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Originally posted by deltaboy
The reporters didn't find him, the Al Qaeda invited them. Not to mention the reporters mentioned how tight security was when they were near Osama Bin Laden. They weren't taking any chances, even with reporters.
Originally posted by golddragnet
Doesn't it strike you as odd that CNN reporters could go in there, and The Pentagon couldn't catch him, either before or after??? The Pentagon were supposed to be looking for him, wouldn't they have got wind of a CNN reporter going to interview him? Wouldn't they have been able to discover his movements etc
Originally posted by deltaboy
Originally posted by golddragnet
Doesn't it strike you as odd that CNN reporters could go in there, and The Pentagon couldn't catch him, either before or after??? The Pentagon were supposed to be looking for him, wouldn't they have got wind of a CNN reporter going to interview him? Wouldn't they have been able to discover his movements etc
You think reporters report to the DOD? They report for news organizations they work for. Imagine Al Jazeera reporting to the Pentagon on the exact location of Osama Bin Laden.
Originally posted by deltaboy
The the ABC tell the U.S. govt. what they were doing just prior to visiting Osama Bin Laden? NOOOO!! And remember that Osama hasn't give interviews since post 9/11. He ain't stupid. Think of the reporter Daniel Pearl. He was a reporter, but accused of being a spy and beheaded.
Originally posted by KilgoreTrout
Originally posted by deltaboy
The the ABC tell the U.S. govt. what they were doing just prior to visiting Osama Bin Laden? NOOOO!! And remember that Osama hasn't give interviews since post 9/11. He ain't stupid. Think of the reporter Daniel Pearl. He was a reporter, but accused of being a spy and beheaded.
This is where the US and UK obviously differ, if a major news channel had such a 'scoop' our intelligence agencies, would without a doubt know about it. It may be that with your 'freedom of the press' your news agencies do not have a reporting protocol and that their movements are not monitored, but our press are. In fact I would go as far as to say, that even if US intelligence did not know about the meeting with bin Laden the UK intelligence service did...what do they think Echelon is for?
In the post- World War 2 period many of the British newspapers had numerous MI5/6 assets on the pay roll, this may have changed but I doubt it. I would be very surprised if the US government or the CIA were unaware that the interview was taking place. They obviously chose not to follow it up - I'm sure that they had their reasons
Originally posted by deltaboy
Echelon is useless if Osama ain't using his phone. And hasn't since some idiot told the news organizations that we can track people.
Originally posted by deltaboy
reply to post by golddragnet
Having a tv set on channel of the CNN in a CIA office building doesn't mean CNN works for the CIA. Remember that fiasco about the North Korean missile launch where Bill Clinton heard of the launch an hour on CNN before the CIA informed the president and he was pissed about the slow response?
[edit on 17-12-2007 by deltaboy]
Originally posted by deltaboy
reply to post by golddragnet
Do you believe everything you read???? I'm very concerned about you as well.
If a phone wasn't used then think about how many lips the message had to pass through that Bin Laden was available to be interviewed. No loose lips?? I find that pretty unbelieveable.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Think of the U.S. govt. attempts to find Eric Rudolph for many years. He was caught by a police officer while looking for food in a garbage can. Embarrasing eh?