As the last defense secretary of the Bush Administration and the current defense secretary of the Obama Administration, Robert Gates is probably in a better position than any official to explain the failure of the US to capture Osama bin Laden over the past several years.
His answer is quite simple: the US doesn’t know where bin Laden is, and hasn’t had any reliable intelligence on this in years. “If we did, we’d go get him,” Gates insisted.
That may be about to change, as National Security Adviser James Jones says responded to the question of whether or not the Obama Administration was going to try to go after bin Laden with a none-too-assertive “I think so.”
Jones added to this with speculation that bin Laden was somewhere in North Waziristan, and that he is sometimes also in Afghanistan, adding “and we’re going to have to get after that.”
A recent Senate report said that bin Laden was “within reach” in December of 2001. Since then the al-Qaeda leader has been trotted out by officials as a justification of the Afghan War, but they have never again come close to capturing or killing him.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/744.html
Are most 299,999,999,998 Americans idiots?
Has there ever been a Boogeyman like OBL ?
Maybe this time, they will actually get him or "stage" getting him. As soon as they are confident that they can "sell" perpetual war without him, they will either take him out or fake it, depending upon whether he is really alive or not. Personally, I think he has been dead for years but he continues to pay dividends to the War Party even from the grave.
And our MSM has been asleep through the whole nauseating story.
Because if they captured Bin Laden he would sing and say that he was not behind Sept. 11, and if they kill him they have no excuse to keep-up with UsRael's outrageous imperialism.
Osama is dead!
Hey U.S. government, havn't you heard? Osama Bin Forgotten. Tell me again, just what was the reason for invading Afghanistan EIGHT LONG YEARS AGO!
The title does not match, in any meaningful way, what the article says.
The title should have said "Reporter Manufactures Headline to Sell Advertisement"
Read Orwell's "1984" to understand the importance of having a bogeyman to justify whatever policies they want to put in place, including perpetual war, and then read Griffin's "Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive" for a convinciong argument that OBL probably died on or about 13 December 2001. Then ask yourself: whose interests are served by this continual invocation of OBL in fake videos, audiotapes etc?.
OBL is a necesarry boogyman for the M.I.C.
Oh Man! Are they STILL looking for the dead guy??
Fella’s he died on Dec 13th 2001. His Obituary
was published in Pakistani and Egyptian newspapers
on the 15th…In Benezir Bhutto’s last interview with David Frost she very clearly states that he is dead.
But I suppose we want to get as much mileage out of
this Boogy man as possible… Of course the question
you have to ask is how many American soldiers are
sent to their deaths to find a dead guy the government already knows is dead..
Folks, I thought 9/11 actually did happen!! Why do we need bin Laden to fight a war? These radical people want to take over the world by force and impose their religion and sharia law on everyone. Isn't that what we are fighting? Who are we kidding? There are thousands of Hasan's out there, just waiting to explode! Yes, he was an easy-going, likeable guy, even with a commission in the U. S. Army. Are we blind, or what? Don't Islamic people want to overthrow the government of the USA, and replace it with sharia law?? Isn't this unconstitutional? How can people with this mind-set be permitted to enter the USA? Wouldn't their entry, for any reason, be unconstitutional?
"I've seen the Enemy – and it is us" Anyway I understand that the Bush's and Bin Laden's were such good friend's….. Would you kill your best friends Son? – Just my opinion I guess!