Bush ignored CIA video of bin Laden walking toward Pakistan in Dec. 2001

[kurth]

Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'
U.S. Steps Up Efforts, But Good Intelligence On Ground is Lacking
By Dana Priest and Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 10, 2006; A01

... Intelligence officials think that bin Laden is hiding in the northern reaches of the autonomous tribal region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. This calculation is based largely on a lack of activity elsewhere and on other intelligence, including a videotape, obtained exclusively by the CIA and not previously reported, that shows bin Laden walking on a trail toward Pakistan at the end of the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when U.S. forces came close but failed to capture him.

... That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.

"I was appalled when I learned about it," said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration's counterterrorism policy. "I don't know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that." ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105_pf.html

[Nozebro]

1. He (Osama) wouldn't be very useful anymore if that had happened.

"It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that."

In the eternal so-called War on Terror, the U.S. Gov't is always going to need assets like Osama to be patsies, scapegoats, and crazy, radical Muslims. Scripts for False Flag operations always include them.

[Rageneau]

2. They never caught Emmanuel Goldstein either. For the same reason.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Because he was hiding out in Pakistan?

:evilgrin: