Bin Laden understands Bush all too well...and wanted him to remain so that bin Laden would continue to be successful in Iraq and free to build the Taliban back up in Afghanistan and undermine the Musharraf government in Pakistan. Kerry might have done a phased withdrawal and moved enough troops into Afghanistan to smash the Taliban and al Qaeda. Osama wanted the U.S. to remain fully engaged in Iraq; attackable directly and a demonstrably wonderful recruiting tool and training school for new terrorists. This is how, seemingly isolated in the wilds of the Afghan border, he has been able to convert his band of Islamist fanatics from a terrorist group into a worldwide jihadi ideology, attracting more and more formerly moderate Muslims. He wanted Bush to stay and knew just what to say to make sure that happened. Since October, bin Laden has been moving units of his terrorists back to Afghanistan. An indicator he knows that the situation in Iraq is irretrievably lost for the U.S., and civil war is inevitable and the majority of his trained combat veterans can be more useful elsewhere. Besides, the Taliban has been increasingly active this winter, instead of going into winter hibernation as in past years, and is ready for a spring offensive. Osama's guys are there to help at the unit, planner and logistics levels. We'll probably kill or capture ten or twelve more of his number three guys this year alone. Yep, we got Osama pinned to the wall down there in Afghanistan...right where he wants us.
David Bier --- In osint@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Tefft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was clear at the time...funny thing was how ignorant bin Laden showed > himself about American culture...we are not the Spanish, obviously. > > Bruce > > > > http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1889909,00.html > > > Bush: Bin Laden helped me > 28/02/2006 20:44 - (SA) > > Washington - US President George W Bush said his 2004 re-election victory > over John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a > taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, > The Examiner newspaper reported on Tuesday. > > Bush said there were "enormous amounts of discussion" inside his campaign > about the 15-minute tape, which he called "an interesting entry by our > enemy" into the presidential race. > > Bush's comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book > Strategery by Bill Sammon, a long-time White House correspondent. > > "What does it mean? Is it going to help? Is it going to hurt?" Bush told > Sammon of the bin Laden tapes. > > "Anything that drops in at the end of a campaign that is not already decided > creates all kinds of anxieties, because you're not sure of the effect. > > "I thought it was going to help," Bush said. > > "I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush > to be the president, something must be right with Bush." > -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
