Posted on 12/13/2001 12:20:17 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:02:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A U.S. Special Forces commando rides through the streets of Kandahar yesterday in the back of a truck - bearing a bumper sticker whose message we heartily agree with.
December 13, 2001 -- The Pentagon has increased the number of U.S. Special Forces commandos in the remote mountains of Tora Bora - believing they're close to bringing in terror leader Osama bin Laden - dead or alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The presstitutes were swept away by a bulletin report posted on the Christian Science Monitor website yesterday, alleging the world's most wanted man flew the coop more than a week ago into neighboring Pakistan.Judy Woodruff, staggering and heartsick from weeks of gloomy news out of Afghanistan, bubbled with ecstasy as she recited the dispatch on CNN -- word-for-word. MSNBC was prancing and doing cartwheels over the 'late breaking development'.
Still doubt the media is rooting for the bad guys? The gloating and crowing on display yesterday will have removed it. In the case for media bias, the spectacle qualified as exhibit *A*.
So who was the source for this 'bombshell' -- whom did the Christian Science Monitor cite as their 'star witness' to this earthshaking new twist?
Are you ready for this? A senior ranking al-Qaeda operative! Yep, you heard it right, folks. Abu Jaffar, described in the "report" as a "religious scholar" and "Saudi financier", claims that his boss, with the assistance of Ghilzi tribesmen, hightailed into Pakistan a whopping ten days ago.
He further told the newspaper that "Osama Bin Laden traveled out of Tora Bora two times in this Ramadan holy month", supposedly meeting in Kandahar with Mullah Omar, the Taliban's "Supreme leader", three weeks ago.
Oh, but there's more, you see. According to Jaffar, his boss and him are so chummy, chummy that Osama, as a token of his 'friendship', dispatched his 19-year-old son Salah Uddin back to Tora Bora under a hailstorm of bombs just "to be with us there".
What a tear-jerker, eh?
Yeah, right.
To illustrate the utter absurdity of this tale, imagine the FBI accepting -- with no corroborating evidence, in a 'on-the-record' newspaper interview -- the word of a *senior* member of La Cosa Nostra crime syndicate ID-ing the new whereabouts of his fugitive boss. Even fingering the co-conspirators who aided his alleged escape!
Talk about grasping at straws.
It never occurs to the Bush-hating press that their 'star witness' might have an ulterior motive for coming out now; That Jaffar may well be feeding them clever BS in a bid to misdirect Bin Laden's pursuers and bring the bombing over Tora Bora to a halt. A two-fer.
Oh, and never mind that their vaunted "source" had another, personal reason to lie: A cluster bomb blew off his foot during the bombing at Tora Bora.
Regarding Bin Laden's mobility, bear in mind the following: 1) the huge bounty on his head, 2) the need to surround himself with his very own praetorian guard to shield him from bounty hunters, 3) Osama Bin Laden is Arab 4) Pakistan is not. Among the Pashtun tribes of northwest Pakistan, a 6'4" Arab national with a $25 million dollar bounty on his head sticks out like a sore thumb.
And, speaking of motives, what prompted the "respected" Christian Science Monitor to risk its "reputation" by publishing this nonsense?
Judging from the timing, I have a sneaking suspicion it might have something to do with Tuesday's ABCNEWS bombshell -- a real one this time. The TV network, quoting American intelligence sources, disclosed that U.S. military personnel intercepted a series of satellite-phone and radio communications among panicked al-Qaeda terrorists in Tora Bora just after a 'Daisy Cutter' bomb was dropped. The calls placed the terrorist mastermind in the immediate vicinity.
The bottom line is this: The press is anguished over the smashing success of this war thus far. They yearn for failure. Their predictions of another Vietnam-style fiasco or debacle have been thoroughly discredited. They crave for something -- anything -- by which to declare this mission a flop. This is why they fanatasize Osama Bin Laden skipping into Pakistan.
Memo to Media: Just keep on dreaming.
"All of 'em!"
"All of 'em?!" What's the matter with those guys?!"
I wonder if Yomama can swim?
In other words, they have to make sure that they don't make any mistakes and create an opportunity for the press to attack them for propoganda...never mind the fact that the press was willing to air propoganda tapes from OBL without comment.
This is what we have for a press....America haters who are interested in doing nothing but destroying anything good...which includes this administration.
I'm expecting the media to present their own linguistic experts to tell us the government has mistranslated the tape, and that Osama didn't say anything indicating involvement in or foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
I personally am tired of the "he's over here!...no, he's over here!" stories that are currently flooding the airwaves. Let's keep our eyes on the big picture, which is wiping out as many terrorists everywhere in every country as we can. Osama is just one of many who need to be killed as enemies of the United States.
"That's not our view," Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman said of bin Laden's reported flight. "We continue to search for him where...we believe him to be."
He said Blair and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, who spoke by telephone late on Wednesday, agreed "that the net was closing in on both bin Laden and (Taliban leader) Mullah Omar."
"The president assured the prime minister that Pakistan would do everything in its power to help in the hunt for bin Laden," he added.
U.S. newspaper Christian Science Monitor, quoting a senior operative in bin Laden's al Qaeda network, said Saudi-born militant bin Laden had left his Tora Bora stronghold for Pakistan 10 days ago, aided by tribesmen.
Pakistan dismissed the report. It says it has deployed regular army troops on its long border with Afghanistan and is also using gunship helicopters for surveillance to prevent militants from Afghanistan's collapsed Taliban movement and al Qaeda network from sneaking into the country.
Bin Laden is blamed by Washington for the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities.
The return of Jaffar
Sorry, couldn't resist.
BIZZZZ wrong answer
The correct answer would be
They are U.S. Army. Look at the cover he is wearing
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