Why is Osama Bin Laden still alive?

“Attacks linked to Osama Bin Laden:

1993 WTC
1996 US Barracks in Saudi Arabia
1998 US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
2000 USS Cole

The BBC reports:

"The Taleban says it will only consider extraditing Mr Bin Laden if the US provides "solid and convincing" evidence of his involvement in terrorism."

and

"The Taleban has denied reports that Mr Bin Laden is under house arrest, but said it had restricted his contact with the outside world, thus making it difficult for him to run any kind of global network."

Doesn't this qualify the Taleban as harboring Bin Laden? This makes them accomplices and they should be dealt with as such.”

“He eats right, watches his weight, doesn't smoke and exercises.

And he hides real good.”

“I heard from a reliable source today that the CIA found Bin Laden after the ship bombing, but Bill Clinton would not authorize his capture.

My source is the father of a Green Beret Major who is in, or near Afghanistan right now.”

“LOL, kleetn. Now that was funny!”

“Check out your local search engine for Afghanistan or Taliban. These dudes have founded their own version of the HMWH Club. Women beware. They make our club house look like the Garden Club.”

“Sh!t Bacpac, EVERYBODY beware!!!”

“Probably gets a lot of nookie too, Kleetn.”

“Bin Laden? Oh yeah, way sexy

I imagine he has long hair under the turban”

“Hey, those "flower child" guys from the 60's got long hair too. They were all into peace and LOVE.”

“Seriously though, I would hate to be a woman in one of those states.

The injustice & stories are inspeakable..”

“I really cannot imagine what it is like living in Afghanistan..none of us can really”

“Does the words Barefoot, Pregnant and Kitchen ring a bell? Oh yeah, also covered from head to toe.”

“The President is P.O.'ed. 'It is time to win the war of the 21st century decisively'

Something's going to happen real soon...”

“well,

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040112a/mspan_2X_final-A10R1.jpg

Osama ain't there either.”

“Can't you see it all, people? Bush is gonna use Osama as an experiment to put the first man on Mars. Why else would Bush talk about a manned mission to Mars at this time? Double duh! If the spacecraft explodes upon entry, no loss to earth, and Osama gets his 40 virgins. Or is it up to 70 now? I lost track. Once it hits 147 virgins, I'm goin' Islamic JIHAD, BABY!”

“Why is Osama still alive?

Because he is smarter than King George Bush.

He is more intelligent than all our "intelligence" people alive.

We need "smart people" to catch him not "smart bombs"

More resources are being spent on finding Weapons of Mass Destruction (which obviously don't exist) than osama bin Ladin (who obviously still does exist)

He's richer than dirt. He can buy more friends than the US can.

More people support him than support Bush.

Shall I continue renumerating?”

“Plus he lives in a Sand/Camo Marmot 1.5 zoid and has the ultimate backpacking gear.”

“He's so thin,when he turns sidewise he can't be seen.
Also,he can buy his way into and out of most situations. Last but not least, he's Dubyas' hero.”

“I watched part of a real good program called "Al Quada: 2.0" on the Discovery/Times cable network. It gave a pretty good insight on why Osama is still alive.

Earlier today, I watched a bit on the same station made by a Jewish writer who goes on the "hunt" for the reason why 9/11 happened, why it will happen again and why the Arab street hates the US so much. I need to catch the tail end of both of these great programs. I suggest you all try to catch them as well.”

“Are you watching the reporters at war show now? It's good.”

“missed that one because the boy was still up and the show is pretty graphic for family viewing. Will it repeat?”

“It's on right now. It's on Discovery Times Channel.”

“I'll have to catch it another time. I gots to get ma beauty sleep (and judging by the looks of it, I NEEDS ALL THE SLEEP I CAN GET!!!”

“The show you watched is on again at 1AM and the reporter show will be on again at 4AM”

“Rumsfeld Mixes Up Hussein, Bin Laden in Speech

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld mixed up Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice in a speech Friday.

Among other things, Rumsfeld talked about the world just before the Sept. 11 attacks, whose third anniversary is today. In Afghanistan, he told the National Press Club, "the leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, Masoud, lay dead, his murder ordered by Saddam Hussein, by Osama bin Laden, Taliban's co-conspirator."

Ahmed Shah Masoud, who opposed the ruling Taliban, was killed by suspected Al Qaeda operatives — not Hussein — two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Later, Rumsfeld said, "Saddam Hussein, if he's alive, is spending a whale of a lot of time trying to not get caught. And we've not seen him on a video since 2001."

Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq; Bin Laden has not been found.

The moderator later asked Rumsfeld if he had meant Bin Laden, and the Defense secretary replied: "I did. I meant we haven't seen Osama bin Laden."

Critics accuse the Bush administration of having concentrated on Hussein at the expense of the hunt for Bin Laden, whose network carried out the Sept. 11 attacks.

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“glad I'm not pres. I trip over my tongue on a regular basis.”

“Bin Laden is alive because the RNC has his capture scheduled for prime time mid-October.”

“C.I.A. Unit on bin Laden Is Understaffed, a Senior Official Tells Lawmakers

By JAMES RISEN NY Times

ASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency has fewer experienced case officers assigned to its headquarters unit dealing with Osama bin Laden than it did at the time of the attacks, despite repeated pleas from the unit's leaders for reinforcements, a senior C.I.A. officer with extensive counterterrorism experience has told Congress.

The bin Laden unit is stretched so thin that it relies on inexperienced officers rotated in and out every 60 to 90 days, and they leave before they know enough to be able to perform any meaningful work, according to a letter the C.I.A. officer has written to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

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“get this outa here”

“Why? So he can be played into a RNC event in about a month.”

“lizard, this thread was created before the fuego category existed.

only matt the webmaster can change it.”

“"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he will be sorely mistaken"
- George W. Bush, September 15, 2001

"The focus right now is on Osama bin Laden, no question about it. He's the prime suspect and his organization... we will not allow ourselves to be terrorized by somebody who thinks they can hit and hide in some cave somewhere."
- George W. Bush, September 17, 2001


Bin Laden ‘no longer top target’

Christina Lamb

COALITION commanders in Afghanistan have begun playing down the importance of Osama Bin Laden — in sharp contrast to the statements made earlier this year that he would be caught by the end of 2004.
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President George W Bush was so eager to capture the Al-Qaeda leader before next month’s election that the strength of the US forces in Afghanistan was almost doubled to 19,000 men.

However, deteriorating security in Iraq has forced the Pentagon to move Taskforce 121, the commando team behind the capture of Saddam, away from Afghanistan. It has returned to Iraq to search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist believed to be responsible for the murder of Kenneth Bigley.
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“According to this analysis, because Shi'ites in Pakistan and/or Afghanistan haven't found him yet.

http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FJ28Df03.html”

“It's because GW isn't really concerned about finding him. He really doesn't think about him that much. GW is fighting a war in Iraq and doesn't have time for the war on terror.”

“Because he is flying around in Wonder Woman's invisible jet.”

“we'll find him when the animals find snowball the pig.

or when stalin finds trotsky

or when oceania finally wins it war against euroasia... or was that eastasia...”

“Exclusive: CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away

Aug. 15, 2005 issue - During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days of the war in Afghanistan. Bush, Kerry charged, "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down and kill" the leader of Al Qaeda. The president called his opponent's allegation "the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking." Bush asserted that U.S. commanders on the ground did not know if bin Laden was at the mountain hideaway along the Afghan border.

But in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora—intelligence operatives had tracked him—and could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. Asked to comment on Berntsen's remarks, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones passed on 2004 statements from former CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy Franks. "We don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001," Franks wrote in an Oct. 19 New York Times op-ed. "Bin Laden was never within our grasp." Berntsen says Franks is "a great American. But he was not on the ground out there. I was."

In his book—titled "Jawbreaker"—the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora, says Berntsen's lawyer, Roy Krieger. (Berntsen would not divulge the book's specifics, saying he's awaiting CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent accounts, including that of military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora a "strategic disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a cordon of conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members. Maj. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, says the problem at Tora Bora "was not necessarily just the number of troops."

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“Looky, looky, the Vile man is alive!!!!
LOL”

“"I want justice," President Bush said, referring to bin Laden after September 11, 2001. "And there's an old poster out West. ... I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'"

Meanwhile, 5 years later.”

“Because Pakistan won't let us send troops in to get him.

(changed country name on edit... LOL!)
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“I think that it is a good question whether the FBI and CIA know where he is.

I could think of a few reasons why we wouldn't take him out immediately.

1) It could upset the internal politics in Pakistan, potentially giving the bomb to Islamic radicals.

2) It could end a surveillance program that is gathering knowledge of al qaeda and its operations.

3) Jimmy San's reason.

4) CONSPIRACY ALERT: He's better alive as a reason to keep fighting the war on terror. I don't believe this one.

Just a few weeks ago, we captured a Mexican drug lord. He liked deep sea fishing and took his boat into international waters. The Coast Guard scooped him up and towed his boat to San Diego.

Maybe we're monitoring his every move and waiting for him to make a mistake.”

“The US knows where he is well enough. We just can't go in and get him because Pakistan won't let us do it and they won't do it themselves.

The consequences of letting US troops go into Pakistan to get him are even worse for Pakistan than if they went in and grabbed the guy and handed him to us. He is more valuable politically if he is alive and living "dead like Elvis" then in prison on trial anywhere.

We could have gotten him at Tora Bora but people were too scared to put troops on the ground, stalled in making the right decision, and let him get away. We nabbed an Al-Qaeda radio off of a dead fighter and listened to him whine and moan to his men about how sorry he was to have led them into this trap and other such silly stuff. We could have had him but the refusal to put troops on the ground let him get away.”

“Because Clinton did not have the nerve to kill bin Laden when he had the chance.

Because of liberal news sources revealing classified information of how we gather intelligence that allowed bin Laden to avoid making those mistakes.

Because the U.S. does not know where he is.

Eric Rudolph hid out longer in the U.S.

Eichmann hid out longer.”

“Eric Rudolph hid out longer in the U.S.

An exceptionally good point. It's easier to get lost than most people think, especially if you are like Bin Laden and are used to living like a hermit and have people willing to help you stay lost.”

“If you're going to blame past presidents keep going.

Reagan funded Bin Laden so well that he has a great network of hidey-holes.”

“why do you hate your country so much marko?”

“Hate your country??????”

“Naw, I just hate my county.”

“I don't know where Bin Hidin' is or why he's still alive, but I think I know where he isn't. He's probably not sitting behind a desk with a lobbyist on each knee deciding where the tax payers money could be BEST spent.”