New enlistees...
Posted on 06/14/2008 4:08:14 PM PDT by melt
President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.
Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. “If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.
Bush arrives in Britain today on the final leg of his eight-day farewell tour of Europe. He will have tea with the Queen and dinner with Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah before holding a private meeting with Brown at No 10 tomorrow and flying on to Northern Ireland.
The Special Boat Service (SBS) and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have been taking part in the US-led operations to capture Bin Laden in the wild frontier region of northern Pakistan. It is the first time they have operated across the Afghan border on a regular basis.
The hunt was “completely sanctioned” by the Pakistani government, according to a UK special forces source. It involves the use of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles fitted with Hellfire missiles that can be used to take out specific terrorist targets.
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New enlistees...
Somebody better bring a shovel.
More like a vacuum cleaner.
I was thinking more along the lines of an ink blotter.
Easily done
Drop a bomb, say he was vaporized.
That first sentence is written poorly. It reads as if Osama bin Laden is in the White House and needs to be captured before he exits the building.
Dick Cheney has him in the dungeon
On the other hand it could lead to regime change in Pakistan by causing civil war.
He was supposed to let him out in time for the 2004 Election (according to Kos) but must’ve forgotten.
Well, the Brits do know how to get things done...........
The DBM/dems would be unloading ("G" rated term) bricks...
Do you really think Bin Laden is still alive?
We only want binladen with a bullet in his head. Why should US taxpayers pay for his defense team for the nest few decades?
Anyone who thinks binny will be captured after all these years been smokin a little too much whacky tobaccy.
It would make a good late campaign surprise to pull him out at the last minute, although I'm still not on the McCain bandwagon and probably won't be ever.
prisoner6
Nearly 7 years after 9-11, Bush decides it’s time to get serious about looking for bin Laden?
Is that his way of admitting that the Iraq war was a distraction?
They are all fools.
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the British news. Apparently telling falsehoods is now considered journalism.
“Is that his way of admitting that the Iraq war was a distraction?”
An idiot could take it that way.
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