[river rat]

Coming from the French Press...... I doubt it..
Coming from our failed CIA........ I doubt it..

Looks like this clown failed in his "clearest assignment ever"...

Semper Fi

[crazyhorse691]

How does this story square with the early report out of the Afghanistan war that a team had Bin Laden sighted, but, had to wait for the go ahead for a kill from DC? Book hype?

[AZHua87]

Crazy French 's brewing tale tales again.

[sgtbono2002]

Sounds like a boatload of BS to me. No doubt we wanted Bin Laden dead still do, but this isnt the type of order that would be given.

[al baby]

[ryan71]

Jack Bauer would have brought UBL's head back on ice and his nuts back in a Crown Royal bag.

[stboz]

Sounds like a worthwhile order to follow. I'd prefer al-Zawhari in the same deal.

[stainlessbanner]

Author is promoting his new book on NPR

[Wiseghy]

Though this probably did reflect quite accurately the feeling of the administration of the Nation at the time, this seems pretty unlikely. Dry ice would be a bit hard to come by in Afganistan, and an operator like Black would know that.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[CaptRon]

It's probably BS, but not that deep down I hope he DID say it.

[dighton]

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want,” revised.

(Sorry, don’t know who to credit).

[Bars4Bill]

Schroen + NPR + new book = BULLSHIT.

[theDentist]

Well, an order is an order. Go get 'em boys!

[endthematrix]

"He told National Public Radio..."

And I'm sure NPR was in complete jaw-dropping defiance of this! I can hear it now: "How could we? That's barbaric!" "We can't just do that" "How mean!"

[miele man]

When I was going through infantry training at Ft Lewis, Wash., circa 1967, one of the trainers was a grizzled old sergeant who had been in the Green Berets. The story on him was that he'd been booted out of Viet Nam (4th or 5th tour)by the Commanding General of Viet Nam because he'd cut the heads off of several NVA regular troops and hoisted them on wooden pikes. The heads were placed in a circle around the green beenie position. This perimeter was large enough to keep the NVA from counter-attacking because of their own superstitions. Obviously, it was an effective tactic. Too bad PC reared it's ugly head even back in 1965 or 66. Needless to say, the trainees I was with all paid close attention to what he was teaching us.

[Milhous]

                                       Olds Media sits and spins when the wheels come off.

[MinuteGal]

Ahah! So this is where Bubba got his now-famous phrase, "You better put some ice on that".

Leni

[Petronski]

Yo!

[GVnana]

CIA counterterrorism director Cofer Black for final instructions. He said he was told: "'your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their cooperation militarily and they will take on the Taliban. "'When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice.'"

This story was told a few years ago in Bob Woodward's book, "Bush at War" without the dry ice bit. (That could be an embelishment.) In Woodward's telling, bin Laden's head was to be delivered to the President on a platter.