Analysts: Bin Laden alive but hamstrung

[sabra]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061205-105023-5600r.htm

Analysts: Bin Laden alive but hamstrung

U.S. intelligence agencies think al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are alive and still plotting attacks, even though both have eluded a massive manhunt for more than five years since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told WTOP radio last week that both bin Laden and al-Zawahri are "still alive" and "and working to hurt the people and values of the United States."

Intelligence officials said bin Laden and al-Zawahri are hiding in separate locations somewhere in the extremely rugged and mountainous border region separating Pakistan and Afghanistan. Scores to several hundred regular and special-operations troops and CIA officers are working in several task forces to locate both bin Laden and his deputy, al-Zawahri, along the 1,200-mile border.

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Dennis Pluchinsky, a former State Department counterterrorism analyst, said bin Laden's low profile is likely the result of poor health or because he is hiding in an ultra-secret location that is too risky to conduct videotaping.
"The last possibility leads to the intriguing question of whether it is more secure to make many movements, or to stay in one place for a lengthy period of time," he said. "The more you move, the more opportunities for someone to see you move. The longer you stay in one place, the greater the possibility that the enemy may find you, especially in sector searches."

[Donnachaidh]

1. isn't this Moonie's paper?

yeah, I'd take everything they publish on face value. :sarcasm:

[Doctor_J]

2. Translation: you still need to live in fear, but the $500 billion hasn't goneto

waste.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these people?

[Hobarticus]

3. So is Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, but he's in prison.

Along with nine other conspirators for the first World Trade Center attack, in 1993.

Max sentence of 240 years, for every single one of them. Justice is served.

Thanks Bill!

[stillcool]

4. expletives are all I have to say..

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. Who Is This Osama Guy? nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

6. Nah, He was Run Over by a Reindeer nt

[C_U_L8R]

7. Hamstrung?

Curious choice of word

[daleo]

12. He needs to do more stretching exercises

That's the usual solution for tight hamstring muscles. Assuming he is alive...

[uppityperson]

15. Physical therapy and massge could do wonders also.

[DearAbby]

8. And why is this News now?

Translation: TERROR! FEAR!

OTHER TRANSLATION: "Osama get off your ass....we need an event to save our asses!"

Each time they taunt Osama, he releases a tape to prove..."I'm still kicking" Are they poking a stick at Osama so he will respond, and the GOP can say...SEE! TERROR! FEAR!

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. More evidence of Bush's failed Presidency

there is no good reason in the world why this asshole is still alive and well.

[DearAbby]

10. Oh for sure...

The Freeps are quick to point out that Clinton had failed to capture Bin Laden in 8 yrs, they don't care that no one knew of Bin Laden, all of those eight years.

Well Freeps, it's been 6 yrs and this scum is still sucking in air. WHY? The boss man said "Dead or alive" Said "there was no place he could hide..."

Is he waiting for the bastard to die peacefully in his own bed of natural causes?

Me thinks, Osama is more valuable alive than dead, to these thugs.

[Phredicles]

11. Hamstrung but working to hurt the US?

Sounds like they're trying to have it both ways as per the party line: We needn't call the Dear Leader to account for failing to find bin Laden, but we should remain afraid, very afraid.

[Pastiche423]

13. OBL is dead

and they know it. They're using him in death, how they used him in life - to put FEAR in the hearts of all Americans.

Their act is so stale.

[Thor_MN]

14. Wow, that's sooo hilarious - Islam forbids pork, so OBL is hamstrung

We must look like such asses to the rest of the world. Thanks George...

[rocktivity]

16. Considering the results the previous "expert" analysis,

I guess that's good news...for Osama...



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