(Defense Sec. Robert) Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

Gates made the comment in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Asked whether he could confirm recent reports that bin Laden had been seen recently in Afghanistan, Gates said "no." Media reports late this week mentioned accounts of unconfirmed bin Laden sightings in recent weeks.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/05/national/w164810S27.DTL&tsp=1

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Declare him KIA, pull the troops, let the Taliban deal with their own shit

What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan anyway. Was finding OBL our mission in the first place?

Hawkeye-X

[dhpgetsit]

29. Our real mission is to provide security for construction of the TAPI pipeline.

GE owns a huge power plant in India, and it will become much more profitable if natural gas from Turkmenistan can be moved through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India.

So the enormous cost in terms of American Blood and Taxpayers' money is a form of corporate welfare for our largest defense contractor - GE.

[davidwparker]

2. ... check the family grave yard

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Hey Gates, you fucking idiot..... watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1uLdmct8_E

Osama's dead. And now Benazir Bhutto is dead, because she admitted it on camera.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. plenty of videos of Mr. Goldstein though

[pauldp]

5. We better spend another Trillion and invade Venezuela.

I think Chavez might know where he is.

[Alcibiades]

6. He only admits this AFTER

the escalation is locked in place.

He's dead, they know it, but won't prove it because they want to stay in Afghanistan forever.

[Hydra]

8. He's a useful bogeyman

Why admit he's dead when you can drag him out of the closet to justify the stupid of the week?

[winyanstaz]

7. duh....because he is dead Gates....dont you read the frikkin news?

[EFerrari]

9. That this man is seen as any kind of authority at all is just a measure

of how f#cked we are.

[RedCloud]

10. So after almost a trillion dollars this is what we get for our money?

[Synicus Maximus]

11. Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

Gates made the comment in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Asked whether he could confirm recent reports that bin Laden had been seen recently in Afghanistan, Gates said "no." Media reports late this week mentioned accounts of unconfirmed bin Laden sightings in recent weeks.

Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, is believed to be hiding on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan.



Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091206/D9CDFUHG0.html

[tekisui]

12. Hiding six feet under ground?

[DesertDiamond]

13. I read right after 9/11 that a French newspaper reported him as on dialysis...

So if that was true then the six-feet idea is a strong possibility.

[Bobbieo]

14. Haven't I seen a photo of him taken years ago with a walking stick, carrying

a dialysis bag. If so, he has been six feet under for some time, now.

[greennina]

15. The Republicans hid him good.

If Obama was serious about finding him, he would raid the GOP HQ.

[cowcommander]

16. How convenient

They probably aren't even trying. Dead or alive, either way he's more useful to US imperialist policies while he's free. What a depressing world we live in... :-(

[Vinnie From Indy]

17. This is such a load of horseshit!

I simply do not believe that the US govt. has not been able to at least determine whether Osama Bin Laden is dead or alive.

[global1]

20. Does Anyone Think That If Our Government Did Have Intelligence On Bin Laden.......

that they would talk about it on a Sunday show?

I'm going to continue to believe that Obama and Company has a line on Bin Laden - that's why the surge. I think that they are pretty confident that they will get him - dead or alive. That is why he was able to talk about a pull out date.

Humor me.......

[No Elephants]

25. LOL

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. " We can't locate the boogy man, but we will keep looking"

Even tho Pakistan just said the boogy man is not in Pakistan, there has been no intel on the boogy man for years, Bhutto said in a David Frost interview years ago that Bin Laden had died...
Still, we need that boogy man to justify sending more troops into Afghanistan..( gotta get that TAPI pipeline built on schedule, don'tcha know)

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Gates is nothing more than a cesspool manager.....

A real shit disturber.

[EFerrari]

23. He's a Bush fixer from way back.

[clixtox]

21. Kennebunkport would be my best guess! N/T

[PDJane]

22. Bin Laden is likely pushing up daisies........

And I suspect he didn't die of natural causes.

[L. Coyote]

24. John McCain knows where he is

:rofl:

[Javaman]

30. And the escalation happens, why? nt

[No Elephants]

26. (Yawn). Oh, sorry. Did someone say something?

[swilton]

27. The Grand Politicizer of Intelligence

Are we to trust this man?

[NorthCarolina]

28. Bhutto Confirms that Osama Bin Laden is Dead

In an interview only months before her death, Bhutto, possibly unintentionally, admitted that Bin Laden had been killed. She refers to someone as "the man who killed Osama Bin Laden"

Link to video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8120236576648647371#