Afghan official says commanders let Osama escape

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL272138.htm

Afghan official says commanders let Osama escape

KABUL, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden was provided safe passage to Pakistan in 2001 by Afghan commanders paid by al Qaeda and sympathetic to its cause, a senior Afghan official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Lutfullah Mashal, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry spokesman, said commanders helped the al Qaeda leader escape from the Tora Bora mountains as U.S. warplanes and Afghan forces attacked his hideout near the Pakistan border in late 2001.

"The help was provided because of monetary aid availed by al Qaeda and also partly because of ideological issues," Mashal said.

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Mashal told private Pakistani television channel Geo on Tuesday that U.S. forces made a mistake in entrusting the capture of bin Laden to Afghan commanders.

Another thing Kerry was right about... :-(

[jpak]

1. Outsourced and outbid

Way to go Rummy...

[Bob3]

2. Isn't the price on Osama's head about 50 million dollars?

while seems to be a lot -the sum is about what the Mets are going to pay Pedro Martinez to Pitch for 4 years. I have to wonder why so frugal with this?

[gratuitous]

4. Well, if I was a bounty hunter . . .

I'd probably insist on seeing the $50 million first. George W. Bush has a nasty habit of skipping out on his obligations.

[RedCloud]

7. He already gave the Taliban $43,000,000 of it in May 2001.

[saigon68]

11. THE CHIMP'S BOOGY MAN has to be kept ALIVE

ALIVE I SAY !!!!

[Roland99]

3. "U.S. forces made a mistake in entrusting the capture of Laden to Afghans"

Well.....DUH!


Try getting this administration to admit that, though!

[genieroze]

5. Oh be nice * owned up to Katrina, maybe he will with this.

:sarcasm:

[daleo]

6. They played Bush for a sap, but he didn't mind.

Bin Laden's capture would have been extremely inconvenient (he knew too much). The same would have been true of his killing (no more boogieman).

Look at the trouble they are having, figuring out what to do with Saddam.

[0007]

8. Didn't take long for U.S. bases to leave Saudi after 911.

After all that was the goal wasn't it?

[daleo]

9. Yeah, a lot of things have went Bin Laden's way.

Bin Laden didn't like a secular leader like Saddam either.

It's ironic, "I guess".

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Like I've said, OBL has been playing Bush for a pansy. . .

the only reason OBL is smart is because our so-called POTUS and his mis-Administration are dumber than a bag of hammers.


:evilfrown: