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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (67938)	5/23/2008 12:18:52 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 542937

...it is my bet that there is a huge effort to find these guys. Do you have evidence, or is this just your gut feeling? C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden By MARK MAZZETTI Published: July 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decision is a milestone for the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive." ---snip---

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (67938)	5/23/2008 4:36:27 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542937

>>Allen - it is my bet that there is a huge effort to find these guys. Again you postulate the worst intentions of someone when you really do not know what they are doing. It is mind boggling to think that President Obama will invade Pakistan to find Bin Laden - so what will he do? Should he resign if he does not get him in say 2 years?<< Bob - You really love those reducto ad absurdum arguments, don't you? Did anyone say Bush should resign? There may well be an ongoing effort to find bin Laden. I did not say there wasn't, and for the record, I did not postulate any intentions. I merely responded to Quhebo's suggestion that finding him really didn't matter. I also mentioned Bush's own statements to the effect that finding him "isn't a priority." Perhaps Bush was only saying that to give bin Laden a false sense of security. I hope so. But such remarks were a marked change from his earlier "we won't rest until he's captured or killed" and "wanted dead or alive" statements. I'm well aware that the kind of efforts that would prove effective in capturing bin Laden are, most likely, surreptitious and covert, so none of us would ever know about them unless they had a successful result. - Allen