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Offline midnight Target

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« on: June 25, 2003, 10:00:48 AM »
Reports on TV this morning that we had Bin Laden in our sights many times between January 2001 and up to 1 week before 9-11, but we failed to act due to turmoil over who should take the shot - CIA or the Pentagon.



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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2003, 10:02:12 AM »
Like in the 90's?
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Offline Rude

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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2003, 10:08:25 AM »
Unfair criticism of Bush and Clinton.

Hindsight towards this type of catastrophe should produce lessons learned and not blame.

We seem to be pullin the trigger currently though....eh MT?
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Re: We Coulda had Him!
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2003, 10:09:24 AM »
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 but we failed to act due to turmoil over who should take the shot - CIA or the Pentagon.



:rolleyes:


can you imagine the outrage if the CIA would have "assasinated" Bin-laden prior to Sept. 11th?

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Conflicting reports
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2003, 10:12:23 AM »
The reports I heard had three sightings in 2000, and none in 2001.  

What are they facts, man, the facts?
Please post links, etc.
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2003, 10:21:37 AM »
Facts?

I'm just waiting for all those "Clinton caused 9-11" guys to come streaming out of their cracks in the wall.

(I promise to catch and release though)
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2003, 10:22:42 AM »
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(I promise to catch and release though)


ROTFLOL!
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Offline Dowding

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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2003, 10:24:07 AM »
I read that the SAS had Bin Laden cornered at one point in Afghanistan but were pulled from taking him out because the Pentagon deemed such a move to be 'too dangerous'. Probably only partly true.

Alhough, Bin Laden is more valuable alive to an administration built around a war on terrorism. He gives them something to focus on, like the USSR.
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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2003, 10:26:00 AM »
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Facts . . .  

"Clinton caused 9-11"


See, even MT agrees!
























I am practicing to be a NYT reporter!:D
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Offline miko2d

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Re: We Coulda had Him!
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2003, 10:47:52 AM »
midnight Target: Reports on TV this morning that we had Bin Laden in our sights many times between January 2001 and up to 1 week before 9-11, but we failed to act due to turmoil over who should take the shot - CIA or the Pentagon.

 And forgo the the benefits of War on Terror, invasion or Iraq, abrigement of that pesky Constitution?

 Didn't you read the PNAC September 2000 report by the people who later become Bush' neo-con advisers that wished for a "Pearl Harbor" event to precipitate the desired changes in the world?


The Project for the New American Century


"Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September 2000. A Report of the Project for the New American Century.

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Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event - like new Pearl Harbor.


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Offline Syzygyone

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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2003, 11:01:54 AM »
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Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event - like new Pearl Harbor.
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Where, dear Miko, does that quote say that the PNAC, and by implicaiton, W's "neo-conservative advisers", wished for a new pearl harbor.  Plain language interpretation reveals that quote as a factual statement that the transformation discussed will be a long one unless a cataclysmic event speeds things up.  It in no way implies a desire for a new cataclysmic event without reading into it some very unsupporteable and nefarious motivation.

While I will give you the benefit of the doubt and suppose that you are loath to say that the "neo-conservative advisers" planned the catalysmic event, you're clear implicaiton is that those advisers know about 9/11 and did nothing to prevent it  

Trouble is, I don't recall any reports of black helicopters flying around the WTC or Pentagon or Pennsylvania on 9/11.
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2003, 11:57:56 AM »
The Clinton haters posted that Bill messed up not taking out Usama when he had the chance , now the Bush fanatics arent giving equal treatment?:}
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« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2003, 12:05:51 PM »
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I read that the SAS had Bin Laden cornered at one point in Afghanistan but were pulled from taking him out because the Pentagon deemed such a move to be 'too dangerous'. Probably only partly true.

Alhough, Bin Laden is more valuable alive to an administration built around a war on terrorism. He gives them something to focus on, like the USSR.


if theyre talkin after 11SEP01 then its not true at all. not an ounce of truth in that story. think about it for a sec. theyve got him cornered but its "too dangerous" to take him out? did they leave all their comms gear with the whiskey and beer and marshmallows back by the fire? :) didnt couldnt wouldnt have happened.
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« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2003, 12:12:05 PM »
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Reports on TV this morning that we had Bin Laden in our sights many times between January 2001 and up to 1 week before 9-11, but we failed to act due to turmoil over who should take the shot - CIA or the Pentagon.



:rolleyes:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90318,00.html

it's not that simple midnight, here is the link.
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« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2003, 12:42:20 PM »
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Didn't you read the PNAC September 2000 report by the people who later become Bush' neo-con advisers that wished for a "Pearl Harbor" event to precipitate the desired changes in the world?


Well golly! Who hasn't!
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