MSNBC just announced a missile attack in Pakistan

[brazos121200]

with the presumed target Osama Bin Laden. The administration is getting desperate for a game changing event, and Osama's head on a stick would be a fine trophy for McCain.

[graywarrior]

1. It's too late.

[earth mom]

2. Oh shit!

:yoiks:

[marmar]

3. I don't think Pakistan is going to like that too much.....

n/t

[NC_Nurse]

4. Barack will just say that it's nice they finally took his advice and went after him

in Pakistan. No win for McLame.

[truedelphi]

5. Bhutto told David Frost in an interview some 60 days before her assassination that Osama

Was dead. Millions saw that broadcast.

You can google and watch the YouTube of her making the statement.

[seemslikeadream]

8. I guess now we should capture him

now that he has destroyed our economy :sarcasm:

[MrsBrady]

10. how did she know he was dead? n/t

[truedelphi]

15. I too would Love that answer. Unfortunately she has been curiously quiet

On this topic ever since the assassination.

Which might have been the whole point.

[MrsBrady]

16. no, i'm not being snarky here...

i was asking seriously...

did she ever say how she knew Bin Laden was dead?

[truedelphi]

20. SHe must have offered an explanation to someone

But unfortunately not during that interview. And David Frost did not push her on that statement.

Which makes it all the more likely that it is true. For a journalist of Frost's on-going fame and established stature to ignore such a bombshell does make you wonder about it.

[seemslikeadream]

28. more likely that it is true

:hi:

[KewlKat]

13. Around 2:18 into this video she states that

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

[These Eyes]

6. Seems to me they're just following…

Obama's foreign policy lead.

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. I would like very much to see bin Laden's head on a stick

I hope, if true, the attack is successful.


It also would be a good set up for a joke; "We finally got Osama Bin Laden this weekend. About time McCain told Bush how to do it."

[Muttocracy]

9. from the threads in Late Breaking News, seems like a lot of civilians are going to die in the proces

doesn't sound like a very precise effort.

[snappyturtle]

11. The entire globe needs bush out of office now. nt

[AlCzervik]

12. "Clinton bombed an aspirin factory!" "Clinton sent missiles through empty tents!"

ayup.

[lamp_shade]

14. If they claim they "got him" you can bet they pulled him out of

that freezer first and thawed him out.

[truedelphi]

18. One question remains: was he

Stored in Paper, or Plastic??

[ForrestGump]

26. Actually, in a freezer

in Georgia.


USA Georgia, y'all.

[seemslikeadream]

17. Ex-soldier: Bin Laden was aided in escape

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4162387

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=306307

Ex-soldier: Bin Laden was aided in escape


By Henry Cuningham
Military editor


A man who says he is a former Delta Force officer will appear Sunday on “60 Minutes” alleging that he was undermined by Afghan allies and U.S. superiors on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden in 2001.

The retired Army major goes by the pseudonym of Dalton Fury in the report, which airs at 7 p.m. on CBS.

Fury says that in October 2001, he and a team of Delta Force soldiers joined CIA operatives and Afghan fighters commanded by Hazrat Ali, a warlord to whom the CIA paid millions in cash.

In a video clip from the segment, Fury wears a Special Operations Warrior Foundation cap and has a thick beard. He describes Afghan forces listening to bin Laden’s radio communications: “These guys, in my opinion, were more in awe of Osama bin Laden than they were willing to kill him. ... They could almost see him and feel his presence and they just stood there with wide eyes and somewhat in awe that here is the leader of the jihad ... and they’re actually hearing his voice over the radio.”

The U.S. and Afghan fighters chased bin Laden and an estimated 1,000 al-Qaida fighters into the Tora Bora Mountains, near the Pakistan border. The United States wanted to let the Afghans fight while U.S. special operations forces provided support and directed air strikes.

“The mujahedeen would go up and get into a skirmish … lose a guy or two, maybe kill an al-Qaida guy or two and then they leave … almost like it was an agreement. ... Put on a good show and then leave,” Fury says in the video.

Fury did not like the daytime frontal assaults.

“We wanted to come in on the back door,” he said.

Apparently, someone in the U.S. government nixed an early plan to climb the mountain from the Pakistan side and surprise the enemy.

“Whether that was Central Command (or) all the way up to the president of the United States, I’m not sure,” Fury said.

Fury said the denial was unheard of.

“In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before,” he said.

Fury believes bin Laden was injured and allowed to escape.

A Special Forces soldier told the Fayetteville Observer in 2002 that he believes bin Laden could have been captured in November 2001, but a captain on the ground would not give approval to go after bin Laden because there was no specific mission order to do so.

Fury’s book, “Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man,” goes on sale Monday, according to the Barnes & Noble Web site.

[Fleshdancer]

19. Maybe they'll kill the #2 guy for, what, the 5th time?

That damn #2 guy refuses to stay dead! :grr:

[truedelphi]

22. Heh. Heh. Sort of ike Arafat's headquarters - bombed to

Smithereens one week, then a month later, then two months later.

I always wished who ever rebuilt his place was available to wokr in NO after Katrina.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. And General Franko, don't forget him...

There must be Zombie Land somewhere in those mountains....
or the Fountain of Eternal LIfe...

[Forkboy]

27. There's more number twos than a porta potty at a chili festival.

[MrsBrady]

21. i found this

dont' know anything about this website, but it's interesting.

http://littlecountrylost.blogspot.com/2008/01/benazir-bhutto-omar-shiekh-murdered.html

[sarcasmo]

23. No elections, is that the plan of this administration?

[HughMoran]

25. Killing Osama would hurt McCain

...for obvious reasons - so...?

[DainBramaged]

30. Yup, who would he have to defend 'us' against?

[spanone]

29. osama killed in pakistan proves we've been in the WRONG WAR