Posted on 09/08/2006 10:31:15 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US Senate sets 200 million dollars to fund hunt for bin Laden
Thu Sep 7, 6:51 PM ET
The US Senate unanimously approved an additional 200 million dollars to this year's defense budget to fund an intelligence unit that would seek to hunt down top Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden.
The measure, approved by a vote of 96 to 0, would also require the US Defense Department to report to Congress every three months about progress made toward apprehending bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The legislation was authored by Democrats Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan as an amendment to the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill being debated in the Senate this week.
"Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaeda, planned, financed and organized a terrorist operation that killed thousands of Americans. It has now been more than 1,800 days since those attacks, and this man is still on the loose," Conrad said.
"The Senate agrees that it is chief among our priorities in the war on terror to bring the mastermind behind September 11 to the justice that a mass murderer deserves," he said.
Said Dorgan: "Our amendment makes certain that bringing Osama bin Laden to justice will be one of our country's most important priorities, and that he is pursued with real energy and with focus, clarity and a specific set of goals."
Republican Senator Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee which manages federal spending, on Thursday called the amendment "a slap in the face of the intelligence community," already hot on trail of the terror leader.
But Stevens conceded that it would be all but impossible for lawmakers to vote against the measure during an election year and just days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
So all it takes money to catch Usama?? Tell the idiot Dems that it takes "intelligence",
SECRET INTELLIGENCE"!!
That time gap wouldn't be the "IMMORAL YEARS" by any chance????!!!!!!
Think about this real good. Ot literally says that before 2001, Usama was ignored. Go back into the Congressional record.
Well, if a dead Zaqwawi was no big deal to the Dems, why the hell is Usama?
If we do get him...and I want him to be "got dead", the Dems will scream that there are thousands more to replace him...and Usama is no big deal. And that would clear Bubba for his inaction. They're just covering their bases.
Its called "pandering to idiots who think Osama Bin Laden's death will end Islamic Terrorism." The Democrats are masters at it.
Has the CIA has been sitting around eating donuts for the last five years or something? Or maybe surfing porn sites from their 'puters at Langley? Or were they tied up doing semi-nude photo shoots for Vanity Fair, Hustler and Playgirl?
At $50K a year, $200 million is pay for 4,000 agents. Seems like a waste of OUR money. But what do I know I'm not in "Who's Who". /s
I wonder what they ( Congress ) is going to do if they get him ( OSBL ) within the next few weeks, and they have money left over ? Uhhhmmmm ? let me guess ? send it ? you can bank on that.
I agree with you on that.... to watch them lose what ever delusional hopes they had to gain seats in congress, and to watch them lose it.... but, the American public will know who's is trying to keep us safe regardless.
I cost 200 Million to catch OSBL, or more, but, the good news is ? I saved a whole lot of money on my auto insurance by switching to Geico.
Billions.
The funding for this bill amounts to pocket lint.
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