Comments on: Osamamania! NY Daily News says Bin Laden back in command

By: honora

honora — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:40:53 +0000

1) Osama’s value is largely symbolic. Capturing him would be a blow to AQ. It’s nonsense that his capture wouldn’t matter. (Litmus test: given the choice, how do you think Rove would choose–catch him/don’t catch him? You can see this is not a serious question.)
2) However, the advantage to not capturing him is it seems to keep the terrorists’ loyalties somewhat split. If Osama is captured, it makes room for a new number 1 who could (may?)operate more openly, not a good thing.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:23:20 +0000

Bryan, fortunately Scheuer is out. If he would be the ‘super-geeeenius’ he pretends to be, he’d still be in. I don’t believe the CIA of today is full of ignorami but it still has a few remnants from the previous admin. which didn’t give a rat’s a-s about the CIA and the military.

ScottG, they didn’t shut up when Zarqawi was killed. If Mr. Bush knows what’s going on why would he care what they call him? They already look about as bad as it can get. Their colors have been shown and the populace is naive but not completely stupid.

What they (the Dems) will say, hawever, is that Karl Rove orchestrated North Korea, just in time for Nov. And maybe that he’s hiding Osama in his basement too.

By: ScottG

ScottG — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:58:37 +0000

Why make a “definitive statement”

Well, it’s just because the ~~enemy~~, I mean the Dems keep harping on “where’s Osama?, You haven’t captured Osama, Bush is a failure.” A definitive statement would shut them up. Then it makes them look like they hope Osama’s alive just to hurt the President.

By: techno_barbarian

techno_barbarian — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:32:47 +0000

So. Lemme get this straight.

A moonbat was in charge of the unit tasked with catching and/or killing obl, and they failed the task to the point where the unit has to be disbanded?

Wow. Just no way at all of seeing that coming…

/sarc

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:49:55 +0000

Scheuer is an idiot, as is anyone who thinks Osama’s ability to produce his little home videos indicates some kind of serious command and control capability. All it takes to produce Osama’s kind of videos is a laptop with iMovie, a digital camcorder, a firewire cable and a few lights and a mic and enough electricity to power the setup. That’s it. They’re not doing anything serious or creative, and certainly not anything that takes any degree of technical sophistication at all. I read a story the other day about the guy who produces Osama’s vlogs–he’s even less knowledgeable than the guy who produces Rocketboom. If Scheuer is a CIA super-geeeenius, we might as well give up on that whole organization. It’s full of ignorami.

By: venmax

venmax — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:35:12 +0000

ROFL!!

That’s like saying the Quarterback of the football team is “Back in Command” after having the running back and the wide receiver run over by a Mac Truck.

Heh! Up is down and black is white in the MSM.

By: Blue Grass, Red State

Blue Grass, Red State — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:05:15 +0000

Osama Gone Before Bush?…

They might know where he is right now, they might not. If they do, then they’re using bin Laden for intelligence gathering opportunities. If they don’t, they will before Bush leaves because if the country goes nuts and elects a Democrat all hell coul…

By: LegendHasIt

LegendHasIt — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:27:23 +0000

Just because Osama is long dead doesn’t mean that he ISN’T in command….

Zawahiri hired Miss Cleo to channel Osama’s instructions from beyond the grave and Mohammed al RichLittle to do the voice for the audio tapes.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:09:06 +0000

ScottG,

Why make a “definitive statement” if it is more useful to keep ‘em guessing. Psychological warfare is also -fare.

The MSM some day will have their jaw drop several feet on this subject.

By: ScottG

ScottG — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:01:03 +0000

OK, I guess I’ll take the bull by the horns for the administration.

“The Government of the United States (the people) announces that Osama Bin Ladin without a doubt is dead. If by some chance he still lives, he’s in such poor physical condition he is unable to carry out any actions against the Free World.”

There, see how easy it was? I’m 99.99% sure he’s moldering in the grave. If not, he’s on the run or holed up in some dank cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The fact that Osama’s “appearances” are not dateable shows he is not among us. How hard is it to bring a recent newspaper with the equipment when Osama’s so-called statements are recorded? Not hard. Therefore, he’s dead. It would be nice if someone else in authority would make a definitive statement.

By: darwin

darwin — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:01:12 +0000

“One of the best intelligence sources we have is knowing where he is and intercepting his communications”.

Nope, the ACLU filed an “infringement on being able to carry out terrorism” lawsuit in behalf of bin Laden. Thanks to this and the NY Times, the NSA had to voluntarily stop monitoring his communications.

Not …. well, it is possible, and plausible.

By: RobertHuntingdon

RobertHuntingdon — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:00:50 +0000

Good point, Lawrence. That’s probably why the treason times and all the dhimmicrats want us to get him so bad. I mean, they’ll do anything ELSE to make it harder on us to win, why not that too?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:45:02 +0000

If the trail is cold, how do we know whether or not his communicating more, or less?

Think about this one for a minute.

Then answer this question. How many really believe we don’t know where Osama is?

One of the best intelligence sources we have is knowing where he is and intercepting his communications. In this way we can track the communications back to his lieutenants in other parts of the world. We then start sweeping up his lieutenants. Point is that Osama may well better for us alive and kicking than pushing up daisies.

By: darwin

darwin — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:44:28 +0000

If this clown (Michael Scheuerch) is such an expert:

1) why didn’t they take bin Laden out? They only had years to do it.

2) Why isn’t he still at the CIA where I’m sure “experts” are highly prized.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:28:07 +0000

The CIA is right to focus its efforts on the Zarqawi replacement and other tyrants, instead of the cave-man or hut-dweller, with such lack of courage. Zarqawi was a beast but at least he wasn’t hiding all the time.

If he is still alive, and leads are good, they’ll still go after him. After Dec. 2001, as far as I’m concerned he is ‘dead’. Incapacitated! Finished! Al Zawahiri looks really old and sick lately – he is the more dangerous one of the two.

Scheuer and the other have-beens need a source of income and glory. When you’re out you’re out and don’t have any more access. Don’t pretend otherwise. It’s all speculation.

Yesterday all the ‘experts’ from the Clinton-era came out to yak it up on the North Korea topic. They were a complete failure since their agreement was reneged – go back into the sand and incubate further, trying to rewrite history. History is what happened and not what anyone wishes would have happened.

What is the matter with the other 75% of the Brits?

By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:11:03 +0000

Al Qaeda’s media wing, As Sahab (“The Cloud”), has posted recent tapes directly on Web sites instead of sending them to Arab TV channels to selectively edit. Plus, Bergen said, “It’s hard for the CIA to watch every Internet cafe in Pakistan.”

I could have sworn the NY Times et al. was their media wing.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:08:12 +0000

Ummm… if these “Experts” knew so much about Binny buddy… then why didn’t THEY catch him?

Sorry… its a case of those who failed and quit, yacking about those who are still trying and may succeed.