Bush Leak Allowed al-Qaida Suspects to Escape

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040810/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_intelligence_leak_3

...senior officials said Tuesday that some al-Qaida fugitives escaped after news reports revealed the arrest of Osama's computer expert who was cooperating with investigators.

Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a 25-year-old Pakistani, was nabbed in a July 13 raid in Lahore. His capture was a signal victory for Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. He led authorities to a key al-Qaida figure and sent e-mails to terrorists so investigators could trace them.

But on Tuesday, two senior officials expressed dismay that the arrest of Khan made it into the media too soon — reported first in American newspapers on Aug. 2 after it was disclosed to journalists by U.S. officials in Washington. "Let me say that this intelligence leak jeopardized our plan and some al-Qaida suspects ran away," one of the Pakistani officials said on condition of anonymity.

Kinda Sleazy Rice acknowledged Sunday that Khan's name had been disclosed to reporters in Washington "on background," meaning that it could be published, but the information could not be attributed by name to the official who had revealed it.

The Pakistani officials said that after Khan's arrest, other al-Qaida suspects
abruptly changed their hide-outs and moved to unknown places.

...because Bush wanted to rain on the Democrat's convention.

Why isn't anybody pissed off about this?

Why is Bush helping Al Qaeda get away?

Whose side is Bush on?

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Latest Bush Blunder: A Mole Made Public

http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp

Leaking Mr. Khan’s name enhanced nobody’s safety—with the possible exception of certain Al Qaeda members warned of their own impending capture when they read the morning newspapers. For within a few days, Reuters reported that following his arrest, Mr. Khan had been "turned." A computer expert picked up in Lahore, he was said to be helping the authorities break up terrorist cells in Britain and the U.S.

Security officials in London are still enraged because the Khan leak from Washington forced them to act too precipitously, rushing to arrest 13 suspects in broad daylight raids across Britain the next day. No doubt the C.I.A. officials whose high-tech tracking efforts led to Mr. Khan’s capture felt similar frustration. In a war against terrorist groups that have proved nearly impossible to penetrate with human agents, the loss of
such a well-placed turncoat could prove tragic.

There is no question about who perpetrated the leak. On Aug. 8, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice admitted that the administration had disclosed Khan’s arrest to The Times "on background." Experts around the world are still astonished by this reckless decision.

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Damn, at the rate BushCo is outing covert intelligence assets and ruining undercover operations for political gain, they might as well just give their old friend Osama a set of keys to Langley and the Pentagon.

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What? No comment from OM's far-right attack dogs on this latest BushCo intelligence leak?

Who woulda thunk?

Kerry Opens Leads in Several Key States

(Notice how the AP tries hard to downplay the good news for Kerry)

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry has opened narrow leads in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and a handful of other battleground state polls since accepting the Democratic nomination, increasing pressure on President Bush to regain lost ground at the Republican National Convention.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20040812/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_gaining_ground

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Al Qaeda members warned of their own impending capture when they read the morning newspapers. For within a few days, Reuters reported that following his arrest, Mr. Khan had been "turned." A computer expert picked up in Lahore, he was said to be helping the authorities break up terrorist cells in Britain and the U.S.

Jee, wasn't it you that said the computer intelligence was outdated by several years?

And wouldn't you of complained if an attack happened "under watch"?

From what your ADD mind said last week, the intelligence was totally outdated. Remember?

[watermock]

Of course, the fact we picked up several members of Al Quaeda and are getting intelligence are ot mentioned whatsoever, or the fact you again totally go off topic and bring up Florida, which has absolutely nothing to do with picking up scum.

Totally amazing. Someone needs to explain to you that intelligence is inexact, and always has been. We got a nest of them. Could it of been done better? There was no complicity in this as you alledge.

These fools were captured near Indonesia. They are on the run. WTF is wrong with you. These guys cut ties at each cell. If the British wanted to keep the situation secret, and asked for it, they probably would of gotten it.

Your assertions are that the names were disclosed to "guess who, the NY Times and Reuters" and the information was totally stale.

Now it's that the information was fresh and we blew it and don't even want to capture Usama. Again, your walking both sides of the fence without a clue like a horny alley cat.

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Bin Laden Trail Still Cold, Pakistan Says

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Despite a surge in arrests of Al Qaeda suspects, a senior Pakistani anti-terrorism official said investigators still had not found the trail of their main target, Osama bin Laden.

"You can only be sure you're closing in on someone when you at least have a hint of his whereabouts," Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema said in an interview last week. "With regard to Osama bin Laden himself, I would say that we are not getting any substantial leads as yet."

"The next month and a half is absolutely crucial," said the Pakistani source, who spoke on condition that he not be identified because his superiors had not approved the interview. "The way the Americans are pressuring Pakistan, they want Osama bin Laden."

Bush administration officials have denied U.S. media reports that the United States was pressuring Pakistan to capture or kill Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda fugitives before the election. National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack told the New Republic, which published one such account, that U.S. policy on pursuing those fugitives was unchanged by the election schedule.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chase16aug16,1,5700806.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[watermock]

It's so amusing. I can see LABF praying to his guitar that we don't find Bin Laden before the election. It's so intellectually corrupt his pathetic. According to LABF: Bush approved the WTC Bombins and knew they were going to happen, and wanted to raise oil prices.

Evidently Bush is controlling Refineries, Russian Production, Venezualan Production and the Saudis have something on him for taking a few of the Royal House virgins hostage.

This clown has no clue how fortunate we have been to have Mussareff cooperate as much as he has. Of course it will be a conspiracy if we get him in the next 30 days.

He can't even use a phone. He's cut, and allready a martyr. Al Queda has been damaged. The biggest threat are cells allready in this country acting independently. However, without the passport equipment found in NE Iraq, they are going to have trouble sending in more troops. Your know absolutely nothing about what is going on.

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Scrolling past the spam...

I could have sworn that just a few short years ago, we were seeing pics of the guy (bin Laden) looking haggard, old and like death warmed over. And we were reading reports about how he had to get hooked up to a dialysis machine every so often because of some debilitating kidney disease.

In other words it wouldn't surprise me if he was dead, or so emaciated and bad off that 'huntin' him down and *catching* him wouldn't even resonate anymore (possibly one reason Chimp slipped up and said OBL didn't really matter in the fight on terra' -- remember?)

HOWEVER, it seems during the 'smoke em' out' post 9/11 years, the press/media is determined to present him as a young vibrant man -- all the clips they show, are of an OBL in the prime of life, walking around in white robes, with dark hair - not a spec of gray, and looking vibrant and healthy (footage most likely taken during the war w/ the Soviets).

There hasn't been a tape from Osama in a long time, which is out of character for him as a 'charismatic leader.'

His body might be in a meat locker somewhere, to be thawed out just before November 2.

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This is so rediculous it's comedy.

the press/media is determined to present him as a young vibrant man -- all the clips they show, are of an OBL in the prime of life, walking around in white robes, with dark hair - not a spec of gray, and looking vibrant and healthy (footage most likely taken during the war w/ the Soviets).

Where do you get this stuff? He's beaten. The guy is done but as long as he draws breath and beyond, he has his spawn. I don't get this "He are displaying him as young and vibrant talking to Russians" crap.

It's called file video you dimwit.

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What is so funny about being on ignore, is that he just keeps drifting off into his own reality. Now the USA is creating a monter that is no longer there.

The fact of the matter is he is in failing health, but alive probably hidden and able only to make cassette tapes from some bedstand. That's reality.

His inner core is gone, Al Queda is almost dead. However, the Jihad he created continues.

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What's your point again?

Oh yeah. "Peace with Honor"

[W*GS]

Why do you think a Kerry presidency will be so different from a Bush 2nd term, LABF?

The two are far more alike than different.

[Blueflame]

Why do you think a Kerry presidency will be so different from a Bush 2nd term, LABF?

The two are far more alike than different.

So.... conservatives are very fond of repeating the meme that "Kerry's more liberal than Ted Kennedy"... yet, now W*gs says Bush and Kerry are "more alike than different"? Bit of a contradiction there, wouldn't it appear?

Which is it... is Kerry "uber-liberal" or "Bush-lite"? Can't be both; they're polar opposites...

[W*GS]

So.... conservatives are very fond of repeating the meme that "Kerry's more liberal than Ted Kennedy"... yet, now W*gs says Bush and Kerry are "more alike than different"? Bit of a contradiction there, wouldn't it appear?

Which is it... is Kerry "uber-liberal" or "Bush-lite"? Can't be both; they're polar opposites...

If you were correct in assuming I was a conservative... Then you might have a point. Illuminate for me, exactly, how differently Kerry will pursue the war on terrorists compared to Bush. Being more polite to the French, Germans and Russians isn't going to make them help us with soldiers.

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If you were correct in assuming I was a conservative... Then you might have a point.

Hilarious!

Yeah, what were you thinking, Flame?

How anyone could look at W*GS' avatar, read his political takes, and conclude that he was a conservative is beyond me. ;)

[Blueflame]

When something seems to look like a duck, quack like a duck and waddle like a duck... chances are good it's a duck. LOL

If you were correct in assuming I was a conservative... Then you might have a point. Illuminate for me, exactly, how differently Kerry will pursue the war on terrorists compared to Bush. Being more polite to the French, Germans and Russians isn't going to make them help us with soldiers.

For starters, Kerry might be able to convince the UN to become more involved in the rebuilding of Iraq and the establishment of its new government. This won't happen with Bush, since he's already told the UN he doesn't care what they think.

The war on terrorism needs to be worldwide; not a unilateral US effort, imo. In this effort, having allies... and not being universally detested... might be advantageous.

[W*GS]

If you were correct in assuming I was a conservative... Then you might have a point.

Hilarious!

Yeah, what were you thinking, Flame?

How anyone could look at W*GS' avatar, read his political takes, and conclude that he was a conservative is beyond me. ;)

And here with go with LABF's binary political thinking again.

Anyone who agrees with LABF is a liberal (well, excepting the traitors who voted for Nader in 2000, and the gays, and the conservatives and others who opposed the Iraq war, the progressives, &c); everyone who disagrees with him is a conservative. And we all know conservatives are the purest embodiment of evil to have ever existed.

[W*GS]

When something seems to look like a duck, quack like a duck and waddle like a duck... chances are good it's a duck. LOL

I'd be careful approving of LABF. He uses neo-Nazis to support his views.

For starters, Kerry might be able to convince the UN to become more involved in the rebuilding of Iraq and the establishment of its new government. This won't happen with Bush, since he's already told the UN he doesn't care what they think.

The same UN that used the Oil-for-Food program to enrich its bureaucrats (via bribes, kickbacks and the like) and allowed Saddam to continue amassing wealth for his weapons programs and to continue to slaughter the Iraqi people? The same UN that allowed Saddam to violate resolution after resolution? The same UN that did nothing to avert the Rwandan genocide of 1994? The same UN that is, at this moment, doing nothing to avert the genocide going on in Sudan? Why do you think the UN has any moral standing whatsoever?

The war on terrorism needs to be worldwide; not a unilateral US effort, imo. In this effort, having allies... and not being universally detested... might be advantageous.

What additional allies do we need? The French? The Germans? The Russians? Nor is the US universally detested.

Care to try again?

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For starters, Kerry might be able to convince the UN to become more involved in the rebuilding of Iraq and the establishment of its new government. This won't happen with Bush, since he's already told the UN he doesn't care what they think.

The war on terrorism needs to be worldwide; not a unilateral US effort, imo. In this effort, having allies... and not being universally detested... might be advantageous.

Who is this "UN" and how large is their army? Where do they get all of that money used in rebuilding? How many new governments have they established successfully? Your blind faith in this "idea" is quite telling, Bluflame.

"Unilaterally" fighting the war on terror? Read on:

Since September 11th, a coalition of 90 countries has come together in a fight against terrorism, and that emerging, building, strengthening coalition is changing the way the world does business.

Our partners in the war on terrorism extend far beyond Europe. We're working hand-in-hand with law enforcement officials from Pakistan to Colombia and from Canada to China.


From Feb, 2003 Ashcroft speech to the CFR.

http://www.cfr.org/pub5527/john_ashcroft/international_cooperation_in_the_war_on_terror.php

Blueflame, I know you'll dismiss the above quote because John Ashcroft said it to the Council on Foreign Relations, but your BS about the US' "unilateral" war on terror can't stand the laugh test.

[Blueflame]

I'd be careful approving of LABF. He uses neo-Nazis to support his views.

The same UN that used the Oil-for-Food program to enrich its bureaucrats (via bribes, kickbacks and the like) and allowed Saddam to continue amassing wealth for his weapons programs and to continue to slaughter the Iraqi people? The same UN that allowed Saddam to violate resolution after resolution? The same UN that did nothing to avert the Rwandan genocide of 1994? The same UN that is, at this moment, doing nothing to avert the genocide going on in Sudan? Why do you think the UN has any moral standing whatsoever?

What additional allies do we need? The French? The Germans? The Russians? Nor is the US universally detested.

Care to try again?

OK, then let's just say that in many nations of the world, the Bush administration does not enjoy much respect and admiration, according to many articles I've read from foreign media sources online.

Who is this "UN" and how large is their army? Where do they get all of that money used in rebuilding? How many new governments have they established successfully? Your blind faith in this "idea" is quite telling, Bluflame.

"Unilaterally" fighting the war on terror? Read on:

Quote:
Since September 11th, a coalition of 90 countries has come together in a fight against terrorism, and that emerging, building, strengthening coalition is changing the way the world does business.

Our partners in the war on terrorism extend far beyond Europe. We're working hand-in-hand with law enforcement officials from Pakistan to Colombia and from Canada to China.

From Feb, 2003 Ashcroft speech to the CFR.

http://www.cfr.org/pub5527/john_ash...r_on_terror.php

Blueflame, I know you'll dismiss the above quote because John Ashcroft said it to the Council on Foreign Relations, but your BS about the US' "unilateral" war on terror can't stand the laugh test.

You're right that I don't hold Ashcroft in high regard. 'Nuff said.

Where are all of our allies' soldiers in the Iraq war, if that claim is true? I mean, most Bush supporters believe that there's a link between Iraq and 9/11, so it would follow that those 90 countries should be helping us to subdue Iraq as the culprits for the attacks (as part of the war on terror), right? Yet support for that war is notably absent, the "coalition of the willing" notwithstanding.

Hmmm... how is our country's success rate for "establishing governments?

You're wrong if you think I have "blind faith" in the UN, SB. What's our alternative, though? Going it (virtually) alone? World opinion could view us as a "rogue nation" if we continue to do that...

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And here with go with LABF's binary political thinking again.

Says a hypocrite who has never uttered a word of criticism re: dumbya and/or the GOP, constantly defends AWOL Boy against all critics and sides with the GOP on every issue, and demonizes liberals and Bill Clinton with every other breath.

Is this kind of mega-hypocrisy genetic, or did you have to take classes?

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I'd be careful approving of LABF. He uses neo-Nazis to support his views.

Looks like our closet bush booster has it bass-ackwards again.

People (like you) who support the Smirking Sociopath are neo-nazis.

Loyalty oath, anyone?

[watermock]

There has been plenty of critique of Bush here LABF. The problem since you came has been setting reality back to baseline.

Your so ****ing whacked out of reality that we all waste time kicking your tinsletoy ass around like a soccer ball. Nothing would please me more than to discuss things in real terms instead of watching you post propoganda again and again and again as a refugee from the DPO, which I have a real feeling you were no small part of it's demise. It's not going to happen here. Alot of stray cats have come in the door, but your the mangiest of all.

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Says a hypocrite who has never uttered a word of criticism re: dumbya and/or the GOP

Wrong. That I don't call him a murderer and a Nazi like you do does not mean I haven't criticized him. I simply don't live my life obsessing that he dies a horrible and painful death like you do.

constantly defends AWOL Boy against all critics and sides with the GOP on every issue

Again, wrong.

and demonizes liberals and Bill Clinton with every other breath.

If you liberals (and I hate to associate liberals with your ilk, it's insulting even to them) and Clinton weren't so rank, I'd have less to criticize. But you like to call me a McVeigh wannabe, so I'd watch the "demonize" bit.

You're just pissed at my avatar. Really gets you in your craw, eh? Good

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That I don't call him a murderer and a Nazi like you do does not mean I haven't criticized him.

Um, yes it does. You have never criticized the monkey. Prove otherwise.

I simply don't live my life obsessing that he dies a horrible and painful death like you do.

Another dumb exaggeration. Give one example where I have wished the chimp any physical harm.

You must really be desperate.

You're just pissed at my avatar. Really gets you in your craw, eh?

There you go thinking you're all that important again.

Grandiosity: it is a bitch for W*GS.

[watermock]

That is truely sad. I explained this to you months ago. He has explained it to you.

Has it ever occured to you that you have posted probably 1000 propogandic cartoons?

Guess what Patton called a paper hanging bastard.