[mhking]

"SSssshhhhh!! We're huntin' wabbits!"

[FlatLandBeer]

As one Marine once put it: Suprise Suprise Suprise!

[TADSLOS]

"The plan brags of "100 percent success."

Well, that's a bit optimistic, even for a U.S. Special Forces operation, unless they are talking of their impending meeting with Allah.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm trying to figure out which is more absurd, the plan to ambush or the idea ABC would actually intervene in a pro-troop fashion. Sorry the major networks are as suspect as any enemy in my book. In too many instances over the last ten years, they HAVE BEEN THE ENEMY of this nation.

[InspiredPath1]

D A I S Y C U T T E R !

Shhhhh .... our use of the secret weapon listed above is a secret. Don't tell ABC news.

[onedoug]

Bring it on!

[expatpat]

So secret, ABC has it!

[SuziQ]

I guess it's not so secret after all.

[theDentist]

IMO, the only reason ABC would report that an ambush of US troops was in the making was if they found that some other outfit had found out and was going to report it. After all, they want to remain "neutral".

[Amerigomag]

This report is troubling in only one aspect .. the longer that the cat is away the more the mice will play.

This is typical of one of the many problems that is created for the US if an invasion is delayed beyond late February.

The longer the political considerations delay action the more a myriad of these subplots have time to develope.

[From The Deer Stand]

Lock and load! We're going varmint hunting!

[baggadonuts]

The Al Quaeda reference is ominous however and is potentially being brought to light at an opportune moment. If a real tie can be drawn it should make things easier when the UK and US submit the new UN resolution. I mean there is no secret about the fact that Ansar al-Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood are radical offshoots educated and reared by the Wahabbi madrasas and universities in Saudi Arabia. It should take very little to draw that connection with Osama Bin Laden; after all, he is the poster-boy for modern day Wahhabi extremism.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm? Somebody better tell them the special ops have been there for quite some time - this is just another scare tactic - PEOPLE - IT'S CALLED TERRORISM for a reason - it's designed to terrorize you!!

[JamminJAY]

But when reporters, including an ABCNEWS producer, visited the compound three days after Powell's speech, they found no evidence of a lab, although none of the journalists had forensic expertise

Coming from folks who cant tell the difference between a .25 raven and a Navy MP5S I feel much better.

Jammer

[VRWC_minion]

Bush couldn't have planned this better. Or maybe he did. If we can't attack them then obviously we have to protect ourselves. What better way for folks in Iraq to launch a takeover of Saddam than to attack the US in Saddam's name. Oldest trick in the book.

[aristeides]

They're doomed if they wait on events. They should go ahead and attack the U.S. forces massing across the border in Turkey now. They'd have a good chance of achieving surprise -- the population in those areas is Kurdish.