Osama Bin Laden Dead: Hillary Clinton Tells Taliban 'You Cannot Defeat Us'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden shows that the Taliban cannot defeat the United States in Afghanistan and that it should abandon its ties to al Qaeda, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday.

Clinton spoke after it was announced that bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. helicopter raid on a mansion near the Pakistani capital Islamabad, ending a long worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Bin Laden was for years sheltered by the Taliban in Afghanistan, leading to a U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban regime there in late 2001 and ushering in a nearly decade-long war between U.S.-led forces and the Islamist group.
"In Afghanistan we will continue taking the fight to al Qaeda and their Taliban allies while working to support the Afghan people as they build a stronger government and begin to take responsibility for their own security,'' Clinton said.

"Our message to the Taliban remains the same, but today it may have even greater resonance: you cannot wait us out, you cannot defeat us, but you can make the choice to abandon al Qaeda and participate in a peaceful political process,'' she added in brief remarks at the State Department.

(Reporting by Andrew Quinn and Arshad Mohammed: Editing by Paul Simao)

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Comments

[KungFuing]

07:16 AM on 05/04/2011

this moment in time will go down in history as a catalyst for greater terror and destruction . . .

[Soul American]

09:24 AM on 05/03/2011

Is PAkistan still our friend? LOL :)

[Soul American]

09:23 AM on 05/03/2011

Hillary Clinton Tells Taliban 'You Cannot Defeat Us' We will give you $Billions via Pakistan.

[holyghostie]

07:05 AM on 05/03/2011

The radio talking heads must be beside themselves that Hillary is so well thought of in the military and intelligence community.

[rtuswns]

01:28 AM on 05/03/2011

America got Ben Ladin, all the while submitting to Secular Humanism which is Just as Deadly!
yet Subtle, non violent Satanic Attack 2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

[pilgrim101]

09:48 AM on 05/08/2011

OK---another opiate consumer.

[rtuswns]

04:39 PM on 05/08/2011

Matthew 8:29
Suddenly they shouted, "What do You have to do with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?"
Luke 4:40 As HYH YESHUA laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them. (A) 41 Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, "You are the Son of God!" (B) But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Messiah. (C)

[OFugster]

12:18 AM on 05/03/2011

Clinton's nationalistic, jingoistic posturing is shameful. How many thousands of Americans and millions of innocent Afghans have been killed or starved to death so that one can could be captured (incidentally, not even in Afghanistan)? The American government clearly hasn't learned any lessons from the longest war in its history.

[SEXYLEO]

11:45 PM on 05/02/2011

Shut-up Hillary...In a country of midget men..we couldn't find a 6ft male for almost 11 years...it's nothing to brag about.

As far as saying ..we' cannot be defeated; of course, we can't.. and that goes without saying so....What most Americans want...the hell out of the middle east..before any other American military personnel are killed or maimed. American needs to stop with the 'mine is bigger than yours'!

More than enough Americans have died..enough is enough!

[Rubiconski]

10:57 PM on 05/02/2011

why not just drive to the moon?

it's not that far.

[All-hat-no-cattle]

12:05 AM on 05/03/2011

Strange, irrelevant thoughts are better left unpublished.

[stargazer13]

10:21 PM on 05/02/2011

must you twist it Hillery ?

[joefargo]

09:56 PM on 05/02/2011

Perhaps Hillary will be standing speaking to the Taliban from a podium in Kandahar when the dust settles after the last chopper leaves. She will tell them they can't wait us out until some young man carrying a Burka politely tells her they did just that..."now please put on the burka"

[ZENNEPHI]

09:56 PM on 05/02/2011

"Ground Zero" was a tilt of the scales of the Pendulum of Justice of the
Pentagon of sleeper-cells on American-soil. A "wake-up" call dating as
far back as the "implosion" of the [Marrow Federal Building] in [Oklahoma.]
The differeniation between a sleeper-cell and a bona-fide "terror-cell" as with
Al-Quaida and the late Bin Laden, is that they are usually equipped with inter-
net and fax, versus simple courier.
Sleeper Agents are usually cloiestered with emphisis on "esoteric-parchments"
in a Multiverse rendition of Judeo-Christian Values, With partial observation of
seculair issues and comparitive religion.
Madam Secretary is prophetic in declairing the war isn't over. Not on Foreign-
Fronteirs, or "Raging in the Hearts of Men" in the United States.
"Same-Sex Dynamic Issues" rule the headlines. The cosmic forces of nature
and the bluring of traditions with "certain" inalible rights with be the "downfall"
of our Union.
The prerequiste of perventing enemys at Pacfic/Atlantic shores, is the steadfast
acts of preventing the break-down of One Man, One Woman in mongomous
committed marriages. Marriages by same-sex couples is a marage.!!
"Into the boundries, of each married man, temptation comes a calling".
A total loving bonded relationship, anything else will be "pure maheim".

[aFtersootdamP]

09:42 PM on 05/02/2011

hillary should stick to the script, not point out obama's failures. What is she thinking?

[hoodwinked]

09:41 PM on 05/02/2011

Hillary said, "you cannot wait us out, you cannot defeat us"'

She's partially right, if they can wait a couple more years, US will defeat itself when we fully run out of money including the ob-seen amounts spent on wars.

[All-hat-no-cattle]

09:21 PM on 05/02/2011

I must reiterate these words of Secretary Clinton. They speak to the future.

"Our message to the Taliban remains the same, but today it may have even
greater resonance: you cannot wait us out, you cannot defeat us, but you can
make the choice to abandon al Qaeda and participate in a peaceful political process..."

YES!

[xenox33]

08:38 PM on 05/02/2011

I would like to know what the PAKISTANI GOVERMENT have to say for themselves.....I find it very hard to believe that that they did not know that the "most hated/wanted terrorist" was in their country with HIS WIFE. I am a 100% convinced this GOVERMENT knew that this SOB was there......HILLARY go GET the AMERICAN PEOPLE SOME ANSWERS PLEASE. I would like to know for one. I am not sure these terrorist idots will stop, after all they are promised 70 some virgins when they think they go to "where ever" they are going. MUSLIMS get to much attention. People if you want to read a great book.....here it is: BECAUSE THEY HATE>>>> by Bridgitte Gabriel......then you will understand what the MUSLIM nation is trying to accomplish here in USA.

[All-hat-no-cattle]

09:24 PM on 05/02/2011

You do know that the woman whom you name as the author of that book
with the "auspicious" (ahem!) title is one of the most rabid, unreliable of
the Fox News sources!

If you had any credibility whatsoever, you began to lose it when you started
shouting at us [IN ALL CAPS], but lost it completely when you mentioned
the name of Bridgitte Gabriel. She's a hate-monger!

Zero fans = no track record in posting, yet you come on here trying
to dupe us. WHY? Liberals read more than ONE book, and weigh
all sides of any perspective. We also research the credibility of authors!

[rtuswns]

01:35 AM on 05/03/2011

Is that the Beautiful Angel Gabriel, who would Know!