{"id":812,"date":"2005-05-13T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=812"},"modified":"2005-05-13T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T23:04:50","slug":"is-osamas-location-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Is Osama’s Location Known?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chad at In the Bullpen<\/a> shows that the chief of the general staff of the Israeli Defense Forces thinks so<\/a>. Me, I’m not exactly sold. Fine, I’ll believe in a narrowing down to a small region, but that doesn’t mean it is a militarily or politically actionable deal … yet.<\/p>\n

Waziristan is fairly large and is home to several different tribes and warlords. It is believed many of these tribes are friendly to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida. This is the area of the map where it is known that Osama Bin Laden, rumored that he rode out on horseback, fled during the Tora Bora operation under a cease-fire. It was believed he did not go too far, yet no one has known. How Ya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122alon knows is beyond me, however Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intelligence service is one of the best in the world.<\/p>\n

Assuming Ya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122alon and U.S. Intelligence are correct and Osama Bin Laden is hiding out in Waziristan, allow me to discuss just a bit on what would need to happen in order to get him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good start. Go read.<\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t care too terribly much about catching bin Laden. Yeah, I’d love it and I would hope that he would suffer horribly and painfully at our hands. And I ain’t talking panties-on-the-head or naked-human-pyramid-Twister suffering. I mean pain.<\/p>\n

That said, bin Laden is really but a pawn in this war. We’re dealing with a conflict of the centuries — the fifteenth versus the twenty-first. The objective is to provide an alternative, a shining city on the Arab hill, to the atmosphere that allowed bin Laden and his murderous followers to be given a sizable say in popular belief in the region. This war is not against one man but one belief — one radical, backward and violent thread of Islam. Chad agrees.<\/p>\n

I contend that even if Bin Laden was either killed or captured it would do little to nothing to win the war on terror. We must attack radical Islam at the root cause and not just the people calling the shots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iraq plays a role in this. They may, if we stay resolute, be the start of the alternative hope of which I speak.<\/p>\n

Yes, I want bin Laden caught … and skinned. However, only at a time when his capture will help and not harm our process, as a bold thrust by Americans into Pakistan currently would do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad at In the Bullpen shows that the chief of the general staff of the Israeli Defense Forces thinks so. Me, I’m not exactly sold. Fine, I’ll believe in a narrowing down to a small region, but that doesn’t mean it is a militarily or politically actionable deal … yet. Waziristan is fairly large and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}