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CIA Looks for New Clues on Al Qaeda Trail, Reviews Evidence From Bin Laden Compound
FOX NEWS ^ | 05/02/2011 | foxnews.com

Posted on 05/02/2011 2:08:01 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP

AP

Vehicles are parked inside the compound of a house where it is believed Usama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 2. Usama bin Laden's body sank to the bottom of the Arabian Sea Monday morning after he was buried in accordance with Islamic practice.

But while his death marked the end of one counterterror mission -- a big one -- it could unlock new clues as intelligence analysts start to review the materials captured at bin Laden's Pakistan compound during the raid.

Along with bin Laden's body, electronics and hard drives were seized by U.S. forces following the firefight Sunday afternoon.

They have started to arrive at the CIA's Virginia headquarters, officials said. They described the cache as a "volume of materials" that will be "exploited and analyzed" at CIA headquarters.

It's unclear what kinds of information the files might contain. Intelligence officials spent years tracking the threads of information that eventually led them to the courier that led them to bin Laden's compound. But officials have said the successful mission Sunday is only one step in the ongoing fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Clues At Hideout Will Help Bury Al Qaeda

This might sound like a crazy question but, at this point in time, do we really want to bury Al Qaeda? After all, it appears that with the growing revolutions in the Middle East/North Africa, Iran and Ahmed Ahadinejhad is the bigger threat in the region. Iran represents a Shia Muslim sect and Al Qaeda represents a Sunni Muslim sect. We might want to keep Al Qaeda intact until these revolutions are over with. I'd hate for us to wake up one day and find an Iranian led Shia Muslim Caliphate in the Middle East/North Africa and no indigenous Middle East force to resist that.

21 posted on 05/02/2011 2:22:22 PM PDT by NRG1973
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To: Admin Moderator

Sure thing.


22 posted on 05/02/2011 2:23:17 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: jda
Abbottabad is just 2 KM from Costellobad
2 km in what direction?

Wat's in Cambodia.

23 posted on 05/02/2011 2:27:03 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mwl8787

“This is all you get in Pakistan for $1 million? Worse than SF.”

Maybe they had bad credit and that was all they could afford?


24 posted on 05/02/2011 2:27:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
They had a satellite dish and some kind of network. It will help get the rest of the pack and any western luxury or technology is not cheap there to be sure.
25 posted on 05/02/2011 2:30:12 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: mwl8787

Reuters:

“Bin Laden was found at luxury Pakistan compound”

“with his youngest wife in a million-dollar compound in a summer resort”

******

AP:

“Bin Laden’s luxury hideout raises questions”


26 posted on 05/02/2011 2:30:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bin Laden's code name during the raid was "Geronimo," according to a U.S. official.

An insult to Geronimo, who was a REAL warrior and did not hide behind his womenfolk.

27 posted on 05/02/2011 2:32:50 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
I have a different perspective of JUSTICE!

OBL deserves the consequences of his actions. In my mind, his lack of regard for civilization means that there are no laws that apply to him. In fact those societies that believe that strapping explosives onto a child and sending them into a group of innocent civilians, is normal behavior, are living in the Stone Age and should not be accorded the rights of civilized societies.

A system of Justice is designed for those of a civilized society who believe in the rule of law. Unfortunately, Czar B.O. and his henchman Holder consider the action against OBL as an act of Justice.
28 posted on 05/02/2011 2:32:54 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Walmartian

If true, this is not a good thing (even if the result was good). Although, in a Democrat administration, what can one expect.


29 posted on 05/02/2011 2:34:01 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Persae Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: NRG1973
After all, it appears that with the growing revolutions in the Middle East/North Africa, Iran and Ahmed Ahadinejhad is the bigger threat in the region.

Hint: Al Qaeda is behind those revolutions.

30 posted on 05/02/2011 2:34:21 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: dead

I noticed that today on several channels. I think you’re right. Too easy to confuse “Obama” and “Osama”.


31 posted on 05/02/2011 2:35:27 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Hmmm, we know under UBL, that Al-Qaeda and Iran were not friends....now with him out of the way, could the two join forces?


32 posted on 05/02/2011 2:35:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dead
Abbottabad is just 2 KM from Costellobad
2 km in what direction?
Wat's in Cambodia.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Cambodia??? I thought this occurred in Pakistan? It must be near the border.

33 posted on 05/02/2011 2:37:02 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

I’m sure that obl body was dropped into the sea with a black box attached in order to bring him back for future obama photo ops.


34 posted on 05/02/2011 2:37:20 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
""After all, it appears that with the growing revolutions in the Middle East/North Africa, Iran and Ahmed Ahadinejhad is the bigger threat in the region.""

Hint: Al Qaeda is behind those revolutions.

I reading more that the Iranian influence in those revolutions is greater than Al Qaeda.

35 posted on 05/02/2011 2:41:47 PM PDT by NRG1973
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To: dead

Fox has been calling him Usama since before 9/11. Don’t know why; maybe they just wanted to be different.


36 posted on 05/02/2011 2:46:22 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: dead

Usama bin Ladin is an alternate and correct spelling. Bin Ladin is on the construction company business documents.

No conspiracy


37 posted on 05/02/2011 2:46:42 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: mwl8787

Anyone who is anybody wants to live there...


38 posted on 05/02/2011 2:47:41 PM PDT by kenavi ("Anything that can't stand up to ribbing isn't worth much to begin with." Eric Idle)
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To: dfwgator
Al-Qaeda and Iran were not friends

They were not necessarily friends and they were not necessarily enemies. But they were/are Muslims, and Iran has been harboring a number of Bin Laden's operatives for years now.

39 posted on 05/02/2011 2:52:20 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
I believe the intel we got will probably be worth far more than the kill itself.

This truly is a great moment, and a very patiently engineered military and propaganda victory for the USA as a nation. It is a vindication of its people, its military assets, its intelligence community, and even its leaders, past and present.

America's might, when its people are united in righteous determination, is an imposing, formidable, perilous thing. It is not to be trifled with or misunderestimated, even with mediocre leadership.

The worst American President on America's worst day is still infinitely preferable to these Euro-Marxists and Petty Tyrants who rule the rest of the world!

God Bless America: still the envy of the world! Live it, learn it, love it.

40 posted on 05/02/2011 2:54:52 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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