ambrose]

These reports are all over the place. Some have these clowns slipping into Pakistan and Iran, while others, such as this report, have them cornered in Tora Bora.

[kattracks]

Tick... tock...

[brat]

AW.....I just love Daisies! LOL

[D-fendr]

Saw the tape of Gen. Myers. It went something like this:

Myers: It had the intended effect.

Reporter: What was the intended effect?

Myers: To kill al-Qaida.

Reporter: And what were the results?

Myers: Dead al-Qaida.

Honesty is never so noticable until you do without it for so long.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Woot! Truly great news!

Run Osama! RUN !

Since you are gonna die, it might as well be tired. Go get 'em boys!

[LiberalBassTurds]

Hehe that's a great dialog. Thanks for posting it.

[Dan Day]

Honesty is never so noticable until you do without it for so long.

*applause*

[MistyCA]

I would love daisies more if Osama were under the ground pushing them up!

[Demidog]

They've been telling us this for a week. Along with what he is thinking, what he is planning and what his wife is saying.

Interesting that they have all of that information and still haven't put him in custody.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Honesty is never so noticable until you do without it for so long.

Amen!

[paul544]

Sounds like we need to ramp up production.

[Colosis]

Only 4 daisy cutters used so far?? WOW! Talk about desired effect. That is one helluva bomb...

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

LOL I heard that also and could not believe the follow-up question to what were the results. We had the desired results...dead Al Queada, what were the results? What a dumb question.

[JohnHuang2]

*Standing ovation* here for Gen. Myers

[Nogbad]

What a dumb question.

Yes.
Journalists and reporters,
in addition to being generally leftists,
and ass-kissers,
tend to be rather dumb.

[D-fendr]

They [the press] really can't get it.

It reminds of what Rush often says: "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things."

The left and the press still don't get it, and I imagine they are just aghast when a military leader speaks the plain truth of what their duty is – plainly.

They are like Rodney Kings with notepads.

[Razwan]

Hurray for the rocket scientists who work in the media