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Title: How George W. Bush’s secret CIA prisons and waterboarding killed Osama Bin Laden
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URL Source: http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/ ... arding-killed-osama-bin-laden/
Published: May 9, 2011
Author: winteryknight
Post Date: 2011-05-09 08:29:09 by no gnu taxes
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Obama should NOT be getting a speck of credit for the execution of Osama Bin Laden. It was GEORGE W. BUSH who created the enhanced interrogation techniques and clandestine prisons that led to the location of Osama Bin Laden. Barack Obama voted to stop the enhanced interrogation techniques, and to close the secret CIA prisons. The ultra-liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the secret CIA prisons led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Excerpt: Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden’s most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. The news is sure to reignite debate over whether the now-closed interrogation and detention program was successful. Former president George W. Bush authorized the CIA to use the harshest interrogation tactics in U.S. history. President Barack Obama closed the prison system. The UK Daily mail reports on how interrogation of Guantanamo Bay detainees led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Excerpt: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay provided the crucial breakthrough in hunting down Osama Bin Laden, American officials said last night. Senior officials in the Obama administration said intelligence gained from interrogations at the U.S. base was directly responsible for helping security forces track down and kill Bin Laden. The claim will fuel the international row about the Guantanamo camp – one of the most controversial legacies of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. – and whether torture can ever be justified. [...]Hundreds of suspects rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan were subjected to techniques such as water-boarding, sleep deprivation, white noise and stress positions at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba. Human rights groups claim the techniques amounted to torture, and that many of the detainees had no link to terrorism. But U.S. officials said interrogations had produced crucial information about a trusted courier who provided support to Bin Laden after he fled Afghanistan. A senior source said detainees had provided the courier’s nickname and indicated he could be living with Bin Laden – although it took years to track down his true identity and location. The official said: ‘Detainees flagged for us individuals who may have been providing direct support to Bin Laden and his deputy after their escape from Afghanistan. One courier in particular had our constant attention.’ Remember how the Democrats wanted to ban interrogations and close CIA prisons in 2009? (H/T Michelle Malkin) Excerpt: Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden’s most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. And Obama campaigned on closing down Guantanamo Bay. He had nothing to do with the killing of Bin Laden. If anything, he was completely against the techniques and policies that worked to find and kill Bin Laden.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
if waterboarding worked, why wasn't Bin Laden killed/captured during the Bush presidency?
"Thats because your basically and idiot." Pretty dumb question, as it took years to gather all the information needed and it was Bush who provided the apparatus to gather that information.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Not when you consider his target audience... All of these articles are on ignore...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." I wish there was an automatic way of putting all of his articles on ignore so I didn't have to click them to do so. I've never seen anyone spew so much pure crap day after day like padlock. He really needs to get a job.
Beginning the week with Liberal illogic? (laughing) Its amusing how the liberal brain works. Lets see....you can shoot a unarmed man twice, in his bedroom, in a country allegedly an ally, acting unilaterally. But heaven forbid you use non lethal waterboarding on him....(eyes rolling). The denial by you clowns that waterboarding works is every bit as ridiculous as the 9/11 truthers, the birthers, and the deathers COMBINED.
Mr President, its 72 virgins, not 72 VERSIONS.
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: go65 (#1)
if waterboarding worked, why wasn't Bin Laden killed/captured during the Bush presidency?
#3. To: no gnu taxes (#2)
Pretty dumb question
--GW Bush
#4. To: war (#3)
#5. To: go65 (#1)
if waterboarding worked, why wasn't Bin Laden killed/captured during the Bush presidency?
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