CNN Right Now- Pakistan is calling off search 4 OBL

[Brundle_Fly]

Pakistan is calling off search for Osama....

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/November/subcontinent_November839.xml§ion=subcontinent

[Brundle_Fly]

1. anyone want to bet $100

he shows up in Iran?

[Cooley Hurd]

2. That's because the Crawford Police have him "tree'd"

...in the Chimp's corn crib. They say he looks well-fed and is sporting a Texas Rangers cap.;)

[Judi Lynn]

3. Here's an article which sounds like they were planning this earlier

and easing into this announcement just a couple of days ago:

Bin Laden Not Hiding on Pakistan Border -Commander
Thu Nov 25, 2004 08:39 AM ET

By Zeeshan Haider
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden can not be hiding in Pakistan's tribal lands on the Afghan border as Pakistani forces have combed the area and found no hint of him, a Pakistani army commander said on Thursday.

Bin Laden and his bodyguards could not go undetected in the rugged tribal lands, although pockets of al Qaeda-backed fighters are battling Pakistani forces there, said Lieutenant-General Safdar Hussain.

"He requires his own protection and the kind of security apparatus he is supposed to have around would give us a very big signature," Hussain told Reuters in an interview in his well-fortified headquarters in the northwest city of Peshawar.

"There is not an inch of South Waziristan agency or the tribal area which we have not swept time and again and if he was here, I assure you he could not have escaped my ears and eyes."

Hussain is military chief of northwest Pakistan and heads a campaign to clear out al-Qaeda militants, most of whom took refuge in Pakistan's lawless border lands after U.S.-led forces captured the Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001.

U.S. commanders hunting for bin Laden in Afghanistan say they can't find him there and he might be in Pakistan's tribal areas. Other reports suggest he may have taken refuge in disputed Kashmir but officials there say security is too tight for bin Laden to go unnoticed.
(snip/...)

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6919605

[liberal N proud]

4. He is not needed now, shruby is back in the white house

and they no longer need to push the constant fear on the people.
No Fear, No Terror, game over.
The only fear we have now is that from the changes shrub will make to this country.

[Mika]

29. They still need terra for another repug preznit selection.

How the F else are they going to give Jeb the 2008 selection?

[annabanana]

5. Like the Pakistani army EVER wanted to catch him...........sheesh.

Isn't the army in Pakistan largely made up of Fundi Shi'ites?

Isn't it at least POSSIBLE (if not actually probable) that they've been responsible for his elusiveness right from the start?

[Brundle_Fly]

7. Agreed

but there is supposedly CIA agents aiding the pakistanis on the ground, with "intelligence" (omit irony)

[Pallas180]

24. Like the chimp ever wanted to catch him-they're still in biz together & th

the new oil deal is the Caspian Sea oil...

Saudis in on it, China, and the Paks and Indians too.

Putin and Russia trying to destroy Chechnya so that they can get to the oil on their half of the Caspian Sea.

A look at geography map tells the story - and look up
Azberjain Chamber of Commerce. You'll be amazed.

[reprobate]

27. Azerbaijan. Interesting membeship reads like WH membership

Baker

Baker and Botts

Halliburton

Riggs Bank

IS the BFEE about to sew up the caspian oil? But I don't thik they will have the power anymore, unless they pay the bribes in euros.

[jdj]

31. OBL is a Sunni

Bin Laden is exceptional in his ability to recruit from all over the Muslim world. The Sunni Muslim world, that is. Bin Laden and his allies follow a very strict Sunni Islam.


http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=115404

[Moderator]

6. Perhaps this is the story

Pakistan withdraws troops from main town in Al-Qaeda hunt zone
(AFP)

27 November 2004



ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has withdrawn soldiers from the main town in a tribal area near the mountainous Afghan border after months of bloody offensives against Al-Qaeda-linked militants, officials said on Saturday.


Military checkpoints in Wana, capital of troubled South Waziristan district, are being handed over to police after tribesmen pledged their territory would not be used for violence, military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said.

But soldiers are still-hunting insurgents in the rest of the tense region and the military said the scaling-down in Wana was largely a symbolic move to reward one of the area’s two dominant tribes, the Wazir, for their help.

“The Wazir tribesmen have given guarantees that no foreign militants will be given shelter in the area and they will not support any militant activity,” Sultan told AFP.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/November/subcontinent_November839.xml§ion=subcontinent

[Brundle_Fly]

9. They said....

according to a Pakistani Governer on the phone at the time, that they were calling off the search for OBL....Pakistan didnt believe him to be in the country, and they would no longer support the cost to hunt someone who isnt there.

[Moderator]

8. Note

We still will need a link that actually says "Osama"

[maddezmom]

10. from Thursday - Bin Laden Not Hiding on Pakistan Border -Army

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=3&u=/nm/20041125/wl_nm/security_pakistan_dc

[Vidar]

11. If he's alive, he's been in a CIA safe house all along.

[hippiechick]

16. My thoughts exactly.

He's on the payroll. I'm sure since about 9.20.01, he's been swinging on hammock drinking fruity cocktails, with a dialysis machine and the cabana girl of his choice nearby.

Compliments of The Carlyle Group.


:hippie:

[slor]

12. I am sure the search...

was none too vigorous. As instructed by the chimp.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. So, was it the election being over that did it? Or did we reach our

expiration date on the bribery money?

[Rose Siding]

14. Today's CNN story: "Pakistan pulls troops from Afghan border area"

Bin Laden not hiding there, general says

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/pakistan.al.qaeda/index.html

Almost makes ya wish the US hadn't driven him into a nuke nation run by a militaristic dictator, huh?

[hippiechick]

15. He was on Letterman last night ...

Oh, wait ... that's the other tall, skinny dude with the wierd name that the GOP doesn't like.

:silly:



:hippie:

[TroubleMan]

17. OBL requires almost daily dialysis....how hard can he be to find?

Just track dialysis equipment.

[spinbaby]

37. I don't think that's ever been verified

In fact, I recall that shortly after 9/11 an interview with his doctor in Pakistan surfaced and he denied that Bin Laden had ever been on dialisis.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Now we can relax finally.

[goodboy]

19. he's holed up in Crawford in Bush's barn...(nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

20. Almost right .....

He's in Condi's "cottage" that is right next to the barn. You were mistaken cuz they share a patio.

[goodboy]

22. That's the cottage with the attached dog house right?

[alexisfree]

21. good job bush you pulled off the biggest genocide in history

[mike_c]

23. " the biggest genocide in history"

Reality check.

[tavalon]

25. Yeah, I have to agree

He hasn't even come close, but don't let him in on that, he might want to try for number one and then we're all f*cked.

[Julius Civitatus]

26. Hello?

The "biggest genocide in history"?

WTF? You can't be serious, can you?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. * has 4 more years so they don't need him.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

33. This sounds right and disgusting.

The whole Saudi/B-US-H incestual relationship makes me ill.

[Fleshdancer]

30. We've been pulling Special Forces out of the area too

I don't know what's going on over there.

[Minstrel Boy]

32. Like Charles Manson calling off the search for Squeaky Fromme.

If you want to get to the unspeakable truth of the "War on Terror," look to Pakistan. There you'll find the CIA-ISI-al Qaeda triangle.

[Vidar]

36. grim laughter. Put the straw man back in the closet.

[seriousstan]

34. largely a symbolic move...as per the article

But soldiers are still-hunting insurgents in the rest of the tense region and the military said the scaling-down in Wana was largely a symbolic move to reward one of the area’s two dominant tribes, the Wazir, for their help.

“The Wazir tribesmen have given guarantees that no foreign militants will be given shelter in the area and they will not support any militant activity,” Sultan told AFP.

“The checkposts will now be manned by local security people so that no intruder enters into their areas.”

[Flammable Materials]

35. Of course, there's no need now. Bush got re-elected anyway. n/t

[struggle4progress]

38. Bingo. eom

[bunny planet]

39. This is turning into a Where's Waldo kind of thing no?

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