Bin Laden ‘no longer top target’

[Rose Siding]

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.

“From the Afghan point of view we don’t want to focus too much on Bin Laden,” said Major-General John Cooper, deputy commander of the American-led coalition forces.

“He is not necessarily the major player. He will be caught one day but his whereabouts today won’t have a huge effect.”

Cooper, the most senior British officer in Afghanistan, admitted that after three years of searching the hills and valleys of Afghanistan, the coalition forces had no idea where their other main target, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is hiding. “We don’t even know which country he’s in,” he said
.....
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.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1302365,00.html

[Pirate Smile]

1. WTF

:wtf:

[Deja Q]

2. Just like in March 13, 2002 by * himself.

Osama is not a concern.

Oil is.

[stray cat]

3. Bush's top target is John Kerry and John Edwards.

Who cares about American security and Bin Laden. All Bush cares about is Bush.

[Pirate Smile]

4. The families of the 9/11 victims must really love this sh@#!

[Rose Siding]

5. Do read down to the part about how Musharref....

and how the attempts on his life have somehow helped...um, us?

snip>
...He said their failure to stop the elections was partly due to improved co-operation from Pakistan.

“President Pervez Musharraf had been the target of several assassination attempts — and that tends to focus the mind,” he said.

“The efforts of the Pakistan government and security forces over the past few months have been remarkably good. There is now a high degree of co-operation between Pakistan, Afghanistan and us.”

[Dhalgren]

34. Musharref has got to know

that the US was behind the "assassination attempts". "Focus the mind", indeed. And, of course, there is no Zarqawi - he is a myth, invented to "focus the mind" of the silly American public. This shit is so lame; it would be funny were it not killing thousands of people a month and ruining lives, hand over fist...

[kokomo]

6. What happened to "Wanted: DEAD or ALIVE"?

You mean Georgy Boy is "flip-flopping" again? :crazy:

[booksenkatz]

7. In not pursuing bin Laden, they're all but admitting that

he did NOT have anything to do with 9-11 after all. Which begs the question, WHO DID?
:scared:

(Security Mom here = desperate for someone to protect her from the assholes currently "running" the country)

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. Bingo. It's been a fairy tale from the very beginning.

[Amigust]

20. "WHO DID?" Take a wild guess.

eom

[Sean Reynolds]

8. Kerry take note...BRING THIS UP IN THE DEBATE!

[Tuttle]

9. Read on...

Tut-tut

[sundancekid]

16. you said it! often wondered why Clinton got hunted and Bin Laden did not:

and here are IMHO conclusions:

1. Clinton is definitely NOT related to the Saudi Royal family.
2. Clinton is NOT an extremist.
3. Clinton is NOT a closet racist.
4. Clinton only uses oil, he does NOT produce or refine it.
5. Clinton had NO connections to BCCI.
6. Clinton had NO poppy in the CIA to help with LIHOP or MIHOP.
7. Clinton had no shadow government.
8. Clinton would not fly out all the Bin Laden relatives.
9. Clinton actually thought Bin Ladin was the #1 threat to the U.S.
10.Clinton does NOT do (or ever did) business with the Bin Laden family.

[mzmolly]

10. Isn't that convenient.

:eyes:

[Disturbed]

12. What group was behind assasination attempts...

of Musharraf? Could it be that those attempts were really "attempts", not in fact serious efforts?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Just goes to show how screwed up *'s priorities are.

I for one do not feel safer with this idiot in charge.

[flying_blind]

13. Readying the October Surprise...

[ogradda]

14. he hasn't been a priority for a while

while we went after saddam like he personally loaded the passengers on the 9/11 planes.

[iris3d]

29. who's next?

Seriously. Saddam's caught, but focus on him was a result of our hiding caveman Ladin. If Saddam's out of the picture now, with Bin Ladin not a priority.... who's next?

[n2mark]

15. So

if we find Bin Laden we don't get a reward now?

God Bless America, we need your blessing!

[agincourt]

17. A leader of a cult,

that kills 3000 Americans is insignificant in Bush's eyes. A tyrant whose son allegedly tries to kill Bush's daddy must be taken out. How any American can stand this piece of ratshit that spends billions of dollars and thousands of lives on family vanity wars is beyond me. As far as I'm concerned anybody who votes for this degenerate is as big of a degenerate as he is. How an attempted assassination of daddy is more important than 3000 dead, I'll never guess. That must REALLY love their taxcut.

[jobycom]

18. Someone needs to make a bumpersticker

With a picture of the twin towers, and the words "Bush has already forgotten"

There are no words vile enough to describe that piece of shit in the White House.

[illuminaughty]

28. Yep, Bush admin. motto

"Never Remember"

[Amigust]

21. Mullah Omar was the other guy AWOL let escape at Tora Bora.

eom

[Cronus Protagonist]

22. I'm so old I remember Bush saying he was going to smoke him out!

So, now we see that, in fact, bin Laden CAN run and he CAN hide.... so much for Bush's latest bon mot.

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=41

[salin]

23. and at the same time... the world is safer because Sadam is in custody

tells a world about bushjunior's priorities.

[Maddy McCall]

24. And just when we have lowered our expectations...BAM!

They'll pull him out of the freezer and put him on display on Fox News.

[kokomo]

25. Is Osama the "big surprise" that Rove told Hannity he was going to produce

just before November 2nd?

[homodem]

26. That

pisses this Gay Black Marine off.

[NinetySix]

27. Don't be fooled. This story is likely to be psy-ops by the Administration

n/t

[Dark Jedi]

30. Changing Goals on the Fly

Heh. They are now saying this because they can't find Bin! Just like how when they failed to find WMDs in iraq they cleverly shifted the goal to "freeing the iraqi people". These neo-cons are so shameless!

[Mr E McSquare]

31. BIN LADIN LAUGHED AT OUR DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember the video that was supposed to be Ossama where he was hanging out in the cave with his homies and they were talking about 911?

He said he didnt really plan on the buildings falling down but since they did PRAISE ALLAH!!!! Then they all go on to have a good laugh at it!

That fucker kills three thousand Americans and then laughs at it and now that fucking idiot boy of a president says he's not really that important. That makes me so mad I could write a post with lots of swearing in it.

John Kerry should look right into the camera and leave no doubt that when he's president, his NUMBER ONE PRIORITY will be to find, capture and fucking kill that laughing piece of shit and hang his naked body from the pillars of wall street!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad to get that off my chest. Hope I didnt scare anyone. thanks.

[Walt Starr]

32. TRANSLATION: We have no fucking clue where bin Laden is

These bastards have no clue of where bin Laden is and the NEVER DID!!!!

Osama bin Forgotten needs to be our battle cry!!!!

[Bullshot]

33. I think he was last seen at a Burger King in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

[mtnester]

35. Last spotted - Krispy Creme store in Cincinnati

nt