Al Jazeera Details Times U.S. Missed Killing Bin Laden

It is sad that our Government did not protect the people ...

 

Hmm, this information came from the "American sources" to al-Jazeera? How convenient.

Has this been leaked to deflect attention from Bush's abysmal performance during Katrina? Or because his poll ratings are down so low?

Because surely this is old news.

 

At least he wasn't abusing a teenager in the Oval Office!

 

Any thinking person knows Clinton dropped the ball as far as Bin Laden is concerned.

And we payed dearly.

 

Tora Bora

"I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said.
I truly am not that concerned about him [Osama Bin Laden]." -George W. Bush

 

Wonder why all the chances to kill him were before 2001?

http://whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html

Bush said the above quote in March 2002.

 

But, but, my legacy,
Bill Clinton

 

Some of us thinking people don't know that. Some of us credit his hesitation over legal ramifications as valid. Some of us think his administrations emphasis on terrorism to the incoming administration was poo-pooed out of arrogance and that it was the new administrantion that dropped the successfully passed ball.

Many of us think we are paying dearly for the current administration's neglect and arrogance as well as their contrive war on Iraq (which used bin Laden's attack as an excuse that many unthinking people fell for).

 

Not that I wouldn't love to take the opportunity to criticize Clinton and, even more, to see a bullet between bin Laden's eyes, but did he have a mandate like Bush has had since 9/11 to take him out?

 

Isn't that kind of his job...to protect America from its enemies...especially those who are involved in attacking Americans at home and abroad?

Joseph Botwinick

 

Killing Osama Bin Laden prior to the war on terrorism launched in Afghanistan would have certainly been considered illegal according to our law even if he was a perceived threat.

Assassination while not at war is prohibited. President Reagan's 1981 Executive Order 12333 - along with previous orders by other Presidents - concerning intelligence banded this activity and is still binding.

This ban was put in place to prohibit our intelligence agencies from participating in assassinations during peacetime which were deemed to be too close to murder for comfort.

This ban, however, does not apply to military actions in time of war wherein heads of state, especially if also commander-in-chief of military forces, could be legally targeted although with some limitations. The limitations preclude the use of a bounty or of "treachery" and maybe some other conditions I don't recall at the moment. The killing, in essence, would have to be based upon a military verses political need and be carried out as a true act of war against a enemy with whom we were at war. Now that we're at war on terrorism, Osama Bin Laden is a fair target just like any other terrorists and the military verses political need is obvious.

I didn't care for President Clinton at all but I can not fault him for not directing that Osama Bin Laden be killed. Had he done so, he was have been roundly criticized by Americans who'd have considered his actions against the law. It would have been considered a politically motivated murder at the time rather than the killing of an enemy during war.

 

Has this been leaked to deflect attention from Bush's abysmal performance during Katrina? Or because his poll ratings are down so low?

Because surely this is old news. </font>[/QUOTE]Intelligence ... is intelligence! The information was 'leaked' to find out where it would go and which involuntary reflex would jump.

Just as Osama killed 5 journalist teams before he assassinated an american ally, creeps jump when news is leaked.

 

Or, there was a someone (*) that leaked the classified information ... that is illegal. But, it happened before.

(*)AKA - traitor

 

terrorist ID's

http://www.trackingthethreat.com/content/entities/ent1011.htm

 

saw a program that had shown how many times hitler avoided assassination attempts he narrowly avoided several attempts bin laden
is like all the rest he can't live forever just
too long whether he is alive or no he has a lot
of bizarre friends think of what could have been
his life could have been used to help many people with all the oil money construction money he inherited even though he had 47 brothers and sisters what good he could have done hospitals
clinics widows with child poor destitute people
now his legacy will be to die and to be an anti-christ a person lost for eternity may God help us can you imagine if you were raised as he was
to know nothing but riches then use his wealth to kill and destroy needlessly God has told us of one who came to kill steal and destroy Thank God for His mercy to us and to Jesus His Son for dying for us and for all people to die in our place for the remission of our sins if not for God's mercy we could be in Afghanistan or Iraq
believing the lie of Islam and dying for nothing
except to end up in hell with no hope of salvation may God have mercy on us all and help us to be His witness while we can

 

http://www.goldmaniac.com/diamonds.htm

 

On the other hand, we did manage to kill yet another top Al Qadea terrorist.

Such positive accomplishments don't get much attention do they?