Newsweek Splashes "Hunt For Bin Laden" Expose

Newsweek   |   August 26, 2007 01:11 PM


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The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, spotted a patrol of U.S. soldiers who seemed to be heading straight for bin Laden's redoubt. The sentry radioed an alert, and word quickly passed among the Qaeda leader's 40-odd bodyguards to prepare to remove "the Sheik," as bin Laden is known to his followers, to a fallback position. As Sheik Said, a senior Egyptian Qaeda operative, later told the story, the anxiety level was so high that the bodyguards were close to using the code word to kill bin Laden and commit suicide. According to Said, bin Laden had decreed that he would never be captured. "If there's a 99 percent risk of the Sheik's being captured, he told his men that they should all die and martyr him as well," Said told Omar Farooqi, a Taliban liaison officer to Al Qaeda who spoke to a NEWSWEEK reporter in Afghanistan.

The secret word was never given. As the Qaeda sentry watched the U.S. troops, the patrol started moving in a different direction. Bin Laden's men later concluded that the soldiers had nearly stumbled on their hideout by accident. (One former U.S. intelligence officer told NEWSWEEK that he was aware of official reporting on this incident.)

And so it has gone for six years. American intelligence officials interviewed by NEWSWEEK ruefully agree that the hunt to find bin Laden has been more a game of chance than good or "actionable" intelligence. Since bin Laden slipped away from Tora Bora in December 2001, U.S. intelligence has never had better than a 50-50 certainty about his whereabouts. "There hasn't been a serious lead on Osama bin Laden since early 2002," says Bruce Riedel, who recently retired as a South Asia expert at the CIA. "What we're doing now is shooting in the dark in outer space. The chances of hitting anything are zero."

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- sugarmoes See Profile I'm a Fan of sugarmoes permalink

bubububut my daddy said smoke'im out... deaderalive... mission accomplished... wahoo... yeehaw... giddyup... let's roll... bang bang... shoot'im up!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:03 AM on 08/27/2007
- atomic See Profile I'm a Fan of atomic permalink

P R O P A G A N D A

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:51 AM on 08/27/2007
- thegreatgiginthesky See Profile I'm a Fan of thegreatgiginthesky permalink

Hey motherfucker Bush, where is Osama Bin Laden?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:34 PM on 08/26/2007
- ghostsofamerica See Profile I'm a Fan of ghostsofamerica permalink

by the way, this will not make the top front page, because when ever a 9-11 official fairy tale doubter posts first on the blog, they get buried. Don't want to rock the boat of state.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:41 PM on 08/26/2007
- loslobo See Profile I'm a Fan of loslobo permalink

Is that why I can't get my half my posts on? Hell I only had to say it once on ABC and I was banned.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 PM on 08/26/2007
- atomic See Profile I'm a Fan of atomic permalink

WAR EQUALS HUGE .... HUGE ... PROFITS FOR WAR INDUSTRIES AND CENTRAL BANKERS.

NEWSWEEK IS A PROPAGANDA PUBLICATION THAT SUPPORTS THEIR INTERESTS AND ESPECIALLY WAR.

THIS IS WHY MSM WAS 100% BEHIND THESE INVASIONS AND HAS PROLIFERATED THE MYTH ABOUT OBL AND 911.

OBL WAS AND IS CIA OPERATIVE.

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB - CONTROLLED DEMOLITION - FALSE FLAG OPERATION.

THE CENTRAL BANKERS RUN THE GOVERNMENT AND CONTROL THE MEDIA.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE / CENTRAL BANKS ARE PRIVATELY OWNED BANKS.

THE FEDERAL BANK CHARGES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INTEREST ON EVERY DOLLAR THEY PRINT AND PUT INTO CIRCULATION.

OUR INCOME TAX GOES DIRECTLY BACK INTO THEIR POCKETS TO PAY THIS INTEREST DEBT, FALSELY MANUFACTURED BY THE CENTRAL BANKS.

AMERICANS WORK 4 MONTHS OUT OF A YEAR TO PAY THIS INTEREST DEBT.

THE IRS IS THE MOB COLLECTOR FOR THESE BANKS TO COLLECT THAT DEBT THROUGH INTIMIDATION AND AGGRESSION...

BUSH/CHENEY ARE TRAITORS. THEY HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FOR THE ELITE AND AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB BY THE CORPORATE ELITE TO

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:15 PM on 08/26/2007
- atomic See Profile I'm a Fan of atomic permalink

THE ELITE ARE BEING EXPOSED AS THE REAL TERRORISTS WHO HAVE LIED TO THE PEOPLE TO WAGE RESOURCE WARS AND DESTROY OUR CONSTITUTION.

The real terrorists are the elite banking cartels, the oil companies, and elements within our own government who are engaged in this criminal enterprise to push through their agenda.

WTC was brought down by controlled demolition and Bush/Cheney facilitated it, planned for it, covered up for it, and used it to enter 2 illegal wars.

The 911 report was damage control and is filled with contradictions that do not fit the facts. The report is rubbish.

Bush refused to investigate 911 and to this day there has not been a real investigation of 911.

The propaganda of terror that we have been bombarded with for 6 years has allowed these elite war profiteers to continue their assault on reason and reality.

Now when their agenda is in jeopardy Bin Laden is suddenly alive and in excellent health. Strong enough to be a real threat.

This is nothing more than propaganda as they get ready to hit us again and blame it on terrorists.

The elite are terrorizing the people with lies about Bin Laden.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 08/26/2007
- ghostsofamerica See Profile I'm a Fan of ghostsofamerica permalink

I think most people who have been reading around and paying attention would agree with you. Only those who won't believe what they see, like the Twin Towers falling exactly like a controlled demolition at freefall speed, and instead choose to believe what the boobtube tells them are begging for more state "so-called security".

These sheeple have given up the beautiful sacred US constitution and their rights, in exchange for more terrorism by Bush Crime Family and the new world order.


Franklin said, "Those who give us up their essential liberties for a safety deserve neither."

And they will get neither.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:35 PM on 08/26/2007
- imusintheevening See Profile I'm a Fan of imusintheevening permalink

Wait a minute, I am not calling for more state security, but a better explanation for the way the towers fell is that they planned carefully and used the advice of structural engineers. 9/11 was blowback for our covert actions going back more than 25 years. The present cabal in the administration is not smart enough to pull off a conspiracy, they just lie, mislead, cover up facts like ordinary criminals and con men.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:42 PM on 08/26/2007
- Wiredwilly See Profile I'm a Fan of Wiredwilly permalink

I believe no one about anything.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:47 PM on 08/26/2007
- CompetitiveEater See Profile I'm a Fan of CompetitiveEater permalink

That's the whole point. To get the population to be leery of the news. So when the actual awful awful truth comes out, people will still disbelieve.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:06 PM on 08/26/2007
- gakabani See Profile I'm a Fan of gakabani permalink

Create an enemy even it does not exits to instill fear among the people and rob us from our basic rights and create an excuse to carry out demonic secret plans to invade Iraq.

OBL is part of this plot. He is a creation of the USA and will continue to be.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:27 PM on 08/26/2007
- realitytrumpsbull See Profile I'm a Fan of realitytrumpsbull permalink

I think he's probably dead...but he's still a good a reason as any to think about furthering the whole idea of energy independence. I think we'd be miles ahead by getting that job done,
there's a lot of good ideas on the shelf that can be laid out on the old project bench and put to good use, things that'll make it so that no matter what happens, we'll all still get to
work on Monday. As it stands now, we're still vulnerable to the whimsy of crazy rich people with lots of oil money...makes a good case too for buying a book on basic horsemanship...Trigger requires NO 15w40...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 08/26/2007
- larry278 See Profile I'm a Fan of larry278 permalink

The NEWSWEEK story, & maybe the comments on HP, denials by informed sources & the spin generated by W & co plus myths about Sheik, aka Emir, Bin Laden & the wily Egyptian physician will be used by a corps of 21st century Graham Greens to flood publishers with adventure/fiction Tom Clancy inspired monographs. A few of them may be published soon & there will be others each year to continue till both the Sheik/Emir & the Physician from Egypt both die in whatever remains of the USA & UK as all parties change to adapt to changing conditions.
Wits will create stock oafs inspired by W & co to join the Keystone Kops of the early 20th century in mocking authority figures in the war on terror. All efforts will be most acerbic; some of the efforts may be funny too. One shouldn't expect many works which combine wit, humor & semi-accuracy in the coming years.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:47 PM on 08/26/2007
- tricky69 See Profile I'm a Fan of tricky69 permalink

NEWSWEEK IS NOTHING BUT A PROPAGANDA TOOL FOR THE ELITES! You are totally full of you know what Newsweek! Bin Laden is DEAD! You know it, the cabal of criminals occupying the White House know it, so quit furthering the threat of Bin Laden. He's a ghost, he's six feet under. By the way, he had NOTHING to do with 9/11. The monsters who orchestrated and carried out that false-flag are in power in OUR country and other countries. The "war on terror" is a fraud. So isn't the TV news, which misinforms instead of informing. Add the newspapers, talk radio, and other magazines like TIME, WSJ, etc.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:41 PM on 08/26/2007
- atomic See Profile I'm a Fan of atomic permalink

People are realizing the connection between the propaganda we have be told about everything and they are beginning to see what is really being done to them.

Face the fact that 911 was an inside job. That nothing other than controlled demolition brought down WTC and that no plane hit the Pentagon.

Understand the breath of the crime the elite committed against the world and the American people.

If you can grasp the truth of this then there is hope that we can survive this and become a better society based in fact.

To turn our backs on this crime is to choose to live in fantasy and all of our actions based on fear of something unreal and false.

The elite attacked us on 911 with help from their selected and installed moles / operatives in the White House.

These criminals do not think they can be held accountable and in fact believe they are on the side of right seeing themselves as the justified owners of the world.

This time they played their hand recklessly in an attempt to speed up their agenda of a one world government and monetary system under their control.

This time they played their hand too far because they have been caught in broad daylight and they will not prevail.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:30 PM on 08/26/2007
- gakabani See Profile I'm a Fan of gakabani permalink

Amen

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:27 PM on 08/26/2007
- FarSeeingArt See Profile I'm a Fan of FarSeeingArt permalink

Looks as if he isn't particularly wanted for the 911 incidents. Maybe they forgot to mention it.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:30 PM on 08/26/2007
- esquire07 See Profile I'm a Fan of esquire07 permalink

Does not matter if he is dead alive.

Osama is Bush's best buddy, he needs him. As long as Osama is out there - dead or alive - Bush has his boggie man.

It boggles the mind that so many beleive the Official 9/11 stroy. It boggles the mind just how stupid and dumbed down the American populace is.

If you beieve some guy in a cave thousands of miles away took down the towers, than I have some oceanfront real estate to sell you in Nevada.

The War Profitier Bush I was having brunch with Bin Ladens family on 9/11. How stupid has this country become ?

www.911truth.org

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 08/26/2007
- wadenelson1 See Profile I'm a Fan of wadenelson1 permalink

Instead of a manhunt for a terrorist we got sold a war on terror.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:48 PM on 08/26/2007
- anastasiabeaverhousen See Profile I'm a Fan of anastasiabeaverhousen permalink

If the Bush admin had ever been serious about terrorism, they wouldn't have hatched their "war on terror". We'd have finished the job in Afghanistan and then called our troops home. Instead, we've opened Pandora's Box because we have a C-student interpreting the Book of Revelations.

If the Bush admin were to become serious about terrorism, perhaps we'd go after those who attacked us (Saudis)......just one problem.....that little bitty thing called OIL. Shrub senior was meeting with a member of the bin laden family on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The ties between the Bush and Saudis are lengthy, old and tight. Why do you think darth cheney was summoned to Saudi Arabia earlier this year? The whole thing is a sham.

Terrorism is a tactic, not a war. Law enforcement is the best defense against terrorism, not a patriot missle.



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 PM on 08/26/2007
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