Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Osma No Longer A Priority?

The Raw Story | CIA closes down unit that was hunting Bin Laden:

"The terrorist tracking unit, known inside the spy agency as 'Alec station,' was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned to other offices within the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.

The decision is a milestone of sorts for the agency, which created 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 bin Laden to justice 'dead or alive.'

The realignment reflects a view that al-Qaida is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, as well as growing concern about al-Qaida-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. .."

Someone commented last year that if a Democrat were president, Fox News would have a ticker running listing the number of days he had been free-- "Osama Still Free After 888 days..." I guess with a Republican president it just doesn't matter if we bring to justice the man responsible for the murder of three thousand Americans.

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