November 14, 2004
Keeping the "BS" in CBS: Osama given "blessing to use nukes"
Osama given OK to nuke Yanks: expert
Osama Bin Laden has been granted religious approval to use a nuclear bomb against Americans, according to the CIA's former top Al Qaeda expert.
The former official, Michael Scheuer, tells CBS' "60 Minutes" on tomorrow's broadcast that Bin Laden was given written authority by a Saudi sheik.
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Scheuer, who resigned yesterday, was the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking Bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, and the previously anonymous author of two books critical of the West's response to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. He's been tracking Bin Laden since the mid-1980s.
Scheuer tells "60 Minutes" that American leaders have made a mistake by characterizing Bin Laden as "a thug, a gangster" rather than a disciplined plotter of destruction.
[President Bush has always taken the threat from Bin Laden seriously; it's only Democrats like John Kerry and Bill Clinton who characterized him as a common criminal and wanted to prosecute him in court as such!--Jen]
"Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary," he says. The Al Qaeda mastermind was involved in the original planning for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He also charged that former CIA Director George Tenet failed to provide the agency's Bin Laden unit with sufficient manpower.
[Coulda, shoulda, woulda: typical loser's cry.
I'm sure that Tenet did the best he could given the constraints by Congress he was working under.
But this Scheuer is doing our war effort no favors by dissing the Company by telling tales out of school.--J.T.]
In the interview, Scheuer says that even if Bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably would not have used it before without the authority of the sheik.
What a crock!
"60 Minutes" will put anyone on TV as long as they make the Bush Administration look bad...and will hearten our enemy while we're at war!
Do you really think Osama was waiting for this "blessing?"
Have any of these thugs ever held back on killing "infidels" because they were waiting for such a blessing or an official fatwa from their favorite holy man?
I don't think so!
Turn off, CBS, America and be glad that this dreadful man has been forced out of the CIA!
I hope new CIA Director Porter Goss is doing a good housecleaning--if Scheuer was our "top" Al Queda guy there, we may have been in more trouble than we knew.
