cnn.com - 11/12/2008
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Osama bin Laden remains on the run despite a $25 million reward for his capture.
theage.com.au - 11/9/2008
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theage.com.au —
Warning of new bin Laden attack OSAMA bin
Laden is planning an attack against the United States...
that will "outdo by far" September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported. - bin Laden 'planning US attack' - Goal to 'outdo' September 11 - al-Qaeda ...
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abcnews.go.com - 11/13/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Osama bin Laden is alive and "putting a
lot of energy into his own security," the director...
of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today. He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack "that ...
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CIA Chief: Bin Laden Alive, Worried About 'Own Security'
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Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... region with mountain peaks as tall as 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) that make the terrain difficult to navigate....The region is divided up by tribes, some of them warring. Developing human sources in the area has been extremely difficult.... *** Cooperation from Pakistan's military has been touchy, and most experts agree finding bin Laden is just not a priority for Pakistan's troops.... *** Despite the challenges, many experts agree it is important to capture bin Laden.... Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/binladen.hunt/in...
CIA: Bin Laden Not a Factor in Al Qaeda, But We'd Still Like to Kill Him
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... It's also at the top of the incoming Obama administration's list. The president-elect believes that his predecessor has not done enough to capture or kill the Al Qaeda leader. But turning things around will not be easy. As former CIA Pakistan station chief Robert Grenier told CNN, "If you think of this as sort of a combination of [the hunt for] Eric Rudolph, who was the Olympic bomber, and the movie 'Deliverance,' multiplied by a factor of 10, that's really what you're focusing on in trying to find bin Laden... What you literally need to have is an army of ...
Oh, so *what* if Obama’s backtracking on having bin Laden killed be our highest priority?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
(Links via Legal Insurrection, via Instapundit) Just because Obama said it back in October:
And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act & we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden; we will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
and is now saying something completely different:
Barack Obama last night suggested that removing Osama bin ...
Obama Been Backpedallin’
Deceiver.com —
... Well, Obama’s not. He’s made it very clear that finding the murdering terrorist who’s escaped justice over the last 8 years (Bin Laden, I mean) is top priority: ...
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