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09/10/06 |
Bin Laden hunt 'gone cold'
From correspondents in Washington
September 10, 2006 08:52pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse
FIVE years after the Sptember 11, 2001, attacks, the trail of their chief mastermind, Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has gone cold, The Washington Post has reported on its website.
The newspaper said US commandos, whose job is to capture or kill bin Laden, have not received a credible lead in more than two years.
Nothing from the vast US intelligence world - no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image - has led them anywhere near the Al-Qaeda leader, the report said, citing unnamed US and Pakistani officials.
"The handful of assets we have have given us nothing close to real-time intelligence" that could have led to his capture, The Post quotes one of the officials as saying.
Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the northern reaches of the autonomous tribal region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Following a request from President George W. Bush to "flood the zone," the CIA has sharply increased the number of intelligence officers and assets devoted to his pursuit, the newspaper reported.
The problem, former and current counterterrorism officials say, is that no one is certain where the "zone" is.
"Here you've got a guy who's gone off the net and is hiding in some of the most formidable terrain in one of the most remote parts of the world surrounded by people he trusts implicitly," the Post quoted T. McCreary, a spokesman for the National Counterterrorism Center, as saying. "And he stays off the net and is probably not mobile. That's an extremely difficult problem."
so the way to confound the intelligence of supposedly the best intelligence service of the world is use your intelligence and just do nothing except issue a video now and again showing your old family snaps. One has to ask, surely it's possible to get tipped off by al jazerra when a video is dropped off and follow the courier, how hard can it be? The reality is, that, with all the high tech, the intelligence services can't think low tech any more. Even the unabomber couldn't hide out this long |
Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 09/11/06 12:54 pm:
On the Unabomber - with a hat tip to Elliot:
"The first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to Professor Buckley Crist at Northwestern University."
"The initial 1978 bombing was followed by bombs to airline officials and in 1979 a bomb was placed in the cargo hold of American Airlines Flight 444, a Boeing 727 flying from "Chicago to Washington DC."
"The first serious injury occurred in 1985, when a Berkeley graduate student lost four fingers and vision in one eye."
Hugh Scrutton, 38, was killed by a nail- and splinter-loaded bomb lying in his parking lot in 1985. A similar attack against a computer store occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 20, 1987.
After a six-year break, Kaczynski struck again in 1993, mailing a bomb to David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University and developer of Linda, a distributed programming system. Another bomb in the same year maimed the geneticist Charles Epstein. Kaczynski wrote a letter to The New York Times claiming that his "group" called FC was responsible for the attacks.
In 1994, advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed by a mail bomb sent to his North Caldwell, New Jersey home. In a letter, Kaczynski attempted to justify the killing by pointing out that the public relations field is in the business of developing techniques for manipulating people's attitudes. This was followed by the 1995 murder of California Forestry Association president Gilbert B. Murray in Sacramento, California."
"After a team of forensic linguists compared text samples provided by Kaczynski's brother and mother with the Unabomber's writings and determined they had been written by the same person, officers were sent to arrest Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, at his remote cabin outside Lincoln, Montana."
17 years, 11 months after his first strike, Kaczynski was arrested.
Heck, Clete, Yasser Arafat got away with his terrorist activity from his first strike in 1965 until his death in 2004...and won a Nobel Peace Prize to boot.
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