On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:35:13 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:51:22 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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And Clinton was killing people in Irag, Bosnia, and allowed Ben Ladin
to
walk, so he could plan and train the pilots on his watch. They both
suck.
They suck as much as you suck and that is a whole bunch of suck.

Allowed bin Laden to walk? How's that? He tried to get him several times.

I think that when two guys are talking about sucking, it's time to try a
different thread.
He is talking about when Sudan offered up Bin Laden and Clinton didn't
know what we could charge him with so he didn't act.

Personally I think we should have just sent a team of Africans (with
plausible deniability to the US) in there to shoot him in the head but
I may be too pragmatic.


I would have sent Delta Force unit. No real prohibition against shooting
him. The Executive order against assassinations is against leaders of a
country.

Why wasn't this done? We certainly knew where he was in Tora Bora. Instead
of using US personnel, we relied on local militia, who let him go.

We thought we 'knew' that he was in Tora Bora. We didn't know 'where'
in Tora Bora. Tora Bora is a pretty good sized area with lots of
hiding places, as you can see:

http://papundits.files.wordpress.com...ora-fata-8.jpg

Some more info on the Tora Bora battle.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora

Do some more reading. That was a foolish question.

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John H

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:35:13 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:51:22 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

And Clinton was killing people in Irag, Bosnia, and allowed Ben Ladin
to
walk, so he could plan and train the pilots on his watch. They both
suck.
They suck as much as you suck and that is a whole bunch of suck.

Allowed bin Laden to walk? How's that? He tried to get him several
times.

I think that when two guys are talking about sucking, it's time to try
a
different thread.
He is talking about when Sudan offered up Bin Laden and Clinton didn't
know what we could charge him with so he didn't act.

Personally I think we should have just sent a team of Africans (with
plausible deniability to the US) in there to shoot him in the head but
I may be too pragmatic.


I would have sent Delta Force unit. No real prohibition against
shooting
him. The Executive order against assassinations is against leaders of a
country.

Why wasn't this done? We certainly knew where he was in Tora Bora. Instead
of using US personnel, we relied on local militia, who let him go.

We thought we 'knew' that he was in Tora Bora. We didn't know 'where'
in Tora Bora. Tora Bora is a pretty good sized area with lots of
hiding places, as you can see:

http://papundits.files.wordpress.com...ora-fata-8.jpg

Some more info on the Tora Bora battle.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora

Do some more reading. That was a foolish question.

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John H


So stupid... except you didn't even bother to read the article...

"A search of the area by U.S. forces continued into January, but no sign of
bin Laden or the al-Qaeda leadership emerged. Former CIA officer Gary
Berntsen, who led the CIA team (consisting primarily of CIA Paramilitary
Officers from Special Activities Division) in Afghanistan that was tasked
with locating Osama bin Laden, claims in his 2005 book Jawbreaker that he
and his team had pinpointed the location of Osama bin Laden."

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Nom=de=Plume