Thursday, November 13, 2008

What Is Bin Laden Doing?

CIA Director General Michael Hayden

CIA Chief: Bin Laden Alive, Worried About 'Own Security'
-- ABC News

Hayden Says U.S. Disrupted Plot That Would Have Rivaled 9/11

Osama bin Laden is alive and "putting a lot of energy into his own security," the director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today.

He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack "that would have rivaled the destruction of 9/11."

"American and its friends have taken the fight to the enemy," Gen. Hayden said in a broad roundup of efforts to fight al Qaeda.

"Al Qaeda has suffered serious setbacks, but it is a determined, adaptive enemy unlike any our nation has ever faced," he said.

Without directly referring to the CIA's offensive blitz of unmanned missile attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the CIA boss said the US had successfully isolated the al Qaeda leader bin Laden, referring to him in the present tense.

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My Comment: Osama Bin Laden's death and capture would be a big thing .... the fact that this has not happened is a disappointment that we can only hope will be remedied in the next administration

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