No Good Osama bin Laden Intelligence In Years, Says Robert Gates

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

Gates made the comment in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Asked whether he could confirm recent reports that bin Laden had been seen recently in Afghanistan, Gates said "no." Media reports late this week mentioned accounts of unconfirmed bin Laden sightings in recent weeks.

Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, is believed to be hiding on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan.

Comments

[purplejesus]

08:54 AM on 12/07/2009

yeah funny how there has been no appearance of the Bush boogy man since Obama got elected.

[rwe2late]

10:50 AM on 12/07/2009

The bogeyman is being resurrected to falsely 'justify' extending the so-called 'search' for him into Pakistan.

And after Pakistan? Who knows, his ghost could appear anywhere just to frighten us.

How convenient for the financial elite, war merchants and warmongers.
How inconvenient for the rest of us.

[orianna]

08:18 AM on 12/07/2009

Those video tapes we are occasionally fed look so antique and similar to every other one, just with dubbed in messages that changed.... Osama likely died early in the warfare.... but the persona remains as a simple political target of hatred to keep feeding the ignorant masses out for blood and warfare.

[ByersL]

07:00 AM on 12/07/2009

Except for those pesky tapes he keeps sending out, eh Mr. Gates?

[JoeBlough]

10:32 AM on 12/07/2009

Voice Actor.

[mamacat]

05:10 AM on 12/07/2009

Perhaps after Bush let him escape from Tora Bora, he decided not to give the U.S.A. another chance to get him. He must know that there are those who would kill him if they could find him.

[rf-hawaii]

04:17 AM on 12/07/2009

Bin Laden was a creation to stoke the fear of the masses.

[argent1]

01:32 AM on 12/07/2009

I thought he bought the Crawford Ranch.

[rakrobn]

01:26 AM on 12/07/2009

Maybe it's like A Christmas Carol in which we are supposed to be visited by the Ghost of OBL Past, Present and Future are supposed to visit us?

[rakrobn]

01:26 AM on 12/07/2009

Maybe it's like A Christmas Carol in which we are supposed to be visited by the Ghost of Osama Bin Laden Past, Present and Future are supposed to visit us?

[plaidsportcoat]

01:12 AM on 12/07/2009

So.
Why the F would anyone even SAY that????
let the wild rumpus of lying continue.

[NCAV2]

11:42 PM on 12/06/2009

The man is probably dead. It's time for our politicians to stop using him has a boogeyman to scare folks into pointless, perpetual wars.

[obama20082012]

12:07 AM on 12/07/2009

I agree, my husband and I have thought he was dead for years.

[stella801]

01:18 AM on 12/07/2009

I agree with this. The tapes he supposedly released were "verified" by the Bush Administration to further their agenda and the ongoing war.

[atomic]

04:28 AM on 12/07/2009

Well if the Bush Cheney admin verified them they must be real.

[ErnestineBass]

11:12 PM on 12/06/2009

Aw, hell'sbells...I know where he is.

He's playing penny-ante poker with Generallismo Francisco Franco.

[Tulka2]

10:12 PM on 12/06/2009

Hannibal, astonishingly, took elephants over the Alps to successfully attack Rome and Osama bin Laden sent guys with box cutters to bring down the United States Empire. With every passing day, he looks more successful.

Too soon? It's what history will say, i very much fear.

[atomic]

04:40 AM on 12/07/2009

What history should say is that the controlling shadow elite brought down the U.S. constitution over a century of organized crime finally resulting in the events of 911 which marks the dramatic shift in the consciousness of the American people. Osama was a CIA asset who had very little if anything to do with what happened to us on that day.

The 911 event was never fully investigated because evidence would not fit the official story we were told ... it's as much a cover up and criminally covert as it was an attack ... .. an attack followed by a massive, carefully scripted, corporate media campaign designed to intimidate the American people to get with the program and go to war ...

It's so obvious sometimes I think that's why we overlook it.

[liberalbug]

10:06 PM on 12/06/2009

He's long dead, but the USA needs a bogeyman so we can keep fighting wars in far off places that really serve no particular purpose anymore, if ever.

[FHTB]

12:40 AM on 12/07/2009

Exactly...let's stop this lying game, Gates, Obama, Hillary and everyone else who still imagines he is alive.

[rf-hawaii]

04:19 AM on 12/07/2009

Or cares.

[binq56]

09:11 PM on 12/06/2009

Let's see. If I had intelligence about where the most wanted man in the world was, would I tell a major news organization?

[FHTB]

12:40 AM on 12/07/2009

The most wanted man is dead...may he NOT rest in peace.

[getoffmedz]

08:55 PM on 12/06/2009

Usama Bin Laden has been dead for years.

His ghost has outlived it's usefulness.