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Bush Declassifies Bin Laden Intel
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/22/7 | DEB RIECHMANN

Posted on 05/22/2007 3:17:59 PM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON, (AP) --

President Bush, trying to defend his war strategy, declassified intelligence Tuesday asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq — and that the United States should be the top target.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; iraq

1 posted on 05/22/2007 3:18:01 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Forget it, we all know that Jon Cary or Albore (or any leading Demagogue) would have artfully targeted only OBL and al-Zawahiri and taken them out early on, with help from Jon Cary’s magic CIA hat and Albore’s non-firing M16 .... Bush only has to resort to lame intel releases because he did not personally ride a swift boat into Waziristan to shoot OBL in the back and strangle al-Zawahiri with the entrails of OBL’s pet goat.


2 posted on 05/22/2007 3:23:56 PM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: SmithL
President Bush, trying to defend his war strategy

If it had been a Democrat president, the leed would have read "President Incompetent, in an act of candor worthy of a holy confessional, ..."

3 posted on 05/22/2007 3:27:32 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: SmithL
President Bush, trying to defend his war strategy,...

President Bush's strategy?

'his' war strategy?

Is it not US War Strategy? America's War Strategy? Our War Strategy?

SO sorry, AP, its hard to read anything from you when the first few words indicate the most likely biased-to-the-max article follows.

4 posted on 05/22/2007 3:30:37 PM PDT by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Enchante

Oh come on now. The French Candidate would have gone to Afghanistan himself and killed OBL himself with his own bare knuckles. He would have hunted him down cave-to-cave and kicked his backsid, even though he is hampered by bullet fragments that still remain in his arse.


5 posted on 05/22/2007 3:31:05 PM PDT by RocketMan1
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To: SmithL
ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq — and that the United States should be the top target.

Now that's news! The "early 2005" at least....

6 posted on 05/22/2007 3:31:47 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: C210N

OBL either ordered, probably ordered, or did not order that lieutenant.

That is the issue.

The President’s intentions are irrelevant.


7 posted on 05/22/2007 3:37:08 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: Enchante
Bush only has to resort to lame intel releases because he did not personally ride a swift boat into Waziristan to shoot OBL in the back and strangle al-Zawahiri with the entrails of OBL’s pet goat

And if he actually did this the headline would read "President Bush Kills innocent goat in questionable terror fighting efforts that may make US less safe by inviting reprisals"

8 posted on 05/22/2007 3:42:47 PM PDT by Gator101
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To: SmithL

Let’s see if Al-Press start every story about Congress with a reference to how abysmal their poll numbers are. Or every story about Harry and Hag with “trying to recover from their stinging defeat on troop funding...”. I’m not holding my breath.


9 posted on 05/22/2007 3:46:04 PM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: C210N

It has to be his war strategy, all the dems have offered is a surrender strategy.


10 posted on 05/22/2007 3:51:00 PM PDT by SCHROLL
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To: ASA Vet

This means OBL alive as of 2005...Abu Fajah al-Libi can attest to that.


11 posted on 05/22/2007 4:08:06 PM PDT by Dog (May 17, 2007 the day I became an INDEPENDENT!)
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To: Cap Huff; Southack

Fyi..


12 posted on 05/22/2007 4:08:43 PM PDT by Dog (May 17, 2007 the day I became an INDEPENDENT!)
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To: SmithL

Too little, too late!


13 posted on 05/22/2007 4:31:27 PM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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To: SmithL

For the last 4 years, Iraq has been the center front of the war on terror. The President has been saying this since 2003. If we leave Iraq before we crush the terrorists there, the consequences on us and the whole world will be worse than any nightmare we can imagine.


14 posted on 05/22/2007 6:01:27 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

How long will that take?


15 posted on 05/22/2007 10:02:26 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded (We won't ever free our guns but be sure we'll let them triggers go....)
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To: Eyes Unclouded
How long will that take?

The way things are going probably forever.

16 posted on 05/23/2007 6:50:52 AM PDT by JackDanielsOldNo7 (On guard until the seal is broken)
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