C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leader....i call bullshit

[spanone]

cia was doing assasinations long before qaeda came along....


WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

The plans remained vague and were never carried out, the officials said, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled the program last month.

Officials at the spy agency over the years ran into myriad logistical, legal and diplomatic obstacles. How could the role of the United States be masked? Should allies be informed and might they block the access of the C.I.A. teams to their targets? What if American officers or their foreign surrogates were caught in the midst of an operation? Would such activities violate international law or American restrictions on assassinations overseas?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/us/14intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[MadMaddie]

1. Ditto on the bullshit!

They had 8 years to take out OBL. The military had OBL in their sites and they were told to stand down by the WH.

The *, Cheney cabal had no intentions of going after Al Quida and the sooner everyone accepts this the better.

Don't you find it interesting we have seen no videos from **wink, wink OBL?

This is far more treacherous and treasonous than what we are hearing.

[Pirate Smile]

2. We all assumed we were doing everything we could to take out the AQ leadership.

This is total crap.

[BadgerKid]

3. Sounds like a counter to the "Cheney ordered CIA..." claim. n/t

[Just-plain-Kathy]

4. I call billshit too! The Bush WH stopped looking for UBL in 2006.

You would think they'd care even more about getting Al Qaeda after 9-11.

July 4, 2006
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=5ced05aa2a8d9b76&hp=&ex=1152072000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. bear in mind, these are the same people who had some great plans to kill Castro

And we all know how well those worked out. Hmm...... :eyes:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Sandinistas?

a few years back

[spanone]

7. Benazir Bhutto????

who knows?