I follow up with my, "Where the....(Raid on Al-Qaeda)

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...fuck is Osama Bin Laden, Asshole," post with this:

'05 mission to get al Qaeda in Pakistan aborted, Times says
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Report: U.S. aimed to capture senior al-Qaeda members in tribal areas

Officials decided it was too risky and could jeopardize relations with nation

Target was meeting thought to have included Osama bin Laden's top deputy

Some officials said U.S. missed chance to possibly nab senior al Qaeda

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A secret 2005 mission to capture senior al Qaeda members in Pakistan's tribal areas was aborted at the last moment when Bush administration officials decided it was too risky and could jeopardize relations with Pakistan, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Citing intelligence and military officials, including a former senior intelligence official involved in the planning, the Times said in a story posted on its Web site that the target was a meeting of al Qaeda leaders. That conference was thought by intelligence officials to have included Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy, who was believed to run the group's operations, it said.

The classified mission was scotched even as Navy SEALs in parachute gear had boarded C-130 cargo planes in Afghanistan after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rejected a last-minute appeal by then-CIA director Porter Goss, the Times said, citing the officials and the former intelligence official, all of whom requested anonymity.

Link to the Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/washington/08intel.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

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1. The psychotic butcher who has murdered more than 3500...

...of our soldiers is complicit and probably an accomplace to the murder of 3000 of our fellow countrymen and women.

Mrs. Pelosi, set the table now!