Bush Gives Order: “Get Bin Laden Before I Leave Office”
I smell varmint poontang…
President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.
Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. “If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.
Bush arrives in Britain today on the final leg of his eight-day farewell tour of Europe. He will have tea with the Queen and dinner with Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah before holding a private meeting with Brown at No 10 tomorrow and flying on to Northern Ireland.
The Special Boat Service (SBS) and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have been taking part in the US-led operations to capture Bin Laden in the wild frontier region of northern Pakistan. It is the first time they have operated across the Afghan border on a regular basis.
The hunt was “completely sanctioned” by the Pakistani government, according to a UK special forces source. It involves the use of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles fitted with Hellfire missiles that can be used to take out specific terrorist targets.
One US intelligence source compared the “growing number of clandestine reconnaissance missions” inside Pakistan with those conducted in Laos and Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam war.
America rarely acknowledges the use of Predator and Reaper drones, but the most recent known strike was on a suspected Al-Qaeda safe house in the Pakistani province of North Waziristan earlier in June. Villagers said the house was empty.
Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in the Bajaur tribal zone in northwest Pakistan. He has evaded capture for nearly seven years. “Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source, using a baseball metaphor.
A Pentagon source said US forces were rolling up Al-Qaeda’s network in Pakistan in the hope of pushing Bin Laden towards the Afghan border, where the US military and bombers with guided missiles were lying in wait. “They are prepping for a major battle,” he said.
The main operations in Pakistan are being undertaken by Delta, the US army special operations unit, and the British SBS.
Special forces are being sent to capture or kill Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters based on intelligence provided by the Special Reconnaissance Regiment and its US counterpart, the Security Co-ordination Detachment.
The step-up in military activity has increased tensions between Pakistan and the US. A senior Pakistani government source said President Pervez Musharraf had given tacit support to Predator attacks on Al-Qaeda.
Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said last week that the US would “partner [the Pakistanis] to the extent they want us to” to combat insurgents.
Pakistan lodged a strong diplomatic protest last week over what it claimed was an airstrike on a border post with Afghanistan that killed 11 of its troops.
The United States declined to accept this version of events. “It is still not exactly clear what happened,” said Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser.
(TimesOnline)
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If our spec forces and CIA can’t get him, don’t hold your breath for the SAS doing any better.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:23 amThat head would look mighty fine mounted on a wall in Crawford.
Good hunting!
June 15th, 2008 at 3:48 amThis Super Secret hunt for OBL surely no one knows I see….
June 15th, 2008 at 4:52 amSAS - WTF?? Our regs turned this rag-head into bat turds in Tora-Bora years ago. I think the msm threw this comment in just to piss us off. Dubya cleaned this guys clock and is in the process of throwin’ away the winder - just like we do with all of em’.
June 15th, 2008 at 5:37 amWhen they get Osloba on the knoba it will be interesting to hear what the media has to say and how they spin it. Barack Obama…WRONG for America.
June 15th, 2008 at 5:41 amEh. My suspicion is that OBL is a pasty wallpaper on the inside of a half-buried cave in Tora Bora.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:25 amHonestly, I think he’s probably already dead
June 15th, 2008 at 6:26 amI mean, they never found Hitler’s body
June 15th, 2008 at 6:26 am@momps
Correction. The Ruskys found Hitler’s body. Part of his skull is sitting in a KGB archive in Moscow.
As to Bin Laden…until we have boots on the ground or someone in the 7th century culture of Waziristan figures out how much 5 million bucks is, not even the SAS will find him anytime soon.
Maybe when Karzai makes good on his threat to send Afghani troops into Pakistan, maybe one 7th century brain can reason with another 7th century brain and we can make some progress in the hunt for OBL.
I’m still partial to high yield nukes dropped from high altitude.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:22 amI too, think the coward is toast. But, it would be great to see the flies and fleas feasting on his decaying head.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:24 am0311, where do you live? Just curious. I’m from Cinci
June 15th, 2008 at 7:33 amwould be cool to do one of those google location thingies where you see where everyone on the board lives approx. do some meetups for
June 15th, 2008 at 7:34 amWarren. About 15 miles from Drill.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:29 amI call MSM bullshit, as usual.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pm#1. The guy’s probably been dead since about Nov. 2002.
I mean seriously: Have we seen any real videos of him that show proof of life since then?
Nooooo.
#2. This has been a standing order of President Bush’s to the military since about 11:00 EST 9/11/01.
There’s not a U.S. soldier alive who wouldn’t give his left n*t to say he bagged OBL.
God bless our troops and our Commander-in-Chief! They are the best!
I think it’s more about locating his remains….
June 15th, 2008 at 8:13 pmmomps
June 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pmI think he is aready dead.
I smell varmint poontang…
Shoot the Varmints in the Guts
June 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOc7Z_s-PSY
I can get Obama’s head instead?
June 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pmThis story is BS. Is Prince Harry and the Spice Girls showing up to get some too. Thank god the British are coming. To bad they had to get the hell out of Basrah before they could show the world what bad asses they are.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:06 pmprinted out a bunch of that exact pic for the range,dude said i cant let you use someones image for the target,dude said”you cant use that,if i let you do that,who’s to say you wont be useing bush’s image next?”
June 15th, 2008 at 10:49 pmBizzare. I’ve shot at 8 ranges in four different States and they all SOLD Bin Laden targets, let alone allowed them to be used.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:55 pmWhen and if they find bin Laden, it will be a rotted corpse. I’ll bet money he died some ignominious death lying on a gurney with a filthy IV stuck in his arm, surrounded by his pals praying to Mo, receiving no answer.
UBL looked like death in his last “real” interview, with his left arm dangling by his side and that was at least six years ago; right before or soon after Tora Bora.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:33 amis there anymore geek left ? cause OBL is a hollow pic by now
June 16th, 2008 at 10:38 ambetcha we’re in for an october surprise to help the republicans make gains in the polls - bin ladens head on a plate = president McCain
June 16th, 2008 at 10:41 am