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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:28 PM
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Pressure 'keeping bin Laden quiet'
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/pakistan.kasuri/index.html

Pressure 'keeping bin Laden quiet'

Communications network paralyzed, says Pakistan

(CNN) -- The capability of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to make "international mischief" has been vastly reduced by the constant pressure from Pakistan's military operations along the border with Afghanistan, according to Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri.
He told CNN on Friday it was assumed bin Laden and a small band were having to keep moving in the tribal areas along the border to avoid their pursuers.

In a television interview from Sydney, Kasuri said that the communications network for bin Laden's group, along with its horizontal and vertical links, had been paralyzed by the ongoing military operations.

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On May 4, Bush hailed the arrest of al-Libbi, a Libyan blamed for masterminding two assassination attempts against Musharraf, as a "critical victory in the war on terror."

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Washington has been pursuing bin Laden and al Qaeda members since they launched their global war on terror after the September 11 attacks on America.

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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:30 PM
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1. Yes, with al-Libbi in custody, bin Laden has to make his own coffee...
Al Queda's leadership is paralyzed....French Roast? Decaf? Non-dairy creamer?
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:31 PM
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3. It doesn't seem like CNN got the memo on that one...
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:58 PM
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11. sounds like a sitcom
"new this fall... for the first time, the big O has to be on his own! watch the antics ensue as he bumbles through this thing we call life"

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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 01:19 AM
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16. Haha! They'll get a new guy that doesn't know that Osama ....
likes the blue stuff not the pink stuff.

Oh the pain for Osama to lose such a chief lieutenant.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:31 PM
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2. Baghdad Bob is sure getting around lately, eh?
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tmooses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:34 PM
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4. I guess they let up the "pressure" 3 days before our national election-
just in time to give the Shrub his extra percentage point.
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:39 PM
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5. I remember Bush's promise: "I will pressure OBL, keep him quiet"
A huge applause line, that was.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 01:08 AM
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15. Well, your version is pretty comical.
"He can run and hide, but he can't make much noise".
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:39 PM
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6. yes, being an organization of relatively independent cells
capable of acting on their own, Al Qaeda is hamstrung by this pressure.

:eyes:

It also helps that we have drawn all the local terrorists into a fight on foriegn soil halfway around the world with no end in sight. Why go abroad when the infedels will come to you? We jumped into their boat, and now all they have to do is whack us with the oar.

Strategery: Serious Business.
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Village Idiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:51 PM
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7. Why would Bin Laden want to say ANYTHING right now?
"The Insurgency" as the corporate media whores call it, is going exactly the way Usama wants it to go...it is lengthy, expensive and costs American lives EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Then there's the $$$:

The Saudi Bin Laden Group is making a fortune off their holdings in Bechtel right now, like they formerly made a fortune off their Carlyle Group holdings...

The longer this continues, the more taxpayer money is siphoned off into Iraqi and Afghani recontstruction costs, the more money the Bin Ladens make from the lucrative reconstruction contracts that Bechtel gets...

makes perfect sense!!!
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Wright Patman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:53 PM
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8. Al CIAda
controls bin Laden. There is no use for him to speak up. The second term has been secured.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0111/S00018.htm
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:53 PM
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9. Great Headline
I read it as "pressure" to keep bin Laden "quiet" about 911; don't let him spill the beans. Sad commentary on our current state of affairs.

Let's catch him and bring him for trial in the Bronx. Let him have a cell, general population, at the Bronx House of Detention. That would ensure swift and certain justice.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 02:55 PM
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10. Well, according to Bush
Al--Zarqawi is bin Laden's underling and takes direction from bin Laden, and al--Zarqawi is behind the attacks in Iraq, and the attacks in Iraq are increasing in frequency and deadliness, so it doesn't sound like bin Laden is quiet at all.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 03:29 PM
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12. What? No second interview with the LAPD Administrator?
John Miller must be crying.

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Frederik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 03:32 PM
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13. However,
The capability of the Bush junta to make international mischief remains the same.


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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 03:38 PM
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14. Hey neat! When I read that headline I completely forget about Iraq.
Gimme more!
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