Woodward: Bin Laden capture could be ‘the September or the October surprise.’
By on Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Woodward: Bin Laden capture could be ‘the September or the October surprise.’
In his new book “The War Within,” Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward disclosed “the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders.” Asked by a caller on Larry King Live last night if the capabilities could be used “to catch bin Laden,” Woodward replied that “maybe they can use it on bin Laden.” He then mused that it’s possible that “the September or the October surprise is going to be the apprehension or the death of bin Laden.” Watch it:
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And John McSame will, no doubt, try to take credit for it.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:37 pmWouldn't be surprised, but that's giving the overworked folks in Afghanistan a lot more capability than they have on the ground or in the air. Georgie would have had to send over a lot of special ops folks last month to make this happen.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pmI wonder if his body has been in some refrigerated morgue for the past year or so and now will be brought out to try and impact the elections?
NAWWWWW, the Repugs would never do such a thing, would they?
Would they?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pmThey're going to announce that they've captured his dead body?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pmPerhaps a weekend at Binnie's episode is in the works?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pmWayne, heh...
September 9th, 2008 at 6:43 pmActually, I captured Bin Laden in my back yard a week ago, munching my blackberries.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:44 pmAlthough it was just a hungry mole, we nicknamed him Bin Laden because he was so elusive...
Capture bin Laden? Kewl...
Except for the fact that, just before she was assassinated, Benazir Bhutto claimed she had met the man who had assassinated Osama, in ToraBora, in 2002...
September 9th, 2008 at 6:50 pmI've been saying that for years, but when Woodward says it's a pearl of wisdom.
Cassandra for rent...cheap...
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September 9th, 2008 at 6:52 pmWoodward: Bin Laden capture could be ‘the September or the October surprise.’
- - Could. That's some sturdy limb you're out on there, Bob.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:53 pmOn her way out of the White House, Fran Townsend noted capturing Bin Laden was high on George W.'s to do list as he wraps up his failed Presidency.
That and addressing Iran's nuclear program. It should be a wild few months as George works to stack the election in McCon's favor and spreads violence throughout the Middle East.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pmDidn't we hear of this same possibility back in 2004? Not sure who said it then, but I do remember hearing it.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pmSeems like every time there is an election around the corner, someone always brings out the, capture Bin Laden-october suprise bit. Ain't gonna happen.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:58 pmI'm tired of them dangling this around like a carrot.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:01 pmFunny since he's been dead for 2 maybe 3 years now.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pmbeltman713
I do know that the barrel cost of gasoline, the timing of, is becoming suspicious. One would think that with speculation occurring at the drop of a pin, prices would be heading higher due to increasing hurricane activity.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pm"I truly am not that concerned about him."
September 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pmOK, lets say, just for shits and giggles, that they "capture" bin Laden this month or next. Doesn't it strike anyone that that would be the coincidence of the century? To conveniently apprehend him right before this election would that they knew where he was and had him cornered or that he's already been captured and is being held until the right moment to trot him out. The spin will run rampant and the gullible, scared to death American citizens will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pmdoes that mean that mcWAR will divulge his secret?
September 9th, 2008 at 7:14 pmhe's said that he knows how to get binladen... good that he decided he shouldn't wait until january...
I guess it got kind of stale with the killing of the 52nd "Number 2" or "Number 3" man in al Qaeda. But just to be sure, shouldn't they kill the "Number 1", bin Laden a couple times just to be sure? Oh.... right.... They have already killed him a couple times...
Cheers,
September 9th, 2008 at 7:23 pm*** yaaaawnn ***
tell you what, here's a real goddurn headline-making october surprise:
"george bush captured by osama bin laden; no one demands his release"
September 9th, 2008 at 7:41 pmHaven't we been held hostage long enough? Why hasn't OBL been killed or captured long ago?
Nice to know the Bush Administration would try to capture him as an election tactic.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pmOsama bin Laden passed away of natural causes in December, 2001, about six and a half years ago. See http://www.whatreallyhappened.com for details. Most of the videos and audio tapes released since then were Made in USA...
September 9th, 2008 at 8:16 pmThe question must be asked every day why Bin Laden wasn't caught years ago? Was Al Qaeda too good a lever to use to pry up our civil liberties one by one to catch him early?
September 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pmThe US military is sharing secret operational capabilities with a newspaper reporter? WTF!! If this is true isn't it a breach of security?
September 9th, 2008 at 8:39 pmsamsuncle,
NO< if it serves the Repuplicunt's purposes it is OK. Please see Valeris Plmame outing, WIreless phone taps, secret everything. IOKIYAR
September 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pmIf Bin Laden is killed or captured Obama should assert that he would have done it YEARS AGO!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 9:02 pmI call bullsh#te all this whole "magic killing technology thing" the pentagon is touting. it see it as a cover for a massive, multimillion dollar terrorist bribery campaign, and most likely some good, old fashioned, reagan era "central america" style human rights violating death squads.
im sure the pentagon has plenty of new toys thier playing around with, but to somehow chalk the relative (VERY relative)current stability in iraq up to anythign more than genuine old fashioned bribery and brutality is a mistake..
September 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pmstewarjt Says:
If Bin Laden is killed or captured Obama should assert that he would have done it YEARS AGO!!!
shouldn't they have
done it "YEARS AGO!!!!"?
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September 9th, 2008 at 9:32 pmSo, just like poachers the Bush administration would tie Bin Laden to a tree waiting for the right time to shoot him.
Poachers and Bush are equally hideous.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:00 pmBin Laden capture could be ‘the September or the October surprise.
That might have been effective a few years ago but today everyone's more worried about making their paychecks meet, or even getting a paycheck, to care about bin-Laden.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
September 9th, 2008 at 10:09 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_terrain_system
i heard that is what we are using now.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:26 pmOne possible reason why Bin Ladin wasn't snatched long ago is probably that nobody wants to make him a martyr.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pmAnd besides that, he's rather irrelevant today, rather a symbolic figure than someone who's really in charge of an organization.
AQ is no organization any more, it's the brand of a movement.
sort of like Hitler, Jesus, and/or George Washington? Irrelevant and symbolic?
September 9th, 2008 at 11:31 pmGuys, this Mafia Government we have now, will just kill off any person who looks like him and say they got him.
It's not like they have a proven record of being honest or anything.
Duh!
September 9th, 2008 at 11:42 pmThen Johnnie the hero won't be able to chase him to the gates of hell. Awww.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:42 pmOk, small bit of personal info, I do special effects for movies and commercials for a living for 24 years, you can easily mock up a fake video of old OBL, too easy, little makeup here, little makeup there, some room some where and preso, you have OBL...no biggy, any amature with half a brain could do it.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pmYeah! Well by the time this capture of Bin Laden is done, I have lost my house and my job. Throw in outrageous gas prices and real $hitty economy getting worse and worse by the minute.
A delayed capture of Bin Laden taking place sometime before Nov. elections would be so obvious. It could also be staged.
It'll take more than that to lure people to vote republican. GW has screwed up so royally these last 8yrs it'll take way much more to clean up his mess.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:53 pmThe Obama campaign needs to get ahead of this story *now*. For example, get the buzz out in the media on why the Bush Admin has waited until Sep/Oct 2008 to do this? Why have we wasted the last six years not chasing OBL like this? Also point back to Obama's own, ridiculed position last year where he said he would chase OBL and AQ into Pakistan if that's where they were.
Reacting to this after the fast will be impossible. Getting ahead of it is the only way to keep this from being a nightmare.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:23 amBribery and brutality do work...
September 10th, 2008 at 12:39 amaceomalley7 Says:
Bribery and brutality do work…
That's how conservatives win elections!
September 10th, 2008 at 1:56 amit's poor form to arrest your business partner.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:17 amEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
-GEORGE ORWELL
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
September 10th, 2008 at 9:00 amBumper sticker:
Got Osama?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:42 amaceomalley7 Says:
Bribery and brutality do work…
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Ignorance and stupidity don't they are boring. Go away
September 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am