Bin Laden by Election Day? New push

"Why wasn't this done a year ago?'' one of NPR's sources asks of new push.


The helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations raid in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident "but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaeda leadership'' at the end of Bush's term, National Public Radio is reporting, citing well-placed sources.

"The plan calls for a much more aggressive military campaign, said one source, familiar with the presidential order, which gives the green light for the military to take part in the operations,'' NPR reports. "The plan represents an 11th-hour effort by the Bush administration to hammer al-Qaeda before leaving office.''

"Definitely, the gloves have come off," said one of two sources cited in the report, who has been briefed on the plan. "This was only Phase 1 of three phases."

"The intelligence community already had approval from the president to carry out operations inside Pakistan, which included attacks by Predator drones, which can carry 100-pound Hellfire missiles,'' NPR reports of a dispatch on All Things Considered from correspondents Tom Gjelten and Tom Bowman.

Additional authority came from the president just recently that allowed incursions by U.S. Special Operations forces, a source told them.

more: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/bin_laden_by_election_day_new.html


more to the point of this election, why hasn't McCain already shared his 'know how' for capturing bin Laden with his WH money men?

McCain: "I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama Bin Laden ... I know how to do it."

down his throat.

. . . after over six years of allowing him safe haven with their Iraq diversion?

Besides, he's not actually the mastermind of 9-11 (according to Bush)

Osama is dead.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3986173

and we would believe it.

... we need to have some way of shoving it in the GOP's face(s).