Rumsfeld downplays hunt for bin Laden

[Whoa_Nelly]

KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday played down reports that U.S. forces are chasing Osama bin Laden and other terrorists with new urgency and may be close to locating the Saudi fugitive and his aides, who are believed to be hiding in the rugged borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Rumsfeld, on his sixth visit to the Afghan capital since the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai took power in late 2001, bantered cordially with Karzai at a news conference about whether Kabul or Washington, D.C., was a safer city and reiterated the Bush administration's commitment to help Afghanistan until the battered nation is "firmly on its feet."

He said the capture of bin Laden "will happen when it happens. ... I have no idea when."

He refused to comment on reports that special commando units have been transferred here from Iraq to join the hunt for bin Laden and other leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist group in the border region.

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8055047.htm

...just more "known unknowns" and "unknown knowns"", eh Rummy?

[ixion]

1. timing is everything...

and 'when it happens' will no doubt be sometime this fall, just in time for an election day bump.

[ewagner]

2. It was peaking too soon

"timing is everything"

[Dover]

3. The Hunt for Red October.....er.....November

...it will happen, and we all know when.

[DenverDem]

4. We must demand that President Kerry prosecute these treasonous bastards

to the fullest extent of the law to send a message to the power elite that they do not own this country.

I'm just dreaming, I know, (about the prosecution, not about the administration change) but in a less imperfect world, that would be the course of events.

[young_at_heart]

5. What happened to the arrogant, "We're gonna get him"?

It was said with such unbridled certainty right after 9/11. We were led to believe we could trust our leaders' confident pronouncements regarding the "war on terror".

[radwriter0555]

6. There is some other reason the military is in the area. The highers ups

know OBL is dead....

Is there something going on with the Taliban and NA? Quelling unrest perhaps?

Not passing the smell test.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Hillary said there's less US forces in Afghanistan than there were police

at the olympics.