If they really want him they better start looking in Iran. Living the Life of Riley.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Kamakazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bold. > > Decisive. > > Republican. Can this jive cat rip off any more Republican ideas? Are > there any left he hasn't claimed as his own? > > Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden > > WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the > U.S. commitment to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according > to his national security advisers. > > The Obama team believes the Bush administration has downplayed the > importance of catching the FBI's most-wanted terrorist because it has > not been able to find him. > > "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our > biggest national security priority," Obama said during the > presidential debate on October 7. > > But tracking down bin Laden won't be easy. > > In May, al Qaeda released an audiotape featuring bin Laden. But U.S. > intelligence officials say they haven't had a solid lead on the > terrorist mastermind's whereabouts since late 2001, when he was nearly > captured in a battle with U.S. forces near Tora Bora, Afghanistan. > > Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer, told CNN he's talked to "a > dozen CIA guys who've been on the hunt for him, and half of them told > me they assumed he was dead, the other half said they assumed he was > alive, but the key word here is assume. They don't know." Watch the > hunt for bin Laden ยป > > Intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding in the tribal areas > of northwest Pakistan, a remote and primitive region with mountain > peaks as tall as 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) that make the terrain > difficult to navigate. > http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/binladen.hunt/index.html > > > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
