Bush admin doesn't want to capture Bin Laden

[appalachianguy]

I personally do not believe the Bush administration has made
a priority of capturing Bin Laden.
If he were to be captured, Bush's main reason to maintain a
military presence in Afghanistan would be eliminated.
Granted, Bin Laden is not the only reason we have troops
there, it is
reasonable to believe if Bin Laden was no longer in the
Afghan/Pakistan
region, the reason for the US military's presence in that area
would be 
far less significant. We have not pressured Pakistan's
Musharraf nearly
enough to help our troops gain intelligence and access to Bin
Laden's
likely hideout. It is very suspicious with all the satellite
intel
and all the other US technology available that we can't even
get close!
They can certainly find many less significant persons when
they apply
their resources.  

AppGuy

[robinlynne]

1. The US let him go, on purpose at tora bora. There is testimony from a cia officer and

an army commander on one of the frontline shows. There were 3 roads out. We blocked two. That is how he got to Pakistan, with our military help.

[tabasco]

10. US forces could not be spared to screen the border with Pakistan

during the Tora Bora operation because they were on call for the Iraq oil grab.

Corporate profits are higher priority for the Bush cabal than national security.

[robinlynne]

11. They were right there and ordered to look away. They let hundreds of vehicles

through to Pakistan in Bin laden's caravan, not just one guy. hundreds, even thousands went through at one time.

[satya]

18. According to this report, he just walked right out. And then phoned home later.

How bin Laden Got Away
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But they say bin Laden joined them on Nov. 26, the 11th day of Ramadan, a warm glass of green tea in his hand. Instead of inspiring the elite fighters, he was now reduced, they say, to repeating the same "holy war" diatribe.

Around him that day sat three of his most loyal fighters, including Abu Baker, a square-faced man with a rough-hewn scruff on his chin." said, 'hold your positions firm and be ready for martyrdom,' " Baker told Afghan intelligence officers when he was captured in mid-December. "He said, 'I'll be visiting you again, very soon.' " Then, as quickly as he had come, Baker says, bin Laden vanished into the pine forests.

Between two and four days later, somewhere between Nov. 28 to Nov. 30 - according to detailed interviews with Arabs and Afghans in eastern Afghanistan afterward - the world's most-wanted man escaped the world's most-powerful military machine, walking - with four of his loyalists - in the direction of Pakistan.

<snip>

Bin Laden phones home

Bin Laden, according to several fighters and the Saudi financier, later phoned back to the enclave, urging his followers to keep fighting. He also reportedly told them he was sending his own son, Salah Uddin, to replace him. Bin Laden's talk with his followers in Tora Bora just a few days after his departure may explain why US intelligence officials said that they thought they heard his voice on Dec. 10, probably on a short-wave transmission.
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[daninthemoon]

2. I've heard reports, know idea how reliable, that a corridor was

left open for him to get to Pakistan. If he's killed, what can bushler protect us from?

[robinlynne]

12. I have seen a cia officer and a military guy swear to that with their faces covered on pbs.

[rubberducky]

3. bush cannot kill his family`s business partner`s son.

[bdamomma]

13. exactly, these two thugs have been in the oil business for a long time.

* and Bin Laden.

[stellanoir]

4. He's long since expired.

All your you tubes belong to Langely.

:hi:

[rateyes]

5. Getting rid of the bogeyman...

doesn't allow Bush to keep on keeping his Bushbots terrified him. It's not convenient to catch him.

[Double T]

6. Bin Laden at large insures the continuation of the military industrial complex.........

and high demand for hundreds of security companies' products and services. Interesting how Saddam became Bin Laden.

[rucky]

7. You don't even have to deduce it. He's said it himself more than once.

cue the tape, Randi

[Gabi Hayes]

8. "We've always been at war with...."

bin Laden

[pa28]

9. "I don't know where bin Laden is . . .

I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." George Bush

It's not just a theory you have. He said it himself and I'm still waiting for the public outcry.

If words were not enough he backed it up by allowing the disbanding the CIA work group in charge of his capture.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:MKIojVyA8ZoJ:www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/05/terror/main1776250.shtml+bush+disbands+bin+laden+cia+group&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Where is the outrage? Where is the running counter on Fox showing us the number of days Bin-Laden has escaped justice? :sarcasm:

[Pastiche423]

14. It's kind of difficult to capture a dead person, doncha think?

When Little Lord Pissypants made his statement in March 2002 (see above), he already knew OBL was dead.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

I have thought that for years.

[Virginian]

16. Bush NEEDS Osama

He trots him out when his polls get too low and right before elections. Bush is able to put words in his mouth. To Scare the flock back into submission.

[satya]

17. The Taliban offered to turn him over in Oct 2001; Bush said no.

Would've put a real damper on his plans to invade Iraq, wouldn't it?

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE PRESIDENT; PRESIDENT REJECTS OFFER BY TALIBAN FOR NEGOTIATIONS

By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: October 15, 2001

President Bush forcefully rejected another offer from the Taliban today to begin talks about the surrender of Osama bin Laden if the United States stopped bombing Afghanistan.

''When I said no negotiations, I meant no negotiations,'' Mr. Bush told reporters upon landing on the South Lawn of the White House after returning from a weekend of intensive national security briefings at Camp David.

He added that he was not interested in discussing Mr. bin Laden's innocence or guilt. ''We know he's guilty,'' he said.
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p.s. Welcome to DU! :hi: