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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (7205)	1/17/2006 4:27:52 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I also believe that the review process must have gone pretty high. Do you think President Bush authorized the strike? It depends on how much time they had to act upon the information. I can imagine sometimes the information is "time-sensitive" that any delay can create a lost opportunity. There's a story that cirulated around about how we apparently once had Zawahiri in the sights of a Hell-Fire armed Predator UAV. He was apparently traveling in a car with passengers and no one wanted to be responsible for "pulling the trigger" and causing "collateral damage" without the appropriate "Top Cover".. Obviously the strike never occurred. I'm not sure our commanders are under the same restraint any longer. They are likely free to act upon what they consider to be reliable information that is vetted locally by the legal and analytical liasons available to them. Hawk