WASHINGTON, June 11, 2009
CIA Says Bin Laden Still In Pakistan
Panetta: Finding Al Qaeda Leader Still A Top Priority; Pakistan's Crackdown On Militants Helping
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to still be hiding in Pakistan, CIA chief Leon Panetta said June 11, 2009. (CBS/AP)
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Panetta told reporters after a speech on Capitol Hill that finding bin Laden remains one of the CIA's top priorities. He said he hopes that the combination of increased CIA activity and the Pakistani military offensive will give the United States a better chance of nabbing him.
Panetta said in his speech that the CIA has increased the number of officers and agents in Pakistan who are providing targeting and other information to attack the al Qaeda network there.
The new assessment comes as Pakistan has unleashed a new military campaign in the country’s Waziristan region along the Afghan border, driven mainly by a combination "quick strikes" on suspected Taliban militant targets as well as all out attacks, senior government officials and Western diplomats said, reports CBS News' Farhan Bokari.
Scores of Taliban were killed in two days of fighting after the military went on the offensive earlier in the week to block up to 800 Taliban militants from traveling from Waziristan to the nearby Bannu region, Pakistani government officials said Thursday. There were conflicting accounts of the number of people killed.
On Tuesday, suspected Taliban militants launched a devastating attack on the luxury Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, the northern city and capital of the northwestern frontier province (NWFP) where Waziristan and Swat are both located. At least 16 people, including two U.N. officials were killed and up to 70 injured in that attack.
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- "CIA Says Bin Laden Still In Pakistan"
Would you like to bet that Bin Laden moves from Pakistan to the next country that the "coalition forces" would like to invade? - Reply to this comment
- If OBL is in Pakistan I am sure he is hiding in President house or Pakistan Parliament, he is Trump card for Pakistan, once he is captured, all the aid they are receieving will be gone. I heard pakistan president stayed in most expensive suite during his visit to washinton ( guess who is paying for that).
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- Posted by bannednancy at 8:02 PM : Jun 11, 2009
Your take on Rummy is falling down funny. - Reply to this comment
- Its clear as day boy that your loyalty does NOT lie with America, they lie with Israel.
Posted by Anti-Zionist_104 at 2:12 PM : Jun 11, 2009
You have it "all" figured out don't you!!! Your amazing perception leaves us speechless. What ancient Master did you study under? He must have been "Unbelievably" wise. Not only can you read my innermost thoughts from hundreds of miles away but you know my entire possible future. Why are you wasting your time posting here? Your future is secured. the world will be beating a path to your door just to touch your clothes in the hopes of being '"Healed"I will 'extol' your virtues for the rest of my life.
I asked you not to label me, you didn't listen.. - Reply to this comment
- I think you're quite forgetting taking Osama's leadership as well...there was a reason Bush kept sending out the drones to kill them...
by IThoughtItWasFunnyAgin June 11, 2009 6:45 PM PDT
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That's a different issue! Trying to find those who are ACTUALLY still
alive and REALLY leading Al Qaeda---though it is much smaller than
the public has been led to believe---and then KILLING them,is what
we should have been doing from the start---instead of charging into
Iraq and starting a war there! Bush and GOP messed up on that one! - Reply to this comment
- Did the wacko liberals acused Bush of not capuring bin laden for political reasons.
Now barrack is not doing it either.
Could it be because it's not as easy as the ignorant libs thought? - Reply to this comment
- McCain knows where Bin Laden is and so does the rest of the U.S. government. Per Benazir Bhutto he has been dead since late 2001. What B.S. this is. Wake up America they are trying to keep the wool over your eyes.
Posted by labtechjamie
And the reason for this would be? McCain is not President, Bush is out, the pressure is on BO, so if they 'know' where he is, what's the reason for the 'wool'? - Reply to this comment
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- Bin Laden is the "face" of terrorism! Terrorism is the WAR THAT WILL NEVER DIE! When he is determined to be dead, many people will DEMAND that the war be terminated! THEREFORE, he cannot be reported as dead! IF we are still around in twenty years (20), then Bin Laden will, too!
In 30 or 40 years, he'll pass into legend! But, the truth is---
HE'S ALREADY DEAD! Believe what you want, though!
- Bin Laden is the "face" of terrorism! Terrorism is the WAR THAT WILL NEVER DIE! When he is determined to be dead, many people will DEMAND that the war be terminated! THEREFORE, he cannot be reported as dead! IF we are still around in twenty years (20), then Bin Laden will, too!
- CBS, you have to stop runnin the Catherine Zeta Jones add next to these threads.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CONCENTRATE?!?!
Posted by gravyboat3000
LOLOL! Too funny! - Reply to this comment
- CBS, you have to stop runnin the Catherine Zeta Jones add next to these threads.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CONCENTRATE?!?! - Reply to this comment
- I heard that Elvis was sighted in Pakistan, too.
Posted by gold_standard
You heard wrong. Elvis was sighted in Lasvegastan.
Wait, he just left the building... - Reply to this comment
- Posted by labtechjamie at 4:26 PM : Jun 11, 2009
To quote a famous quote---Were there not a Osama in would be necessary to invent one". I always said if Cheney wanted to talk to Osama on 9/12/01 all he had to do is call his office in Langley Va.. - Reply to this comment
- Funny how neither the press or anyone else is ripping Obama for his search of Bin Hiding. That's all they could do when Bush did the very same thing. Too bad our media is so biased as to be unable to be consistent and accurate.
Posted by edward1975-2009 at 3:03 PM : Jun 11, 2009
Although I don't recall the specifics of what you hint at.....if what you say is true, could the reason that the press is not ripping into Obama right now.....could it possibly be because, unlike Bush who pretended to be searching for bin Laden in the wrong damn country(ie Iraq).....we might actually be getting closer to bin Laden's whereabouts....that is if he is still alive! But at least Obama and our military are trying their very best to rectify the wrongs of the past seven years! Geez! - Reply to this comment
- I heard that Elvis was sighted in Pakistan, too.
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- McCain knows where Bin Laden is and so does the rest of the U.S. government. Per Benazir Bhutto he has been dead since late 2001. What B.S. this is. Wake up America they are trying to keep the wool over your eyes.
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- AS the BIG CON JOB continues. Hitler-Tojo AKA Osama Bin Laden, former CIA operative in the Afghan Russian war, the guy Ms Bhuto said was murdered one month before she was murdered, the SAUDI with far more than NINE lives is still a vital part of the 9/11/01 New Pearl Harbor FALSE FLAG operation. Osama helped the administration of Dick Cheney for 7 years with both CIA video and audio tapes. Now with audio only he is helping Obama keep the two illegal Bush crusades going. I swear the stupidity of the American people knows no bounds.
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- Finding Bin Laden is as easy as just asking McCain. Didn't he say he knew where Bin Laden and was and knows how to catch him?
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- Wow even with the 50 mil reward offered-The Bush bunch would get turned in very fast if you had to PAY a million to do it-the line to turn them in would be around the block.
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- Funny how neither the press or anyone else is ripping Obama for his search of Bin Hiding. That's all they could do when Bush did the very same thing. Too bad our media is so biased as to be unable to be consistent and accurate.
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- "The spy agency hopes to close in on the al Qaeda leader as Pakistan's military cracks down on the tribal area where he is thought to be hiding."
Let's get the ba$**** and make a martyr out of him.
Posted by nikosk11
Better yet! Lets make him a dead martyr. Hanging him from a telephone poll will do much for morale for those committed to fighting terrorists. A dead martyr seems like the way to go. - Reply to this comment
- "The spy agency hopes to close in on the al Qaeda leader as Pakistan's military cracks down on the tribal area where he is thought to be hiding."
Let's get the ba$**** and make a martyr out of him. - Reply to this comment
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