Posted on 06/27/2010 5:20:02 PM PDT by jessduntno
CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that it has been since the "early 2000s" that the U.S. had good intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but believes he has holed up in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
In an interview on ABC's This Week, Panetta also said the U.S. faced a "tough road" ahead in Afghanistan and downplayed a report that Pakistan was trying to form its own alliance with Afghanistan by saying it could deliver the backing of a key insurgent group for a power-sharing arrangement.
Speaking of bin Laden, Panetta said "He is, as is obvious, in very deep hiding. He's in an area of the ... tribal areas in Pakistan that is very difficult. The terrain is probably the most difficult in the world ... That's all we know, that he's located in that vicinity. The terrain is very difficult. He obviously has tremendous security around him."
The last time the U.S. came close to having bin Laden in its sights was in Decemember 2001 when, in the final major battle of the post 9/11 war in Afghanistan, Bin Laden and his followers took refuse in the caves of Tora Bora before eluding troops and escaping.
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Didnt Obanana promise to find Osama Bin laden? (These muslim names give me trouble)?
October surprise coming..
What qualifications does this guy have to run the CIA ?
Oh yeah, I thought of one.
“Oh yeah, I thought of one.”
Fellow commie? Fellow dipship? Fellow idiot?
Course I guess they are all the same...
Oct 7 , 2008 Presidential debate between Barry and McCain :
Barry - “ We will kill bin Laden.”
If Panetta is admitting defeat, he should resign.
Just another BROKEN campaign promise...
With the rules of engagement in Afghanistan, no one could win that warm. The goal is to keep the troops out of America at all costs. Barry doesn’t want them turning on him, too.
I don’t believe for an instant that our government doesn’t know the whereabouts of Bin Laden, and has known for years.
Yes - they know he is dead.
Thanks for the post of the Ramirez/IBD cartoon.
I wish I’d understood how to “approriate” images from the web when
Ramirez ran his cartoon (in The Los Angeles Times, no less) on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
(It showed a sentry repeating to himself “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” when
he greets a soldier driving a HumVee with a sheep in the passenger seat.
Yeah, that one caught plenty of flak for Ramirez.)
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CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that it has been since the
“early 2000s” that the U.S. had good intelligence on the whereabouts of
al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but believes he has holed up in the
tribal areas of Pakistan.
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Not suprising when the USA electorate put the children back in charge.
That’s how you get ZERO results after 18 months of Obama/Panetta.
Look in Iran, he could be there.
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