CIA agents hunt bin Laden from inside Waziristan

[gambit]

Spare me your sanctimonious diatribe.
As stated, there are many people who don't buy the official 9/11 explanation.

To hide behind the 9/11 victims to try and silence any dissent is pathetic.

As if their doubts automatically make them right.

 

[Developereo]

You're telling me that with satellites that can read license plates from space, the US can't provide 24/7 coverage over that part of the border where they think OBL is hiding?

That guy shouldn't be able to step out for his morning newspaper without three satellites lighting up.

 

[gambit]

You're telling me that with satellites that can read license plates from space, the US can't provide 24/7 coverage over that part of the border where they think OBL is hiding?

That guy shouldn't be able to step out for his morning newspaper without three satellites lighting up.

You claimed to be 'trained' as a 'scientist'. Am beginning to doubt that if this is all that you can bring to the table. But as far as satellite resolution goes, licence plates are distinguishable and usually uncovered. We cannot say the same for people constantly covered and bearded.

 

[pakdefender]

Im doing a writeup on Unicol , Bridas , Taliban and the Turkmanistan pipeline , on this 8th aniversay of Speth 11 to expose the real reasons for the so called 'War on Terror'

It's sure to bust a lot a bubbles and expose the lies of the US government. I've collected all the material , will present it shortly

Stay tuned!

It wont be pleasant to digest for the rapture-seeking right wing christian fundos though

 

[Developereo]

As if their doubts automatically make them right.

No. I agree that doesn't follow.

I just find some of Pepe Escobar's points interesting, although I disagree with his assertions about ISI involvement. According to him the ISI funnelled American money to Al Qaeda and knew beforehand about the US invasion of Afghanistan. This just doesn't make sense, especially if the Taliban were ISI's puppets. It is interesting that Escobar's claims of ISI involvement come from "Indian intelligence".

If they wanted to, the Americans are more than capable of dealing with Al Qaeda directly. They don't need to go through ISI. Why involve yet another party and spread the knowledge/risk?

However, any government that would do radiation experiments on its own people, I wouldn't put anything past them. (I am not singling out the US government. I think all governments do some shady business.)

 

[Developereo]

You claimed to be 'trained' as a 'scientist'. Am beginning to doubt that if this is all that you can bring to the table. But as far as satellite resolution goes, licence plates are distinguishable and usually uncovered. We cannot say the same for people constantly covered and bearded.

OK, I was exaggerating, and maybe I overestimate the capabilities of US technology.

But the US can bomb any target they consider suspect. They certainly haven't been shy about killing innocent civilians in the past.

Hey, it's not like they're Americans or anything. It's just a bunch of Afghan/Pakistani farmers. Nothing to worry about...

 

[PakShaheen79]

It is beyond my imagination even how a person can be alive in caves who was on daily dialysis in Dubai in 1998 when then CIA section head met with him in hospital. Yes i am talking about after the bombing on US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

 

[shravan]

As if their doubts automatically make them right.

Japan Politicians also don't buy the 911 story. Today i read they want to end refueling agreement for US ships in support of the war in Afghanistan.

The world is filled with STUPID people...;-)

 

[TruthSeeker]

The world is filled with STUPID people...;-)

It is an absolute FACT that half of the world's population has below median intelligence. It would be interesting to see the IQ distribution for people who believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Although it may be more a question of psychosis rather than lack of cognitive ability. It is hard to tell the difference without good testing. It would be a challenge to gather good data on them because most also suffer from attention deficit disorder.

 

[sunshine9mm]

Former CIA agent's hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani badlands

Tim Reid in Washington

Art Keller, a blond, blue-eyed CIA agent, sits inside a decrepit building deep inside al-Qaeda territory, staring at his computer screen. He is forbidden by his Pakistani minders from venturing out into the badlands of Waziristan to help to find and kill the world’s most wanted man.

The fruitless search has essentially been outsourced by the US to a network of Pashtun spies run by the Pakistani intelligence services.

Mr Keller was one of an estimated 50 to 100 CIA agents and special operations officers whose mission for the past eight years has been to find and kill bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders in the hostile and forbidding Pakistani border region, where he is believed to be hiding.

Mr Keller, 39, volunteered for the bin Laden team and was sent in 2006 to become acting chief of one of the CIA’s bases in the heart of al-Qaeda and Taleban territory in Waziristan. It was an experience that leaves him wondering today if the al-Qaeda leader will ever be found.

Mr Keller was not an obvious choice for the job — he spoke no Middle Eastern languages, and was not an expert on al-Qaeda or Pakistan. Yet in 2006, with many resources diverted to Iraq, the CIA was desperate for agents to join the hunt.

Today this is changing. The agency is bringing back CIA retirees — a group known as The Cadre — many of whom are veterans who worked with the Afghan Mujahidin during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.

Mr Keller’s replacement when he left Shawshank — the nickname given to his base in Waziristan because it resembled the prison life depicted in The Shawshank Redemption — was one such man, a grey-haired, CIA veteran, 65, who speaks Pashtu.

“Some of these guys have been hunting bin Laden for years,” Mr Keller says. His replacement, whom Mr Keller believes is still in Pakistan, has spent eight months a year since the September 11 attacks working out of these CIA safe houses looking for the top al-Qaeda leadership.

The hunt for bin Laden is largely run by the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service, an organisation for whom many CIA officials harbour deep mistrust because of its historical ties to the Pashtuns of Waziristan.

Mr Keller says the nerve centre of the hunt is in Islamabad but the ground operation is run from decrepit bases such as Shawshank. The hub of the operation was the communications room, from where he worked alongside officials from other branches of the US intelligence agencies.

Here they would pore over intelligence collected from electronic intercepts, aerial photographs taken by unmanned drones, and human intelligence collected by Pashtun spies. CIA agents were rarely allowed to leave the compound by the Pakistanis.

One reason was that blond-haired agents such as Mr Keller would be targets for assassination. The other is that the Pakistanis like to have control of the hunt. Any spying was done by local Pashtuns, and under the watchful eye of the Pakistani authorities.

“Our role in the hunt was done entirely from in front of a computer inside the base,” Mr Keller says. When he wanted to follow up a lead, he would get in touch with a local Pashtun proxy to ask him to travel to a certain area to glean information.

It is dangerous work. In 2005 the CIA recruited a local mullah to go into Waziristan to report back on any Arabs in the area — a sign that bin Laden, a Saudi, could be near by. Days later the mullah was found on a roadside, beheaded, a message tucked into his shirt that this was the fate of spies.

When a senior al-Qaeda figure was identified and located — Mr Keller said that it would take weeks, often months, to build a case for an airstrike by a US Predator drone — and even if the go-ahead was finally given by CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the Pakistanis still had to approve. “Since 9/11, with 99 per cent of these strikes, the Pakistanis were consulted and they have to approve them,” he said.

There has not been one credible lead on bin Laden in years. His nickname among some CIA hunters is Elvis because of all the bogus and fanciful sightings. The CIA has been successful in killing many of the senior al-Qaeda over the years but bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are different cases.

Mr Keller believes bin Laden moves from village to village in Waziristan. He communicates perhaps just once a month, and by courier. He never uses a telephone. Mr Keller believes that bin Laden arrives in each village with a small group of bodyguards, when he will sit and talk to the local tribal leader. A large bribe is paid.

Bin Laden is then the guest of the village, where under Pashtun custom, he must be protected. The main obstacle in finding him, Mr Keller says, is that even if someone wanted to betray him — and collect the $25 million (£15 million) reward — there is no one to turn to. The local police know bin Laden is there. “If you report bin Laden’s location there is a good chance you will get killed,” Mr Keller says.

“People in a position to give information can’t get it to anyone.” Morale is still good among the hunters, he says, because many top al-Qaeda officials have been killed. So will bin Laden be caught? Mr Keller lets out a deep breath. “I don’t know.”

Former CIA agent's hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani badlands - Times Online

that new report is bin laden is in USA not in pak or afghn................^%100

 

[Fennecus]

Call me crazy, but how this guy has managed to evade capture for eight years is simply beyond me.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Nearly all of the most powerful, influential, rich people around the world are AWARE that 9/11 was a Jewish-led FALSE FLAG. There was no 19 arab hijackers.

This includes government officials, the wealthiest businessmen, the most revered scientists & engineers, and the most influential activists are FULLY KNOWLEDGEABLE of the details of this horrendous False Flag. This is known to over 200 million people around the world. We are tired of it, and will not tolerate any more terrorist acts!

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Call me crazy, but how this guy has managed to evade capture for eight years is simply beyond me.

OBL has looooooonnnnnnggggg been dead.

 

[Skywalker]

Trashy comment. You show no respect for his victims. Shame on your soul.

How about half a million your mighty army killed in Iraq...do you show respect to them. And please dont come up with a stupid justification. hun..

 

[Developereo]

Call me crazy, but how this guy has managed to evade capture for eight years is simply beyond me.

You will never find what you don't want to find.

 

[Developereo]

Nearly all of the most powerful, influential, rich people around the world are AWARE that 9/11 was a Jewish-led FALSE FLAG. There was no 19 arab hijackers.

I don't have a problem with accepting that 9/11 was carried out by Arab hijackers and even that Bin Laden might have 'mastermined' it.

But I believe that these were just foot soldiers and the people pulling the strings have not yet been apprehended.