AP: US Hot On Bin Laden's Heels...Which one of you predicted this would happen?
 

One or more of you guys predicted that Bin Laden would be caught just before the election. Check out this late breaking story.

This ain't an election it's a hostage situation. If we don't support Bush's henchmen then we all get blown up.
---------

Sep 4, 4:58 PM (ET)

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.

"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."

Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.


(AP) Joseph Cofer Black smiles to cameras as he arrives at Ankara's Esenboga airport in this Oct. 1,...
Full Image


"What I tell people, I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we wake up tomorrow and he's been caught along with all his lieutenants. That can happen because of the programs and infrastructure in place," he told Geo.

Bin Laden and his top associate, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding some place along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Officials have divulged no solid intelligence about bin Laden's precise whereabouts, and it's not clear if they have any.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and Black's visit comes weeks after Pakistani security forces captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa, and Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani computer expert allegedly linked to al-Qaida operatives around the world.

The arrests led to a terror warning in the United States, and arrests in Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

Black attended a meeting of the Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement in Islamabad on Thursday and Friday.

During the talks, Pakistan asked U.S. officials for more helicopters, surveillance and communications equipment to help Pakistani forces guard border areas near Afghanistan "more efficiently," a Pakistani official at the talks said.

"We got a positive response from the American officials," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Pakistan has deployed about 70,000 troops along the Afghan border and conducted several military operations this year in its lawless and largely autonomous tribal regions against al-Qaida suspects and their local supporters.

Black hailed Pakistan's efforts in counterterrorism - despite criticism from Western officials who say that elements of the former ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan still operate inside Pakistan.

"In terms of national programs and effectiveness, I would put Pakistan up against anyone else ... If you look at the arrests they have made, the information they have developed and the lives that have been saved, Pakistan is doing a great job," he said.

He added, however, that, "you can always do more

A lot of people figured that it was highly probable. Sad when so many would even consider their President would pull something like that.

this doesn't even deserve attention, but then we would have bush and his boyfriends knocking at our front door with guns saying, "you must have an opinion regarding our propoganda" Then if you say no or dont say antying, they will kill you. that is the perfect world

I have been saying this for months...

Usama bin Laden has been sitting in the medical brig of the USS Mount Whitney for the last 6-8 months waiting for the November elections.

Are you serious? Why the Mount Whitney?

Gee. There's a shock.

Way to go Dubya. Nobody saw this shit coming. Seriously.




















































All your sheep are belong to Dubya.

I don't think they already have him captured. Too many people to speak, including hime eventually. More likely if anything they know his general area and have him quarantined until the time to move in.

Don't you wanna mount Whitney?

Houston that is.

Me neither, 10 years ago maybe

Looking good Houston

Whitney that is...


*cough* :offtopic :glugglug

osama who?

... sorry, but I somehow have forgotten.

I knew it.
:helpme

I said it first in this thread.

For my prize I would like an Ipod filled with Barry Manilow tunes or US$100 paypalled to [email protected]

Yes it goes to show the feelings for the President.

If Bush had not gone into Iraq he could of done a lot more to reduce the effect and power of Al Queda. By invading Iraq he has just given terrorists help in recruiting more youngsters to martyr themselves.

Good call, but first? Let me do some searching, I know I said this shit last year. :Graucho

I think everybody with a working brain predicted this......

god you guys are seriously dumber than i thought!!! predicted what?? The news has been flashing that the U.S. has been on Bin Laden's heels since 9/11 fucking dumbasses. Bin Laden is DEAD. Mark my words, this is another thread I will be bumping after election day and hopefully it'll ripple through your thick skulls how stupid you really are.

Did he die of old age? We certainly didn't have anything to do with it.

never heard of him

It is strange how we haven't heard any tapes of him in a while.

You can bet your ass that he will wait a few more weeks, and then announce that they have arrested the dirty little guy.

Bush will then walk around on a stage with his hands in the air, proclaiming that the US has won the war on terrorism.


And that may very well clench the next 4 years for him.

hes workin on a new demo tape..hes gonna start pitching it to tv stations soon enuff. Osamas greatest "hits" vol. 2

If he is cought by the US then we will have another 4 years with bush. :(

... most americans don't even remember who he is or what he has done.

Why the fuck dont people see what is happening here

USS Mount Whitney recently returned from its seven month deployment to the Horn of Africa region in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and is currently undergoing routine maintenance in the shipyard.

Now if you remember after Operation Anaconda, there was rumors floating around the Usama would wander back to Yemen after being shown the door in Afghanistan, well what region is basically the Horn of Africa?

Somalia, & Yemen, two hotspot for radical muslim fundamentalism...

(pardon the cut & paste...)

The USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) serves as the Flagship for Commander Second Fleet/Commander Striking Fleet Atlantic.

As the most sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) ship ever commissioned, MOUNT WHITNEY incorporates various elements of the most advanced C4I equipment and gives the embarked Joint Task Force Commander the capability to effectively command all units under the command of the Commander, Joint Task Force.

The ship's afloat communications capability is second to none. MOUNT WHITNEY can receive and transmit large amounts of secure data from any point on earth through HF, UHF, VHF, SHF and EHF communications paths. This technology enables the Joint Intelligence Center and Joint Operations Center to provide the most timely intelligence and operational support available in the Navy. USS MOUNT WHITNEY , the Navy's premier "Fighting Flagship," is the most capable joint C4I platform afloat in the world.


It seems that given all that information, that the Mount Whitney was the Admiral's flagship, that their own website is one of the most bland sites in the Navy only recently added some content recently, and all the high value enemy combatants have been held in Naval brigs makes you wonder if Usama has been reciving treatment waiting for a few weeks before November 2nd to have the White House to annouce that members of Delta, Grey Ghost, and Task Force 121 have "captured" Usama bin Laden in Northwestern Pakistan alive.

Just don't be suprised if UBL pops up alive in the next few weeks...

It is very distressing to think that so many people would think that our president would be capable of such horrifying, manipulative deeds. What is infinitely more disturbing is the fact that this president actually is attempting to execute this sort of stunt, hoping to fuck the United States once again. Can god kill us all and get this over with?

Everyone knows that Osama is the president of Iraq and that is why there is a huge war raging in that country. Our number one priority is fighting terrorism and finding Osama and that is why we are in Iraq (wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of lives).

When our president speaks, you can be sure he isn't lying to you! You know this because Osama is the president of Iraq!

Absolutely!!!!

Osama Bin Hussein is the guilty one. Iraq was justified !!!!
:winkwink:

Yeah, the Idiot is predictable, but a lot of people will fall for it :(