U.S. launches new bid to hunt bin Laden

[The Straight Story]

U.S. launches new bid to hunt bin Laden


BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- As the United States braces for a major escalation in the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is launching a new drive to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, declaring that he's the key to defeating al-Qaida.

But almost eight years to the day after the Americans let him slip through their fingers at his Afghan mountain redoubt of Tora Bora, his last confirmed location on or about Dec. 16, 2001, they admit they haven't a clue where he is now.

The best guess is that's holed up in the lawless tribal belt of Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan that runs along the rugged border with Afghanistan.

According to Jason Burke, a British journalist who is an expert on al-Qaida, bin Laden "is almost certainly being sheltered by local sympathizers, not in a cave but in one of the many fort-like compounds that litter the inaccessible frontier region.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/09/US-launches-new-bid-to-hunt-bin-Laden/UPI-72151260378071/

Now if they would just launch a new bid to find single payer...

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Dean Man still walking, I see.

And didn't McCain claim to know "exactly" where the boogyman was?
Why doesn't Obama ask him???

[dflprincess]

2. Because we have money to spend looking for a man who has probably been dead for years

I'd rather see them spend it tracking down Elvis sightings.

[maxpower]

3. Looking for a ghost

There are a lot of shows on the paranormal popping up all over TV. Now we have our military ghost hunting.


Peace,
Max

[HuckleB]

4. Who?

[Hawkeye-X]

5. If I was Obama, I'd dump the idea, and call for a complete global withdrawal of the the troops aboar

and cut the defense budget by 95% and rename the Department of Defense into Department of Peace, use the massive savings to cover universal health care, declaring, "It is time to end the farce".

Then order the entire Chimp maladministration's immunity revoked and placed under arrest. Dig up St. Raygun, and have it all shipped to the Hague.

Hawkeye-X

[The Straight Story]

8. Politicians are like cops - they protect their own

And we end up out in the cold and are expected to be the only ones who obey the laws.

Politicians, police, famous people, big business folks live under a different set of rules.

[aquart]

6. So embarrassing.

[xchrom]

7. aren't the 'estimates' that the most dangerous

elements of al queda thinkers and strategists in europe now?

osama -- if anything -- and if not dead -- is a figurerhead.

[Catshrink]

9. Barack Quixote?

Here's a clue: OBL is busy with his 76 virgins.

[Arctic Dave]

10. I figure in about six months will get an anonymous tip from a guy in taxi

that knows where he is buried and viola, who knew he was dead all these years. And they will say they were duped by all these years from a kid in a basement with a synthasizer.