Bush CIA Director wanted to use Blackwater ‘hit teams’ to kill bin Laden: report

[Playinghardball]

Source: Peuters via Raw Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pivotal moment in the long, tortuous quest to find Osama bin Laden came years before U.S. spy agencies discovered his hermetic compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

In July 2007, then Senator Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers met in the modest two-room Massachusetts Avenue offices that served as his campaign's Washington headquarters. There, they debated the incendiary language Obama would use in an upcoming speech on national security, according to a senior White House official.

Pakistan was a growing worry. A new, highly classified intelligence analysis, called a National Intelligence Estimate, had just identified militant safe havens in Pakistan's border areas as a major threat to U.S. security. The country's military leader, Pervez Musharraf, had recently cut a deal with local tribes that effectively eased pressure on al Qaeda and related groups.

Days after the Washington meeting, candidate Obama told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/12/bush-cia-director-wanted-to-use-blackwater-hit-teams-to-kill-bin-laden-report/

[Enrique]

1. wow,this is a really good story

the best I've read on the subject yet. thanks for posting!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Figures they'd want to subcontract it out.

:shrug:

[icnorth]

3. That was until Erik Prince discovered

a couple of his operatives hanging from a bridge crossing the Euphrates.