Pentagon Says a Covert Force Hunts Hussein & Bin Laden

[gr8scott88]

By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: November 7, 2003

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The top American military commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists throughout the region, according to Pentagon and military officials.

The new Special Operations organization is designed to act with greater speed on intelligence tips about "high-value targets" and not be contained within the borders where American conventional forces are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.]


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/07/international/middleeast/07SADD.html?ex=1068786000&en=e507ee829fa1f857&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

..and why wasn't this done months ago?

GR8

[saigon68]

1. THE CIVILIAN VERSION OF WHICH IS

Coming SOON to a city near YOU!!!!!!

Just imagine a secret organization, with no rules, little oversight, and a penchant for MURDER

Kind of like the Phoenix Project at MACV-SOG (ca: 1968)

[loudnclear]

17. Now, do we really believe that the "enemy" hasn't thought about this?

Anyone ever hear of counter-counter intelligence?

[belab13]

24. Did they hire Ace Ventura again?

okay, you can slap me later for such silliness.

[0007]

2. Boykin is coming out of de woodwork!

He gonna get 'em, cuz they made him look bad and Bill has the real God on his side.

[saigon68]

"He tried to kill my Daddy" ---The Chimpanzee

Revenge is sweet.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. So covert, they can't even find each other, right?

How long have they had to find a guy on Kidney-fucking-Dialysis?

[Don_G]

5. They're Disguised

As Tupperware Party hostesses.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Ah! Now it all becomes clear (insert bad joke about plastic explosives)

[Pale_Rider]

20. The covert team revealed ....

[belab13]

25. too funny!!!!

any suggestions for removing fritos from my nasal passage.

[realFedUp]

4. Covert could have saved us from invading....

either country...and hell there were so many CIA
agents training the Taliban in Afghanistan...they
practically had their cell phone numbers.

Do we have any intelligence in this country?

[jobycom]

16. Oh, you are so right!

That was my exact first thought. Bush wouldn't send coverts into Afghanistan because he didn't think they would be effective. He pulled back all of Clinton's coverts before 9-11 that were trying to take out Bin Laden before he succeeded in his wildest dreams. Now he's back to following Clinton's lead.

I've said this a thousand times, but every single thing that Bush and the Republicans did to fight terrorism after 9-11 was first proposed by Clinton and Gore before 9-11, and rejected by the Republicans and Bush. There's no greater confession that Bush could give that he screwed up.

[Gman]

7. Yeah, and Nixon had a secret plan to end the war in Viet Nam

blah, blah, blah.

[BeFree]

8. A perfect cover-up

If you wanted to keep these guys safe, what better way to do it than by using a special force, that to the sheeple looks like an attack force, but in reality is an umbrella?

All info and contacts would have to go through that special force and any and all communications concerning the whereabouts would be tightly controlled.

Man, these guys are good.

A Sheeple Slogan:
They'll catch these guys one day, you just wait and see! So stop saying that.

[htuttle]

9. Not any more...

Why do they feel it necessary to tell us things that probably shouldn't be publicized, like announcing a covert force (?!?) or a CIA NOC agent's identity, yet they won't tell us things that they SHOULD tell us, like how they intend on extricating this country from Big Muddy, or who was at Cheney's energy committee meetings?

:eyes:

[SCAMBABY]

18. Media coverage

Next the Media will want interviews with the Covert Ops troops

[54anickel]

10. Does the following make anyone else a bit worried?

PNAC?

"Military officers say a broader, regional mission was given to the new force, which has become one of the Pentagon's most highly classified and closely watched operations.

Much about the force, which is commanded by an Air Force brigadier general, remains classified, and Pentagon officials declined to discuss the rules under which the new force operates throughout the region or whether its would require the permission of a foreign government to operate in its territory.

Military officers say that focusing the intelligence, and the Special Operations firepower, within one organization, called Task Force 121, streamlines the effort to use information on these targets and mount an attack.

[Robb]

11. How is this different from Task Force 20?

You may remember them from back in August. They've been "stalking" Saddam for months... :eyes:

[Maine-i-acs]

12. Who's in charge?

I think that's the difference. It's a secret organization but who tells them where to go? Rove? Or is this the additional unit that Rumsfeld alluded to in his leaked memo?

Either way it's whacked. If we can send a covert force into another sovereign nation in order to sow chaos ... we have become al Quaida.

[frylock]

15. this is task force 121..

they are 101% more improved than Task Force 20. :crazy:

[Scott Lee]

13. Covert? So let's announce it in the media!

What a bunch of lying morons.

[Barrett808]

14. Imagine these guys bumbling around the Middle East

Trying to speak Arabic -- "Hey, you see Saddam, you tell us, okay?" Most of the intel guys are still haunting the desert, looking for Captain Queeg's WMDs...so sad what the BFEE has done to the US...

[leesa]

19. Which, of course is what we should have done before we murdered

10s of thousands of innocent Afghans and Iraqis. But I'm sure their reason for hunting them is to silence them. They know where most of the Bush Crime Family's bodies are buried I'll wager.

[atreides1]

21. Just Wait

until some of them are caught. Then the real fireworks will begin.

[Minstrel Boy]

22. "Pentagon Says Covert Auditors Hunt Its Missing $3 Trillion"

That would surprise me. That the Pentagon says its "smokin' 'em out" doesn't.

[markses]

23. Task Force 21 has friends in every village from here to the Sudan...

"Brody's got friends in every village from here to the Sudan. He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom. He'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already."



Task Force 21 (fumbling with map): Does anybody here speak English???