Bin Laden apparently CAN hide...

[irancontra]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6668966&src=rss/domesticNews§ion=news

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US Hoped for Bin Laden Breakthrough: Newsweek
Sun Oct 31, 2004 05:50 PM ET


NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agents recently thought they were on the verge of a breakthrough in the search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday.
The magazine quoted U.S. officials as saying that "just a few weeks ago" the net was closing on an al Qaeda operative in Pakistan who, it was hoped, could lead them to bin Laden.

"It looked like we were really close, maybe one or two people away," the magazine quoted one official as saying. "There was a lot of optimism around here."

Newsweek did not say what went wrong with the operation to catch bin Laden, whose group carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

Bin Laden appeared in a videotape broadcast in part in the United States on Friday, the first time in more than a year that such a tape had been aired.

The al Qaeda leader, in a move apparently timed to coincide with the final days of campaigning in the U.S. presidential election, derided President Bush and warned of possible new attacks.



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[aquart]

1. Awww, they WERE planning an October Surprise.

But, like every other damn thing they do, they fucked up.

[indigobusiness]

2. you CAN run, you CAN hide...

you can even make video tapes to rub it in.

[sallyseven]

3. Osama is looking very well.

He is hiding in Saudi Arabia with the family. That is why they won't show him in any location. Or he could be in Crawford and the ranch.

[indigobusiness]

5. Looks like he's been hangin' out on the Riviera...

Wish I had that tan.

[dave502d]

4. Good one.